{"eyebrow":"Privacy","title":"Cookies","intro":"Cookies are small files a site keeps in your browser, and a site can keep other things on your device too, in its storage. This page lists each one {our name} uses, what it's for and how long it's kept, and lets you choose whether we keep the optional ones. None are for advertising or tracking. We count visits without them, as our [privacy policy](/privacy#what-we-hold) says.\n\nHow we look after your details is in our [privacy policy](/privacy).","updated":"2026-10-14","sections":[{"id":"needed-cookies","heading":"Cookies the site needs","text":"These keep you signed in and let you pay, so the site always uses them, and they can't be turned off. They're only ever sent to this site.\n\n**better-auth.session_token** — Keeps you signed in, until you sign out or the sign-in ends.\n**better-auth.dont_remember** — Marks a sign-in without Remember me ticked, so it ends when you close your browser.\n**better-auth.two_factor** — Keeps your place for 10 minutes while you enter a code from your authenticator app.\n**better-auth.better-auth-passkey** — Holds a one-time check for 5 minutes while you add or sign in with a passkey.\n**rc_confirmation** — Lets the browser you paid with show your order's confirmation, for 24 hours.\n**revolution-cheer.device** — For staff and admins only: recognises a browser they've signed in from before, for 400 days, so a sign-in from a new one is emailed to them.\n\nOn the live site, the names of the sign-in cookies start with __Secure-."},{"id":"needed-storage","heading":"Storage the site needs","text":"The site also keeps these on your device, where only this site can read them:\n\n**basket** — What's in your basket, until you buy it or take it out.\n**checkoutHold and checkoutBasket** — What's held for you while you pay, so reloading the page carries on. They go when you close the tab.\n**idCardCheckout** — The ID cards you're paying for, with each athlete's name, while you pay. It goes when you close the tab.\n**account-saved-tickets** — Your tickets for an event, once you've opened one, so they show at the venue with a weak signal, until the event is over.\n**revolution-cheer:cookies** — Whether you've accepted or declined the optional storage, so we don't ask again.\n**page-code-reloaded-at** — When the site last reloaded a page because we'd just updated it, so it does that once a minute at most. It goes when you close the tab.\n**back-office-preview, and changes not saved yet** — For staff and admins only: previewing the site, and what they've typed in the back office. They go when they close the tab.\n**door-lists, door-scans and door-scanner-last** — For staff and admins only, on the phone that scans tickets at the door: the tickets for that door, with the names on them, so it can check tickets without a signal, and the door it last scanned. They go when they sign out, and a door's tickets within 24 hours. door-scans holds the tickets let in without a signal, until the phone has sent them to us.\n\nYour browser's settings can delete these and the cookies above, which signs you out and empties your basket."},{"id":"optional","heading":"Optional storage","text":"These remember a few of your choices. They're only kept on your device once you accept them, in the banner or under Your choice. Until then, the site only remembers them until you reload or close the page. Turning them off deletes them from your device.\n\n**revolution-cheer:appearance** — Whether your account's pages and the back office are light or dark, so this device shows them that way before you're signed in. Your account keeps your choice too.\n**revolution-cheer:banners-closed** — The notices across the top of the site you've closed, so they stay closed until they change.\n**admin-notices-dismissed** — For admins only: the notices they've dismissed on the back office's dashboard and ID cards page, until more orders or ID cards need them.\n**admin-notices-shown and admin-id-card-notices-shown** — For staff and admins only: what the back office's dashboard and ID cards page showed last time, such as their notices, so each page keeps their places while it loads."},{"id":"other-companies","heading":"Other companies' cookies","text":"On the payment step, Square's payment form may use its own cookies and storage to keep payments secure and stop fraud, under [its own policy](https://squareup.com/gb/en/legal/general/cookies). You need them to pay.\n\nAn event's map only loads when you press Show map, and Google then sets its own cookies, under [Google's privacy policy](https://policies.google.com/privacy). Each map asks, whatever you've chosen here."},{"id":"changes","heading":"Changes to this page","text":"When this page changes, we'll change it here, with the date at the top. If we add optional storage, we'll ask you again."}]}