Cookies & Your Privacy
Cookie Policy
This policy explains how Trentham Park Golf Club uses cookies and similar technologies on our website, why they are used and how you can control your choices.
At a glance
What you need to know about cookies
Cookies and similar technologies can help websites work correctly, remember preferences, manage shopping baskets and payments, measure website use and, where enabled, support advertising or social media features.
Some technologies are necessary for the website to work. Others are optional and should only be used in accordance with the choices you make through our cookie controls.
You can accept or reject non-essential technologies through the website's cookie controls and can change your preferences later.
01 · About cookies
What are cookies?
Cookies are small pieces of information stored on your computer, phone, tablet or other device when you visit a website.
They can be used to recognise a device, remember information about a visit, keep a shopping basket working, maintain a login session or help website owners understand how their site is being used.
Similar rules may also apply to other technologies that store or access information on your device, including tracking pixels, scripts, tags and certain forms of browser storage.
02 · Technologies we use
The main types of technology used on this website
Strictly necessary
Required for core website functions such as security, ecommerce, shopping baskets, checkout and remembering essential choices.
Analytics
Used to understand how the website is used and help us improve pages, content and visitor journeys.
Functional
May support optional website features or remember preferences that are not essential to the basic operation of the website.
Marketing & social media
Where enabled, these technologies may help measure advertising, understand responses to campaigns or support social-media functionality.
03 · Essential technologies
Cookies required for the website to work
Some cookies and similar technologies are necessary for the website and services requested by visitors to operate correctly.
These may support functions including:
- website and account security;
- WordPress administrative or login sessions;
- shopping baskets and checkout;
- online payments and transaction flows;
- remembering cookie and privacy choices;
- fraud prevention and technical stability.
Because these technologies are required to provide the relevant website service, they may operate without optional marketing or analytics consent where the law permits.
04 · WooCommerce
Shopping basket, checkout and payment cookies
We use WooCommerce for certain online transactions, including purchases, registrations and paid competition or league entries.
WooCommerce may use essential cookies to keep track of shopping basket information and maintain a customer session while you use the checkout.
| Cookie | Typical duration | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
woocommerce_cart_hash
|
Session | Helps WooCommerce identify when shopping-basket information changes. |
woocommerce_items_in_cart
|
Session | Helps WooCommerce understand whether items are currently present in the basket. |
wp_woocommerce_session_*
|
Typically 2 days | Provides a unique customer session so WooCommerce can locate shopping-basket information stored by the website. |
woocommerce_recently_viewed
|
Session | May support WooCommerce's recently viewed product feature where that feature is enabled. |
The exact cookies used can depend on which WooCommerce features are active and how you interact with the website.
05 · Analytics
Understanding how visitors use the website
Plausible Analytics
We use Plausible Analytics to help us understand overall website traffic and trends, including popular pages and referral sources.
Plausible's standard analytics service is designed to operate without placing cookies in your browser and without creating individual visitor profiles for advertising purposes.
Google Analytics
Where Google Analytics is enabled, it may use cookies or related technologies to collect information about website use, such as pages visited, device and browser information, approximate location and interactions with the site.
Where consent is required, Google Analytics should not be activated until you have made an appropriate choice through our cookie controls.
06 · Social media & advertising
Advertising, Meta and social platforms
We use social media platforms including Facebook and Instagram to promote the club, events, functions and other activities.
Where advertising technologies such as pixels, tags or conversion measurement tools are enabled on our website, they may help us understand whether advertising has led to a website visit, enquiry or other interaction.
Such technologies may involve third parties such as Meta processing information in accordance with their own privacy terms.
Non-essential advertising or tracking technologies should only be activated where permitted by your cookie choices.
07 · Third-party services
Links, embeds and external services
Our website may link to or use services provided by other organisations, including:
- Club V1 and golf-related services;
- tee-booking systems;
- payment providers;
- social-media platforms;
- video or embedded-content providers;
- analytics services;
- maps or other externally hosted features.
If you follow a link to another website or interact with an embedded third-party service, that provider may use its own cookies or similar technologies and will have its own privacy and cookie information.
08 · Your choices
Managing your cookie preferences
When you first visit the website, you may be shown controls that allow you to choose whether optional technologies can be used.
Changing your mind
You should be able to change your non-essential cookie choices after your initial visit using the cookie-preference controls available on the website.
Rejecting optional cookies should not prevent you from accessing the basic content of the website, although some optional features may work differently.
09 · Browser settings
Controlling cookies through your browser
Most web browsers allow you to view, delete or block cookies through their privacy or security settings.
Blocking all cookies may affect website functionality, particularly services such as login areas, shopping baskets or checkout.
Browser controls are separate from the cookie preferences offered by this website and may affect cookies used across other websites too.
10 · Changes
Changes to this cookie policy
We may update this policy when the website, our service providers or legal requirements change.
Where our use of cookies or similar technologies changes materially, we may also update our cookie controls or ask visitors to make a new choice where appropriate.
The date at the top of this page shows when this policy was last updated.
Looking for information about personal data?
Our Privacy Policy explains more about the personal information Trentham Park Golf Club collects and how it is used.
11 · Contact
Questions about cookies or privacy?
If you have a question about this policy or how our website uses cookies and similar technologies, please contact the club.
Trentham Park Golf Club
Park Drive, Trentham
Stoke-on-Trent
Staffordshire, ST4 8AE
Email:
manager@trenthamparkgolfclub.com
Telephone:
01782 658800