1. What Are Cookies
Cookies are small text files that a website places on your device when you visit it. They allow the site to recognise your browser between page loads or visits, remember choices you have made, and, where used for analytics, help site owners understand how visitors interact with the site as a whole. Cookies do not typically contain information that directly identifies you by name, but they can be linked to information stored elsewhere.
2. Types of Cookies We Use
We aim to keep cookie use to the minimum needed to run the Site well. We use, or may use, the following categories:
- Strictly necessary cookies: required for core site functionality, such as remembering your cookie consent choice or maintaining basic security features. These cannot be switched off without affecting how the Site works.
- Performance and analytics cookies: help us understand aggregate traffic patterns, popular pages, and general usage trends, so we can improve the Site. These are non-advertising and, where required by law, are only set with your consent.
- Functionality cookies: remember choices you make while browsing, such as a filter selection on the results archive, to make your visit smoother. These are not used to build advertising profiles.
3. Cookie Table
The table below gives an illustrative overview of the categories of cookies this Site may use. Exact cookie names can vary depending on the hosting and analytics tools in use at any given time.
| Category | Purpose | Typical Duration |
|---|---|---|
| Strictly necessary | Remembers your cookie consent preference and supports basic site security | Up to 12 months |
| Performance / analytics | Aggregated, non-identifying data on page views and traffic trends | Up to 24 months |
| Functionality | Remembers in-session choices such as archive filters | Session or up to 30 days |
4. First-Party & Third-Party Cookies
Most cookies used on this Site are first-party cookies, set directly by us. Where the Site loads resources from third parties — for example, web fonts — those providers may set their own cookies or use similar technologies in accordance with their own policies, which we encourage you to review separately.
5. Cookies We Don't Use
We do not use advertising cookies, cross-site tracking cookies, or social media tracking pixels, and we do not sell any data collected through cookies to advertisers, data brokers, or any other third party.
6. Local Storage & Similar Technologies
In addition to cookies, your browser may use other local storage mechanisms (such as localStorage) to help pages on this Site run smoothly during your visit — for example, to keep an in-progress filter or form state while you navigate. This information stays on your device, is not transmitted to us as personal data, and can be cleared at any time via your browser settings.
7. Managing & Disabling Cookies
You can control, block, or delete cookies at any time through your browser settings. Most browsers let you view which cookies are stored, delete them individually or in bulk, and block cookies from specific or all sites going forward. Because the exact steps vary by browser, we recommend checking your browser's help documentation for "cookies" or "privacy settings" for precise instructions.
8. Impact of Disabling Cookies
Disabling strictly necessary cookies may mean some parts of the Site do not function as intended, such as the Site being unable to remember your cookie consent choice, requiring you to set it again on future visits. Disabling performance or functionality cookies should not prevent you from using the Site's core results, checker, and statistics features.
9. Do Not Track
Some browsers offer a "Do Not Track" (DNT) signal. As there is no common industry standard for how websites should interpret DNT signals, this Site does not currently alter its cookie behaviour in response to one. You can still manage cookies directly as described in Section 7.
10. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time, for example if we start using a new analytics provider or add a new feature that relies on cookies. Please check back periodically for the latest version, which will always be available at this page.
11. Contact
Questions about our use of cookies can be sent to hello@thunderball-results.example.