Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy was last updated on 15 June 2026.

1. Introduction

Our website, https://www.savethestudent.org (hereinafter: "the website") uses cookies and other related technologies (for convenience, all technologies are referred to as "cookies"). Cookies are also placed by third parties we have engaged. In the document below, we inform you about the use of cookies on our website.

This Cookie Policy should be read alongside our Privacy Policy, which explains how we handle your personal data more broadly.

2. What are cookies?

A cookie is a small, simple file that is sent along with pages of this website and stored by your browser on the hard drive of your computer or another device. The information stored therein may be returned to our servers or to the servers of the relevant third parties during a subsequent visit.

3. What are scripts?

A script is a piece of program code that is used to make our website function properly and interactively. This code is executed on our server or on your device.

4. What is a web beacon?

A web beacon (or a pixel tag) is a small, invisible piece of text or image on a website that is used to monitor traffic on a website. In order to do this, various data about you is stored using web beacons.

5. Cookies

5.1 Technical or functional cookies

Some cookies ensure that certain parts of the website work properly and that your user preferences remain known. By placing functional cookies, we make it easier for you to visit our website. This way, you do not need to repeatedly enter the same information when visiting our website. We may place these cookies without your consent.

5.2 Statistics cookies

We use statistics cookies to understand how visitors use our website so that we can improve it. We use Google Analytics 4 for this purpose. We ask your permission to place statistics cookies. If you do not consent, Google Analytics may still receive anonymous, cookieless signals which are used only to produce aggregated, modelled statistics that do not identify you.

5.3 Advertising cookies

We may display advertising on this website through Google AdSense. With your consent, these cookies allow our advertising partners to show you personalised ads based on your interests. If you do not consent, you may still see advertising, but it will be non-personalised (based only on the content of the page you are viewing and not on a profile of you).

6. Consent and how we manage it

When you visit our website for the first time, we show you a consent banner provided by Google's certified Consent Management Platform, which operates under the IAB Transparency and Consent Framework (TCF). The banner asks you to consent to a number of purposes, including:

  • Store and/or access information on a device
  • Personalised advertising and content, advertising and content measurement, and audience research

Consent is collected by purpose rather than by individual product. Importantly, the purpose "Store and/or access information on a device" governs both our analytics (Google Analytics) and advertising (Google AdSense) cookies. If you decline this purpose, both analytics and advertising cookies will be disabled.

You can choose Consent to accept, Do not consent to decline, or Manage options to make granular choices by purpose and vendor.

6.1 Changing or withdrawing your consent

You can change or withdraw your consent at any time by clicking the "Privacy and cookie settings" link in the footer of any page on our website. This will reopen the consent banner and allow you to update your choices. You can also delete cookies via your browser at any time (see section 8).

7. Placed cookies

Functional / necessary (no consent required)

  • __cf_bm, cf_clearance (Cloudflare) — used to distinguish humans from bots and to provide security and DDoS protection. Necessary for the site to operate securely.
  • FCCDCF (Google Funding Choices) — stores your cookie consent preferences so we can remember your choices.
  • boxzilla_box, boxzilla_pageviews, boxzilla_timer — used to control when our email sign-up message is displayed so it is not shown repeatedly.

Statistics (consent required)

  • _ga* (Google Analytics 4) — used to distinguish unique users and to measure how visitors use the website. Read more in the Google Privacy Policy.

Advertising (consent required)

  • _gcl_au (Google) — used to measure and improve advertising performance.
  • Additional cookies may be set by Google AdSense and its advertising partners when you consent to personalised advertising. A full list of partners is available via the "List of partners" link on the consent banner. Read more in the Google advertising information.

8. Enabling/disabling and deleting cookies

You can use your internet browser to automatically or manually delete cookies. You can also specify that certain cookies may not be placed. Another option is to change the settings of your internet browser so that you receive a message each time a cookie is placed. For more information about these options, please refer to the instructions in the Help section of your browser.

Please note that our website may not work properly if all cookies are disabled. If you do delete the cookies in your browser, they will be placed again after your consent when you visit our website again.

9. Your rights with respect to personal data

You have the following rights with respect to your personal data:

  • You have the right to know why your personal data is needed, what will happen to it, and how long it will be retained for.
  • Right of access: You have the right to access your personal data that is known to us.
  • Right to rectification: you have the right to supplement, correct, have deleted or blocked your personal data whenever you wish.
  • If you give us your consent to process your data, you have the right to revoke that consent and to have your personal data deleted.
  • Right to transfer your data: you have the right to request all your personal data from the controller and transfer it in its entirety to another controller.
  • Right to object: you may object to the processing of your data. We comply with this, unless there are justified grounds for processing.

To exercise these rights, please contact us. Please refer to the contact details at the bottom of this Cookie Policy. If you have a complaint about how we handle your data, we would like to hear from you, but you also have the right to submit a complaint to the supervisory authority (the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)).

For full details of how we process your personal data and your rights, see our Privacy Policy.

10. Contact details

For questions and/or comments about our Cookie Policy and this statement, please contact us by using the following contact details:

Grip Media Limited
4th Floor Silverstream House, 45 Fitzroy Street, London, England, W1T 6EB
United Kingdom
Website: https://www.savethestudent.org
Email: [email protected]
Phone number: 020 8191 8511