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Cookies may be used for many different purposes. In the first place, cookies can be required to make the website function properly. For example, without cookies, it would be difficult to make a website remember that you have logged in or visited the website before, or in the case of this website, accessed the media hub. These are called required cookies.

Cookies can also be used to analyse how a website is used, to count the number of visitors, to learn how the website may be improved. All tracking data and website usage are stored anonymously and cannot be linked back to individual website visitors. These cookies are called analytics cookies.

Thirdly, social media cookies are used to enable the integration of social media & your data with the platform in question into the website, so that you can immediately like or share a page without having to reauthenticate your profile.

A fourth important use of cookies is to enable online advertising, which may be personalized to show ads that are more relevant and interesting to you. This is done by (targeted) advertising cookies.

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Unless you have set your browser to block cookies completely, this website will utilise the following cookies on your computer.

Cookie

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Source

Expiry

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Modern web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings.  To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

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There are some elements of data visible to us as part of your use of the website. The information we have visibility of regardless of your acceptance of analytics cookies is:

  • The internet domain e.g. www.organisation.co.uk and internet protocol address (IP address) from which you access the website. This is made available by your internet service provider
  • The type of browser (Internet Explorer or Google Chrome) and operating system (Windows, UNIX, macOS etc) that you use
  • The device you use, such as a mobile phone or tablet
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  • The address of the website from which you linked to us, known as a referrer (if applicable)

We only use this information above to review website & server performance.

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites run by other organisations. This cookie policy applies only to our website‚ so we encourage you to read the privacy statements on the other websites you visit. We cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices or use of cookies of other sites even if you access them using links from our website.

In addition, if you linked to our website from a third party site, we cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of the owners and operators of that third party site and recommend that you check the policy of that third party site.

More questions?

To contact Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Organising Committee Ltd with a data protection query regarding the processing of your personal data, please use the following details:

Data Protection Officer,
Birmingham Organising Committee for the 2022 Commonwealth Games Ltd,
One Brindley Place,
Birmingham,
B1 2JB

Email: dp@Birmingham2022.com
Tel: 0121 303 5404

For more information about the use of personal data within the Birmingham Organising Committee, please visit our Privacy notice.

Changes to this cookie notice

We keep our cookie notices under regular review. This was last updated on 24/7/2019.