Cookie Policy

Introduction

National Alliance for School Attendance Ltd (NAfSA). Registered in England and Wales. Company Registration Number: 10252699. Registered Office: Cleveland, Hayscastle, Haverfordwest, Wales, SA62 5NY.

This policy explains how National Alliance for School Attendance Ltd uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit or use the National Alliance for School Attendance (NAfSA) website and member portal.

We believe in maintaining a clean, professional, and privacy-respecting digital environment. Therefore, we only use technologies that are strictly necessary to make our platform function securely. For details on how we process your personal data more broadly, please review our Privacy Policy at Privacy Policy.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files stored on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. In this policy, we also use the term "cookies" to refer to similar web technologies, such as local storage and session storage, which your browser uses to remember your preferences, keep you signed in, or process transactions.

Strictly necessary cookies

Under the UK Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR), we are permitted to store cookies on your device without prior consent if they are strictly necessary for the operation of the service you have requested.

The NAfSA platform relies exclusively on strictly necessary cookies, which cannot be switched off in our systems. These include:

• Authentication & Security (Clerk): Cookies and local storage required to keep you securely signed into your member dashboard, authenticate your identity, and protect administrative areas from unauthorised access.
• Payment Processing (Stripe): Essential security and session cookies deployed by Stripe during the checkout process to securely process your membership or ticketing payments and prevent fraudulent transactions.
• Platform Infrastructure (Vercel & Next.js): Essential routing and session tokens required to deliver our web pages efficiently and securely to your browser.

Analytics

To understand aggregated platform usage (such as page views, load times, and system performance), we utilise Vercel Analytics. This system is specifically designed to be cookieless and privacy-first. It does not store tracking cookies on your device, nor does it track your behaviour across other websites or build a personal marketing profile.

If, in the future, we introduce any optional, non-essential cookies that require consent under PECR, we will update this policy and implement a dedicated consent management tool to provide you with full control over those preferences.

Managing cookies

You can control or block cookies through your individual browser settings. However, please be aware that because we only use strictly necessary cookies, blocking them will break core platform functionality, preventing you from signing into your account, running SEF Audits, or completing checkout.

To safely clear your active session, simply use the "Sign Out" option within the platform, or manually clear the site data specifically for our domain in your browser settings.

Third-party services

When you interact with embedded payment flows (Stripe) or authentication services (Clerk), those trusted infrastructure providers may set their own essential cookies under their respective privacy and security policies to fulfil your request. We encourage you to review Stripe and Clerk's privacy documentation if you wish to understand their specific technical deployments.

Contact

For any questions regarding this Cookie Policy or our technical infrastructure, please reach us via our dedicated contact page at contact page.