Overview

This cookie notice outlines how IndoorHockeyUK Ltd. ("we", "our", or "the Company") uses cookies when accessing our website or services ("Site" or "Services"), or otherwise share personal information with use (collectively: "Users"). This policy applies to all Sites and Services from the Company including the trading styles #indoorhockeyUK, HockeyUK Group and My HockeyUK.

What Are Cookies?

For almost any modern website to work properly, it needs to collect certain basic information on its users. To do this, a site will create files known as cookies – which are small text files – on its users’ computers, tablets or mobile devices. These cookies are designed to allow the website to recognise its users on subsequent visits, or to authorise other designated websites to recognise these users for a particular purpose.

Cookies do a lot of different jobs which make your experience of the Internet much smoother and more interactive. For instance, they are used to remember your preferences on sites you visit often, to remember your user ID and the contents of your shopping baskets, and to help you navigate between pages more efficiently. They also help ensure that the advertisements that you see online are more relevant to you and your interests. Some data collected is designed to detect browsing patterns and approximate geographical location to improve user experience.

Some websites may also use web beacons (also known as pixels or tags) to collect information, which are embedded in images. Web beacons only collect limited information, including a cookie number, a time-stamp, and a record of the page on which they are placed. Websites may also carry web beacons placed by third party advertisers. These beacons do not carry any personally identifiable information and are only used to track the effectiveness of a particular campaign (for example by counting the number of visitors).

Information collected by cookies is now classed as personal data.

Types of Cookies

There are two types of cookie:

i) Persistent cookies remain on a user’s device for a set period of time specified in the cookie. They are activated each time that the user visits the website that created that particular cookie.

ii) Session cookies allow website operators to link the actions of a user during a browser session. A browser session starts when a user opens the browser window and finishes when they close the browser window. Once you close the browser, all session cookies are deleted.

Cookies have four different functions and can be categorised as follow:

i) Necessary cookies are essential to navigate around a website and use its features. Without them, you wouldn’t be able to use basic services. Examples of how we use ‘strictly necessary’ cookies include:

- Setting unique identifiers for each unique visitor, so site numbers can be analysed.

- Allowing you to sign in to your My HockeyUK account as a registered user.

ii) Preference cookies allow users to customise how a website looks for them: they can remember your username, language preferences and regions, and can be used to provide more personal services. Some examples of how we use functionality cookies:

- Storing your user preferences on Your Account page

- Remembering if you’ve been to the site before so that messages intended for first-time users are not displayed to you.

iii) Statistic cookies collect data for statistical purposes on how visitors use a website, they don’t contain personal information such as names and email addresses, and are used to improve your user experience of a website. Information supplied by statistic cookies helps us to understand how you use the website; for example, whether or not you have visited before, what you looked at or clicked on and how you found us. We can then use this data to help improve our services. Examples of how we use statistic cookies:

- Gathering data about visits to the website, including numbers of visitors and visits, length of time spent on the site, pages clicked on or where visitors have come from.

- For comparison with other websites using data collected by industry-accepted measurement and research companies.

If you have registered with the website we can combine the data from the web analytic services and their cookies with the information you have supplied to us, so that we can make your experience more personal. Sometimes the data used from the web analytic companies has been collected before you registered or signed in. In these cases, if we use this data to identify you, we use it only in accordance with our privacy policy.

iv) Marketing cookies are used to deliver advertisements more relevant to you, but can also limit the number of times you see an advertisement, and be used to chart the effectiveness of an ad campaign by tracking users’ clicks. They can also provide security in transactions. They are usually placed by third-party advertising networks with a website operator’s permission, but can be placed by the operator themselves. They can remember that you have visited a website, and this information can be shared with other organisations, including other advertisers. They cannot determine who you are though, as the data collected is never linked to your profile. Without these cookies, online advertisements you encounter will be less relevant to you and your interests.

How Do We Use Cookies?

We collect a number of cookies from our users for various reasons, not least to track our own performance; but also to let us serve you content tailored to your own specifications, hopefully improving your overall experience of the website.

We do our utmost to respect users’ privacy. We use cookies to monitor and improve our services. We sometimes include links on our site to goods and services offered by third parties and we may be paid some commission if you subsequently decide to make a purchase. Cookies may be used to track your visits to third party sites to help ensure that we are paid the correct amounts.

We believe that your experience of the site would be adversely affected if you opted out of the cookies we use but it is entirely your right to do so. You may not be able to access some areas or pages of the website or use some services linked to #indoorhockeyUK if you disable cookies. To ensure all users can access all correct areas and services, #indoorhockeyUK has alternative methods for those that want to disable cookies and still be able to use the pages and services that require cookies. You should contact us if this applies to you. 

Managing Cookies

You should be aware that any preferences will be lost if you delete all cookies and parts of the website may not work properly and you will lose some functionality. We do not recommend turning cookies off when using our website for these reasons.

Most browsers accept cookies automatically, but you can alter the settings of your browser to erase cookies or prevent automatic acceptance if you prefer. Generally you have the option to see what cookies you’ve got and delete them individually, block third party cookies or cookies from particular sites, accept all cookies, to be notified when a cookie is issued or reject all cookies. Visit the ‘options’ or ‘preferences’ menu on your browser to change settings, and check the following links for more browser-specific information.

Cookie settings in Microsoft Edge

Cookie settings in Firefox

Cookie settings in Google Chrome

Cookie settings in Safari for Macs

Cookie settings in Safari for iOS

It is possible to opt out of having your anonymous browsing activity within websites recorded by performance cookies. If you choose not to receive our cookies, we cannot guarantee that your experience will be as fulfilling as it would otherwise be - but the choice is yours!