Cookies
Last reviewed: 1 September 2026
The short answer
What this site stores on your device
None of the following is a cookie in the traditional sense: nothing is set that a third party can read, and nothing is used to identify or track you. We're listing them anyway, because you should know.
Reading preferences
If you use the "Aa" menu in the header to change text size, switch to an easier-to-read font,
or increase contrast, that choice is saved in your browser's local storage under the name
cwm-reading. It only exists because you asked for it, it stays on your device, and
we have no way of reading it.
Offline support
This site can be added to your phone's home screen and keeps a small cache of recently-visited pages, so they still open if you lose signal at school pickup. This cache lives entirely on your device.
Search
The search box on this site builds its results inside your own browser. No search term is ever sent to a server.
What this site doesn't use
- No Google Analytics, or any other analytics or "aggregate statistics" service.
- No advertising or retargeting cookies.
- No social media tracking pixels.
- No third-party marketing cookies of any kind.
Because everything this site stores is either strictly necessary to a feature you asked for (like the reading preferences), or never leaves your own device (like offline support and search), UK cookie law (PECR) doesn't require us to ask your permission for any of it. We're telling you anyway, because "trust us" isn't good enough on its own.
If that ever changes
If we add anything in future that does need your consent (analytics, for example) this page will be updated first, and we'll ask before it's switched on, not after.
Clearing this data
You can clear everything above at any time through your browser's site settings. It will just reset your reading preferences and offline cache back to default. It won't affect anything else, because there's nothing else to affect.
See our privacy notice for how the rest of the website handles information, including the absence form, which works completely differently to any of the above.