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Strictly necessary cookies
Our domain uses Cloudflare for authoritative DNS, for delivering pages quickly across India, for TLS encryption and for protection against bots and denial-of-service attacks. Cloudflare sets the following cookies to do that work. They carry no information about who you are and are not used for analytics or advertising.
| Cookie | Set by | What it does | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|
| __cf_bm | Cloudflare | Tells human visitors apart from automated traffic, so the site is not taken down by bots. | 30 minutes |
| cf_clearance | Cloudflare | Records that a security challenge was completed, so you are not challenged again on every page. | Up to 1 year |
| _cfuvid | Cloudflare | Used where rate limiting is applied, to tell requests apart within a session. Set only when that protection is active. | Session |
Because these cookies are necessary to deliver the site, they are not subject to the consent control below. If you block them entirely in your browser, parts of the site may fail to load or you may be challenged repeatedly.
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Analytics cookies
We use Google Analytics to understand how this website is used — how many people read the admission page, whether families find the notices, which pages they leave from. It helps us decide what to write next and what to fix.
These cookies are set only if you choose Accept analytics in the cookie notice. Until then, and if you choose Essential only, the Google Analytics script is never loaded and no analytics cookie is written.
| Cookie | Set by | What it does | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Google Analytics | Assigns a random identifier so repeat visits can be counted as one visitor rather than many. | 2 years |
| _ga_<container> | Google Analytics | Keeps the state of the current session, so a visit is measured as one session rather than several. | 2 years |
We have configured Analytics to anonymise IP addresses and we do not use it to identify individuals. We do not link analytics data to a student record, an admission enquiry or an Academica ERP account. Google processes this data as our service provider; its own handling of the data is described in Google's privacy documentation.
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Cookies on the ERP and the school app
The parent, student and staff portal runs on Academica ERP at a separate address from this website. When you log in there, the ERP sets its own session and authentication cookies — the ones that keep you signed in as you move between screens and that protect the form submissions you make. These are strictly necessary for a system that holds a student record: you cannot log in without them.
Those cookies live on the ERP's own domain and are not readable by this website. The Android school app stores a login token on the device for the same purpose. Signing out, or removing the app, clears it.
What the ERP holds and who can see it is described in the Privacy Policy.
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Your choice, and how to change it
On your first visit we show a short notice with two options. Nothing optional is loaded before you choose, and we do not treat continued browsing as agreement.
- Accept analytics — the Google Analytics cookies in the table above are set.
- Essential only — no analytics script is loaded and no analytics cookie is written.
Your choice is stored in your browser, not on our servers, and we ask again if the policy changes materially. You can change your mind at any time — withdrawing consent is as easy as giving it, and when you withdraw it we delete the analytics cookies already set.
Change your cookie choice
This reopens the notice so you can accept or refuse analytics cookies. It has no effect on the strictly necessary Cloudflare cookies.
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Controlling cookies in your browser
Independently of the choice above, every browser lets you see, block and delete cookies. The settings are usually under privacy or site data:
- Chrome (Android and desktop): Settings → Privacy and security → Third-party cookies / Site data.
- Safari (iPhone, iPad, Mac): Settings → Safari → Advanced → Website Data, or Safari → Settings → Privacy.
- Firefox: Settings → Privacy & Security → Cookies and Site Data.
- Edge: Settings → Cookies and site permissions.
Browsing in a private or incognito window discards cookies when the window closes. Google also publishes a browser add-on that opts you out of Google Analytics on every site you visit.
Blocking all cookies will break the login on the ERP and the school app, and may interfere with Cloudflare's protection of this site.
In short
Necessary cookies keep the site standing up. Analytics cookies are optional, off by default and easy to withdraw. Nothing on this website advertises to you or follows you elsewhere.