Cookie policy
This is the Cookie Policy for https://www.shootingstarcompetitions.co.uk/
What Are Cookies
Shooting Star Competitions website uses cookies, which are small files that are downloaded to your computer to improve your experience. Below is what information cookies gather, how we use it and why we need to store these cookies to enable a better experience for our customers.
How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for a variety of reasons, It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.
Information about our use of cookies
Our website uses cookies to recognize and separate you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with an efficient experience when you view and use our website and also allows us to make improvement to our site.
By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of all the cookies we use
We use the following cookies:
• Strictly necessary cookies. Strictly necessary cookies are cookies that must be present for the website to provide the basic functions of the website. They are essential to be able to access features of the website and could include signing in, adding items to a cart, or e-billing. They are typically essential first-party session cookies, but not all first-party cookies are strictly necessary cookies. They allow for a user to navigate back and forth between pages without losing their previous information from the same session.
• Analytical/performance cookies. These cookies collect information about how you use the website, for example which pages you visit and any error messages. These cookies don't gather information that identifies you, they are anonymous and help to improve how the website functions.
• Functionality cookies. These cookies allow a website to remember the choices you make, and tailor the website to provide an enhanced experience for you.
• Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have clicked and followed. We will use this information to tailor website and the relevant advertising displayed on it more specific to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
• Those third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, which have their own regulations and in which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
• You can block these cookies by activating the 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) you may not be able to fully access and guarantee full working order of all or parts of our website.
Disabling Cookies
You can prevent the cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see relevant your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of the this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.
The Cookies We Set
Account related cookies
If you create an account with us then we will use cookies for the sign up process and general administration. These cookies will normally be deleted when you log out however in some cases they may remain afterwards to enable us to remember your site preferences when logged out.
Login related cookies
We use cookies when you are logged in so that we can remember this fact. This prevents you from having to log in every single time you visit a new page. These cookies are normally removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only obtain or retrieve restricted features and areas when logged in.
Email newsletters related cookies
This site offers newsletter, email or SMS subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and if certain notifications pertain to you which will be determined and valid for subscribed and or unsubscribed users.
Orders processing related cookies
This site offers e-commerce payment facilities and some cookies are required to ensure that your order is remembered between pages so that we can process it.
Third Party Cookies
In some unique cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.
• Google Analytics is the most popular analytics package available and used by many companies However much site owners think of it as an essential website tool, Google Analytics is covered by the requirements of the EU Cookie Law. This means the website owners must seek consent for the use of GA, using tools like Optanon. Optanon will help you tell your visitors about GA, and provide them with the ability to opt-out without having to leave your site. All it requires is a slight change to how you add Google Analytics into your pages, which is very easy for most websites to implement. If you use Google Tag Manager, it is even easier to use Optanon to control Google Analytics, subject to user consent.
• The Google AdSense service we use to serve advertising uses a DoubleClick cookie to serve more relevant ads across the web and limit the number of times that a given ad is shown to you.
• For more information on Google AdSense and Google Analytics see the official Google AdSense and Google Analytics privacy FAQ.
We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on our website that allows you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work the following social media sites but not limited to, including; Facebook, instagram, youtube and Tik Tok , we will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.
However if you are still looking for more information then you can contact us via: info@shootingstarcompetitions.co.uk
