Use of Cookies

Some of our web pages use cookies. A cookie is a text-only string of information that a website transfers to the cookie file of the browser on your computer's hard disk so that the website can remember who you are.

When you access our website or login to our secure area we send you an encrypted session cookie. A session cookie is a temporary cookie that only remains in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the site. This cookie is used to validate our access to different parts of the site.

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. Google Analytics uses cookies to help this website analyse how users use the site.

Disabling/ Enabling Cookies

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings in your browser. However, you will not be able to login to the website if cookies are disabled. You can also manually remove cookies from your system. For more information on disabling and enabling cookies you should search for or lookup 'Cookies' in your Operating System Documentation.

Transparency - our use of cookies
Cookies set by us

When you access our website or login to our secure area we send you an encrypted session cookie. A session cookie is a temporary cookie that only remains in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the site. This cookie is used to validate your access to different parts of the site. There are two values stored in the cookie with encrypted names and values.

Name of cookie	Expiry	Data Stored	Purpose
alpine-club.org.uk	End of session	Encrypted session ID	Created after login. Used to validate your authenticated session throughout our secure online services.

Third party cookies

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. Google Analytics uses cookies to help us analyse how people use our site.

Name of cookie	Expiry	Data Stored	Purpose
analytics.google.com : __utma	2 years from set / update	Google Analytics Unique ID number	Tracking data for Google Analytics. Helps work out unique visitor numbers.
analytics.google.com : __utmb	30 minutes from set / update	Google Analytics Unique ID number	Tracking data for Google Analytics. Helps work out visitor session length
analytics.google.com : __utmbc	End of session	Google Analytics Unique ID number	Tracking data for Google Analytics. Helps work out visitor session length and whether a session has expired.
analytics.google.com : __utmz	6 months from set / update	Google Analytics Unique ID tracking numbers	Tracking data for Google Analytics. Used to work out referrals from other domains.