Swim England
Information about our use of cookies
Our site uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our site. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our site and also allows us to improve our site. When you use our site, a banner will be displayed asking you for your consent to our use of cookies.
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that is saved onto your computer, smartphone, tablet or other device when you visit our site.
Cookies store small pieces of information. For example, one type of cookie will remember that you have visited our site before.
Cookies help us to improve your visit and experience when browsing our site by, for example, storing certain information so you don’t have to re-enter it on subsequent visits.
Cookies also assist us in tracking which pages of the website you have visited.
We use both persistent cookies (which stay with your computer and will work until their expiry date, unless detected by you beforehand) and session cookies (which expire when you close your browser).
What cookies do we use?
We use the following types of cookies:
- Strictly Necessary & Functional cookies
These cookies are essential for the operation of our site and recognise use when you return to our site. This enables us to personalise our content for you and remember your preferences.
- Analytical / Performance cookies
They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our site when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our site works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
- Third-Party and Targeting cookies
Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
These cookies record your visit to our site, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our site and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
Strictly Necessary & Functional cookies
| Cookie | Purpose | Lifespan |
|---|---|---|
| WordFence | ||
| Wfwaf-Authcookie* | To determine if the user is logged in | 1 day |
| WordPress | ||
| PHPSESSID | To provide functions across the website | Session |
| Wordpress_logged_in_* | To store logged in users | Persistent |
| Wordpress_sec_* | To provide protection against hackers store account details | 15 days |
| Wordpress_test_cookie | To read if cookies can be placed | Session |
| Wp-settings-* | To store user preferences | Persistent |
| Wp-Settings-Time-* | To store user preferences | 1 year |
| WooCommerce | ||
| woocommerce_cart_hash | Helps WooCommerce determine when cart contents/data changes. | Session |
| woocommerce_items_in_cart | Helps WooCommerce determine when cart contents/data changes. | Session |
| wp_woocommerce_session_ | Contains a unique code for each customer so that it knows where to find the cart data in the database for each customer. | Session |
| careers.swimming.org | ||
| ASP.NET_SessionId | Used to identify the users' session on the server. The session used to store data in between off HTTP requests on server. | Session |
| ASP.NET_AuthId | Used to provide creating and maintaining logins. | Session |
| Eploy.Session | These are session cookies that helps the visitor use the portal. | Session |
| CultureSystemCodeID | Nest Careers Portal - this is only used for multilingual sites to store the visitor’s culture and set formatting of currency and dates etc. | 1 year |
| CultureSystemLanguageID | Nest Careers Portal - this is only used for multilingual sites to store the visitor’s culture and set formatting of currency and dates etc. | 1 year |
| SavedVacanciesCookie | It stores the vacancy ID which is used for keeping a list of saved jobs. It will only store a vacancy ID if the visitor clicks on ‘save job’. | Session |
| RememberMeCookie | This stores whether or not the visitor has ticked the 'Remember Me' option when they log in or register. | 12 months |
| UsernameCookie | This enables the site to remember the visitor's login name if 'Remember me' is ticked. | 12 months |
| CloudFlare | ||
| __cflb | This cookie helps Cloudflare optimise network resource usage. | 1 day |
| shop.swimming.org | ||
| SwimEngland.DFCart | This cookie links your basket information to your session. | 1 day |
| SwimEngland.DFCenter | This cookie links the centre name information to your session. | 1 day |
| SwimEngland.DFUrl | This cookie links the centre URL information to your session. | 1 day |
| .AspNetCore.Cookies | This cookie links your session to your logged in account. | 1 day |
| awards.swimming.org | ||
| SwimEnglandCart | This cookie links your cart to your session. | 30 days |
| SwimEnglandShop | This cookie links your logged in account to the sessions. | 12 hours |
| ASP.NET_SessionId | This cookie is used to identify the users’ session on the server. | Session |
| swimmingmembers.org | ||
| JSESSIONID | This cookie is used to identify the users’ session on the server. | Session |
| omsadmin | This cookie is used to identify the users’ session on the server. | Session |
| ASP.NET_SessionId | This cookie is used to identify the users’ session on the server. | Session |
| SiteUser | This cookie is used to identify the users’ session on the server. | Session |
Analytical / Performance cookies
| Cookie | Purpose | Lifespan |
|---|---|---|
| Google Analytics | ||
| __utma | Used to distinguish users and sessions. | 2 years |
| __utmc | Used to determine whether the user was in a new session/visit. | Session |
| __utmz | Stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached your site. | 6 months |
| _ga | To store and count pageviews | 2 years |
| _ga_* | To provide technical monitoring | 2 years |
| _gat_UA-* | To store and count pageviews | Session |
| _gid | To store and count pageviews | 1 day |
| Add This Social Plugin | ||
| __atssc | Used to manage the share count until the sharing cache is updated. | 2 years |
| __atuvc | Used to manage the share count until the sharing cache is updated. | 2 years |
| __atuvs | Used to manage the share count until the sharing cache is updated. | 30 mins |
| loc | To store location data | 13 months |
| ssc | These cookies track sharing when the AddThis functionality is used | 13 months |
| uvc | Measures how often we see an AddThis User | 13 months |
| xtc | Anonymously tracks user behaviour on the websites that allow a user to share pages on social media using the AddThis tool. AddThis log the anonymous use to generate usage trends to improve the relevance of their services and advertising. | 13 months |
| _ftp | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers | 3 months |
Third Party & Targeting cookies
| Cookie | Purpose | Lifespan |
|---|---|---|
| Google Ad Manager | ||
| __gads | To provide ad delivery or retargeting | 13 months |
| __gpi | To measure interactions with the ads on our domain and prevent the same ads from being shown to you too many time | Various |
| _gcl_au | To store and track conversions | Persistent |
| DSID | To store user preferences | 2 weeks |
| IDE | To show Google Ads on non-Google sites | 13 months |
| 1P_JAR | Sets a unique ID to remember your preferences and other information such as website statistics and track conversion rates | Various |
| AEC | Ensure that requests within a browsing session are made by the user, and not by other sites. | 6 months |
| APISID, HSID, SAPISID, SEARCH_SAMESITE, SID, SIDCC, SSID | These cookies are used by Google to display personalized advertisements on Google sites, based on recent searches and previous interactions. | 2 years |
| NID | To show Google Ads in Google services for signed-out users | 6 months |
| __Secure-3PAPISID, __Secure-3PSID | Builds a profile of website visitor interests to show relevant and personalized ads through retargeting. | 2 years |
| __Secure-3PSIDCC, __Secure-1PAPISID, __Secure-1PSID | Used for targeting to profile the interests of website visitors and display relevant and personalised Google Ads. | 2 years |
| __Secure-1PSIDCC | Cookie required to use website options and services. | 1 year |
| __Secure-ENID | "To secure digitally signed and encrypted data from the unique Google ID and store the most recent login time that Google uses to identify visitors, prevent fraudulent use of login data and protect visitor data from unauthorized parties. This can also be used for targeting purposes to display relevant and personalized advertising content. " | 1 year |
| OTZ | This cookie is set to collect information on user behaviour and navigation which is used to optimize the website – The cookie also allows Google Ads and Google Analytics to compile information on visitors for marketing purposes. | 1 year |
| YouTube | ||
| APISID, HSID, SAPISID, SID, SIDCC, SSID, __Secure-3PAPISID, __Secure-3PSID | Used by Google to display personalized advertisements on Google sites, based on recent searches and previous interactions. | 2 years |
| PREF | This cookie is used to play YouTube videos embedded on the website. | 6 months |
| LOGIN_INFO | This cookie is used to play YouTube videos embedded on the website. | 6 months |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | This cookie is used to play YouTube videos embedded on the website. | 6 months |
| YSC | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. | Session |
| __Secure-3PSIDCC | Cookie required to use website options and services | 2 years |
| __Secure-1PAPISID | Cookie required to use website options and services | 2 years |
| __Secure-1PSID | Cookie required to use website options and services | 2 years |
| __Secure-1PSIDCC | Cookie required to use website options and services | 2 years |
| _fbp | To store and track visits across websites | 3 months |
| datr | To provide fraud prevention | 2 years |
| dpr | To deliver an optimal experience for your device’s screen | 7 days |
| oo | To help you opt out of seeing ads from Meta based on your activity on third-party websites | 5 years |
| sb | To identify your browser securely for security purposes | 2 years |
| usida | Collects a combination of the user’s browser and unique identifier, used to tailor advertising to users | Session |
| TikTok | ||
| _tt_enable_cookie | We use TikTok to market ourselves using the TikTok cookie that collects data about behaviour and purchases on our website and to measure the effect of our advertising. This tracking is used to evaluate and measure how different campaigns and marketing strategies perform on TikTok. Used to identify a visitor. | 13 months |
| _ttp | To measure and improve the performance of advertising campaigns and to personalize the user’s experience (including ads) on TikTok | 13 months |
| tta_attr_id | To measure and improve the performance of advertising campaigns and to personalize the user’s experience (including ads) on TikTok | 1 year |
| tta_attr_id_mirror | To measure and improve the performance of advertising campaigns and to personalize the user’s experience (including ads) on TikTok | 1 year |
| Amazon Application Load Balancer | ||
| AWSALB | To provide load balancing functionality | 1 week |
| AWSALB | To provide load balancing functionality | 1 week |
| Bcookie | "Browser Identifier cookie to uniquely identify devices accessing LinkedIn to detect abuse on the platform | 1 year |
| Lang | Used to remember a user's language setting to ensure LinkedIn.com displays in the language selected by the user in their settings. | Session |
| Li_gc | Used to store consent of guests regarding the use of cookies for non-essential purposes | 6 months |
| Lidc | To facilitate data center selection | 1 day |
| guest_id | Twitter cookie appears on pages that use the button "Tweet" and serves to identify the user with a unique number associated with Twitter. | 2 years |
| personalization_id | This cookie is set due to Twitter integration and sharing capabilities for the social media. | Persistent |
Your interaction with cookies
It is possible to disable and remove cookies from your computer or device by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to do so. You will need to know what browser you are using and what version you have.
You can refer to your browser’s help section or visit the aboutcookies.org website for further information and assistance with cookies.
Please be aware that if you use your browser settings to block or amend certain cookies, your browsing experience may change for the worse.
Changes to this policy
We may update, change, modify, add or remove portions of this policy at any time, and any changes will become effective immediately. Please visit this page periodically if you want to keep up to date.
How do I change my cookie preferences within the Swim England cookies banner?
If any Swim England website has the below cookie banner, then it is possible to change what type of cookies are used.
- Click the Swim England logo in the bottom left corner of the website, or alternatively the Options button on the banner if it is showing.
- The following options will be presented:
- Accept
- Deny
- A tick box for each cookie group which can include analytical cookies, marketing cookies, or other types.
