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St Sophia may save cookies on your device as soon as you visit any page unless you have set your browser to refuse cookies. We use a number of suppliers who may also set cookies on or for their websites. St Sophia does not control the dissemination of these cookies; these are cookies found in other companies internet tools which we are using to enhance our site, for example third party services have their own cookies, which are controlled by them. You should check the third party websites for more information about these (see below).

Cookies we use on our website and the purposes they serve:

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St Sophia
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These are persistent cookies that last for up to 5 years.
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These first party cookies are set by St Sophia to track anonymous information on how visitors use our site and confirm they have read the cookie notification.
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Share This
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Most of the cookies expire a maximum of 12 months
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These third party cookies are used to track which pages are being shared and by whom.
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Google Analytics
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__utma is a persistent cookie. __utmb and __utmc are session cookies that last up to a maximum of 30 minutes. __utmz is a persistent cookie that lasts for 6 months.
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These third party cookies are saved to your device to allow us to use the Google Analytic service. They collect anonymous information on how visitors use our site. We use these to create website usage reports including the number of visitors, which websites they have come from to get to our site and the pages that were visited.
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Google Privacy Policy
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Google Ads
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These are persistent cookies that can last up to two years.
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Google use cookies to help personalise ads, store preferences, and to avoid showing ads the user has already seen. Their main advertising cookie is called ‘id’ and it is stored in browsers under the domain doubleclick.net.
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Types of cookie used by Google
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YouTube
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Most of the cookies expire after a maximum of 12 months
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These third party cookies are saved to your device to allow us to embed YouTube videos.
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Scorecard Research
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These cookies expire after a maximum of 24 months
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These third party cookies set an anonymous unique identifier for market research purposes.
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Quantserve
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These cookies expire a maximum of 24 months
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These third party cookies set an anonymous unique identifier for market research purposes.
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