Cookie Policy

 

Last updated: (2018/05/30 18:48)

 

Cookies are small pieces of text sent by your web browser by a website you visit.

 

How The Nottingham Board and Wargames Club uses cookies

cookie Policy

Cookies that we Use

Our Privacy Policy explains our principles when it comes to the collection, processing, and storage of your information. This policy specifically explains how we, our partners, and users of our services deploy cookies, as well as the options you have to control them.

What are cookies?

(Not the eating ones)

Cookies are small pieces of data, stored in text files, that are stored on your computer or other device when websites are loaded in a browser. They are widely used to “remember” you and your preferences, either for a single visit (through a “session cookie”) or for multiple repeat visits (using a “persistent cookie”). They ensure a consistent and efficient experience for visitors, and perform essential functions such as allowing users to register and remain logged in. Cookies may be set by the site that you are visiting (known as “first party cookies”), or by third parties, such as those who serve content or provide advertising or analytics services on the website (“third party cookies”).

Both websites and HTML emails may also contain other tracking technologies such as “web beacons” or “pixels.” These are typically small transparent images that provide us with statistics, for similar purposes as cookies. They are often used in conjunction with cookies, though they are not stored on your computer in the same way. As a result, if you disable cookies, web beacons may still load, but their functionality will be restricted.

How we use cookies

We use cookies for a number of different purposes. Some cookies are necessary for technical reasons; some enable a personalized experience for both visitors and registered users; and some allow the display of advertising from selected third party networks. Some of these cookies may be set when a page is loaded, or when a visitor takes a particular action (clicking the “like” or “follow” button on a post, for example).

Many of the cookies we use are only set if you are a registered WordPress.com user (so you don’t have to log in every time, for example), while others are set whenever you visit one of our websites, irrespective of whether you have an account.

For more information on the choices you have about the cookies we use, please see the Controlling Cookies section below.

Where we place cookies

We set cookies in a number of different locations across our services. These include:

  • On our website.
  • In the administrative dashboards wp-admin.
  • In the emails we send.

We use cookies for the following purposes:

  • (a) [authentication – we use cookies [to identify you when you visit our website and as you navigate our website][ (cookies used for this purpose are: Essential website cookies:)]];
  • (b) [status – we use cookies [to help us to determine if you are logged into our website][ (cookies used for this purpose are: Performance and functionality cookies)]];
  • (c) [personalisation – we use cookies [to store information about your preferences and to personalise the website for you][ (cookies used for this purpose are: Analytics and customisation cookies:)]];
  • (d) [security – we use cookies [as an element of the security measures used to protect user accounts, including preventing fraudulent use of login credentials, and to protect our website and services generally][ (cookies used for this purpose are: Essential website cookies)]];
  • (e) [advertising – we use cookies [to help us to display advertisements that will be relevant to you][ (cookies used for this purpose are: Social networking cookies:)]];
  • (f) [analysis – we use cookies [to help us to analyse the use and performance of our website and services][ (cookies used for this purpose are: Analytics and customisation cookies)]]; and
  • (g) [cookie consent – we use cookies [to store your preferences in relation to the use of cookies more generally][ (cookies used for this purpose are: Essential website cookies)]].
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  • (a) [authentication – we use cookies [to identify you when you visit our website and as you navigate our website][ (cookies used for this purpose are: Essential website cookies:)]];
  • (b) [status – we use cookies [to help us to determine if you are logged into our website][ (cookies used for this purpose are: Performance and functionality cookies)]];
  • (c) [personalisation – we use cookies [to store information about your preferences and to personalise the website for you][ (cookies used for this purpose are: Analytics and customisation cookies:)]];
  • (d) [security – we use cookies [as an element of the security measures used to protect user accounts, including preventing fraudulent use of login credentials, and to protect our website and services generally][ (cookies used for this purpose are: Essential website cookies)]];
  • (e) [advertising – we use cookies [to help us to display advertisements that will be relevant to you][ (cookies used for this purpose are: Social networking cookies:)]];
  • (f) [analysis – we use cookies [to help us to analyse the use and performance of our website and services][ (cookies used for this purpose are: Analytics and customisation cookies)]]; and
  • (g) [cookie consent – we use cookies [to store your preferences in relation to the use of cookies more generally][ (cookies used for this purpose are: Essential website cookies)]].
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Types of Cookie

The table below explains the types of cookies we use on our websites and why we use them.

Category of cookies Why we use these cookies

Strictly Necessary These cookies are essential for websites on our services to perform their basic functions. These include those required to allow registered users to authenticate and perform account related functions, as well as to save the contents of virtual “carts” on sites that have an ecommerce functionality.

Functionality

These cookies are used to store preferences set by users such as account name, language, and location.

Security

We use these cookies to help identify and prevent potential security risks.
Analytics and Performance Performance cookies collect information on how users interact with our websites, including what pages are visited most, as well as other analytical data. We use these details to improve how our websites function and to understand how users interact with them.
Advertising These cookies are used to display relevant advertising to visitors who use our services or visit websites we host or provide, as well as to understand and report on the efficacy of ads served on our websites. They track details such as the number of unique visitors, the number of times particular ads have been displayed, and the number of clicks the ads have received. They are also used to build user profiles, including showing you ads based on products you’ve viewed or acts you have taken on our (and other) websites. These are set by Automattic and trusted third party networks, and are generally persistent in nature.

Third Party / Embedded Content

Sites hosted on WordPress.com make use of different third party applications and services to enhance the experience of website visitors. These include social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter (through the use of sharing buttons), or embedded content from Youtube and Vimeo. As a result, cookies may be set by these third parties, and used by them to track your online activity. We have no direct control over the information that is collected by these cookies.

User Sites

In addition to the cookies set on our own sites, we utilize cookies for our Site Stats feature. This tallies the unique numbers of visitors to a site, as well as the number from specific geographic locations. A visitor is counted when we see a user or browser for the first time in a given period.

In addition, people and companies that use our services to publish or host their own sites may place additional cookies. We provide more information on these cookies below.

  • Cookies used by our service providers
  • Third-party cookies

    In some special cases, we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.

    • This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content. For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.
    • From time to time we test new features and make subtle changes to the way that the site is delivered. When we are still testing new features these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience whilst on the site whilst ensuring we understand which optimisations our users appreciate the most.
    • As we sell products it’s important for us to understand statistics about how many of the visitors to our site actually make a purchase and as such this is the kind of data that these cookies will track. This is important to you as it means that we can accurately make business predictions that allow us to monitor our advertising and product costs to ensure the best possible price.
    • The Google AdSense service we use to serve to advertise uses a DoubleClick cookie to serve more relevant ads across the web and limit the number of times that a given ad is shown to you.For more information on Google AdSense see the official Google AdSense privacy FAQ.
    • We use adverts to offset the costs of running this site and provide funding for further development. The behavioural advertising cookies used by this site are designed to ensure that we provide you with the most relevant adverts where possible by anonymously tracking your interests and presenting similar things that may be of interest.
    • Several partners advertise on our behalf and affiliate tracking cookies simply allow us to see if our customers have come to the site through one of our partner sites so that we can credit them appropriately and where applicable allow our affiliate partners to provide any bonus that they may provide you for making a purchase.
    • We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work the following social media sites including; {List the social networks whose features you have integrated with your site?:12}, will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.
  • Our service providers use cookies and those cookies may be stored on your computer when you visit our website.
  • We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/. Google Analytics (https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/cookies/)[ The relevant cookies are: Analytics and customisation cookies]
  • YouTube (https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/cookies/)
  • [We publish Google AdSense interest-based advertisements on our website. These are tailored by Google to reflect your interests. To determine your interests, Google will track your behaviour on our website and on other websites across the web using cookies.] OR [We publish Google AdSense advertisements on our website. To determine your interests, Google will track your behaviour on our website and on other websites across the web using cookies. This behaviour tracking allows Google to tailor the advertisements that you see on other websites to reflect your interests (but we do not publish interest-based advertisements on our website).] You can view, delete or add interest categories associated with your browser by visiting: https://adssettings.google.com. You can also opt out of the AdSense partner network cookie using those settings or using the Network Advertising Initiative’s multi-cookie opt-out mechanism at: http://optout.networkadvertising.org. However, these opt-out mechanisms themselves use cookies, and if you clear the cookies from your browser your opt-out will not be maintained. To ensure that an opt-out is maintained in respect of a particular browser, you may wish to consider using the Google browser plug-ins available at: https://support.google.com/ads/answer/7395996.[ The relevant cookies are: Advertising cookies.]]
  • ShareThis [[(http://www.sharethis.com/privacy/)]]
  • WooCommerce [[(https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/woocommerce-cookies/restashop.com/en/privacy-policy).]]

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site may not work then.

Google Tag Manager

This cookie is associated with Google Tag Manager which we use to load scripts into our website pages.

  • _dc_gtm_UA-

WordPress

This cookie is set by WordPress for performance optimization.

  • no-cache

Performance Cookies

These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources, so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies, we will not know when you have visited our site.

Country_code

Used in order to determine whether or not the cookie banner should be shown. Set immediately on page load and retained for 6 hours to remember the visitor’s country.

Sensitive_pixel_option

Remembers the state of visitor acceptance to the cookie banner. Only set when the visitor clicks Accept.

Twostep_auth

Set when the user is logged in using two factor authentication.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics gathers information allowing us to understand interactions with our websites and ultimately refine that experience to better serve you.

  • __utma
  • __utmz
  • _gat
  • _gid
  • _ga
  • __utmb
  • __utmc
  • __utmv

EU Cookie Law Banner

Cookie Name Purpose

Eucookielaw Remembers the state of visitor acceptance to the EU Cookie Law banner.
Please note that this section is not intended to be exhaustive, but rather aims to be representative, and that our users may set additional cookies (such as Google Analytics), depending on the features they have chosen to enable or the plugins they have installed.

Functional Cookies

These cookies allow the provision of enhancing functionality and personalization, such as videos and live chats. They may be set by us or by third-party providers whose services we have added to our pages. If you do not allow these cookies, then some or all of these functionalities may not function properly.

Cookies

Categories

Wistia

These cookies support video functionality on some of our pages.

  • __distillery
  • wistia-http2-push-disabled

Targeting Cookies

These cookies are set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant ads on other sites. They work by uniquely identifying your browser and device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will not experience our targeted advertising across different websites. Also see our Privacy Policy

Cookies Categories

Bing

  • _uetsid
  • MUIDB
  • MUID

Google

  • SSID
  • NID
  • PREF
  • SID
  • SAPISID
  • id
  • HSID

Instagram

These cookies are set by Instagram and are used to embed forms on our website.

  • instagrame-visit
  • visitor
  • instagrame-visit-
  • visitor_

LinkedIn

  • BizoID
  • lidc
  • bcookie
  • __utma
  • __utmv
  • UserMatchHistory
  • __utmz
  • bscookie
  • __qca
  • lang
  • visit

YouTube

  • SID
  • HSID
  • demographics
  • VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE
  • PREF
  • APISID
  • SSID
  • LOGIN_INFO
  • YSC
  • SAPISID

WooCommerce Cookies

To keep track of cart data, WooCommerce makes use of 3 cookies:

  • woocommerce_cart_hash
  • woocommerce_items_in_cart
  • wp_woocommerce_session_

 

Managing cookies

 

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  • Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.
  • If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.

Our details

  • This website is owned and operated by the Nottingham Board & Wargames Club part of the Umbrella Organisation of ProjectTHISNG.
  • We are registered in [England and Wales] and our registered office is at [Contact Us].
  • Our principal place of business is at [See below].
  • You can contact us: (a) admin@nottinghamboardandwargames.club
  • If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy, you may contact us using the information below.

Https://nottinghamboardandwargames.club

The Nottingham Board and wargames Club

Gary Powell – Director

4 East Street, The Creative Quarter, Nottingham NG1 3AY

  • [using our website contact form];
  • [by telephone, on [the contact number published on our website from time to time]]; or
  • [by email, using [the email address published on our website from time to time]].

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  • 14. Data protection officer
  • 14.1 Our data protection officer’s contact details are: [Gary Powell, See above].