Thrive Childcare and Education – Cookie policy

What are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you access most websites on the internet or open certain emails. Among other things, cookies allow a website to recognise your device and remember if you have been to the website before. We use the term cookie to refer to cookies and technologies that perform a similar function to cookies (e.g. tags, pixels, and web beacons).

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.

Our online use of cookies

Cookies on the website are used for many purposes including but not limited to:

  1. enabling a subscriber to register on the site be verified and to have such details remembered for later by utilising a subscriber login to access the Bertram Nursery Group services;
  2. enabling a subscriber to avail of the Thrive Childcare and Education services via the site;
  3. recognising your computer when you visit the site;
  4. improving the site and the site’s usability;
  5. analysing the use of the Company Thrive Childcare and Education services;
  6. administrating the site;
  7. preventing fraud and improving the security of the site
  8. to analyse the use of the services through analytics software such as Google

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them below:

Strictly Necessary

These cookies are essential, as they enable a user to move around a website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas. Without these cookies, such as access to secure areas cannot be provided. These cannot be restricted or blocked.

For this, the following cookies are set:

NamePurposeExpires
moove_gdpr_popupStores whether the user has interacted with the cookie popup (e.g., whether they’ve accepted or rejected certain types of cookies).1 year
PHPSESSIDThis cookie is native to PHP applications. The cookie is used to store and identify a users” unique session ID for the purpose of managing user session on the website. The cookie is a session cookies and is deleted when all the browser windows are closed.session
_GRECAPTCHAThis cookie is set by Google. In addition to certain standard Google cookies, reCAPTCHA sets a necessary cookie (_GRECAPTCHA) when executed for the purpose of providing its risk analysis.5 months 27 days

Cookies that help with our communications and marketing

These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose. These can be restricted or blocked

To give you a better experience, we use first-party cookies and third-party cookies. A first party cookie is a cookie that we set when you directly visit our website. A third-party cookie is one that is placed on your device by a website from an address other than directly from us.

For this, the following cookies are set:

NamePurposeExpires
YSCThis cookies is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos.session
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVEThis cookie is set by Youtube. Used to track the information of the embedded YouTube videos on a website.5 months 27 days
test_cookieThis cookie is set by doubleclick.net. The purpose of the cookie is to determine if the user’s browser supports cookies.15 minutes
IDEUsed by Google DoubleClick via YouTube and stores information about how the user uses the website and any other advertisement before visiting the website. This is used to present users with ads that are relevant to them according to the user profile.1 year 24 days

Web Site Performance Monitoring and Tracking

They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies you. All the information that these cookies collect is anonymous and is only used to improve how a website works.

For this, the following cookies are set:

NamePurposeExpires
_gat_gtag_UA_22141435_30This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site”s analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors.1 minute
_gaThis cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site”s analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors.2 years
_gidThis cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site”s analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors.1 day

Instructions for blocking cookies using browser settings:

For other browsers and operating systems, consult your relevant help file.

Learn more about cookies

More information about cookies can be found at: http://www.allaboutcookies.org

Internet Advertising Bureau: Guide to online advertising and privacy.

International Chamber of Commerce United Kingdom: ICC UK cookie guide

Changes to cookies policy

Any changes we make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our cookies policy.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Change your settings

You can change which cookies you’re happy for us to use.

Updated: 13 January 2022