Cookies Policy
Latest update: 02/04/2025
Click here to see Football Supporters Europe’s Privacy Policy, https://www.fanseurope.org/privacy-policy/
Information about our use of Cookies
Our website uses cookies to distinguish You from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a personalised experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.
What is a Cookie?
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers containing information that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer, if you provide consent. They do not affect your device, but they can collect information that will enhance how You use Our website. Cookies allow us to ‘remember’ you and amend the site to your preferences so that we can display content that is relevant to you, enabling you to navigate more easily between pages. Cookies can be “Persistent” or “Session” Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on Your personal computer or mobile device when You go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as You close Your web browser. https://www.privacypolicies.com/blog/privacy-policy-template/#Use_Of_Cookies_Log_Files_And_Tracking
Blocking Cookies
Every time you visit Our website, you can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. You can access the “Help” function in your browser to find out more. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.
Third Party 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. These cookies are not under our control and you should check the relevant third-party websites for more information about the use of these third-party cookies.
What cookies do we use?
- Necessary / Essential Cookies
Type: Session Cookies Administered by: Us
Purpose: These Cookies are essential to provide You with services available through the Website and to enable You to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these Cookies, the services that You have asked for cannot be provided, and We only use these Cookies to provide You with those services.
- Tracking and Performance Cookies
Type: Persistent Cookies Administered by: Third-Parties
Purpose: These Cookies are used to track information about traffic to the Website and how users use the Website. The information gathered via these Cookies may directly or indirectly identify you as an individual visitor. This is because the information collected is typically linked to a pseudonymous identifier associated with the device you use to access the Website. We may also use these Cookies to test new pages, features or new functionality of the Website to see how our users react to them.
They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or access several websites for similar marketing purposes.
- Functionality Cookies:
Type: Persistent Cookies. Administered by: Us
Purpose: These Cookies allow us to remember choices You make when You use the Website, such as language preference. The purpose of these Cookies is to provide You with a more personal experience and to avoid You having to re-enter your preferences every time You use the Website.
- Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance Cookies
Type: Persistent Cookies Administered by: Us
Purpose: These Cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the Website.
- Web Beacons. Certain sections of our Service and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs). These permit the Company, to count the number of users who have visited those pages or opened an email and to monitor other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server integrity).
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
| Cookie | Domain | Description | Duration | Type |
| _ga | .fanseurope.org | The _ga cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors. | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Analytics |
| _gid | .fanseurope.org | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The _gid cookie stores information on how visitors use a website and creates an analytics report of the website’s performance. Some of the data that is collected includes the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. | 1 day | Analytics |
| _gat_UA-* | .fanseurope.org | Google Analytics sets this cookie for user behaviour tracking. | 1 minute | Analytics |
| _abck | .list-manage.com | This cookie is used to detect and defend when a user attempts to replay a cookie. This cookie manages the interaction with online bots and takes the appropriate actions. | 1 year | Necessary |
| ak_bmsc | .us20.list-manage.com | This cookie is used by Akamai to optimise site security by distinguishing between humans and bots. | 2 hours | Necessary |
| bm_sz | .list-manage.com | This cookie is set by the provider Akamai Bot Manager. This cookie is used to manage the interaction with the online bots. It also helps to protect against fraud. | 4 hours | Necessary |
| _ga_* | .fanseurope.org | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views. | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Analytics |
| wpEmojiSettingsSupports | fanseurope.org | WordPress sets this cookie when a user interacts with emojis on a WordPress site. It helps determine if the user’s browser can display emojis properly. | session | Necessary |