Cookies

Cookies are:

• Unique to your device.
• Very small text files.
• Used here to store information about your browsing preferences.
• Valid for one year from creation or edit when controlled by this site.
• Used elsewhere (not here) to store you credentials like your username and password on your device for the website that you are visiting.

In an ideal world, cookies should not be used to expose you to malicious online adventure, but due to their very nature and the content that can be included in a single cookie, this can sometimes be the case.

Rest assured, the cookies used directly by this website contain no more data than is described below and for the purposes outlined here.

While we do our best to ensure your online browsing safety as much as possible, the English Pool Association cannot be held responsible for the affects of cookies posted onto your device by other websites that are either directly or indirectly linked from this site.

You can clear all cookies managed by this website if you wish, but you will be re-prompted on the next page load to accept or decline cookies again. Click this button to delete our cookies:

This website uses the following direct first-party cookies:

• Themes − two cookies that remember the colour theme that you have selected to use and also handle your preference for light or dark system/application preferences. If you opt out of cookies, then cookies are still saved, but ithey are 'null' cookies with no useful or readable information inside. It is saved by your device so that you are not prompted to answer the question regarding accepting/denying cookies again. Please note, the theme switching tools will not be available to you if you decline cookies.
• Snow − cookie that remembers your choice of snow on or snow off during the Christmas period. This cookie is only used between 13^th December each year and the 12^th night of Christmas on January 5^th. This cookie will automatically delete itself on 6^th January. This cookie is not created if you opt out of cookies on the site.
• Passwords − only used by admin system pages to store, remember and expire passwords set for specific pages on the site, not used by general user pages.

This website uses the following indirect third-party cookies:

• Google Search Console − the search option at the top of the webiste is driven by Google and they save their own cookie for handling the interactuion between our site and their search results to ensure that the search results are only those valid for this website.