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Cookie Policy

St. George's School (the "School") uses cookies on all its digital sites and the School Portal.

Cookies are small files that the school website stores on your devices after your visit. These files record information about you that provides us with insights about your browsing preferences during your visit that will inform our decisions about how to improve our digital offerings and your experience while on our sites. For example, cookies allow us to remember your login details or recommend content that we believe is relevant to you.

Types Of Cookies


The School uses cookies for different purposes, which include:

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are required for the optimal operation of the sites and enable you to use the features presented on each page. The sites cannot function properly without these cookies.

Functional Cookies

These cookies allow the website to remember your preferences established in past visits, such as whether you accept cookies or not. These cookies allow for a more personalized experience. 

Analytics Cookies

These cookies collect information about how you navigate our sites. They help us understand what pages and content are most popular. The data collected through these cookies is aggregated, and we cannot determine information at the individual visit level.

Targeting & Marketing Cookies

These cookies are also known as third-party cookies. They are installed on your computer by our marketing partners and provide insights to build a profile of your interests to later serve you relevant ads at other sites. 

Specific Cookies By Type

This is the list of cookies that we use at our sites:

Strictly Necessary Cookies

Cookie Name Description Expiry Duration
shopify_pay_redirect This cookie is used by Shopify to enable secure online payment and checkout processes on e-commerce sites powered by Shopify. 0 days
PHPSESSID PHP session cookie associated with embedded content from this domain. 0 days
PHPSESSID PHP session cookie associated with embedded content from this domain. 0 days
secure_customer_sig This cookie is generally provided by Shopify and is used in connection with a customer login. 1 year
_orig_referrer This cookie is generally provided by Shopify and is used in connection with a shopping part. 13 days
_orig_referrer This cookie is generally provided by Shopify and is used in connection with a shopping part. 13 days
PHPSESSID PHP session cookie associated with embedded content from this domain. 0 days
PHPSESSID2 This cookie preserves the user session state across page requests. 0 days
PHPSESSID PHP session cookie associated with embedded content from this domain. 0 days


Functional Cookies

Cookie Name Description Expiry Duration
cart_currency This cookie is used to store a user's currency preference on an e-commerce platform, facilitating transactions in the user's chosen currency. 13 days
cart_currency This cookie is used to store a user's currency preference on an e-commerce platform, facilitating transactions in the user's chosen currency. 13 days
localization These cookies are set on pages with the Flickr widget. 1 year
localization These cookies are set on pages with the Flickr widget. 1 year
_pay_session This domain is associated with Shopify's Shop app, which provides a shopping assistant experience for users, including personalized recommendations and order tracking. 0 days
iutk This domain is owned by Issuu. The main business activity is: Digital Publishing Platform. 5 months
_dlt This domain is owned by Issuu. The main business activity is: Digital Publishing Platform. 0 days
__qca This domain is owned by Issuu. The main business activity is: Digital Publishing Platform. 1 year


Analytical Cookies

Cookie Name Description Expiry Duration
_landing_page This cookie is used to track, report, and analyze landing pages. 13 days
_landing_page This cookie is used to track, report, and analyze landing pages. 13 days
_shopify_sa_p This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite concerning marketing and referrals. 0 days
_shopify_s This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite. 0 days
_shopify_y This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite. 1 year
_shopify_y This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite. 1 year
_shopify_sa_t This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite concerning marketing and referrals. 0 days
_gid This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This appears to be a new cookie and as of Spring 2017, no information is available from Google. It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited. 0 days
_ga This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics, which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session, and campaign data for the site's analytics reports. By default, it is set to expire after two years, although this is customizable by website owners. 1 year
_shopify_s This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite. 0 days
_ga_xxxxxxxxxx Used by Google Analytics to identify and track an individual session with your device. 1 year
COMPASS This domain is part of Google Docs, a suite of online productivity applications that offer collaborative editing of documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and more. 0 days
S This domain is part of Google Docs, a suite of online productivity applications that offer collaborative editing of documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and more. 0 day


Targeting & Marketing Cookies

Cookie Name Description Expiry Duration
_gcl_au Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services. 2 months
_gat_UA-XXXXXXX Google Analytics Cookies. 0 days
_fbp Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real-time bidding from third-party advertisers. 2 months
_gat_gtag_Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx This cookie is part of Google Analytics and is used to limit requests (throttle request rate). Google Analytics. 0 days
TESTCOOKIESENABLED YouTube is a Google-owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. 0 days
YSC YouTube is a Google-owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. 0 days
NID This domain is owned by Google Inc. Although Google is primarily known as a search engine, the company provides a diverse range of products and services. Its main source of revenue however is advertising. Google tracks users extensively both through its own products and sites, and the numerous technologies embedded into many millions of websites around the world. It uses the data gathered from most of these services to profile the interests of web users and sell advertising space to organisations based on such interest profiles as well as aligning adverts to the content on the pages where its customers' adverts appear. 6 months
fr Contains browser and user unique ID combination, used for targeted advertising. 2 months
mc This domain is owned by Quantcast. The main business activity is: Market and Audience Segmentation and targeted advertising services. 1 year
VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA YouTube is a Google-owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. 5 months
test_cookie This domain is owned by Doubleclick (Google). The main business activity is: Doubleclick is Google's real-time bidding advertising exchange. 0 days
IDE This domain is owned by Doubleclick (Google). The main business activity is: Doubleclick is Google's real-time bidding advertising exchange. 1 year
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE This cookie is used as a unique identifier to track the viewing of videos. 5 months

Your Choices

You may accept or decline cookies by updating your browser preferences or clicking on the cookie consent tool located at the bottom left-hand side of your browser. You cannot disable the strictly necessary cookies.

Questions, concerns, and complaints about the school's privacy, confidentiality, and personal information handling policies and practices should be directed to the School’s Privacy Officer, who can be reached at (604) 222-5830 or by e-mail at [email protected].

For any further questions regarding your Cookie Consent, please contact the IT Services Team ([email protected]) or the Communications Team ([email protected]) for further support.

St. George’s School acknowledges that we are situated on the unceded traditional territory of the Musqueam First Nation.

Contributions to St. George's School Foundation are eligible for tax receipts as prescribed by Canadian law. St. George's School Foundation's Charitable Registration Number is: 11917-5511 RR0001.


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