Last updated: 24 August 2026
North London Collegiate School (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (“NLCS (Singapore)”, “the School”, “we”, “us” or “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies across its websites, landing pages and other digital properties.
This Cookie Policy explains:
This Cookie Policy applies to:
Where a visitor follows a link to an external platform or website operated independently by a third party, that third party’s own privacy and cookie terms may also apply.
This Cookie Policy should be read together with the NLCS (Singapore) Personal Data Protection and Privacy Policy.
Where cookies and similar technologies collect, use or disclose information that constitutes personal data, these activities are subject to the Personal Data Protection Act 2012 of Singapore (“PDPA”) and applicable guidance issued by the Personal Data Protection Commission (“PDPC”).
Not every cookie or similar technology necessarily collects personal data. Some are used solely to enable a website, service or function requested by the visitor to operate correctly.
Other technologies, particularly those used for analytics, advertising, measurement, remarketing or behavioural targeting, may collect information that identifies an individual directly or indirectly, or that may become identifiable when combined with other information.
NLCS (Singapore) seeks consent where required for the use of non-essential technologies involving the collection, use or disclosure of personal data.
Visitors can use the cookie controls made available on our websites to accept, reject or manage non-essential cookie categories.
Cookies are small text files that may be stored on a computer, mobile telephone, tablet or other device when a website is visited.
Cookies can perform a variety of functions, including:
We may also use technologies that perform similar functions, including:
For simplicity, references to “cookies” in this Policy include these similar technologies unless otherwise stated.
Depending on the technology involved and the choices made by the visitor, cookies and similar technologies may collect or generate information including:
Where a visitor submits personal information through an admissions enquiry, application, event registration, contact form or other online form, the collection and use of that information is also governed by our Personal Data Protection and Privacy Policy.
Strictly Necessary Cookies are required for the operation, administration or security of our websites, or to provide a function specifically requested by a visitor.
They may be used to:
These technologies cannot generally be disabled through our cookie preference controls because they are necessary for the website or requested service to operate.
A visitor may choose to block cookies through their browser, although doing so may prevent parts of the website from functioning correctly.
Analytics and Performance Cookies help us understand how visitors use our websites and landing pages.
They may help us measure:
We use this information to improve our websites, understand the information prospective families find useful, assess digital campaign performance and improve our communications.
Functional Cookies support enhanced website features and help remember visitor preferences.
They may be used in connection with:
Where a function is provided by a third party, that provider may process information about the visitor’s interaction with the relevant service in accordance with its own privacy terms.
Advertising and Marketing Cookies are used in connection with NLCS (Singapore)’s digital advertising activities.
They may be used to:
These technologies may be operated by NLCS (Singapore), our appointed agencies, technology providers, media owners or advertising platforms.
Where these activities involve behavioural targeting and the collection or use of personal data, we obtain consent where required under applicable law.
We use Google Tag Manager to manage and deploy certain website technologies, including analytics, advertising and conversion measurement technologies.
Google Tag Manager itself primarily enables tags and technologies to be managed centrally.
The individual services activated through Google Tag Manager may collect information or use cookies according to their respective purposes and the visitor’s cookie choices.
Our use of Google Tag Manager may support services including Google Analytics and Google advertising technologies.
NLCS (Singapore) uses Google Analytics 4 to understand how visitors interact with its websites, landing pages and digital content.
Google Analytics may collect information relating to:
Common Google Analytics cookies may include:
Used to help distinguish visitors and measure website usage.
Category: Analytics and Performance
Provider: Google
Typical duration: Up to two years
Used to maintain information relating to a Google Analytics property and website session.
Category: Analytics and Performance
Provider: Google
Typical duration: Up to two years
Cookie duration may vary according to technical configuration, browser settings and changes made by the technology provider.
Google Analytics information helps us understand website and campaign performance and improve the digital experience provided to visitors.
NLCS (Singapore) uses Google Ads and associated Google advertising and measurement technologies to support its digital advertising activity.
These technologies may be used for:
When a visitor arrives at one of our websites after interacting with a Google advertisement, Google technologies may process information associated with that advertising interaction.
Google advertising technologies may use advertising click identifiers and cookies or browser storage beginning with identifiers such as:
Such technologies can help associate an advertising interaction with a subsequent action on our website, such as an admissions enquiry or event registration.
Google may process information obtained through these technologies in accordance with its own privacy and advertising policies.
Advertising and personalisation technologies are subject to applicable consent choices.
NLCS (Singapore) uses advertising services provided by Meta, including advertising across Facebook and Instagram.
We may use the Meta Pixel and related Meta advertising technologies to:
Meta technologies may use cookies and identifiers including:
Information processed through these technologies may include:
Meta may process information received through these technologies in accordance with its own privacy, advertising and cookie policies.
Where Meta technologies are used for behavioural targeting involving personal data, they are subject to applicable consent requirements.
NLCS (Singapore) also undertakes programmatic digital advertising.
Programmatic advertising involves the automated purchase, placement, delivery, optimisation and measurement of advertising across websites, applications and other digital environments.
To undertake programmatic advertising, NLCS (Singapore) and its appointed agencies may work with advertising technology providers including:
These providers may use cookies, pixels, browser storage, pseudonymous advertising identifiers or similar technologies.
Depending on the platform, campaign and visitor’s consent choices, these technologies may process information relating to:
The specific advertising technology providers used by NLCS (Singapore) may change as media campaigns, agencies, platforms and technology services change.
NLCS (Singapore) does not sell personal data to programmatic advertising providers.
Where programmatic advertising involves behavioural targeting using personal data, we obtain consent where required under applicable Singapore law.
We may use advertising technologies to reach appropriate adult audiences who have previously visited our websites, campaign landing pages or interacted with our digital advertising.
For example, a parent or other adult who visits an admissions page may subsequently see an NLCS (Singapore) advertisement on another website, search engine, social media platform or digital service.
This is commonly known as remarketing or retargeting.
Where remarketing or retargeting involves the collection or use of personal data for behavioural targeting, the relevant technologies are used in accordance with applicable consent requirements.
Visitors may reject Advertising and Marketing Cookies through our cookie controls.
Rejecting Advertising and Marketing Cookies does not necessarily mean that a visitor will stop seeing NLCS (Singapore) advertising. It means that information collected through our websites will not be used by us through those cookies for personalised or behavioural advertising where consent has not been provided.
We use digital measurement technologies to understand whether advertising and other digital communications lead to relevant actions.
These may include:
Conversion measurement enables us to assess which campaigns, advertisements and media channels are effective and to improve how our advertising expenditure is managed.
A conversion record may include the type and time of the conversion and information that enables an advertising or analytics platform to associate the conversion with an earlier advertising or website interaction.
Where a visitor enters personal information into an enquiry or registration form, the information entered into that form is handled in accordance with our Personal Data Protection and Privacy Policy.
Measuring a conversion does not, by itself, mean that the full content of an enquiry form is provided to an advertising platform.
Cookies may be either first-party or third-party.
First-party cookies are stored under a domain operated by or on behalf of NLCS (Singapore).
Third-party cookies and technologies are provided by another organisation, such as:
Third-party services may be integrated into our websites through scripts, pixels, tags, application programming interfaces, embedded content or similar technologies.
Third-party providers may process information in accordance with their own privacy policies and the contractual or technical arrangements governing the services they provide.
Our websites and landing pages may contain embedded or externally hosted functionality, including services such as:
When a visitor interacts with third-party content or follows a link to an external service, the relevant provider may process information independently in accordance with its own privacy and cookie policies.
Third-party websites and platforms are not controlled by NLCS (Singapore), and their privacy and cookie practices may differ from ours.
Visitors are given choices concerning non-essential cookies through the cookie controls available on NLCS (Singapore)’s websites.
These choices include:
Allows the use of Strictly Necessary, Functional, Analytics and Performance, and Advertising and Marketing technologies.
Allows only Strictly Necessary technologies and technologies required to provide a service specifically requested by the visitor.
Allows a visitor to select which categories of non-essential technologies they wish to permit.
Strictly Necessary technologies remain active because they are required for website operation, security or functionality specifically requested by the visitor.
Where consent is required, non-essential advertising and behavioural targeting technologies will be used in accordance with the visitor’s consent choice.
Visitors may change or withdraw their cookie choices at any time through the Cookie Settings control available on the NLCS (Singapore) websites.
Withdrawal of consent does not affect processing that occurred lawfully before consent was withdrawn.
Following withdrawal of consent, we will cease using the relevant non-essential technologies for purposes requiring consent, subject to applicable technical and legal requirements.
Cookies already stored on a device may remain until they expire or are deleted through browser settings, but they will not be used by NLCS (Singapore) for a consent-dependent purpose after the relevant consent has been withdrawn where applicable.
We may ask visitors to confirm their cookie choices again periodically or following material changes to our websites, technologies, providers or Cookie Policy.
Visitors may also manage or delete cookies through their browser or device settings.
Most browsers allow users to:
Browser controls differ between browsers and devices.
Blocking all cookies may affect the operation of some website functions.
Browser settings operate separately from the cookie preferences provided by NLCS (Singapore).
Google, Meta and other advertising providers may provide their own privacy and advertising preference controls.
Visitors may therefore choose to manage both:
Choices made directly with a third-party platform are governed by that platform’s systems and policies and operate separately from NLCS (Singapore)’s cookie preferences.
Some analytics, technology, advertising and digital service providers used by NLCS (Singapore) operate internationally.
Information collected through cookies and similar technologies may therefore be processed or stored outside Singapore.
Where NLCS (Singapore) transfers personal data outside Singapore, or causes personal data to be transferred outside Singapore, we take reasonable steps to ensure that the transfer is undertaken in accordance with applicable requirements of the PDPA, including the requirements concerning a standard of protection comparable to that provided under the PDPA.
Third-party providers may also process information internationally in accordance with their own applicable legal, contractual and regulatory obligations.
NLCS (Singapore) is a school and takes particular care in relation to children’s personal data.
Our public-facing admissions and marketing communications are primarily directed towards parents, guardians and other appropriate adult audiences.
We do not intentionally use personal data contained in student educational records, internal student systems or student portals to create behavioural advertising audiences.
Where the collection, use or disclosure of a child’s personal data requires consent under the PDPA, NLCS (Singapore) applies the relevant requirements relating to children and young people.
Where consent is required in relation to a child below 13 years of age, consent will be obtained from the child’s parent or guardian.
For children aged 13 or above, we will consider the child’s ability to understand the nature and consequences of the relevant data processing and obtain parental or guardian consent where appropriate.
We seek to provide appropriate safeguards and a higher standard of care when handling children’s personal data in the digital environment.
Information obtained through cookies and similar technologies is retained only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected.
Retention periods may depend upon:
Some cookies exist only for the duration of a browsing session.
Others may remain on a device for a defined period unless deleted sooner.
Where information obtained through cookies constitutes personal data, our obligations concerning retention under the PDPA and our Personal Data Protection and Privacy Policy apply.
NLCS (Singapore) takes reasonable security measures to protect personal data in its possession or under its control against unauthorised access, collection, use, disclosure, copying, modification, disposal or similar risks.
We seek to use appropriate technology, analytics and advertising providers and to manage access to our analytics, advertising and website systems responsibly.
No method of transmitting or storing information electronically can, however, be guaranteed to be completely secure.
We may appoint agencies, technology providers and other service providers to support our websites, analytics and advertising activities.
These providers may process relevant information on our behalf or, depending on the particular service, under their own applicable privacy responsibilities.
We seek to ensure that personal data disclosed to service providers is limited to what is reasonably required for the relevant purpose and is handled in accordance with applicable data protection requirements and our contractual arrangements.
We do not disclose personal data to third parties for commercial gain.
Digital technologies and advertising platforms change frequently.
We may therefore:
We will update this Cookie Policy where a change materially affects how personal data is collected, used or disclosed.
Where a material change requires new or additional consent, visitors may be asked to review their cookie preferences again.
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect:
The Last updated date at the beginning of this Policy indicates when it was most recently revised.
Visitors are encouraged to review this Policy periodically.
Questions concerning this Cookie Policy, our use of personal data through digital technologies or rights under the PDPA may be directed to:
Data Protection Officer
North London Collegiate School (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
130 Depot Road
Singapore 109708
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: +65 6989 3000
Further information about how NLCS (Singapore) collects, uses, discloses, protects and retains personal data is available in our Personal Data Protection and Privacy Policy.
North London Collegiate School (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
PEI Registration Number: 201621489R
PEI Registration Number: 201621489R | Period of Registration: 25 July 2023 to 24 July 2027
We use cookies to help you navigate efficiently and perform certain functions. You will find detailed information about all cookies under each consent category below.
The cookies that are categorised as "Strictly Necessary" are stored on your browser as they are essential for enabling the basic functionalities of the site. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyse how you use this website, measure our advertising and remember your preferences. These cookies are stored on your browser only with your consent. You may choose to enable or disable some or all of these cookies, but disabling some of them may affect your browsing experience.
Strictly Necessary cookies are required for the operation, administration or security of our websites, or to provide a function specifically requested by you — such as website navigation, security, form handling, sessions and remembering your cookie choices. They cannot be switched off through these controls.
| Cookie | Provider | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
nlcs_cookie_consent | NLCS (Singapore) | 6 months | Stores your cookie consent choices so that they can be applied on subsequent visits. |
PHPSESSID | NLCS (Singapore) | Session | Maintains your website session so that pages and forms operate correctly. |
wordpress_test_cookie | NLCS (Singapore) | Session | Used by the website platform to check whether the browser accepts cookies. |
Functional cookies support enhanced website features and remember your preferences. They may be used in connection with embedded video, maps, website forms, display preferences, third-party content and admissions or enquiry functionality.
| Cookie | Provider | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | YouTube | Up to 6 months | Set by embedded YouTube video to estimate bandwidth and remember playback preferences. |
YSC | YouTube | Session | Set by embedded YouTube video to keep track of views of embedded videos. |
Analytics and Performance cookies help us understand how visitors use our websites and landing pages — visitor numbers, sessions, pages viewed, navigation, traffic sources, campaign traffic and website performance. We use this to improve our websites and communications.
| Cookie | Provider | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
_ga | Up to 2 years | Used by Google Analytics to help distinguish visitors and measure website usage. | |
_ga_<identifier> | Up to 2 years | Used by Google Analytics 4 to maintain information relating to a property and website session. | |
_gid | 24 hours | Used by Google Analytics to distinguish visitors over a short period. |
Advertising and Marketing cookies are used in connection with our digital advertising. They measure advertising effectiveness, attribute enquiries and registrations to campaigns, create advertising audiences, support remarketing, manage advertising frequency and help deliver more relevant advertising to appropriate adult audiences.
| Cookie | Provider | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
_gcl_au | Up to 3 months | Used by Google to store and track conversions attributed to advertising. | |
_gcl_aw | Up to 3 months | Stores a Google Ads click identifier used for conversion measurement and campaign attribution. | |
_gcl_gs | Up to 3 months | Stores Google advertising interaction information used for measurement. | |
_fbp | Meta | Up to 3 months | Set by the Meta Pixel to measure website visits and conversions resulting from Meta advertising, and to support remarketing. |
_fbc | Meta | Up to 3 months | Stores the Meta advertising click identifier used to attribute a conversion to a Meta advertisement. |
IDE | Google (DoubleClick) | Up to 13 months | Used to measure advertising effectiveness and to show advertising that may be relevant to the visitor. |