This policy applies to your use of Motorsport UK’s websites which appears at the URL https://www.motorsportuk.org/, https://shop.motorsportuk.org/, https://members.motorsportuk.org/ (the “Websites”).
A cookie is a simple text file that is stored on your computer’s hard disk so that the website can remember information about you and your preferences. A cookie will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has come, the ‘lifetime’ of the cookie and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number. Cookies can help a website to arrange content to match your preferred interests more quickly and are used by most websites. Cookies cannot be used by themselves to identify you. Cookies may be either ‘Session’ or ‘Persistent’. ‘Session’ cookies are temporary and only exist in the period you access our website. They assist our website remember what you chose on the previous page, thereby avoiding the need to re-enter information. ‘Persistent’ cookies remain on your computer’s hard drive after you have visited our website. They help us identify you as a unique visitor.
When you visit our website, our advertisers or service providers may send you cookies. They may use the information they obtain to track your browser across multiple websites and build a profile of your web surfing.
The table below summarises the cookies on our websites and their purposes.
| Name | Description | Expiration |
| CFID | Essential to maintain the session throughout the visit to the site | At the end of the session |
| CFTOKEN | Essential to maintain the session throughout the visit to the site | At the end of the session |
| __utma | This is a Google Analytics cookie that we use to collect information about how visitors locate and use our website. This helps us to continue to improve the site. This is a 3rd party cookie |
2 years from set/update. |
| __utmb | This is a Google Analytics cookie that we use to collect information about how visitors locate and use our website. This helps us to continue to improve the site. This is a 3rd party cookie |
30 minutes from set/update. |
| __utmc | This is a Google Analytics cookie that we use to collect information about how visitors locate and use our website. This helps us to continue to improve the site. This is a 3rd party cookie |
Not set. |
| __utmz | This is a Google Analytics cookie that we use to collect information about how visitors locate and use our website. This helps us to continue to improve the site. This is a 3rd party cookie |
6 months from set/update. |
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings in your browser. However, you may not be able to use all the interactive features of our sites if cookies are disabled.
a) Our websites use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies to help our websites analyse how users use the sites. The information generated by the cookie about your use of our websites (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States of America.
b) Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of our websites, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties when required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.
By using our Websites, you consent to the processing of data about you by Motorsport UK, its subsidiaries and Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.
If you have any questions about our cookies or this policy, please contact us by post, email or telephone:
The Data Controller
Motorsport UK, Bicester Motion, OX27 8FY
E-mail address: legal@motorsportuk.org
Telephone: 01753 765000