HeadStart policies
Cookie policy
My HeadStart Limited trading as HeadStart | Company No. 17411314 | ICO C2013306
The cookies and similar storage HeadStart uses, what each one does, and how to control them.
Version August 2026
1. About this policy
This Cookie Policy explains how HeadStart uses cookies and similar technologies on its website and digital services. It should be read alongside the HeadStart Privacy Notice.
2. What cookies are
Cookies are small text files or similar technologies placed on or accessed from your device when you use a website or digital service. They can support essential functionality, remember choices, help understand how a service is used and support improvements.
3. Types of cookies we may use
Strictly necessary cookies are used where required for core functions such as security, authentication, account access, subscription processes and remembering privacy choices. These cannot always be switched off because the service may not function correctly without them.
Analytics and performance technologies may be used to understand how visitors and members use HeadStart, which pages or features are useful, where users encounter difficulties and how the service can be improved.
Functionality technologies may remember choices or enable enhanced features.
Where marketing or advertising technologies are introduced, they will be used only in accordance with applicable consent requirements.
4. Third-party technology
HeadStart's technology platform is provided with support from Ningi Limited. Ningi's contractual sub-processor arrangements include providers that may support hosting, analytics, communications, AI and other platform functions. The precise cookies and similar technologies active on the live HeadStart service may change as functionality develops.
HeadStart will maintain its live cookie-consent tool and cookie information so that it reflects the technologies actually deployed on the website and platform.
5. Your choices
Where consent is required, non-essential cookies will not be activated until you make a choice through the cookie-consent mechanism. You can accept or reject relevant categories and can change your preferences later through the cookie settings available on the website.
You can also control cookies through your browser settings, although blocking necessary technologies may affect how the service works.
6. Changes
We may update this policy when the technologies used by HeadStart change or when legal requirements develop. The latest version will be available on the HeadStart website.
7. Contact
My HeadStart Limited, trading as HeadStart, is responsible for the HeadStart website. Registered office: Elmfield House, New Yatt Road, Witney, West Oxfordshire, England, OX28 1PB. Company number: 17411314.
The cookies on this site today
Section 4 commits HeadStart to keeping its cookie information in step with what is actually deployed. This table, maintained by HeadStart's platform provider and updated in the same change as any new cookie, is the complete list of cookies the live site sets today.
| Cookie | Type | What it does | Kept for |
|---|---|---|---|
sb-*-auth-tokenHeadStart (first party) | Strictly necessary | Your member sign-in session, set by our authentication provider (Supabase) when you sign in with a six-digit passcode. | Until you sign out (refreshed while you stay signed in) |
hs_journeyHeadStart (first party) | Strictly necessary | A single-use token that lets you finish the Reality Check you just started without having to create an account first. | Browser session |
hs_consentHeadStart (first party) | Strictly necessary | Remembers your cookie choice, so you are not asked again on every page. Storing this is what lets us honour a refusal. | 365 days |
hs_attrHeadStart (first party) | Campaign measurement | Remembers the campaign code from the link or QR code you arrived on (for example a Freshers' Week banner) so that, if you sign up later in the visit, HeadStart knows which campaign reached you. It holds a short campaign code and the time you arrived, with no identifiers and no browsing history. | 30 days |
That is the whole list. There are no advertising cookies, no third-party trackers and no social media pixels on this site.
Change your choices
Reopen the cookie banner and set your preferences again. Turning campaign measurement off deletes the cookie straight away.
HeadStart is a trading name of My HeadStart Limited, registered in England & Wales, company number 17411314. Registered office: Elmfield House, New Yatt Road, Witney, West Oxfordshire, OX28 1PB. Questions about this document: hello@myheadstart.co.uk.
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