Louth Hockey Club and cookies
Most of the websites you visit will store tiny text files on your computer when you visit them, so that the site can remember things about you the next time you visit. These text files are known as "cookies".
Cookies can be put to all sorts of different uses, including: remembering if a visitor has logged in so they can access private areas of a website; remembering visitors' specific preferences and settings; tracking what pages of a website visitors are browsing to.
Some websites use cookies to observe visitors' browsing habits and then serve targeted advertising to them. Louth Hockey Club does not set any cookies that observe browsing behaviour for the purposes of advertising or marketing.
As well as the cookies this website sets on your computer, some other websites can also set cookies whilst you browse Louth Hockey Club. This is through embedded third-party content, from places like Facebook or Twitter.
What cookies does Louth Hockey Club set?
We have split our cookies into three categories: strictly essential; website information; and third-party.
- Strictly essential - cookies are used for identifying members who have logged in and out of the Louth Hockey Club members area. When the member closes their browser, the cookies are deleted.
- Website information - both Louth Hockey Club and their host ClubBuzz Ltd set cookies for the purposes of recording anonymous information about visitors to the website. This information is used to monitor where visitors come from, which pages and features are popular, and ultimately to deliver an improved service to visitors.
- Third-party - some pages may contain content embedded from third party websites, such as Fixtures Live, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and others. These third parties may set their own cookies (please refer to the privacy policy for the third party concerned). Louth Hockey Club only allows content to be embedded from known, trustworthy third parties.
Controlling cookies from Louth Hockey Club?
Some people find the idea of websites setting cookies intrusive. If you want to restrict all or certain cookies, you can do so through your browser settings. Instructions of how to do so will vary from browser to browser, but you can find out more at www.aboutcookies.org.
Some browsers have a Do Not Track option which allows you to tell websites you don't want your browsing behaviour and patterns tracked, but to still accept those cookies websites class as strictly essential. More information about Do Not Track can be found at www.eff.org/issues/do-not-track.
You can set your preferences with Louth Hockey Club and manage exactly which cookies you do or don't permit to be set on your computer or phone.
Louth Hockey Club should still work if you disable cookies, but some features and functionality may be lost if you do so. Also, remember that you will have to adjust the cookie settings for each browser and device that you visit Louth Hockey Club with (eg, your home computer, work computer, mobile phone etc).
