Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy explains how BabyDaycares.co.uk may use cookies and similar storage or access technologies when you browse our website, use a childcare calculator or interact with our online services.
Important Implementation Note
The cookie names and services shown in this template must be checked against the technologies actually used on BabyDaycares.co.uk. Remove unused entries and add every active cookie, pixel, local storage item, tag, embedded service or similar technology before publishing the policy.
Plain-English Summary
Some technologies are needed to make a website operate securely and remember essential choices. Other technologies may help a website understand visits, improve performance, personalise features or measure advertising.
Where consent is required, optional technologies should remain disabled until you make a clear choice. You should also be able to change that choice later.
About This Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy describes how BabyDaycares.co.uk, referred to on this page as “we”, “us” or “our”, may use cookies and similar technologies on this website.
The policy applies when you visit pages, use interactive childcare calculators, submit forms, follow internal links or interact with content embedded from another service.
This policy should be read alongside our Privacy Policy, which explains how personal data may be collected, used, retained and protected.
What Are Cookies?
A cookie is usually a small text file placed on or accessed from a computer, tablet, smartphone or another connected device when a person visits a website.
Cookies can allow a website to recognise a browser, maintain a session, remember settings, protect forms, store consent choices or collect information about how pages are used.
Similar Technologies
Website technologies are not limited to traditional cookies. Similar functions may be performed through:
- Local storage and session storage;
- Tracking pixels and web beacons;
- Scripts, software development kits and tags;
- Device or browser identifiers;
- Link-decoration and navigational tracking;
- Embedded video, map or social-media technologies; and
- Other methods that store or access device information.
References to “cookies” in this policy include similar storage and access technologies where the context permits.
How We May Use Cookies
Cookies may be used for different purposes depending on the features active on the website. These purposes may include:
- Operating core website functions;
- Keeping pages and forms secure;
- Remembering cookie-consent preferences;
- Maintaining settings during a browsing session;
- Preventing abuse, spam or suspicious activity;
- Understanding how visitors move around the website;
- Measuring page performance and technical errors;
- Improving calculators, navigation and content;
- Remembering optional user preferences;
- Measuring campaigns or advertisements; and
- Providing content from third-party platforms.
Optional cookies should be used only in accordance with the choices available through the website’s consent-management mechanism.
Categories of Cookies
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These support essential functions such as security, network management, consent records, form protection or features specifically requested by the user.
Analytics Cookies
These can help measure visits, page use, navigation paths, errors and general website performance so the service can be improved.
Functional Cookies
These can remember optional settings or provide enhanced features, such as saved preferences, embedded tools or a more personalised experience.
Advertising Cookies
These may measure advertising, limit repetition, attribute a visit to a campaign or support interest-based advertising where such technology is used.
Cookies Used on BabyDaycares.co.uk
The following table is a publishing template. Confirm every cookie name, provider, duration and purpose through a technical audit before using the table as a final disclosure.
| Cookie Or Storage Key | Provider | Category | Purpose | Typical Duration | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| bd_cookie_consent | BabyDaycares.co.uk | Strictly Necessary | Stores the visitor’s cookie-category choices so the website can respect the selected preferences. | Up To 12 Months | Always Active |
| bd_cookie_version | BabyDaycares.co.uk | Strictly Necessary | Records the version of the consent notice or policy shown when the visitor made a choice. | Up To 12 Months | Always Active |
| bd_session | BabyDaycares.co.uk | Strictly Necessary | Maintains essential session information while a visitor moves between website pages or tools. | Browser Session | Always Active |
| security_token | BabyDaycares.co.uk | Strictly Necessary | Helps protect forms, calculator interactions or website requests from unauthorised or automated activity. | Browser Session | Always Active |
| analytics_storage | Confirm Analytics Provider | Analytics | May store or access information used to understand page visits and website performance. | Confirm During Audit | Consent Required |
| functional_storage | Confirm Service Provider | Functional | May remember optional display, content or interaction preferences selected by the visitor. | Confirm During Audit | Consent Required |
| advertising_storage | Confirm Advertising Provider | Advertising | May measure advertising performance, campaign attribution or advertising frequency where advertising is used. | Confirm During Audit | Consent Required |
A live cookie scanner or consent-management platform may display more detailed and frequently updated information. Where available, the live preference centre should be treated as the current list of detected technologies.
Manage Your Cookie Preferences
You can use the preference controls below as a front-end design for a consent-management platform. These controls must be connected to the website’s actual cookie-blocking and consent system before publication.
Cookie Preference Centre
Enable or disable optional categories. Strictly necessary technologies remain active because they support essential website functions.
Strictly Necessary
Required for security, consent records and core website operation.
Analytics
Helps understand website use and improve content, navigation and technical performance.
Functional
Supports optional features and remembers selected website preferences.
Advertising
Supports advertising measurement, attribution or personalisation where these services are installed.
Third-Party Cookies and Embedded Services
Some website features may be supplied by another organisation. When those features are active, the third party may set or access cookies and similar technologies according to its own policies.
Examples can include:
- Website analytics platforms;
- Advertising and campaign-measurement services;
- Embedded video or audio players;
- Interactive maps;
- Social-media sharing or embedded posts;
- Security and fraud-prevention services;
- Content-delivery networks;
- Customer-support or messaging tools; and
- Payment or account-management services.
Where optional third-party technologies are used, they should remain blocked until the appropriate preference has been selected.
External Links
BabyDaycares.co.uk may link to government, council, childcare, health or regulatory websites. After following an external link, the destination website’s own cookie and privacy policies apply.
Managing Cookies Through Your Browser
Most browsers provide tools for viewing, blocking or deleting cookies. The exact steps depend on the browser, device and software version.
Open Browser Settings
Look for privacy, security, site data or cookie settings in the browser menu.
Review Stored Data
Search for the website domain and review or remove stored cookies and website data.
Adjust Future Permissions
Block, allow or limit future cookies according to the controls offered by the browser.
Blocking all cookies may affect essential features, saved preferences, interactive calculators, secure forms or other parts of the website.
Deleting cookies may also remove a previously saved consent choice, which can cause the cookie notice to appear again.
How Long Cookies Remain
Cookies can be described as session cookies or persistent cookies.
Session Cookies
Session cookies generally operate during the current browsing session and may be removed when the browser is closed.
Persistent Cookies
Persistent cookies can remain after the browser is closed until their expiry date, until they are replaced or until the user removes them.
The appropriate duration depends on the purpose of the technology. A cookie should not be retained for longer than reasonably needed for that purpose.
Cookies and Personal Data
Information associated with cookies may sometimes identify a device, browser, account or individual, either by itself or when combined with other information.
Depending on the active services, cookie-related information may include:
- Device and browser information;
- Internet Protocol address;
- Pages viewed and links selected;
- Approximate location derived from network information;
- Referral or campaign information;
- Session identifiers;
- Consent and preference records;
- Error and performance information; and
- Interactions with calculators or website features.
Our Privacy Policy should explain how personal data is handled, the reasons for processing it, applicable retention periods, recipients and the rights available to individuals.
Children’s Privacy
BabyDaycares.co.uk publishes information for parents, carers and childcare professionals. The website is not intended to invite young children to create accounts or provide personal information directly.
Website operators should take particular care before using profiling, behavioural advertising or other privacy-intrusive technologies on services likely to be accessed by children.
Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy when:
- New website tools or services are introduced;
- A cookie provider, purpose or duration changes;
- Analytics or advertising technology is added or removed;
- The consent-management system changes;
- Website ownership or contact information changes;
- Regulatory guidance or applicable law changes; or
- A technical audit identifies an inaccurate disclosure.
The “Last Updated” date at the top of this page should be changed whenever a material revision is published.
Where appropriate, visitors may also be asked to review their cookie preferences again after a significant change.
Contact Us About Cookies
Questions about this Cookie Policy, the technologies listed in it or a saved cookie preference can be sent through our Contact Page.
Please include enough information to help us understand the issue, such as the page visited, browser used, approximate date and the cookie or service involved. Do not send passwords, childcare account codes or sensitive personal information.
Regulatory Information
General UK guidance about cookies, device storage and similar technologies is available from the Information Commissioner’s Office.
Cookie Policy FAQs
Common questions about website cookies, consent preferences, browser settings and similar technologies.
Questions About Our Cookie Policy?
Contact BabyDaycares.co.uk if you need more information about a cookie, consent preference, third-party service or the way this policy is applied.
Contact BabyDaycares.co.uk