What this site stores on your device: nothing.

1. What cookies and similar technologies are

A cookie is a small text file that a website stores on your device so that it can recognise your browser later. Similar technologies — local storage, pixels, device fingerprinting — do a comparable job in different ways. UK law (the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations, “PECR”) requires us to tell you clearly about anything stored on or read from your device, and to ask your consent for anything that is not strictly necessary for the site to work or that is not covered by a specific exception in the law.

2. What happens when you visit our site

Our own pages. The site stores nothing on your device. As you move between pages, the web address in your browser changes so that you can bookmark or share a page; this is not stored by us and tells us nothing about you.

The enquiry form. Sending an enquiry stores nothing on your device either. The form includes a hidden field that helps us tell genuine enquiries from automated spam; it is not a cookie and does not identify you.

Our hosting provider, 123 Reg, serves the pages without setting any cookie for visitors. (Our own staff who sign in to maintain the site receive a sign-in cookie; visitors do not.) If we ever enable a security feature that needs a cookie, it will be strictly necessary, will not require your consent, and will be listed here.

3. Fonts

The typefaces on this site are loaded from Google Fonts. When a page loads, your browser requests the font files from Google’s servers, which receive your IP address and browser details to serve them. Google states that the Fonts service does not set cookies and that these requests are not linked to a Google account; it handles them under its own privacy policy at policies.google.com/privacy.

4. Things that would need your consent

We do not currently use anything that requires consent: no analytics, no advertising cookies, no social-media buttons or pixels, no embedded videos that set cookies, no chat, heat-mapping or session-recording tools. If we add any tool of that kind, we will ask for your consent through a banner before it is switched on — with “reject” as easy as “accept” — and we will update this notice and the date at the top.

5. Controlling cookies in your browser

You can see, block and delete cookies through your browser’s settings, and set it to refuse all cookies or to warn you before one is set. Blocking strictly necessary cookies may stop parts of some sites from working. Guidance is in each browser’s help pages.

6. Questions and changes

If you have a question about this notice, email mpwculinaryacademy@tlc-uk.org. How we use personal data more generally is explained in our Privacy Notice. We update this notice whenever anything on our site changes in a way that affects it; the date at the top shows the current version.