Cookie policy

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files stored on your computer, mobile phone, tablet or other device when you visit a website. They allow a website to recognise a device, remember preferences and understand how its pages and features are being used.

Some cookies last only while your browser is open. These are known as session cookies. Others remain on your device for a set period or until you delete them. These are known as persistent cookies.

We may also use technologies that perform a similar function, including local storage, embedded scripts, tags and pixels. In this policy, we use the term “cookies” to include these similar technologies.

First-party and third-party cookies

First-party cookies are placed directly by Discover the Fens. Third-party cookies are placed by another organisation when its service or content is used on our website, such as an embedded map, video or analytics service.

How we use cookies

Cookies may be used to:

• Keep the website secure and operating correctly.
• Remember your cookie preferences.
• Maintain essential website and administrative sessions.
• Understand which pages and features are most useful.
• Measure website traffic and general visitor journeys.
• Diagnose technical faults and improve performance.
• Display third-party content such as maps or videos.
• Measure the effectiveness of campaigns and referral links.

We do not use cookies to sell your personal information.

Cookie categories

Cookies we may use

The cookies present during a visit depend on the pages and features you use, your consent choices and whether you are signed into a relevant third-party service.

Third-party services

Some pages may include services or content supplied by other organisations. When enabled, these providers may receive technical information such as your IP address, device information, browser details and the page you visited.

These services may include:

• Analytics services used to understand website performance.
• Interactive mapping and location services.
• Video and other embedded media.
• Social-media content or sharing features.
• Website security, hosting and performance services.
• Links to external attraction, venue, event and booking websites.

Third-party providers are responsible for their own use of information. Their privacy and cookie policies explain how they process information collected through their services.

Following an ordinary link to another website does not itself mean that Discover the Fens controls the cookies used by that website.

Consent and your choices

When you first visit Discover the Fens, our cookie controls allow you to accept or reject optional cookies. Strictly necessary technologies may operate without consent because they are required to provide the website and its essential functions.

Optional analytics, preference and external-content technologies will only be used where consent is required and you have chosen to allow them.

You can withdraw or change your consent at any time. Withdrawing consent does not make any earlier use of information unlawful, but it will prevent the relevant optional technologies from being used in future where the controls apply.

Browser controls

Most browsers allow you to view, block or delete cookies through their privacy or security settings. You may also be able to ask the browser to notify you before a cookie is stored.

Blocking all cookies may prevent parts of the website from working correctly. In particular, essential preferences and security functions may not operate as intended.

Browser controls are separate from the choices recorded through the Discover the Fens cookie banner. If you use more than one browser or device, you may need to update your preferences on each one.

Changes to this policy

We may update this cookie policy when our website, technology, service providers or legal responsibilities change.

The latest version will be published on this page with its revision date. Where a material change affects the choices available to visitors, we may ask you to review or renew your consent.

Further information about how we handle personal information is available in our privacy notice .