Use of Cookies by Phoenix International School
To make this site work properly, we sometimes place small data files called cookies on your device. Most big websites do this too.
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.
How do we use cookies?
Cookies for Analytics (Google Analytics): Allows monitoring and analysis of user behavior in order to make improvements based on the use that the user of the Website and services. Google Analytics is a free web analysis tool that allows website owners know how users interact with your website. Google Analytics uses a set of cookies called “__utma” and “__utmz” to collect information anonymously and report website trends without identifying individual users.
Cookies for Analytics (Google Analytics): Specifically used the following cookies:
- _utmz
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- _utma
- _utmc
More information about Google Analytics can be found at:
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage.
How to control cookies
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.