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COOKIES

This Cookie Policy is provided to visitors (“you” or “your”) by The Bicycle Association of Great Britain Limited (“us”, “our”, and/or “we”).

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that is transferred from our website to the hard drive of your computer upon your use of our website. We use cookies to ensure that our website is able to function efficiently and effectively, and to distinguish you from other users of our website, amongst other reasons. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.

By continuing to use our website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies as set out in this Cookie Policy.

WE USE THE FOLLOWING COOKIES

Strictly necessary cookies: these are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They are essential for ensuring that you experience a continuous and unified experience across the website, and do not lose the ability to utilise various features and functionality. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, and to complete editable fields across multiple pages.

Site performance cookies: these cookies allow us to better understand how visitors use our website, including how visitors move around our website and which pages are viewed most frequently. The information collected by these cookies does not personally identify any visitor. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

Functionality cookies: these cookies are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name, and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region). These cookies cannot track your activities on other websites.

Analytics Cookies: these cookies collect data on user traffic and activity, often through third-party analytics tools like Google Analytics. This way, you understand your audience demographics, interests, and how they interact with your website.

Advertising cookies: these cookies track browsing activity across different websites to build user profiles and deliver targeted advertising.

COOKIE POLICY

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Cookie Type	Cookie Name	Purpose
Necessary	_smVID	Necessary for the sign-up function on the website. This function is provided by Sumo.com.
Necessary	_smSessionId _smUser	To manage your session on the website.
Necessary	_pyrocms	To manage content presented to you on the website.
Necessary	CookieConsent	Stores your consent status for cookies on the website.
Necessary	bcookie	To detect spam and improve LinkedIn’s website's security.
Necessary	bscookie	To identify a visitor through an application, for example, to allow a user to login to the website though their LinkedIn application.
Necessary	li_gc	Stores the user’s cookie consent.
Necessary	rc::a rc::c	To distinguish between humans and bots.
Functionality	lidc	Registers which server-cluster is serving the visitor. This is used in context with load balancing, in order to optimize user experience.
Analytics	_smToken	To determine if the visitor is logged in or not.
Analytics	pdfjs.history	Remembers which and how many PDF-documents have been downloaded or read by the user, for internal statistics.
Advertising	_ir	Collects information on user behaviour on multiple websites. This information is used in order to optimize the relevance of advertisement on pinterest.com.

You are able to control cookies through your browser settings on your web browser. It is possible, for example, to block cookies by activating a setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) our website (or parts of our website) may not work. For more information on managing and deleting cookies, visit www.allaboutcookies.org

27th September 2024