Colchester United Cookie Policy
Essential cookies
When essential cookies are enabled, essential cookies are kept to a minimum — a single first-party cookie plus short-lived Stripe cookies during checkout. These allow our website to deliver the best experience to you personally and give full access to all features including purchasing match tickets, viewing available product options and managing previous purchases. You can choose to remain signed in, making repeated visits to the website from the same device easier and quicker. Without opting to accept the essential cookie, we regret that the website will not function.
Also during the purchase of tickets, we use Stripe (https://stripe.com) as our payment provider and they will use essential, temporary cookies to allow the safe collection and processing of your payment. By consenting to essential cookies you are accepting the use of these short lived, session based cookies.
Optional cookies
We also provide the option to opt in to additional cookies. These additional cookies are used for analytical purposes and only collect information anonymously. We use Google Analytics to help provide insight into our website users to assist in developing enhancements and new features. These cookies are completely optional.
Cookies in use
The table below explains the cookies that are in use by Colchester United.
| Cookie | Name / Expiry | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Colchester United Main | ASTTKT - 1 month from last visit | Essential - Required for full access to all features including purchasing match tickets, viewing available product options and managing previous purchases |
| Colchester United Payment | StripeCookie (or similar) - Session Only | Essential - Enables collection of payment information by our payment provider we temporarily use this cookie as a user passes through the payment process for a product. |
| Stripe | __stripe (or similar) - Session/30 Days | Essential - Our payment provider, Stripe, uses cookies to assist with collecting and processing payment information using its interface. During the use of Stripe no information is collected by Colchester United. Most cookies last a session only. |
| Google Analytics | _ga (or similar) - 12 months | Non-Essential - Collects anonymous information of visitors and usage of the website. |
| Social Media | _fbp (or similar) - 3 months | Non-essential - when visiting the website via a social media link, for example from Facebook, these anonymous tracking cookies are used to gather additional analytics about visits. |
More details on privacy and how we use and protect your data once permission is granted can be found in our Privacy Policy
Manage your cookie preferences
If you change your mind and no longer wish to have the cookies listed above you can use the following options