Choose which optional cookies and similar technologies we may use. Your choice applies to this browser and is kept for up to 12 months (6 months if you reject). Details are in our Cookie Policy.

Strictly necessary Always on

Needed for the site to work and stay secure: security checks against bots, form protection, sign-in for schools and admins, and remembering your cookie choice. These do not track you and cannot be switched off.

Lets us measure visits and see which pages are useful, using Google Analytics. Google may process this data outside your country.

Remembers details you have entered, such as your email address on the school sign-in form, so you don't have to type them again.

Shows school videos from YouTube and Vimeo directly on the page. These services may set their own cookies and record that you watched. When off, you can still load a single video with one click.

Cookie Policy

Last updated: October 19, 2026

This policy explains how International Schools DB ("we", "us") uses cookies and similar technologies such as local storage on internationalschoolsdb.com. It is written to meet the EU and UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the EU ePrivacy rules, and Thailand's Personal Data Protection Act B.E. 2562 (PDPA). For how we handle personal data in general, see our Privacy Policy.

Your choice

On your first visit we ask whether you allow optional cookies. Only strictly necessary cookies are used until you choose. Optional cookies are off by default, and rejecting them is as easy as accepting them. You can change or withdraw your choice at any time using Cookie settings at the bottom of every page. Withdrawing consent does not affect anything that happened before you withdrew it.

We keep your choice for 12 months, or 6 months if you rejected optional cookies, and then ask again. We also ask again if we add a new kind of cookie. To show we have your consent, we keep a record of each choice: a random ID (also stored in your cookie), the categories you chose, the date, the policy version, your browser type and your country. We do not store your IP address with it.

Strictly necessary

These are needed for the site to work or to provide something you asked for, so they do not need consent. They are not used to track you.

NameSet byPurposeDuration
isdb_consentThis siteRemembers your cookie choices.12 months (6 if you reject)
PHPSESSIDThis siteOnly set when you use a form or sign in. It protects forms against forgery and keeps school representatives signed in.Until you close your browser
isdb_admin_deviceThis siteKeeps our own administrators signed in. Only used in the admin area.30 days
__cf_bm, cf_clearance, _cfuvidCloudflare (our security and hosting provider)Tell people apart from automated bots and protect the site from attacks. They may only be set when a security check runs.From the session up to 30 minutes, or as set by the security check

Preferences (optional)

NameTypePurposeDuration
isdb_claim_email, isdb_login_emailLocal storageFill in your email address on the school claim and sign-in forms next time.Until you withdraw consent or clear your browser data

Analytics (optional)

We do not currently use analytics cookies. If we start, they will only be set after you allow analytics in Cookie settings, and they will be listed here first.

Embedded media (optional)

Some school pages include a video from YouTube or Vimeo. Until you allow embedded media, or click to play a single video, we show a placeholder, and nothing is loaded from those services. We use YouTube's privacy-enhanced mode (youtube-nocookie.com) and Vimeo's "do not track" setting. Once a video loads, the provider may set its own cookies or use local storage, under its own policy: Google/YouTube, Vimeo.

Virtual tours load only when you click them. They come from the tour provider named on the placeholder, which may set its own cookies.

Other services that receive data without cookies

  • Maps. Map images come from Google's map servers, so Google receives your IP address, as with any web request. The map images do not set cookies, but depending on your browser settings, your browser may send any cookies it already holds for google.com with these requests.
  • Fonts and code libraries. Fonts come from Google Fonts, and some code libraries from public content delivery networks (cdnjs, unpkg, jsDelivr). These services receive your IP address so they can deliver the files.
  • Listing statistics. We count school page views and clicks, such as on a school's website or phone number, as daily totals per school with the visitor's country only. This uses no cookies or identifiers. To avoid counting a double click twice, a one-way hash of the request is held in server memory for 30 seconds and then discarded.

Managing cookies in your browser

You can also block or delete cookies in your browser settings. If you block strictly necessary cookies, some parts of the site, such as forms and sign-in, may not work.

Your rights and contact

Under the GDPR and the PDPA you have the right to access, correct, delete, or restrict use of your personal data, to object to its use, to data portability, and to withdraw consent at any time. You can also complain to a data protection authority: in Thailand, the Personal Data Protection Committee (PDPC); in the EU or UK, your local supervisory authority. To ask about this policy or exercise your rights, please use our contact page.