Cookies Policy

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on your computer, tablet, or smartphone by web servers when you visit websites. They are universally employed to make web applications work reliably, maintain security integrity, remember transient preferences, and provide operational reporting.

2. Types of Cookies We Use

On the official Prince of Wales' College portal (princeofwales.edu.lk), cookies are used exclusively in the following limited categories:

A. Strictly Necessary & Security Cookies

These cookies are essential for you to navigate our website and access secure administrative sections. Without these cookies, services like secure session handling, Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) protection, and brute-force mitigation cannot function:

• Session Authentication: Maintains an encrypted session token when school administrators log in to update school events or news.
• Security & Abuse Prevention: Used by web application firewalls to distinguish legitimate visitors from automated botnets or scraping tools.

B. Functional & Preference Storage

These allow our application to remember choices you make during your visit to provide enhanced functionality:

• Media Player Preferences: Remembering volume levels or playback state in our site-wide Cambrian anthem and music player.
• User Interface Settings: Remembering whether specific notification banners or modal dialogs have already been acknowledged.

C. Third-Party Embedded Content

Pages containing embedded media (such as YouTube videos of the Battle of the Golds, college cricket highlights, or musical releases) may serve third-party technical cookies managed directly by YouTube/Google to track playback performance and bandwidth conditions. These cookies are governed by Google's privacy policies.

3. What We Do NOT Use

• We do not use third-party advertising cookies or ad networks (e.g., Google AdSense, DoubleClick, Facebook Pixel).
• We do not track user activity across different domains.
• We do not sell or license any cookie identifiers or browsing telemetry to third-party data brokers.

4. Managing and Disabling Cookies

Most modern web browsers allow you to manage your cookie preferences through their configuration settings. You can choose to block all cookies, reject third-party cookies, or delete existing cookies from your device at any time:

• Google Chrome: Settings > Privacy and security > Third-party cookies
• Mozilla Firefox: Settings > Privacy & Security > Cookies and Site Data
• Apple Safari: Settings > Safari > Privacy & Security > Block All Cookies
• Microsoft Edge: Settings > Cookies and site permissions > Manage and delete cookies and site data

Please note: Disabling strictly necessary cookies may impact the proper rendering of security components or administrative portals.

5. Updates to This Cookies Policy

We may amend this policy from time to time to account for updates in technical architecture or regulatory frameworks. Please review this page periodically to stay informed about our use of cookies.

6. Contact Us

For inquiries regarding our use of cookies or privacy standards, please contact our web administration team at info@princeofwales.edu.lk or refer to our Privacy Policy.