Cookie Policy

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small piece of data a website stores on your device so it can recognise your browser between requests or visits. Websites also use similar browser storage technologies, such as local storage and IndexedDB, which this policy covers too.

What we use, and why

• Cookie notice preference (cookie, first-party): remembers that you have dismissed our cookie notice.

• Sign-in session (browser local storage, first-party): keeps school staff signed in to their account. Never used for tracking.

• Application data caches (IndexedDB, first-party): let the application keep working offline and hold candidate-linked data on the school’s own devices by default instead of sending it to our servers.

• Security challenges (Cloudflare Turnstile): our bot-protection provider may set a cookie while verifying that a sign-up or sign-in attempt is human.

• Payment checkout (Paddle): if you open the subscription checkout, Paddle sets the cookies it needs to process the payment securely as merchant of record.

• Embedded help videos (YouTube): some in-app help pages embed video tutorials; YouTube may set cookies when you play one.

The marketing videos on our home page are hosted on our own domain and set no cookies at all.

What we do not use

• No advertising or targeting cookies.

• No third-party analytics or marketing trackers.

• No cookies that follow you to other websites.

Your choices

Because everything above is functional, blocking it affects the related feature: blocking first-party storage will prevent signing in, and blocking third-party cookies may affect checkout or embedded videos, but not normal use of the application. You can clear or block cookies and site data at any time through your browser settings. Because candidate-linked data is stored on-device by default, clearing site data also removes that locally stored data: use the built-in backup and export tools first.

For how we handle personal data generally, see our Privacy Policy.