THE HUNDRED COOKIES

In common with many other website operators, we may use standard technology called 'cookies' on ECB Websites. Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer's hard drive and they are used to record how you navigate ECB Websites on each visit.

Our cookies are used to enable us to develop ECB Websites and to enable you to properly navigate it. We use cookies to collect personal information to enable us to reflect our users interests and by noting who has seen which pages, properties and advertisements (including ‘click throughs’ from emails), how frequently particular pages are visited and to enable us to determine the most popular areas of ECB Websites. We may use cookies to enrich your experience of using ECB Websites by allowing us to tailor what you see to what we have learned about your preferences during your visits to our sites. Sometimes we may use services of third parties and they may use cookies on our behalf in order to provide their services.

The cookies we use along with details of how you can prevent cookies can be found by scrolling down to ‘cookies list’ below.

TRACKING AND ADVERTISING

TRACKING TECHNOLOGY

Occasionally, we may use digital tracking (usually in a cookie) on ECB websites or in emails we send to you. We use these to ensure you receive appropriate information and do not receive multiple communications about the same thing (such as ticketing offers) from different cricket related organisations.

PREVENTING USE OF TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES

If you stop cookies, this will normally stop any tracking from the website. Where we plan to use tracking technology, we will ask for your consent.

ECB ADVERTISING

ECB websites use cookies to learn about you and your preferences and will match this with other information we know about you from our relationship (including any direct marketing preferences we hold for you) to create your own personal profile. We use this information (such as your name, the devices you use, your geolocation and the pages you view on our websites and details of which of our apps you have) to serve you with adverts that are personalised just for you and in line with the direct marketing preferences we hold for you.

We hope that you will be happy to have these adverts from the ECB as it is another way we can let you know about tickets for upcoming matches, offers and competitions you may enjoy.

You can set your preference for whether you receive these personalised adverts by using this toggle:

CHANGED YOUR MIND?

Be reassured, you can change your mind at any time by using our Change Your Cookies feature. You will find a link for this at the bottom of each page on our website.

GOOGLE AD MANAGER

ECB websites use Google Ad Manager, a service provided by Google through which it uses advertising cookies to serve adverts. These cookies enable the ECB, other cricket organisations and ECB sponsors and partners to serve you with adverts based on your previous visits to our websites or other websites you have visited.

PREVENTING USE OF THESE GOOGLE ADVERTISING COOKIES

You can choose not to be shown personalised advertising by Google when visiting ECB websites or you can choose to stop Google using cookies for personalised advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info

You can find Google's explanation of how it will use your information here.

COOKIES LIST AND PREVENTING USE OF COOKIES

We have tried to cover all cookies in this list that we or our technology partners use. Please be aware that there may be a delay in updating this list. If you do notice any discrepancies please be sure to let us know.

s1, ns_session, ns_cookietest

These cookies are used by our digital partner ComScore and their web analytic technology Digital Analytix. These cookies are not used in any way to identify a natural person. The use of these cookies are optional, however, by not using them may limit certain functionality specific to Digital Analytix.

ecb

This cookie is used to identify you as a user on the website.

Persistent_id_pga177JxI3LNZr, Session_pga177JxI3LNZr, guest_id

These cookies are used to support both the website and the end user's experience.

hide_splash

This cookie toggles the ECB splash page that can occasionally be seen when you arrive directly to the site.

_bit

This cookie is used by the third party url shortening company bit.ly.

__utma

This Cookie is used to identify unique visitors to our sites. The results are sent to our Google Analytics account so that we may see how many unique visitors come to this site based over a period of time.

__utmb

This cookie is used by Google Analytics to determine the visitor session times on our sites. Each time you visit a new page on the site the cookie is set to expire within 30 minutes, if it does not find an existing cookie, a new one is created.

__utmc

This cookie is used by Google Analytics in conjunction with __utmb to determine visitor sessions. Unlike __utmb this cookie does not have an expiry date, it determines whether a new session should be created based on whether you have previously closed your browser, re-opened it and come back to the site.

__utmz

This cookie is used by Google Analytics to determine the type of referral used by each visitor to arrive at our site. The cookie determines if the user has come directly to the site or via a search engine, email or email campaign. We use this data to understand how our users arrive at the website.

JSESSIONID

This cookie is a ‘session cookie’ and tells us that you are actively using our site. This way we can always know, at any given time, how many users we have visiting.

user_unique_ident, __csnv, __csref, __cst, __csv, __ctl, __qca, __qseg

Used by our third party twitter retweet widget provided by TweetMeme. TweetMeme may use cookies to enhance your experience whilst using the service.

Identifies if user’s browser accepts cookies. 1 – Cookies are allowed, 3 – Opt-out

TPC

Identifies if user’s browser accepts third party cookies

GCM

Identifies if there is a need to re-check partner‘s cookie matching existence

Identifies if there is a need to re-check partner‘s cookie matching existence (set by AdServing)

CM14

Identifies if there is a need to re-check partner‘s cookie matching existence (set by Cookie Matching)

token

Security token for opt out functionality

otsid

Advertiser specific opt-out

uid

Unique identifier

cid

Cookie id (legacy) – same as uid

Sequential rotator information – contains total impressions, daily impressions, total clicks, daily clicks, and last impression date

Identifies last click membership for 3rd party pixels on advertiser’s pages

EBFCD

Identifies daily frequency capping for expanding banner

EBFC

Identifies total frequency capping for expanding banner

CFFC

Compound banner frequency capping

DoubleClick

Google Ad Manager marketing/advertising cookies

PREVENTING USE OF COOKIES

Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually change your browser to prevent cookies being stored. With experience, you can usually choose to switch off all cookies or to allow only certain ‘trusted’ sites to place cookies.

For further information on cookies and Flash cookies and how to switch them off see the 'Cookies - advice for members of the public ' guide on the Information Commissioner’s website at www.ico.org.uk or visit www.allaboutcookies.org or www.aboutcookies.org.

PLEASE NOTE, IF YOU DO TURN COOKIES OFF, THIS WILL LIMIT THE SERVICE THAT WE ARE ABLE TO PROVIDE TO YOU AND MAY AFFECT YOUR USER EXPERIENCE (FOR EXAMPLE, YOU MAY HAVE TO MANUALLY RE-TYPE YOUR USERNAMES AND PASSWORDS EACH TIME YOU VISIT OUR WEBSITE).