This Cookie Policy explains how OFALycée uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit www.ofalycee.org and related Services. Because we serve students aged 5 to 18, we have deliberately limited our use of trackers and committed publicly never to use cookies for advertising targeting minors.

1. What Are Cookies

Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. They help websites function properly, improve performance, and provide insights into user behaviour.

2. Why We Use Cookies

At OFALycée, we use cookies to:

Ensure the Website functions properly
Remember your preferences (e.g. language)
Improve performance and user experience
Analyse, in aggregated form, how visitors use our Website (only after consent)
Support communication and enrollment processes

3. Types of Cookies We Use

a. Essential Cookies (Strictly Necessary)

Required for the Website to function. Examples:

Page navigation
Security and bot protection
Session management (e.g. Parents Area authentication)

These cookies cannot be disabled.

b. Functional Cookies

Allow us to remember your preferences. Examples:

Language selection (FR / EN)
Saved form inputs
Login-related preferences

c. Analytics Cookies

Help us understand how visitors use our Website — only after explicit consent through our cookie banner. We use Google Analytics 4 with IP anonymisation. Analytics are aggregated and never used to build individual profiles.

4. Cookies We Do Not Use

To protect children and families, we explicitly do not:

Display third-party advertising on our Services;
Use advertising or retargeting cookies (no Google Ads pixels, no Meta/Facebook pixel, no TikTok pixel, no LinkedIn Insight Tag on enrolled-student areas);
Use cookies or trackers to build commercial profiles of minors;
Share data collected through cookies with data brokers.

5. Third-Party Cookies

A small number of cookies may be placed by trusted providers strictly necessary to deliver educational services, including:

Canvas LMS — learning management
Zoom — live online classes
HubSpot — admissions communications
Acuity Scheduling — admission appointment booking
Google Analytics 4 — aggregated, consent-based website analytics

These providers may collect data in accordance with their own privacy policies, which we encourage you to review.

6. Managing Your Cookie Preferences

When you first visit our Website, you are presented with a cookie banner allowing you to:

Accept all cookies;
Reject non-essential cookies;
Customise your preferences.

Until you give consent, no analytics or non-essential cookies are loaded (Google Consent Mode v2 “denied” by default). You can change your decision at any time via your browser settings.

7. International Users

For users in the European Union, the United Kingdom, and similar jurisdictions, cookies that are not strictly necessary will only be used with your prior, freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous consent, in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and ePrivacy rules.

8. Updates to This Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time. Updates will be posted on this page with a revised effective date.

9. Contact

For any questions regarding this Cookie Policy:

OFALycée
Contact: contact@ofalycee.org
Website: www.ofalycee.org