What we store on your device, why, and how to change your mind.
A cookie is a small file a website stores on your device. Websites also use other kinds of local storage that work in much the same way. This notice covers both, and uses "cookies" throughout to mean either. It sits alongside our privacy notice, which explains everything else we do with your personal data.
Under the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR), we may only set non-essential cookies with your consent. So:
Your choice itself is remembered on your device so we do not have to ask again on every page. Clearing your browser's site data will clear it, and we will ask again.
These are needed for the site to work and for our public forms to be usable at all. PECR does not require consent for them, and you cannot turn them off here (your browser can block them, but parts of the site will then stop working).
| Name | Type | Set by | What it does | How long |
|---|---|---|---|---|
ft_consent | Cookie | Fraley Tutors | Remembers the cookie choice you made, so we do not ask again on every page. It is set for fraleytutors.com as a whole so that one answer also covers our student platform at console.fraleytutors.com — otherwise you would be asked twice, and a refusal made here would not hold there. |
12 months if you accept; 6 months if you refuse, then we ask again. |
ft_consent_v1 | Local storage | Fraley Tutors | The earlier form of the record above. Nothing writes it any more; if your browser still holds one from a previous visit, we read your answer out of it once and then delete it. | Deleted the next time you visit |
__ft_cd | Cookie | Fraley Tutors | A throwaway test cookie, written and deleted again in the same instant. It is how we find out which domain your browser will accept a cookie on, so that the record of your choice above is stored somewhere both this site and our student platform can read. | Deleted immediately, within the same page load |
_GRECAPTCHA | Cookie | Google (reCAPTCHA) | Not currently set. Our form spam protection is switched off; if we switch it back on, this cookie tells automated abuse apart from real people on our contact and careers forms. | Up to 6 months |
firebase-app-check-database | Local database | Google (Firebase) | Not currently set. Used only with the form spam protection above, to hold the short-lived token that proves a form submission came from our real website. | Until you clear your site data |
ftAppCheckOptOut | Local storage | Fraley Tutors | Not currently set. Used only with the form spam protection above: if that protection ever stops your browser from reaching our forms, this note tells us to leave it off for you next time. It contains the date and a short error code, nothing about you. | Until you clear your site data |
firebaseLocalStorageDb | Local database | Google (Firebase) | Holds the anonymous session our forms need in order to save your enquiry. It contains no name or account of yours. | Until you clear your site data |
firebase-heartbeat-database | Local database | Google (Firebase) | Records that the site connected to Google's service today, which Google uses for its own service diagnostics. | Until you clear your site data |
These tell us how many people visit and which pages they read, so we can make the site better. Nothing here identifies you by name.
| Name | Type | Set by | What it does | How long |
|---|---|---|---|---|
_ga | Cookie | Google Analytics | Tells one visitor apart from another, so a person reading three pages counts as one visit rather than three. | 2 years |
_ga_ZNKGNCZVTC | Cookie | Google Analytics | Keeps track of the current visit. | 2 years |
TrustboxSplitTest_<id> | Cookie | Trustpilot | Set only on our reviews page, by the Trustpilot panel that shows our live rating. Trustpilot uses it to keep that panel's appearance consistent for you between visits and to measure how it performs. It holds a random identifier, not your name. Refuse measurement and the panel is never loaded; you still get a plain link to our Trustpilot profile. | Set and controlled by Trustpilot, under its own cookie notice |
These record how someone arrived — including which of our adverts brought them — so we can stop paying for the adverts that do not work, and so an enquiry can be matched to the visit that led to it. We do not use them to build advertising profiles of students. If you accept these and then send us an enquiry, your email address and phone number are hashed on your device before being sent to Google Ads, so the enquiry can be matched to the advert that led to it (see Section 7 of our privacy notice).
| Name | Type | Set by | What it does | How long |
|---|---|---|---|---|
_gcl_au | Cookie | Records that a visit came from one of our adverts, so we can tell which advert led to an enquiry. | 90 days | |
ft_attribution | Session storage | Fraley Tutors | Notes how you first arrived (for example, from a search, a link, or one of our adverts) so that if you later send us an enquiry we know which route brought you. | Until you close the tab |
ft_diagnostic_lead | Session storage | Fraley Tutors | Only set if you arrive from our free readiness check. Links your enquiry back to that check so we do not email you about it twice. | Until you close the tab |
Several pages load content hosted elsewhere: web fonts from Google Fonts, the MathJax maths-rendering library from jsDelivr, and, on our reviews page, a Trustpilot panel. Loading them sends your IP address to those providers. They may set their own cookies or use their own storage, under their own notices, which we do not control.
As well as the choice on this site, every major browser lets you block or delete cookies for any site. Blocking strictly necessary cookies will stop our contact and careers forms working.
Our privacy notice explains everything else we do with personal data, including your rights and how to contact us about them.