Website Privacy Policy

General

John Lyon recognises its duty of care in regard to website user data. Data is only collected and processed when necessary. We will never sell or otherwise distribute website user data.

Relevant legislation

This website is designed to comply with:
UK Data Protection Act 1988
EU Data Protection Directive 1995
EU General Data Protection Regulation 2018

Personal information collected by this website

Site visitor tracking – We use Google Analytics to record and measure how our website is used – this records information on which pages are visited, how long visitors spend on each page, and which links are clicked on. We don’t store any personal information and no information can personally identify any user. You can opt out of Google Analytics cookies

Email links – When using email links in this website, no data is stored by the website

Cookies

When using the John Lyon website, small files – known as cookies – are put onto your computer to collect information about how you use the website. We use these cookies to see how you use the website so we can continue to make improvements. The data collected is never used to identify you personally.

When you visit the website for the first time you will be shown a cookie consent box. You will not see this again unless you clear your browser data, visit from a different browser, or visit from a different computer.

Cookie information, purpose and expiry information is detailed at the bottom of this page.

For further information on the school’s cookie policy please refer to the John Lyon School Cookie Notice.

Server information

This website is hosted by the School’s website developers, MSO.

Third-party data processors

Google
Eventbrite

Changes to policy

Changes to this privacy policy will be made to this page as and when necessary.


Our website sets the following cookies

NAME PURPOSE EXPIRES
AWSELB Used to send traffic to same server on the load balancer 1 day
cookieconsent_status Used to know that the user has dismissed the cookie notification message 1 year
wfvt_ Cookie set by Wordfence Security WordPress Plugin which notes information about your general geographic location 15 minutes
_ga This helps us count how many people visit by tracking if you’ve visited before 2 years
_gat Used to manage the rate at which page view requests are made 10 minutes
_gid This helps us count how many people visit by tracking if you’ve visited before 24 hours
__cf_bm This is used to display fonts on the website 30 minutes
wp_lang To store language settings. Session
APISID HSID, SSID, APISID and SAPISID cookies enable Google to collect user information for videos hosted by YouTube 1 year
HSID HSID, SSID, APISID and SAPISID cookies enable Google to collect user information for videos hosted by YouTube 1 year
LOGIN_INFO This cookie is used to play YouTube videos embedded on the website. 4 months
PREF YouTube uses the ‘PREF’ cookie to store information such as a user’s preferred page configuration and playback preferences like autoplay, shuffle content, and player size. For YouTube Music, these preferences include volume, repeat mode, and autoplay. 8 months
SAPISID HSID, SSID, APISID and SAPISID cookies enable Google to collect user information for videos hosted by YouTube 1 year
SID To provide ad delivery or retargeting, provide fraud prevention for Youtube. 1 year
SIDCC To provide the identification of trusted web traffic for Youube. 1 year
SSID HSID, SSID, APISID and SAPISID cookies enable Google to collect user information for videos hosted by YouTube 1 year
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE To provide ad delivery or retargeting, store and track a visitor’s identity, Store and track interaction for Youtube. 1 year
VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA Stores the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain for Youtube 180 days
YSC Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. Session
__Secure-1PAPISID, __Secure-1PSID, __Secure-1PSIDCC Used by for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor’s interests in order to show relevant & personalised Google advertising. 1 year
__Secure-3PAPISID, __Secure-3PSIDCC Used by YouTube for ads on Google/YouTube. 1 year
__Secure-3PSID, __Secure-3PSIDTS Used by for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor’s interests in order to show relevant & personalised Google advertising. 1 year