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Cookies are small text files that may be placed on your phone, tablet or computer when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used, and British Cycling uses them to make our website work, provide us with information about how you use our site, and to remember your preferences and settings for our site. We may also use cookies to support our promotional and marketing efforts where you have provided your consent. 

Cookies can either be session cookies, which are temporary and will expire when you end the browsing session, or persistent cookies which are stored on a device for a period of time.

Some pages on our website include content from external providers, such as YouTube or Vimeo, which may place third party cookies on your device. To view this content you will have to accept their terms and conditions, including their cookie policy over which we have no control.

The tables below show the cookies that we use on our britishcycling.org.uk site, what they do and how long they last. If you want to update your cookie preferences at any time, you can do so If you want to update your cookie preferences at any time, you can do so by clicking the cookie icon in the bottom left of the page.

Essential cookies

These cookies are strictly necessary to make the site work properly and allow you to use its features.

Cookie NamePurposeDuration

ZUVVI-legacy

ZUVVI 

Enable British Cycling members to securely sign into their membership account via the website.  9 days 
Optanonconsent  OneTrust cookie stores information about user consent preferences for site cookies.  1 year 

cf_chl_2

_cf_bm

CF_AppSession 

CloudFlare cookies support secure web traffic, protect against bots and maintain authorisation to protected pages. 

1 day

1 day

Session cookie 

_Request

Verification

Token

RpsAuthNonce 

Microsoft Forms cookies prevent unauthorised posting of content to the website (anti-forgery cookie).

Allows MS Forms to be embedded on the website. 

Session cookies 
 

Functional cookies

These cookies allow our website to remember choices you have made on previous visits.

Cookie NamePurposeDuration

CF_session 

CloudFlare cookie maintains products added to a cart and the personal data entered during checkout Session cookie  

Survey-Started-X

Survey-X 

Dotdigital cookies track and identifies a respondent as they answer a survey and records when the survey is complete.

Third party cookie 

1 year 

FormsWebSessionId 

Microsoft Forms cookies completes user personal data on forms once user has completed a first form.  

1 month 

Vuid 

Vimeo cookie enables Vimeo videos embedded on our site to play and collect analytics data about view duration.

Third party cookie

1 year

1 day 
_strava4_session  Strava cookie stores user session information for the Strava club.  Session cookie 
 

Performance cookies

These cookies collect information about how you use our website such as which pages you visit and any links you click on

Cookie NamePurposeDuration

_ga

_gat

_gid

_gclxxxx* 

Google Analytics cookies track how users navigate our website and use our content to help us improve user experience.

1 year

*2 months 

MR

SM 

Microsoft cookies measure the use of websites 

6 days

Session cookie 

S

COMPASS 

Google docs cookies collect data on user behaviour for statistical purposes.  

0 days  

 

Targeting or advertising cookies

These cookies collect information about your browsing to deliver advertising based on your interest

Cookie NamePurposeDuration

_fbp

_fbc

_fbsr 

Facebook cookies identify users and links clicked on web pages where Facebook pixel is installed to tailor advertising

Third party cookies 

3 months 

sa-user-id

sa-user-id-v2

sa-user-id-v3 

Stackadapt cookies record information about user website activity, pages visited and locations viewed to provide interest based content and personalised adverts on external websites.

Third party cookies 

1 year 
 

NID

CONSENT 

Google cookies provide advertisement delivery and retargeting and remembers preferences

Third party cookies 

6 months

1 year 

test_cookie 

DoubleClick (Google) cookies determine whether user’s browser supports cookies.

Third party cookie 

0 days 

uuid2

anj 

Xandr (formerly AppNexus) cookies deliver advertising based on analytics of advertising clicks and views.

anj syncs cookie ID (enables use of data from outside the platform on the platform)

Third party cookie 

2 months 

ANONCHK

MSO

MUID

MC1

SRM_B 

Microsoft Bing cookies store ID, set a unique identifier to track users across different Microsoft domains, data transmission.

Third party cookies 

0 days

0 days

1 year

1 year

1 year 

VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE

YSC

VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA

CONSENT 

You Tube cookies track views, measure bandwidth and build a profile of interests to provide relevant advertising.

Third party cookie

5 months

Session cookie

5 months

1 year 

Unknown cookies

The unknown cookies are associated with dropbox.com and are under investigation as there is no information available on their purpose

Cookie NamePurposeDuration

__Host-js_csrf

gvc

locale

giraffe

__Secure-untrusted_session

oscar

_evidon_suppress_notification_cookie

__Secure-dbx_ccpa_token

toaster

grouch

lid

__Secure-dbx_consent

__Secure-reseller_session

sm_auth

preauth

jar

rl_auth

t

__Host-logged-out-session

_evidon_consent_cookie

blid

bjar

malabi

__Secure-dbx_do_not_sell

toast

__Host-ss

db-help-center-uid

awxxxx 

                                                                    

2 years

4 years

4 years

Session

Session

Session

Session

Session

Session

Session

Session

Session

Session

Session

Session

Session

Session

Session

Session

Session

Session

Session

Session

Session

Session

2 years

Session

Session 

 

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