Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy explains how the British Automobile Racing Club (BARC) uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit our website.

Cookies help us make our website work effectively, understand how it is being used and, where you have given your consent, provide additional functionality and improve your online experience.

This policy explains what cookies are, why we use them and the choices available to you.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer, smartphone, tablet or other device when you visit a website.

They allow a website to recognise your device and remember certain information about your visit. Some cookies are necessary for a website to function correctly, while others can help website owners understand how visitors use their site or provide additional features and services.

Cookies may remain on your device for the duration of your visit (session cookies) or for a set period after you leave the website (persistent cookies).

How we use cookies

BARC uses cookies for a number of purposes, including:

Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies are required for essential website functionality. They may be used for features such as website security, account access, shopping baskets and remembering your cookie preferences. Because these cookies are necessary for the website to operate, they cannot normally be switched off.

Analytics cookies

These cookies help us understand how visitors use the BARC website, such as which pages are visited and how users navigate through the site. This information helps us monitor performance and improve the website and its content.

Functional cookies

Functional cookies enable additional website features and allow us to remember choices you make. Disabling these cookies may affect the availability or performance of some features.

Marketing cookies

Where applicable, these cookies may be used to understand the effectiveness of our marketing and to provide content or advertising that is more relevant to you. We will only use non-essential marketing cookies where you have given us permission to do so.

Third-party cookies

Some features on the BARC website may be provided by third parties. For example, pages may contain embedded video, social media content, maps, payment services or other external functionality.

These providers may place their own cookies on your device when you interact with their services. Any information collected by third parties is handled in accordance with their own privacy and cookie policies.

Managing your cookie preferences

When you first visit the BARC website, you may be given the option to accept or manage non-essential cookies.

You can change your cookie preferences at any time using the cookie settings available on our website.

Manage your cookie preferences

You can also control and delete cookies through your web browser. Most browsers allow you to see which cookies have been stored, remove individual cookies, block cookies from particular websites or prevent cookies from being stored altogether.

Please be aware that disabling certain cookies may affect how some parts of the BARC website work.

Changes to this Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our website, the technologies we use or relevant legal requirements.

We recommend checking this page periodically for the latest information about our use of cookies.

Contact us

If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy or how BARC uses your personal information, please contact:

British Automobile Racing Club Thruxton Circuit Andover Hampshire SP11 8PN

Telephone: 01264 882200