This website forum.blackbookmotorsport.com (“Our Site”) uses Cookies and similar technologies in order to distinguish you from other users. By using Cookies, We are able to provide you with a better experience and to improve Our Site by better understanding how you use it. Please read this Cookie Policy carefully and ensure that you understand it. Your acceptance of Our Cookie Policy is deemed to occur when you press the “accept” button on Our Cookie pop-up.
If you do not agree to Our Cookie Policy, please stop using Our Site immediately.
Definitions and Interpretation
In this Cookie Policy, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the following meanings:
“Cookie” | means a small file placed on your computer or device by Our Site when you visit certain parts of Our Site and/or when you use certain features of Our Site; |
“Cookie Law” | means the relevant parts of the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 and of EU Regulation 2016/679 General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”); |
“personal data” | means any and all data that relates to an identifiable person who can be directly or indirectly identified from that data, as defined by EU Regulation 2016/679 General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”); and |
“We/Us/Our” | means SportsPro Media, a limited company registered in England under company number 6667015, whose registered address is WeWork c/o SportsPro, 123 Buckingham Palace Road, London, SW1W 9SH, United Kingdom. |
Information About Us
Our Site is owned and operated by SportsPro Media, a limited company registered in England under company number 6667015, whose registered address is WeWork c/o SportsPro, 123 Buckingham Palace Road, London, SW1W 9SH, United Kingdom.
How Does Our Site Use Cookies?
Our Site may place and access certain first party Cookies on your computer or device. First party Cookies are those placed directly by Us and are used only by Us. We use Cookies to facilitate and improve your experience of Our Site and to provide and improve Our services. We have carefully chosen these Cookies and have taken steps to ensure that your privacy and personal data is protected and respected at all times.
All Cookies used by and on Our Site are used in accordance with current Cookie Law. We may use some or all of the following types of Cookie:
Strictly Necessary Cookies
A Cookie falls into this category if it is essential to the operation of Our Site, supporting functions such as logging in and payment transactions.
Analytics Cookies
It is important for Us to understand how you use Our Site, for example, how efficiently you are able to navigate around it, and what features you use. Analytics Cookies enable us to gather this information, helping Us to improve Our Site and your experience of it.
Functionality Cookies
Functionality Cookies enable Us to provide additional functions to you on Our Site such as personalisation and remembering your saved preferences. Some functionality Cookies may also be strictly necessary Cookies, but not all necessarily fall into that category.
Targeting Cookies
It is important for Us to know when and how often you visit Our Site, and which parts of it you have used (including which pages you have visited and which links you have visited). As with analytics Cookies, this information helps us to better understand you and, in turn, to make Our Site and advertising more relevant to your interests. Some information gathered by targeting Cookies may also be shared with third parties.
Third-Party Cookies
Third party Cookies are not placed by Us; instead, they are placed by third parties that provide services to Us and/or to you. Third party Cookies may be used by advertising services to serve up tailored advertising to you on Our Site, or by third parties providing analytics services to Us (these Cookies will work in the same way as analytics Cookies described above).
Persistent Cookies
Any of the above types of Cookie may be a persistent Cookie. Persistent Cookies are those which remain on your computer or device for a predetermined period and are activated each time you visit Our Site.
Session Cookies
Any of the above types of Cookie may be a session Cookie. Session Cookies are temporary and only remain on your computer or device from the point at which you visit Our Site until you close your browser. Session Cookies are deleted when you close your browser.
For more details of the personal data that We collect and use, the measures we have in place to protect personal data, your legal rights, and our legal obligations, please refer to our Privacy Policy
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For more specific details of the Cookies that We use, please refer to the table below.
What Cookies Does Our Site Use?
The following first-party Cookies may be placed on your computer or device:
Name of Cookie | Purpose |
PHPSESSID | Auto generated by our PHP website used to maintain your session variables i.e. maintaining a logged-in status for a user between pages. STRICTLY NECESSARY |
__cfduid | Operated by CloudFlare and is used to speed up page load times for make your website experience quicker. It does not contain any user identification information. STRICTLY NECESSARY |
_pk_id.sportspro.9fce_pk_ses.sportspro.9fce | Operated by Matamo, an open source web analytics application used to distinguish users and used to determine when a visitor returns to the site. Also by default uses 1st party cookies. |
__hs_opt_out | This HubSpot cookie is used by the opt-in privacy policy to remember not to ask the visitor to accept cookies again. This cookie is set when Our Site gives you the choice to opt out of cookies. |
__hs_do_not_track | This HubSpot cookie can be set to prevent the tracking code from sending any information to HubSpot. Setting this cookie is different from opting out of cookies, as it still allows anonymised information to be sent to HubSpot. |
__hstc | The main HubSpot cookie for tracking visitors. It contains the domain, utk, initial timestamp (first visit), last timestamp (last visit), current timestamp (this visit), and session number (increments for each subsequent session). |
hubspotutk | This HubSpot cookie is used to keep track of a visitor’s identity. This cookie is passed to HubSpot on form submission and used when deduplicating contacts. |
__hssc | This HubSpot cookie keeps track of sessions. This is used to determine if HubSpot should increment the session number and timestamps in the __hstc cookie. It contains the domain, viewCount (increments each pageView in a session), and session start timestamp. |
__hssrc | Whenever HubSpot changes the session cookie, this cookie is also set to determine if you, the visitor, has restarted your browser. If this cookie does not exist when HubSpot manages cookies, it is considered a new session. |
exp_csrf_tokenexp_last_activityexp_last_visitexp_tracker | These cookies contain the last activity on the site, also a security enhancement, Expression Engine uses this to verify that the cookie in the browser was the one that it set, confirming the submission is genuine. It also contains data relating to the dates of your visits to the site and keeps track of the last 5 pages you visited on the site and allowed us to redirect you to the page you were on before sending us an email through a contact form. |
The following third-party Cookies may be placed on your computer or device:
Name of Cookie | Purpose | Provider |
NID | This cookie is associated with google and when creating a Google account or logging in these cookies are stored on the computer in order to remain connected to your Google account when you visit its service again. While you are logged in and use plug-ins from other websites, such as ours, Google uses these cookies to improve your user experience. | .gstatic.com |
datr | The cookie is hosted by facebook and helps us identify suspicious login activity and keep users safe. STRICTLY NECESSARY | facebook.com |
Our Site uses analytics services provided by Google Analytics.
Website analytics refers to a set of tools used to collect and analyse anonymous usage information, enabling Us to better understand how Our Site is used. This, in turn, enables Us to improve Our Site and the services offered through it. You do not have to allow Us to use these Cookies, however whilst Our use of them does not pose any risk to your privacy or your safe use of Our Site, it does enable Us to continually improve Our Site, making it a better and more useful experience for you.
The analytics service used by Our Site uses Cookies to gather the required information.
Google Analytics uses the following Cookies:
Name of Cookie | Purpose |
_ga | A Google Universal Analytics cookie. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. |
_gid | A Google Analytics cookie which enables us to store and update a unique value for each page visited and is used to distinguish users. |
_gac_UA-45063862-1_gat | These cookies are set by Google Analytics which is a simple tool that helps us measure how users interact with our website content. As a user navigates between web pages, Google Analytics records information about the page user has visited, for example the URL of the page. The cookies themselves are used to “remember” what a user has done on previous pages and interactions with our website. |
Consent and Control
Before Cookies are placed on your computer or device, you will be shown a pop-up prompt requesting your consent to set those Cookies. By giving your consent to the placing of Cookies you are enabling Us to provide the best possible experience and service to you. You may, if you wish, deny consent to the placing of Cookies unless those Cookies are strictly necessary; however certain features of Our Site may not function fully or as intended.
In addition to the controls that We provide, you can choose to enable or disable Cookies in your internet browser. Most internet browsers also enable you to choose whether you wish to disable all Cookies or only third party Cookies. By default, most internet browsers accept Cookies but this can be changed. For further details, please consult the help menu in your internet browser or the documentation that came with your device.
The links below provide instructions on how to control Cookies in all mainstream browsers:
Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en-GB
Microsoft Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/278835
Microsoft Edge: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/products/microsoft-edge (Please note that there are no specific instructions at this time, but Microsoft support will be able to assist)
Safari (macOS): https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411?viewlocale=en_GB&locale=en_GB
Safari (iOS):
Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-Cookies-website-preferences
Android: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid&hl=en (Please refer to your device’s documentation for manufacturers’ own browsers)
Changes to this Cookie Policy
We may alter this Cookie Policy at any time. Any such changes will become binding on you on your first use of Our Site after the changes have been made. You are therefore advised to check this page from time to time.
In the event of any conflict between the current version of this Cookie Policy and any previous version(s), the provisions current and in effect shall prevail unless it is expressly stated otherwise.
Further Information
If you would like to know more about how We use Cookies, please contact Us at dataservices@sportspromedia.com, by telephone on +44 20 7871 0123, or by post at WeWork c/o SportsPro, 123 Buckingham Palace Road, London, SW1W 9SH, United Kingdom.
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