Cookies are categorised into 4 types:
Strictly necessary cookies – These are cookies that are required for the operation of Our Website. They may include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of Our Website. Without these cookies services you have asked for cannot be provided.
Performance cookies – These cookies collect information about how visitors use Our Website, for example which web page you visit and if you get error messages from web pages. These cookies help us to improve the way our Website works. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how a website works. Please note that third parties (including, for example, providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may have placed performance cookies on Our Website.
Functionality cookies – These cookies allow Our Website to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. For instance, a website may be able to provide you with local weather reports or traffic news by storing in a cookie the region in which you are currently located. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customise. They may also be used to provide services you have asked for such as watching a video or commenting on a blog. The information these cookies collect may be anonymised and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.
Tracking cookies – These are cookies that collect information about your browsing habits to make advertising relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaigns. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organisations such as advertisers.
These are the cookies that we use on our website. Where relevant, the default expiration time is in brackets after the cookie name.
Google ReCaptcha
These are essential site cookies, used by google reCAPTCHA to verify the user is human. These cookies use a unique identifier for tracking purposes.
- 1P_JAR (30 days from set / update)
- CONSENT (30 days from set / update)
Google Analytics
These are tracking cookies which are used to collect information bout how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the products and services we offer. The cookies collect information including the number of visitors to the site, if they have visited before, where visitors have come from and the pages they have viewed.
- _ga (230 days from set / update)
- _gat (24 hours)
- _gat_gtag (24 hours)
- _gid (24 hours)
WordPress
The following are functionality cookies that save a user’s data if they comment on one our Blog posts and then return to the website to comment again. All are set to expire after 365 days.
- comment_author_{HASH}
- comment_author_email_{HASH}
- comment_author_url_{HASH}
Facebook
These tracking cookies are placed by Facebook. They enable Criterium Cycles to measure, optimize and build audiences for advertising campaigns served on Facebook. In particular they enables us to see how our users move between devices when accessing our web site and Facebook, to ensure that our Facebook advertising is seen by our users most likely to be interested in such advertising by analysing which content a user has viewed and interacted with on the Criterium Cycles web site. The duration of the Cookie is 365 days unless otherwise stated.
To opt-out go to https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences
- _fbp
- _c_user
- datr
- dpr (Session ends when user leaves site)
- sb
- wd
- xs