What are cookies?

Cookies are small data files that are sent from a website to your computer or mobile phone. They are stored on the hard drive of your device. Some are stored just for the duration of your visit to the website, others are stored for much longer periods. A cookie often contains a unique number, which can be used to recognise your computer when a user of your computer returns to a website that it visited previously.

How does LLHM use cookies?

We use cookies to enhance the online experience of our visitors, to better understand how our website is used and to monitor how our advertisements perform. Cookies may tell us, for example, whether you have visited our site before or whether you are a new visitor. Another example is enabling us to show you articles that you have recently read, so that you can access them again more easily. If you'd like to learn more about cookies in general, we recommend the About Cookies website.

Your rights

Our cookies do not store financial information and neither we or any third party will link, or seek to link, an IP address with the identity of a computer user. You have the right to choose whether to accept these cookies. You can exercise this right by amending or setting the controls on your browser to reflect your cookie preferences.

Cookies: Your choice

Our website works better with cookies enabled. Our cookies don't give us or anyone else access to your personal data. Your experience on our website will be improved if cookies are enabled. However, you can use your browser to delete and reject cookies. But, be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of Tommy’s website and many other websites that you visit.

How can I control my cookies?

You can use your browser to:

  • delete all cookies
  • block all cookies
  • allow all cookies;
  • block ‘third-party’ cookies (ie, cookies set by online services other than the one you are visiting)
  • clear all cookies when you close the browser
  • install add-ons and plugins that extend browser functionality

Where to find information about controlling cookies

Alternatively, the help menu in the toolbar of your browser can also help you to change your settings.

What cookies do we use?
Strictly Necessary

These cookies are needed to run our website and to keep it secure. These cookies are set by us for our internal purposes and are essential to provide you with services you have requested. If you set your browser to block these cookies, these functions and services will not work for you.

Platform: Civic UK
Cookies:CookieControl
Purpose of Cookie: Stores your cookie consent preferences so the cookie banner remembers your choices on future visits.

Platform: Drupal
Cookie Name: SSESS...
Purpose: A core session cookie used by our website platform to maintain a secure, anonymous connection while you browse the site.

Platform: Worldpay
Cookie Name: f24_autold / F24_personld
Purpose: Used securely during the donation or race registration checkout process to handle payment routing and prevent fraud.

Functional Cookies

These cookies are used to recognise you and remember your preferences or settings when you return to our site, so that we can provide you with a more personalised experience.

Performance & Analytics Cookies

These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website by collecting and reporting information anonymously. This data helps us improve page load speeds, fix broken links, and optimise your overall experience. We also use additional cookies from third-party advertising or analytics partners on a short-term basis, which is the duration of your session. This helps to improve the effectiveness of our advertising, for example by enabling us to reach or exclude our website visitors across partner networks. These cookies are listed as of the time this page was updated and are reviewed regularly.

Platform: Google Analytics 4
Cookie Name: _ga
Purpose: Used to distinguish unique website visitors by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier.

Platform: Google Analytics 4
Cookie Name: _ga_206RMPZ19Y
Purpose: A session cookie specific to our website's analytics tracking. It maintains the status of your current session as you move between pages.

Targeting & Advertising Cookies: These cookies are set through our site by our advertising and media partners (such as Meta(Facebook) and Google/YouTube). They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other websites. We regularly utilise social media platforms to communicate with our supporters through both unpaid posts and paid advertising. We use cookies to measure the effectiveness of paid advertising to ensure money is spent effectively and to enable us to serve or exclude adverts for recent website visitors.
For more information see Meta’s privacy policy.

Example cookies we or a third party might use:

Platform: Facebook
Cookie Name: _fbp
Purpose: Used by Facebook to deliver targeted advertising products, track ad conversions, and retarget visitors on social media platforms.

Platform: Facebook
Cookie Name: sb
Purpose: Used by Facebook to monitor browser behaviour for security, integrity, and advertising optimisation purposes.

Platform: Google / DoubleClick
Cookie Name: IDE
Purpose: Measures the efficacy of our online advertisements and helps serve personalised Google ads based on the pages you have recently visited.

Platform: YouTube (Embedded Media)
Cookie Name: YSC
Purpose: Registers a unique ID to keep aggregate statistics of what YouTube videos embedded on our site have been viewed by a visitor.

Platform: YouTube (Embedded Media)
Cookie Name: VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE
Purpose: Estimates user bandwidth to ensure smooth playback of embedded videos.

Platform: YouTube (Embedded Media)
Cookie Name: VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA
Purpose: Stores the user's cookie consent state specifically for embedded YouTube players.

Platform: YouTube (Embedded Media)
Cookie Name: LOGIN_INFO / PREF
Purpose: Remembers video player preferences (like language or volume) and checks if the visitor is logged into a YouTube account.

Platform: YouTube / Google
Cookie Name: __Secure-YEC / __Secure-YENID / __Secure-YNID
Purpose: Secure tracking identifiers used by Google to combat fraudulent activity, manage login sessions, and optimise advertising relevance.

Platform: YouTube / Google
Cookie Name: APISID / HSID / SAPISID / SID / SIDCC / SSID
Purpose: Tracking cookies that map website visitor behaviours to deliver, measure, and personalise Google-driven advertising.

Other cookies set by third parties

If you go on to a page on our website that contains embedded content, for example YouTube, you may be sent cookies from these websites. Our website also contains embedded “share” buttons to enable users of the site to easily share articles with their friends through a number of popular networks, for example, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. These sites may set a cookie when you are also logged in to their service. We do not control the setting of these cookies, so we suggest you check the third-party website for more information about their cookies and how to manage them.

Useful information

A number of websites provide detailed information on cookies, including AboutCookies.org and AllAboutCookies.org.
The European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance website Your Online Choices allows you to install opt-out cookies across different advertising networks.
Google has developed a browser add-on to allow users to opt-out of Google Analytics across all websites which use it. This is also available in the Chrome web store.
Some browsers include a feature known as ‘Do Not Track’ or DNT. This allows you to indicate a preference that websites should not track you. However, whilst DNT is available in many browsers, websites are not required to recognise its request, so it may not always work. You can get help on how to use DNT in Microsoft Edge, Internet Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera.
For more information on how private browsing works as well as its limitations, visit the support pages for your browser: Microsoft Edge, Firefox, Chrome, Safari (mobile and desktop) and Opera.
The Information Commissioner’s Office is an independent body set up to uphold information rights.

Deleting cookies

In your web browser you can control which types of cookies you allow. You can turn cookies on or off using your browser's settings. You can also delete cookies and clear your browser's cache (history). You can also delete cookies already stored on your computer:

For step-by-step instructions on how to manage or delete cookies, please visit the relevant support page for your browser: Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, and Microsoft Edge.

Contact us

If you would like to contact us about Cookies please email [email protected]