Cookie Policy

RACEHORSE OWNERS ASSOCIATION - COOKIE POLICY

Please read this Cookie Policy carefully as it contains important information on who we are and how we use cookies on the Website. This policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy which sets out how and why we collect, store, use and share personal information generally, as well as your rights in relation to your personal information and details of how to contact us and supervisory authorities if you have a complaint.

This policy was published on 23 August 2021 and last updated on 21 August 2021. We may change this policy from time to time.

Our Website

This Cookie Policy only relates to your use of the Website at www.roa.co.uk (the “Website”).

The Website may contain links to other websites owned and operated by third parties. These other third-party websites may also use cookies or similar technologies in accordance with their own separate polices. For privacy information relating to these other third party websites, please consult their policies as appropriate.

What are cookies and what are they used for?

A cookie is a small text file which is placed onto your device (e.g. computer, smartphone, or other electronic device) when you use the Website. We use cookies on the Website to distinguish you from other users of the Website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse the Website and also allows us to improve the Website.

What cookies does this Website use?

We use the following cookies, which are grouped into ‘essential’ and ‘non-essential cookies’:

Essential (strictly necessary) cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of the Website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of the Website.
Non-essential cookies. These include:

analytical/performance cookies – these allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around the Website when they are using it, which helps us to improve the way the Website works (for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily); and
targeting cookies – these record your visit to the Website, the pages you have visited, and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make the Website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the tables below:

Essential (strictly necessary) cookies

Cookie name	Purpose of cookie	Duration for which data collected from cookie will be used	Further information, including details of any third parties with which data collected from the cookie may be shared
First-party and session cookies
__cfduid	Functional/Necessary	After 29 days	Cookie associated with sites using CloudFlare, used to speed up page load times
_PRESIDE_LANGUAGE	Functional/Necessary	When you close your browser	Works in conjunction with DEFAULTLOCALE Cookie to determine language preferences.
cftoken	Functional/Necessary	When you close your browser	Used to maintain your session with the web application server
cfid	Functional/Necessary	When you close your browser	Works in conjunction with cftoken and is used to maintain your session with the web application server
PSID	Functional/Necessary	When you close your browser	Preside Session ID used to maintain your session with the web application server
CookieControl	Functional/Necessary	After 364 days	Used to remember your cookie preferences.
DEFAULTLOCALE	Functional/Necessary	When you close your browser	Used to determine language preferences
JSESSIONID	Functional/Necessary	When you close your browser	Generated by the Application Server and used for session management in J2EE for the HTTP protocol
VID	Functional/Necessary	After 364 days	Unique ID created by Preside for identifying site visitors
Google
DSID	Functional/Essential	After 1 year	Used by DoubleClick to link your activity across devices if you’ve previously signed in to your Google Account on another device
OGPC	Functional/Essential	After 31 days	Used by Google Maps to function
rc::c	Functional/Essential	When you close your browser	Used by Google's reCAPTCHA to filter out spam and bot traffic
Sharethis
_stid	Functional/Necessary	After 1 year	ShareThis cookie ID
_stidv	Functional/Necessary	After 10 years	ShareThis cookie ID version
Twitter
lang	Functional/Necessary	When you close your browser	This cookie is used to store the language preferences of a user to serve up content in that stored language
YouTube
CONSENT	Functional/Necessary	When you close your browser	Facilitates embedded YouTube videos
remote_sid	Functional/Necessary	When you close your browser	This cookie is set by the YouTube video service on pages with embedded YouTube video
test_cookie	Functional/Necessary	After 1 day	Used by YouTube to determine whether a user's browser accepts cookies
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE	Functional/Necessary	After 5 months	A cookie that YouTube sets that measures your bandwidth to determine whether you get the new player interface or the old
YSC	Functional/Necessary	When you close your browser	Used to track the views of embedded videos
Vimeo
continuous_play_v3	Functional/Necessary	After 7 months	Used to track whether continuous play is on or not for a user
player	Functional/Necessary	After 1 year	Used to enable Vimeo player
vuid	Functional/Necessary	After 2 years	Unique visitor ID
SagePay
NSC_xxx-xxxxxxx-xxx	Functional/Necessary	When you close your browser	Used by SagePay to remember information used to complete your e-commerce transactions

Non-essential cookies

Cookie name	Purpose of cookie	When the cookie will expire (unless you withdraw your consent)	Further information, including details of any third parties with which data collected from the cookie may be shared
Google
_gat_UA-xxxxxxx-xx	Marketing/Advertising	Aft er 1 minute	Limits the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites
_gcl_au	Marketing/Advertising	After 2 months and 7 days	Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using Google’s services
1P_JAR	Marketing/Advertising	After 1 month	Builds a profile of your interests in order to show relevant and personalised Google advertising
ANID	Marketing/Advertising	After 2 years	Builds a profile of your interests in order to show relevant and personalised Google advertising
APISID	Marketing/Advertising	After 2 years	Builds a profile of your interests in order to show relevant and personalised Google advertising
HSID	Marketing/Advertising	After 2 years	Allows Google to authenticate users to show relevant and personalised ad content
LOGIN_INFO	Marketing/Advertising	After 2 years	Builds a profile of your interests in order to show relevant and personalised Google advertising
SAPISID	Marketing/Advertising	After 2 years	Builds a profile of your interests in order to show relevant and personalised Google advertising
SAPISID	Marketing/Advertising	After 2 years	Builds a profile of your interests in order to show relevant and personalised Google advertising
SID	Marketing/Advertising	After 2 years	Allows Google to authenticate users to show relevant and personalised ad content
SIDCC	Marketing/Advertising	After 1 year	Helps customise advertising on Google properties by remembering your most recent searches, your previous interactions with an advertiser's ads or search results and your visits to an advertiser’s website
SSID	Marketing/Advertising	After 2 Years	Helps customise advertising on Google properties by remembering your most recent searches, your previous interactions with an advertiser's ads or search results and your visits to an advertiser’s website.
__Secure-3PAPISID	Marketing/Advertising	After 2 years	Builds a profile of your interests in order to show relevant and personalised Google advertising
__Secure-3PSID	Marketing/Advertising	After 2 years	Builds a profile of your interests in order to show relevant and personalised Google advertising
__Secure-APISID	Marketing/Advertising	After 15 days	Builds a profile of your interests in order to show relevant and personalised Google advertising
__Secure-HSID	Marketing/Advertising	After 15 days	Allows Google to authenticate users to show relevant and personalised ad content
__Secure-SSID	Marketing/Advertising	After 15 days	Helps customise advertising on Google properties by remembering your most recent searches, your previous interactions with an advertiser's ads or search results and your visits to an advertiser’s website
_dc_gtm_UA-#	Analytics/Non-essential	After 1 day	Used by Google Tag Manager to load Analytics scripts
_ga	Analytics/Non-essential	After 2 years	Registers a unique ID for Google Analytics purposes.
_gat	Analytics/Non-essential	After 1 minute	Used to throttle request rate
_gat_gtag_UA_xxxxxxxx_x	Analytics/Non-essential	After 1 minute	Same as the _gat only Google uses this cookie when Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager
_gid	Analytics/Non-essential	After 1 day	Works in conjunction with _ga (above) to track user interactions with the website.
collect	Analytics/Non-essential	When you close your browser	Sends data back to Google for analytics purposes.
IDE	Analytics/Non-essential	After 1 year	Used by DoubleClick to store information about your interaction with the Website and any advertising that you may have seen before visiting
Facebook
_fbp	Marketing/Advertising	After 3 months	Set by Facebook to deliver advertisements when you are on Facebook or a digital platform powered by Facebook advertising after visiting the Website
fr	Marketing/Advertising	After 3 months	Set by Facebook to show relevant advertisements to you and measure and improve the advertisements, and tracks your behaviour across the web on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin
Twitter
guest_id	Marketing/Advertising	After 2 years	Detects whether you are logged into Twitter
personalization_id	Marketing/Advertising	After 2 years	Integrates social sharing capabilities
tfw_exp	Marketing/Advertising	After 2 years	Integrates social sharing capabilities
Sharethis
_vwo_uuid_v2	Performance	After 1 year	VWO cookie calculates unique traffic on a website
YouTube
GPS	Analytics/Non-essential	After 1 day	Gives Google/YouTube location data when you watch a video.
PREF	Analytics/Non-essential	After 8 months	Gives Google/YouTube information on how you use YouTube.
Vimeo
_mkto_trk	Analytics/Non-essential	After 7 months	Used to track users for the Vimeo video
SagePay
_utma	Analytic/Non-essential	After 2 years	SagePay's own implementation of Google tracking capabilities to determine who is listening to a track
Segment
ajs_anonymous_id	Analytic/Non-essential	1 year	Random generated ID for anonymous visitors. Used to count different users.
ajs_group_id	Analytic/Non-essential	1 year	Leadfeeder website ID if you are logged in. This is used to group visits by different website users
ajs_user_id	Analytic/Non-essential	1 year	Your Leadfeeder user id if you are signed in as a user. This is used for usage analytics

How can I change my cookie settings?

Except in respect of the essential (strictly necessary) cookies, we will ask for your consent to place cookies or other similar technologies on your device.

You can withdraw any consent to the use of non-essential cookies or manage any other cookie preferences by changing your cookie preferences on your browser. Details of how to do this can be found here. It may be necessary to refresh the page for the updated settings to take effect.

If you do not want to accept any cookies, you may be able to change your browser settings so that cookies (including those which are essential to the services requested) are not accepted. If you do this, please be aware that you may lose some of the functionality of the Website. You can find out how to manage cookies on the most popular browsers via the links below:

To find information relating to other browsers, please visit the relevant browser developer's website.

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, please visit this page and follow the instructions provided.

For further information about cookies and how to disable them please go to the guidance on cookies published by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office.

How do I contact the Website operator?

If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy or the information we hold about you, please contact us using the contact details available in our Privacy Policy