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Cookie Policy

Please read this cookie policy carefully as it contains important information on who we are and how we use cookies on our website. This policy should be read together with our Privacy Notice which sets out how and why we collect, store, use and share personal information generally, as well as your rights in relation to your personal information and details of how to contact us and supervisory authorities if you have a complaint.

  • This website is owned and maintained by: 
     
    The Royal Kennel Club Limited 
    Registered in England and Wales 
    Registration number 08217778 
     
    Registered office: 
    10 Clarges Street 
    London

    W1J 8AB 

  • This cookie policy relates to your use of our website. Throughout our website we may link to other websites owned and operated by certain trusted third parties to make other products and services available to you. These other third party websites may also use cookies or similar technologies in accordance with their own separate policies. For privacy information relating to these other third party websites, please consult their policies as appropriate.

  • A cookie is a small text file which is placed onto your device (e.g. computer, smartphone or other electronic device) when you use our website. We use cookies on our website. These help us monitor how people use our site, make our website work and understand how our customers and potential customers use our websites so we can develop and improve their design, layout and more relevant content. personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic.

    We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners who may combine it with other information that you’ve provided to them or that they’ve collected from your use of their services, e.g. to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic (e.g. how many times you visit the website, which pages you go to, location data and the originating domain name of your internet service provider). Some of this data will be aggregated or statistical, which means that we will not be able to identify you individually.

    For further information on our use of cookies, including a detailed list of your information which we and others may collect through cookies, please see below.

    For further information on cookies generally, including how to control and manage them, visit the guidance on cookies published by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

  • We will ask for your permission (consent) to place cookies or other similar technologies on your device, except where they are essential for us to provide you with a service that you have requested (e.g. to enable the use of our services).

    You can withdraw any consent to the use of cookies or manage any other cookie preferences via your web browser. Most browsers will allow you to turn off cookies. If you want to know how to do this please look at the menu on your browser, or look at the instruction on www.allaboutcookies.org.

    You can change your cookie preferences and provide or withdraw your consent to cookies in respect of this website from the cookie declaration in the website footer.

    Unfortunately, turning off cookies may mean our website doesn't retain your personalised settings and may restrict use of the site.

  • The tables below provides more information about the cookies we use and why:

    Essential cookies

    These cookies help our website work. Without these you will be unable to move around the website or use its features.

    These cookies are essential for the functionality of our online services and are collected automatically. We will therefore not request your consent before placing these cookies.

    Cookie

    Purpose

    CookieConsent

    Stores the user's cookie consent state for the current domain

    __RequestVerificationToken

    Helps prevent Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks.

    ASP.NET_sessionId

    Preserves the visitor’s session state across page requests.

    Statistics cookies

    These cookies collect analytics data about how you are using the site, to allow us to measure and improve performance. Without these cookies the site may not perform or look as expected.

    These cookies are not essential and we will therefore request your consent before placing these cookies.

    Cookie

    Purpose

    _ga

    Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor's device and behavior. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels.

    _ga_#

    Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor's device and behavior. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels.

    Google Tag Manager

    Used to manage web page code used for tracking and analytics on our websites

    Marketing cookies and other technologies

    These are cookies set on your machine by external websites whose services are used on this site. Cookies of this type are the sharing buttons across the site allow visitors to share content onto social networks.

    These cookies allow us to personalise advertising for you and serve ads related to your interests both within the Crufts Club website and beyond our site. Without these cookies you may receive ads that are not relevant to your interests.

    These cookies are not essential and we will therefore request your consent before placing these cookies.

    Cookie

    Purpose

    In order to implement these buttons, and connect them to the relevant social networks and external sites, there are scripts from domains outside of our website. You should be aware that these sites are likely to be collecting information about what you are doing all around the internet, including on this website.

    You should check the respective policies of each of these sites to see how exactly they use your information and to find out how to opt out, or delete, such information.

  • We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners who may combine it with other information that you’ve provided to them or that they’ve collected from your use of their services.

    The cookies we use will only be accessed by us and those third parties named in the table above for the purposes referred to in this cookie policy. Those cookies will not be accessed by any other third party.

  • Some emails we send we track, at an individual level, whether the user has opened and clicked on the email. We do not use this information at a personal level, rather we use it to understand open and click rates on our emails to try and improve them. If you want to be sure that none of your email activity is tracked then you should opt out of our emails which you can do via the unsubscribe link at the bottom of every email we send.

    How to turn off all cookies and consequences of doing so

    If you do not want to accept any cookies, you may be able to change your browser settings so that cookies (including those which are essential to the services requested) are not accepted. If you do this, please be aware that you may lose some of the functionality of our website.

    For further information about cookies and how to disable them please go to the guidance on cookies published by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

  • Please email our Data Protection Team if you have any questions about this cookie policy or the information we hold about you.

  • We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time. Any changes we make in the future will be posted on our website at Cookie Policy . Please check back regularly to see any updates or changes to this policy.