Cookies

A cookie is a small text file that is downloaded onto ‘terminal equipment’ (eg a computer or smartphone) when the user accesses a website. It allows the website to recognise that user’s device and store some information about the user’s preferences or past actions.

We use the following cookies:

Essential Cookies - These technologies are required to activate the core functionality of the website.

Social Media Cookies - These cookies are set by a range of social media services that we have added to the site to enable you to share our content with your friends and networks. They are capable of tracking your browser across other sites and building up a profile of your interests. This may impact the content and messages you see on other websites you visit. If you do not allow these cookies you may not be able to use or see these sharing tools.

Functional Cookies - These cookies enable the website to provide enhanced functionality and personalisation. They may be set by us or by third party providers whose services we have added to our pages. If you do not allow these cookies then some or all of these services may not function properly.

Enabling some of these cookies is not strictly necessary for the website to work but it will provide you with a better browsing experience. You can delete or block these cookies, but if you do that some features of this site may not work as intended.

The cookie-related information is not used to identify you personally. These cookies are not used for any purpose other than those described here.

How to control cookies

To control your cookies on the Parallel Learning Trust website please click the purple widget in the bottom left of the page. There you can select or deactivate your cookie preferences.

You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish – for details, see aboutcookies.org. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.

You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our site.

Cookie	Purpose	More Information
Usercentrics Consent Management Platform (Essential)	This is a consent management service. Usercentrics GmbH is used on the website as a processor for the purpose of consent management.	The consent data (given consent and revocation of consent) are stored for three years. The data will then be deleted immediately.
Twitter Syndication (Functional)	This is a syndication service.	The data will be deleted as soon as they are no longer needed for the processing purposes.
Twitter Plugin (Functional)	This is a Twitter Plug-In. This service is used to display Tweets from Twitter.	The data will be deleted as soon as they are no longer needed for the processing purposes.
Twitter Advertising (Social Media)	This is an advertising service.	The data will be deleted as soon as they are no longer needed for the processing purposes.
Google Tag Manager (Functional)	This is a tag management system. With this the user can update measurement codes and related code fragments collectively known as tags on the users website or mobile app.	This data will be deleted after 14 days of retrieval.
Google Maps (Functional)	This is a web mapping service.	The data will be deleted as soon as they are no longer needed for the processing purposes.
Google Fonts (Functional)	This is a collection of fonts for commercial and personal use.	The data will be deleted as soon as they are no longer needed for the processing purposes.
Google Analytics (Functional)	This is a web analytics service. With this the user can measure the advertising ROI as well as track Flash, video and social networking sites and applications.	The Retention Period depends on the type of the saved data. Each client can choose how long Google Analytics retains data before automatically deleting it.
Cloudfare (Essential)	This is a service providing increased security and performance for web sites.	Data will be deleted as soon as they are no longer needed for the processing purposes.
BootstrapCDN (Essential)	This is a public content delivery network.	The data will be deleted as soon as they are no longer needed for processing purposes.