Cookies

We use cookies for a variety of reasons. Unfortunately, in most cases, there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features that they bring to this website. It is recommended that you leave all cookies on if you are not sure whether you need them or not, just in case they are used to provide a service that you use.

Introduction

On this page you will find information on what cookies are used in this site and how to reject or delete those cookies if you wish. If you wish to delete any cookies that are already on your computer, please refer to the instructions for your file management software to locate the file or directory that stores cookies. Information on deleting or controlling cookies as well as more general information about cookies is also available at www.aboutcookies.org. For information on how to do this on the browser of your mobile phone you will need to refer to your handset manual.

Please note that by deleting our cookies or disabling future cookies you may not be able to access certain areas or features of our site.

What are Cookies?

Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognises that cookie. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognise a user’s device. You can find more information about cookies by visiting: www.allaboutcookies.org.

Policy review

For the avoidance of doubt all policies relating to GDPR and/or data protection are not contractually binding on Park Sports and may be withdrawn or amended at any time. They will be under ongoing review and will be replaced with the latest versions accordingly.

The Cookies We Set

If you create an account with us, then we will use cookies for the management of the sign-up process and general administration. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out, however in some cases they may remain afterwards to remember your site preferences when logged out.

This website offers e-commerce or payment facilities and some cookies are essential to ensure that your order is remembered between pages so that we can process it properly.

When you submit data via an enquiry form cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.

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 website uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution 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.

As this is a transactional booking website it’s important for us to understand statistics about how many of the visitors to our site go on to make a booking. This is also important to you, as it means that we can accurately make business predictions that allow us to optimise our marketing and advertising budgets and to keep our prices competitive and good value.

We also use social media buttons on this website that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work Facebook and Instagram will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their platform or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies. The use of such information by a third party depends on their published privacy policy and we encourage you to review those carefully. Such third parties may use these cookies or other tracking methods for their own purposes by relating information about your use of our site with any of your personal information they may have. We may also obtain analytics information from social networks that help us measure the effectiveness of our content and advertisements on social networks (e.g. impressions and clicks).

What Types of Cookie Do We Use?

We use essential and performance cookie types to make our website more useful by personalising information for visitors and by storing information about your preferences on our site. Essential (functional) cookies are necessary for the website to work and cannot be switched off without impairing the functionality of our website. Performance cookies allow us to measure and improve the performance of our website and provide enhanced functionality and personalisation.
We use Google Analytics to better understand our website traffic patterns and to help us analyse (on an aggregated basis only) where visitors go, and what they do whilst visiting our website.
We also use cookies in our email communications to personalise emails and track whether the mail has been opened or read, and whether the recipient has used any website links contained in the email.
We also use advertising cookies - for example to track and monitor ads placed on Facebook and other social media platforms.

Cookies we use	Type of Cookie	Cookie Name	Cookie Duration	Purpose
Content Management System	Essential	CraftSessionId CRAFT_CSRF_TOKEN	Browsing session Browsing session	Our Content Management System (CMS) requires cookies to function. These cookies do not collect any personal information or IP addresses, and neither does the information they store get passed to any third parties. These cookies are used to communicate with the CMS for the purposes of user authentication, form validation and security, and basic website operations.
Email Bot Check	Essential	__cf_bm	30 minutes	This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots.
Google Analytics	Essential	_ga_Z4DW7B4VDD _ga _gid _gat	2 years 2 years 1 day 1 minute	This cookie is set by Google Analytics. It stores and updates a unique value for each page visited and is used to count and track page views. Google Analytics cookies are used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports.
Facebook	Advertising	_fbp	90 days	This cookie is placed on our site to store and track visits to/from Facebook across websites.
Live Chat	Functionality	tidio_state	Until cache is cleared	Live chat is a great way to contact the Park Sports team if you're looking for support. A 'key' is stored in your browser's local storage and can be removed by cleaning your browser cache.