Last Updated: 8th May 2025
Overview
This privacy policy explains how Wychavon Parish Games Association (“we”,”us” and “our”) uses cookies and similar technology to recognise you when you visit https://wychavonparishgames.org (“website”). It also explains the personal data that we collect in the operation of the website.
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, Wychavon Parish Games Association) 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., 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 Website 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 website. Third parties serve cookies through our Website for advertising, analytics, and other purposes. This is described in more detail below
Third Party Services
We utilise third-party services provided by Google (https://www.google.com) to provide essential services on our website. They may capture personally identifiable information to provide these services.
Analytics
We capture basic personal information including your computer IP address to enable us to analyse usage of this website.
How can I control cookies?
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie rights by setting your preferences in the Cookie Settings. Essential cookies cannot be rejected as they are strictly necessary to provide you with services.
The Cookie Settings can be found towards the bottom of each page on our Website. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our Website though your access to some functionality and areas of our Website may be restricted. You may also set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies.
The specific types of first- and third-party cookies served through our Website and the purposes they perform are described in the table below
Essential Website Cookies
These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website.
| Name | Purpose | Provider | Service | Type |
| _GRECAPTCHA | Stores a value used to verify that the user is not a bot | www.google.com | reCAPTCHA | http_cookie |
| _grecaptcha | Stores a value used to verify that the user is not a bot | wychavonparishgames.org | reCAPTCHA | Html_local_storage |
What about other tracking technologies, like web beacons?
Cookies are not the only way to recognize or track visitors to a website. We may use other, similar technologies from time to time, like web beacons (sometimes called “tracking pixels” or “clear gifs”). These are tiny graphics files that contain a unique identifier that enables us to recognize when someone has visited our Website or opened an email including them. This allows us, for example, to monitor the traffic patterns of users from one page within a website to another, to deliver or communicate with cookies, to understand whether you have come to the website from an online advertisement displayed on a third-party website, to improve site performance, and to measure the success of email marketing campaigns. In many instances, these technologies are reliant on cookies to function properly, and so declining cookies will impair their functioning.
Targeted Advertising
Wychavon Parish Games does not implement targeted advertising on the website.
Contact Information
In order to be able to respond to any question raised through the contact us page, we capture your name and email address. This information will not be used beyond this purpose, but will be retained until such time as we have resolved your query. We may retain the details of your query and the responses in anonymised form indefinitely.
Where can I get further information?
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please email us at website@wychavonparishgames.org