Cookie policy

We use cookies on our website. Cookies are small files that help our website work properly and improve your experience.

Please read this cookie policy carefully. It explains who we are, what cookies are and how we use cookies on our website.

It is important that you also read our [Privacy Notice]. Our Privacy Notice explains how and why we collect, store, use and share your personal information and what rights you have. It also tells you how to contact us and the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) if you have a complaint.

WHO ARE WE?

We are the London Early Years Foundation (“LEYF”, “we”, “us” or “our”), a company registered in England and Wales under company number 02228978 and registered charity number 299686. Our registered office is at 121 Marsham Street, London, SW1P 4LX.

OUR WEBSITE

This cookie policy only relates to your use of our website www.leyf.org.uk.

Our website may contain links to other websites, such as our social media pages, or useful information from other organisations. These websites are separate from ours and have their own privacy and cookie policies. If you visit them, they may use cookies or similar technologies. We recommend reading their privacy and cookie policies to understand how they use your information.

WHAT IS A COOKIE?

A cookie is a small text file that is saved on your device (e.g. computer, mobile phone, tablet, or other electronic device) when you visit our website. We use cookies to help our website to work properly, remember choices you have made (such as your preferred settings when using the website), and understand how you use the website so we can improve your experience.

We use cookies on our website to:

    • carry out research and statistical analysis to help us understand how people use our website, and services so we can improve them;

    • help our website work properly and support features such as our online enquiry and nursery visit booking forms;

    • remember your cookie choices and other website preferences;

    • understand how visitors use our website, including which pages they visit, so we can improve our content and make information about our nurseries and services easier to find;

    • see which pages on our website users visit;

    • monitor traffic data, location data (such as approximate geographic location), browser type, device information and the originating domain name of your internet service provider;

    • monitor how our website performs and identify technical issues;

    • help keep our website secure and detect suspicious activity;

    • understand how effective our marketing campaigns are and, where applicable, show you relevant advertising about our nurseries and services;

    • recognise your device whenever you visit this website; and

    • make your online experience more efficient and enjoyable.

The information collected by cookies helps us to see how people use our website, what content and features are most popular, and how we can improve our services and users’ experiences. We may also use it to personalise content and recommendations based on your preferences and activity. Some of this information is combined with information from other users to create statistics and reports. When we do this, we do not identify you personally.

For further information on our use of cookies please see below. For further information on cookies generally, including how to control and manage them, visit the guidance on cookies published by the ICO or www.allaboutcookies.org.

WHAT TYPES OF COOKIES DO WE USE AND HOW LONG DO THEY LAST FOR?

The cookies we place on your device fall into the following categories – please see the table below for which are applicable:

    • Strictly necessary (or essential) cookies: These cookies are needed for our website to work properly. They help with things like keeping your information secure and making sure key features work correctly. They also support security, network management and accessibility.

    • Appearance and functional cookies: These cookies mean we can personalise the content you see and allow features on our website to work as they should. They also help us to improve the appearance or performance of our website.

    • Analytical and statistical cookies: These cookies help us to understand how visitors move around our website. They help us improve the way our website works so we can optimise performance. [All information these cookies collect is anonymous.]

    • Security cookies: These cookies help us keep our website secure. They help us spot unusual activity, protect accounts and information, and reduce the risk of fraud

    • Social media cookies: These cookies may be set when we use content from social media platforms on our website. They may track your use of those platforms and help social media companies provide content and advertising that is more relevant to you. If you do not allow these cookies, you may not be able to view content from social media platforms that is shown on our website.

    • Personalised advertising cookies: These cookies may be set through our website by our advertising partners. They uniquely recognise your browser and internet device and build a profile of your interests to provide you with relevant adverts on other websites you may visit. If you choose to reject these cookies, you’ll experience less personalised offers and products.

The cookies we place on your device are stored for the following duration – please see the table below for which are applicable:

    • Session cookies: These allow our website to link your actions during a particular browser session. They remember things you do during a single visit, such as logging in or moving between pages. They automatically expire when you close your browser.

    • Persistent cookies: These are stored on your device in between browser sessions. They help us remember your preferences and settings, so you do not have to enter them again each time you visit our website. These cookies remain on your device until they expire or you delete them. Details of how long they last are set out below.

If you have any questions about the cookies we use or how we use them, please contact dataprotection@leyf.org.uk

Detailed cookie information

We have configured Google Analytics to limit the collection of information that could identify individual users. We use the information collected to understand, on an aggregated basis, how visitors use our website and to improve its performance.

We periodically review the cookies we use and update our cookie table, this cookie policy and our Website Privacy Notice accordingly.

We will ask for your permission before placing cookies or other similar technologies on your device, unless they are necessary (or essential) for us to provide you with a service that you have asked for (e.g. some cookies are needed to allow you to add items to your basket, complete a purchase, or create and log in to your account). [We may also use certain cookies without asking for your permission where UK law allows us to do so (e.g. where our sole purpose for using the cookie is to collect statistical information about how visitors use our website so that we can improve it)].

There is a cookie banner on our homepage which asks for your permission to place cookies on your device.

Where the table above shows that we use strictly necessary cookies [or other cookies that do not require consent under UK law (e.g. statistical purposes cookies)], we use your personal information because we have a good reason for doing so (the technical legal term for this is “legitimate interests”).

Strictly necessary cookies are needed for our website to work properly and provide the services you request [and certain cookies that do not require consent under UK law but help us with the security of our website or can help us understand how visitors use our website and improve it].

You can change your mind at any time about non-essential [or exempt] cookies. You can withdraw any consent to the use of these cookies and control and/or delete cookies being placed on your device by changing your browser settings.You can also delete these cookies that are already on your computer, and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit our website, and some services and functionalities may not work or stop working properly.

THIRD PARTY ACCESS TO THE COOKIES

The cookies we use will only be accessed by us and those third parties named in the table above for the purposes referred to in this cookie policy. Those cookies will not be accessed by any other third party.

HOW TO TURN OFF ALL COOKIES AND THE CONSEQUENCES OF DOING SO

If you do not want to accept any cookies, you may be able to change your browser settings so that cookies (including those which are essential to the services requested) are not accepted. If you do this, please be aware that you may lose some of the functionality of our website.

For further information about cookies and how to disable them, please go to the guidance on cookies published by the ICO or www.allaboutcookies.org.

HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US?

Please contact us at customerservices@leyf.org.uk if you have any questions about this cookie policy or the information we hold about you.

CHANGES TO THIS POLICY

This policy was published 04/11/2026 and last updated in November 2026.

We may change this cookie policy from time to time. When we do, we will update our website with the new version of this cookie policy.