1. WHAT ARE COOKIES?

We use cookies on our websites to provide enhanced functionality and improve the user experience. A cookie is a file that is downloaded onto your computer or mobile phone when you visit certain sites and to recognise you. Cookies enable a website to store and retrieve information about the browsing habits of a user or device and can in some cases be used to identify a particular user, depending on the information they contain or the way in which the device is used.

In some cases, we may use cookies to collect personal information, or that becomes personal information if we combine it with other information.

Cookies set by the website owner (in this case, Fulham School’s cookies are called “first-party cookies.” Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called “third-party cookies” Third-party cookies enable third-party features or functionality to be provided on or through our website (e.g., advertising, interactive content, and analytics). The parties that set these third-party cookies can recognise your computer both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other websites.

The installation of these devices in your computer could imply a processing of personal data. If you authorised this installation, you will have consented to the processing of your personal data. In this sense, you can obtain more information, by consulting our Privacy Notice.

2. WHY DO WE USE COOKIES?

We use first- and third-party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our websites to operate, and we refer to these as “essential” or “strictly necessary” cookies. Other cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our online properties. Third parties serve cookies through our website for advertising, analytics, and other purposes. This is described in more detail below.

3. TYPES OF COOKIES

3.1. ACCORDING TO THE PURPOSE:

• Essential or technical cookies: These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our websites and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas, to allow you to navigate through our web site, platform or application and the use of the different options or services that are provided.
• Analytics and customisation cookies: Are those that allow us to monitor and analyse the behaviour of the users of the websites to which they are linked. The information collected through this type of cookies is used to measure the activity of websites, applications, or platforms and to create browsing profiles for users of websites, applications and platforms, in order to introduce improvements in function of the analysis of the usage data made by the users of the service.
• Advertising cookies: These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you. They perform functions like preventing the same ad from continuously reappearing, ensuring that ads are properly displayed for advertisers, and in some cases selecting advertisements that are based on your interests.
• Behavioural advertising cookies: They collect information about the preferences and personal choices of the user (retargeting) to allow the management, in the most efficient way possible, of the advertising spaces that, where appropriate, the editor has included in a web page, application or platform from which the requested service is provided.
• Social networking cookies: These cookies are used to enable you to share pages and content that you find interesting on our websites through third-party social networking and other websites. These cookies may also be used for advertising purposes.
• Affiliate cookies: Allow monitoring of visits from other websites, with which the website establishes an affiliation contract (affiliation companies).
• Security cookies: They store encrypted information to prevent the data stored in them from being vulnerable to malicious attacks by third parties.
• Unclassified cookies: These are cookies that have not yet been categorised. We are classifying these cookies with the help of their providers.

3.2. ACCORDING TO THE PROPERTY:  

• Own cookies: Are those that are sent to the user’s terminal equipment from a computer or domain managed by the publisher itself and from which the service requested by the user is provided.
• Third-party cookies: Are those that are sent to the user’s terminal equipment from a computer or domain that is not managed by the editor, but by another entity that processes the data obtained through cookies. Third parties may serve cookies on your computer or mobile device to serve advertising through our Websites. These companies may use information about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide relevant advertisements about goods and services that you may be interested in. They may also employ technology that is used to measure the effectiveness of advertisements. They can accomplish this by using cookies or web beacons to collect information about your visits to this and other sites in order to provide relevant advertisements about goods and services of potential interest to you. The information collected through this process does not enable us or them to identify your name, contact details, or other details that directly identify you unless you choose to provide these.

3.4. ACCORDING TO THE CONSERVATION PERIOD:

• Session cookies: These are a type of cookies designed to collect and store data while the user accesses a web page.
• Persistent cookies: They are a type of cookie in which the data is still stored in the terminal and can be accessed and processed during a period defined by the person responsible for the cookie, which can range from a few minutes to several years.

4. PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA

CONTROLLER: Northfields International School, addressed at Main road, Labourdonnais Village Mapou 31803 Mauritius, informs you that this data will be processed in accordance with the provisions of Data Protection Act 2017 (“DPA 2017”), for which the following information about processing is provided:

– Purposes of the processing: As specified in the section on cookies used on this website.

– Legitimation of the processing: Consent of the interested party.

– Data conservation criteria: As specified in the section on cookies used on the web.

– Communication of the data: The data will not be communicated to third parties, except in cookies owned by third parties or by legal obligation.

– Rights that assist the Interested Party: You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. You have the right to access, Decide on automated individual decision making, rectification, erasure or restriction of processing and right to object, by sending a request to our Data Protection Officer at the address [email protected].  You can also address your complaint to the Data Protection Office, by sending a written request to: Data Protection Office, 5th Floor, SICOM Tower, Wall Street, Ebene, Republic of Mauritius or to the contact details provided at its website: https://dataprotection.govmu.org/.

 5. COOKIES CONTROLLED BY THE EDITOR

Analytics and customisation cookies

Essential or technical cookies 

 Unclassified cookies

6. THIRD PARTY COOKIES NOT CONTROLLED BY THE EDITOR

Third party services are beyond the control of the publisher. The providers can modify at any time their conditions of service, purpose and use of cookies, etc.

External providers of this website:

10. UPDATE THIS COOKIE POLICY

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons.

Please therefore revisit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.

If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please email us at:  [email protected].

This cookie policy was last updated in October 2024