Cookies
This Cookie Policy explains how The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (“Company“, “we“, “us“, and “our“) uses cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our websites at https://basc.org.uk (“Websites“). It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.
In some cases we may use cookies to collect personal information, or that becomes personal information if we combine it with other information.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners in order to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.
Cookies set by the website owner (in this case, The British Association for Shooting and Conservation) are called “first party cookies”. Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called “third party cookies”. Third party cookies enable third party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g. like advertising, interactive content and analytics). The parties that set these third party cookies can recognize your computer both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other websites.
Why do we use cookies?
We use first and third party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our Websites to operate, and we refer to these as “essential” or “strictly necessary” cookies. Other cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our Online Properties. Third parties serve cookies through our Websites for advertising, analytics and other purposes. This is described in more detail below.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Although most web browsers automatically accept cookies, you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies to your preference. However, this may prevent you from taking full advantage of our website.
We use cookies on our website and we assume you are ok with this otherwise please disable cookies in your browser or navigate away and clear cookies set by the website.
How to change cookie settings
Most browsers allow you to delete cookies from your computer’s hard drive, block acceptance of cookies or receive a warning before a cookie is stored.
How to change the settings for:
Cookies on this website are used for:
- Analytical/performance purposes – this allows us to recognise and calculate the number of visitors and to see how visitors navigate around the website when they are using it. Therefore helping us improve the way our website functionality for example, by ensuring that users can find what they are looking for easily.
- Functionality purposes – to help us recognise you when you login to our website. This allows us to personalise our content for you and remember your preferences and settings.
- Sharing purposes – this allows you to share pages with social networks such as Facebook and Twitter.
The specific types of first and third party cookies served through our Websites and the purposes they perform are described in the table below (please note that the specific cookies served may vary depending on the specific Online Properties you visit):
Essential website cookies:
These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our Websites and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas.
| Name: | PHPSESSID# |
| Purpose: | Used by PHP to identify a current user’s session. Its activity expires when a session is ended. |
| Provider: | basc.org.uk |
| Service: | PHP View Service Privacy Policy |
| Country: | United States |
| Type: | server_cookie |
| Expires in: | session |
Analytics and customisation cookies:
These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our Websites are being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customise our Websites for you.
| Name: | _gat# |
| Purpose: | Enables Google Analytics regulate the rate of requesting. It is a HTTP cookie type that lasts for a session. |
| Provider: | basc.org.uk |
| Service: | Google Analytics View Service Privacy Policy |
| Country: | United States |
| Type: | http_cookie |
| Expires in: | 1 minute |
| Name: | #collect |
| Purpose: | Sends data such as visitor’s behavior and device to Google Analytics. It is able to keep track of the visitor across marketing channels and devices. It is a pixel tracker type cookie whose activity lasts within the browsing session. |
| Provider: | basc.org.uk |
| Service: | Google Analytics View Service Privacy Policy |
| Country: | United States |
| Type: | pixel_tracker |
| Expires in: | session |
| Name: | _ga |
| Purpose: | It records a particular ID used to come up with data about website usage by the user. It is a HTTP cookie that expires after two years. |
| Provider: | basc.org.uk |
| Service: | Google Analytics View Service Privacy Policy |
| Country: | United States |
| Type: | http_cookie |
| Expires in: | 1 year 12 months 4 days |
| Name: | _gid |
| Purpose: | Keeps an entry of unique ID which is then used to come up with statistical data on website usage by visitors. It is a HTTP cookie type and expires after a browsing session. |
| Provider: | basc.org.uk |
| Service: | Google Analytics View Service Privacy Policy |
| Country: | United States |
| Type: | http_cookie |
| Expires in: | 1 day |
Where can I get further information?
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please contact us by email or by post:
British Association for Shooting and Conservation
Marford Mill,
Chester Rd,
Rossett,
Wrexham,
LL12 0HL
United Kingdom
Phone: (+44) 1244 572 000