Cookie policy
What the Trophy website and app store on your device, why, and how to change your choice.
Last updated: 28 September 2026In short
- Google Analytics runs only if you allow it. Choose “Essential only” and nothing is sent to Google.
- The only other cookies keep you signed in and remember the theme you picked.
- Players who join with a code have their place in the event kept in their own browser, not in a cookie.
- You can change your mind at any time with Cookie settings in the footer, or in your browser settings.
This website
trophyapp.co.uk carries no advertising, retargeting or social media tags, and no session recording. When analytics is in use, a banner asks on your first visit whether to allow it. This is everything the website can store in your browser:
| Name | Type | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
trophy_session | Cookie, Strictly necessary | Keeps you signed in after you sign in on this website or in the Trophy app. It is set by the Trophy server, cannot be read by page scripts and is never used for analytics or advertising. | Seven days, or until you sign out |
trophy_theme | Cookie, Remembers your choice | Remembers whether you picked System, Light or Dark, so the website and the app look the same. Only set when you choose a theme. | One year |
trophy.theme | Local storage, Remembers your choice | A copy of your theme choice on this device, used if cookies are blocked. | Until you clear it |
cookie_consent | Local storage, Remembers your choice | Records whether you chose “Allow analytics” or “Essential only”, so the banner does not ask again on every page. Written only when you choose. | Until you clear it |
visit_journey | Session storage, Only sent if you get in touch | Notes the page you arrived on and when, the site that sent you, any campaign tags and ad click IDs in that first link, the previous page and how many pages you have viewed. It stays in this tab and only reaches us if you send the contact form. | Until you close the tab |
_ga | Cookie, Analytics, only if you allow it | Set by Google Analytics to tell one visitor from another, so that visits are counted rather than page loads. | Two years |
_ga_<container-id> | Cookie, Analytics, only if you allow it | Set by Google Analytics to keep the state of your visit, such as when it started and how many pages you have viewed. | Two years |
cookie_consent, trophy.theme and visit_journey are kept in your browser's storage rather than set as cookies, so they are not sent to us as you browse. The note in visit_journey is only sent if you submit the contact form, when it is included with your message, as described in our privacy policy.
Our web server also keeps a standard log of requests. That is not a cookie and is covered by the privacy policy too.
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics 4 to see which pages are useful and how people find the site. It is provided by Google Ireland Limited, with Google LLC, and it runs only if you allow it.
- The Google Analytics script only loads after you allow analytics. If you choose “Essential only”, nothing is sent to Google.
_gatells one visitor from another and_ga_<container-id>keeps the state of your visit. Both last two years unless you delete them.- GA4 does not log or store IP addresses.
- Advertising features are off. The site tells Google not to use advertising storage, not to use your data for advertising and not to personalise ads.
- Google may process the data in the United States, under the UK Extension to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework.
- We keep analytics data for up to 14 months.
Google explains how it uses information from websites that use its services at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
The Trophy app
The app at app.trophyapp.co.uk is where organisers run tournaments and where players, helpers and supporters follow them. It uses no analytics or advertising. It stores the following, none of which is shared with anyone else:
| Name | Type | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
trophy_session | Cookie, Strictly necessary | The same sign-in cookie as the website, for organisers and anyone else with an account. | Seven days, or until you sign out |
trophy_theme, trophy.theme | Cookie and local storage, Remembers your choice | Your theme choice, shared with the website. | One year, or until you clear it |
trophy.join.<code> | Local storage, Strictly necessary | Your place in a tournament you joined with a code: the join token that lets this device see your games and send your scores, the code and when you joined. It is how a player stays in the event without an account. | Until you leave the event or clear it |
trophy.staff.<tournament>, trophy.team.token | Local storage, Strictly necessary | A helper’s scoring link for one tournament, or a team’s own link, kept on the device that opened it so helpers and teams can score without an account. | Until the link is removed or you clear it |
trophy.device | Local storage, Strictly necessary | A random ID for this browser, sent with reactions so that everyone watching gets the same fair limit. It says nothing about who you are. | Until you clear it |
trophy.reactions.<code>, trophy.chat.name.<code> | Local storage, Remembers your choice | The reactions you have sent at an event and the name you gave the crowd chat, so they show as yours. | Until you clear it |
trophy.sound, trophy.getapp.hidden, trophy.alerts.hidden.*, trophy.device.hidden.* | Local storage, Remembers your choice | Whether round sounds are on, and which tips and prompts you have dismissed. | Until you clear it |
trophy.pendingNames.<tournament> | Local storage, Needed for what you are doing | Names an organiser pasted in while setting up, kept until they have been added to the tournament. | Until the names are added |
trophy.wizard.draft, trophy.helperName.*, trophy.revealed.*, trophy.revealing.*, trophy.finale.* | Session storage, Needed for what you are doing | An unfinished tournament set-up, a helper’s name, and which draw, round and final reveals this screen has already shown. | Until you close the tab |
App files | Cache storage, Needed for what you are doing | The app’s own code, styles, icons and sounds, kept by its service worker so it opens quickly and still works on a poor signal. No personal data. | Until the app updates or you clear it |
A name ending in <code> or <tournament> is stored once for each event, and * stands for the rest of a name. The sign-in cookie and the tokens that keep a player, helper or team in their event are strictly necessary for the service you asked for, so PECR does not require consent for them. The rest only remember choices you made or what you were doing on that screen.
If you turn on browser alerts, your browser registers a small alert worker for the app and creates a subscription with its push service (run by Google, Apple, Mozilla or Microsoft, depending on your browser). We keep that subscription against your account so we can send the alerts you chose. Turning alerts off in the app removes the subscription, and you can also block notifications in your browser settings.
Signing in with Google and paying with Stripe
If you choose “Sign in with Google”, the sign-in page loads Google's sign-in button and Google may set its own cookies on its own domains. When passes are on sale, buying one takes you to Stripe's checkout pages, where Stripe sets its own cookies to process the payment and prevent fraud. Both are governed by the provider's own privacy policy. You can sign in with an emailed link instead of Google.
Changing your choice
You can change your analytics choice at any time using the Cookie settings link in the footer of every page, which appears whenever analytics is in use. Choosing “Essential only” there withdraws your consent: it stops Google Analytics and removes the _ga cookies it has set.
You can also view, block and delete cookies and site data in your browser settings. Blocking them does not stop you reading this website, but it will stop you signing in, and clearing the app's site data removes your place in any event you joined with a code, so you would need to join again. Clearing this site's stored data means the banner asks you again on your next visit.
General guidance on managing cookies is available from the Information Commissioner’s Office.
Changes to this policy
We will update this page, and the date at the top, before we change what either the website or the app stores on your device.