Cookie Policy

1. What this Cookie Policy covers

This page explains how the Aplailasain Portal uses cookies and similar technologies, what they are used for, and how you can manage your choices on this portal.

This policy applies only to the portal site operated by Static Carnival Technologies Limited. Once you leave this site and visit the GCSE or A-Level services, those sites apply their own cookie and privacy practices.

2. What are cookies and similar technologies?

Cookies are small text files stored on your device. Similar technologies can include local storage, browser storage, embedded third-party technologies, and related identifiers used to remember settings, support site functionality, or measure how a site is used.

3. How this portal uses cookies and similar technologies

The portal uses a limited set of cookies and similar technologies because it is mainly an informational site that directs visitors to separate Aplailasain services.

4. Strictly necessary technologies

We may use strictly necessary cookies or similar technologies where they are needed to make the portal work properly and to respect the choices you make on the site.

These may be used to:

• remember your cookie preference on the portal;
• maintain basic site functionality and user interface behaviour;
• support security, troubleshooting, and technical diagnostics.

These technologies are used only for the portal itself. This portal does not create user accounts, process purchases, or provide the GCSE or A-Level study services directly.

5. Optional analytics technologies

With your permission, we may use analytics cookies or similar technologies to understand how visitors use the portal and how they move from the portal to the separate GCSE and A-Level sites.

These may be used to understand things such as:

• which pages on the portal are visited;
• general usage patterns and navigation paths;
• device, browser, and broad location information;
• whether visitors move from the portal to the GCSE or A-Level service sites.

We use analytics to help improve the portal’s layout, navigation, content, and performance.

6. Embedded media and third-party content

Some pages on the portal may include embedded third-party media, such as YouTube video content.

Where embedded video content is used, we may use YouTube’s privacy-enhanced embed mode where appropriate. Even so, interacting with or loading embedded third-party content may involve Google or YouTube technologies and may be subject to those services’ own terms and policies.

7. Third parties

Where the portal uses optional analytics or embedded third-party content, the relevant third parties may include:

• Google Analytics / Google tag;
• YouTube / Google, where embedded video content is used on the portal.

These third parties may process data outside the UK. We take reasonable steps intended to ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place where required.

8. Cookies and similar technologies on the GCSE and A-Level sites

The portal links to the following separate services:

• aplailasain-gcses.co.uk
• aplailasain-a-levels.co.uk

Those sites have their own cookie banners, cookie policies, privacy policies, and service terms. Your choices on the portal do not replace the need to review those site-specific policies when you visit them.

9. Your choices

When you first visit the portal, you can choose whether to accept optional analytics technologies or reject non-essential technologies.

You can revisit your choice later by using the Cookie Settings option available on the site footer.

If you reject non-essential technologies, the portal should still work for general browsing, but optional analytics functionality will not be used.

10. Browser settings

You can also manage cookies through your browser settings, including deleting existing cookies and controlling whether certain cookies are stored in future.

Please note that blocking some strictly necessary technologies may affect how the portal works.

11. Retention

We retain cookie-related information and analytics information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the relevant operational, performance, and analytical purposes of the portal.

12. Changes to this policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes to the portal, technology, legal requirements, or the way cookies and similar technologies are used on the site.

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