Active Lives Cookie Policy

When we provide online services, we want to make them easy, useful and reliable.

Where services are delivered on the internet, this sometimes involves placing small amounts of information on your device, for example, your computer, tablet or smartphone. These include small files known as cookies.

What are cookies?

A cookie is a small text file that's downloaded onto ‘terminal equipment’ (e.g. a computer or smartphone) when the user accesses a website.

It allows the website to recognise that user’s device and store some information about the user’s preferences or past actions.

We use cookies on this website and here is what you need to know about those cookies and how to make your preferences.

Types of Cookies

We use two types of cookies:

Cookies that are strictly necessary ("necessary cookies")

These essential cookies do things like store your cookie preferences and ensure your visit to the website is served by a single server. These cookies enable core functionality of our website and cannot be disabled.

Cookie Name	Expiry	Purpose
ARRAAffinitySameSite	Session	Used to load balance servers by having all requests in a session go to the same server instance
ARRAAffinity	Session	Used to load balance servers by having all requests in a session go to the same server instance
CookieControl	Three months	Stores the user's cookie consent state for the current sub-domain

Cookies that measure website use ("usage cookies")

We use Google Analytics to measure how you use the website so we can improve it based on user needs. We do not allow Google to use or share the data about how you use this site.

Google Analytics sets cookies that store anonymised information about; how you got to the site, the pages you visit on the site, how long you spend on each page or what you click on while you're visiting the site.

Cookie Name	Expiry	Purpose
_ga	One year	Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website
_ga_#	One year	Persists session state
_gat	One day	Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate
_ga_gat_#	One day	Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate
_dc_gtm_#	One day	Same as the _gat cookie but named differently if Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager
_gid	One day	Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website

How to control and delete cookies

Please be aware that restricting cookies may have a significant impact upon the functionality of our website and our ability to ensure that the content which we're making available via activelives.sportengland.org is relevant to what our users want to see and use.

You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking on the ‘C’ icon located at the bottom left hand corner of these pages. You can then adjust the available sliders to ‘On’ or ‘Off’, then clicking ‘Save and close’. You may need to refresh your page for your settings to take effect.

Privacy

: Sport England does not use any of these cookies to process personal data held by you nor does the provision of these cookies rely on the processing of personal data held by you. Where any third-party cookie collects any information Sport England through its data processor deploys anonymisation tools to protect limited personal data. If you want to find out more about how Sport England processes personal data please refer to our privacy policy.