Cookies
Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers which is placed on your computer if you agree. Cookies help us to distinguish you from other users of our website, provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and allow us to improve our website.
We use the following types of cookies:
- Strictly Necessary – these cookies are needed to enable certain basic features of the site to operate effectively such as translation and user authentication and cannot be switched off in our systems.
- Analytics – these cookies help provide us with information on the number of visitors to the site and the way in which they move around the site so enabling us to better understand how visitors interact with the site.
- Advertisment – these cookies can be used to help provide visitors with customised advertisments based on the web pages previously visited and can help analyse the effectiveness of any advertising campaigns. These cookies may be set through our site by advertising partners.
We do not currently use cookies that we would categorise as functional or performance.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
| Cookie | Expiry | Issuer | Purpose | Our categorisation |
| wp_lang | 1 year | WordPress | This cookie stores language settings to facilitate translation. | Strictly Necessary |
| wfwaf-authcookie | 1 week | Wordfence | This cookie is set by the WordPress security plugin Wordfence. It enables us to check that a user is properly authenticated to access certain password protected pages of the website and to detect users of the WordPress system so that the Wordfence firewall can determine appropriate access levels. | Strictly Necessary |
| _ga | 1 year | Google Analytics | This cookie enables us to to collect information about how visitors use our website which we can use to improve our website | Analytics |
| _gid | 1 day | Google Analytics | This cookie enables us to to collect information about how visitors use our website which we can use to improve our website | Analytics |
| _gadwp_wg_default_metric | 5 months | Google Analytics Dashboard for WordPress (GADWP) | This is a Google Analytics cookie used by GADWP to display the data collected by Google Analytics in a dashboard within the WordPress administration panel. | Analytics |
| gadwp_wg_default_swmetric | 2 months | Google Analytics Dashboard for WordPress (GADWP) | This is a Google Analytics cookie used by GADWP to display the data collected by Google Analytics in a dashboard within the WordPress administration panel. | Analytics |
| _fbp | 3 months | This cookie is used by Facebook to tailor advertising | Advertisement |
With the exception of strictly necessary cookies you can select which categories of cookies you wish to accept through our web-site. Additionally you may refuse to accept cookies by activating the relevant setting on your browser. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies you may find that some of the features of the website will not work properly.
You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking on the ‘change cookie preferences’ link situated at the bottom of the Wales Golf website home page.
To learn more about cookies and how to manage them visit https://allaboutcookies.org/how-to-manage-cookies
March 2023