Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy explains how Magda Sports Therapy uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit this website.

It should be read together with the Privacy Policy.

1. What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that websites may place on your computer, mobile phone or other device when you visit them.

Cookies and similar technologies can be used to:

• make a website function correctly;
• remember visitor preferences;
• maintain security;
• understand how visitors use a website;
• measure website performance;
• support embedded content and third-party services.

Similar technologies may include local storage, tracking pixels, scripts and other tools that store information on, or access information from, your device.

2. Who is responsible for this website?

This website is operated by:

Magda Sports Therapy
Streatham Hill, London SW16
Email: magdasportstherapy@gmail.com
Telephone: 07934 248 251

Magda Sports Therapy is operated by Magdalena Kozak as an independent sports therapist.

3. How this website uses cookies

This website is hosted on WordPress.com.

WordPress.com and its service providers may use cookies and similar technologies to deliver, secure, maintain and understand the use of the website.

The website may also contain embedded content, maps, forms or links provided by independent third-party services. Those services may set their own cookies when you interact with them.

Cookies used on or in connection with this website may fall into the categories described below.

4. Strictly necessary cookies

Strictly necessary cookies are required for the basic operation, security and delivery of the website.

They may be used to:

• load and display the website;
• protect the website against fraud, spam and misuse;
• maintain network and security functions;
• remember privacy or cookie choices;
• support forms and essential website features;
• enable logged-in WordPress.com functionality where relevant.

These cookies do not normally require consent where they are genuinely necessary to provide the website or a service requested by the visitor.

You may be able to block them through your browser, but parts of the website may then stop working correctly.

5. Analytics and performance cookies

Analytics and performance technologies may be used to understand how visitors interact with the website.

They may collect information such as:

• pages viewed;
• approximate visitor numbers;
• time and date of visits;
• referring websites;
• general device and browser information;
• broad geographic information;
• interactions with links or website features.

This information may be used to identify popular pages, understand website performance and improve the visitor experience.

WordPress.com may provide website statistics through services such as Jetpack Stats.

Where consent is legally required, analytics or performance technologies will only be used after you have made the appropriate choice through the cookie banner or privacy controls.

6. Functional cookies

Functional cookies may support optional features and remember choices made by visitors.

They may be used in connection with:

• contact forms;
• language or display preferences;
• embedded maps;
• social-media features;
• other interactive website content.

Disabling these cookies may affect the availability or behaviour of some optional features.

7. Third-party content and services

The website may include or link to services provided by third parties, including:

• WordPress.com and Automattic;
• Apple Maps;
• WhatsApp;
• Instagram;
• Facebook;
• Google Reviews;
• external email, booking or communication services.

When you view or interact with content provided by another organisation, that organisation may collect information and place cookies or similar technologies on your device.

For example, an embedded map may receive information such as your IP address, device information and interaction with the map.

Magda Sports Therapy does not control all cookies used by independent third-party services. Their use of information is governed by their own privacy and cookie policies.

Simply following an external link may also take you to a separate website with its own cookie practices.

8. Social media and external links

The website contains links to social-media profiles and external communication services.

A simple link does not necessarily place a social-media cookie before you click it. However, when you visit or interact with the third-party platform, that provider may collect information according to its own policies.

If you are already logged in to that platform, it may associate your visit or interaction with your account.

9. Cookie consent and choices

When required, the website will display a cookie banner or privacy control allowing you to make choices about non-essential cookies.

Strictly necessary cookies may operate without consent because they are required for the website to function.

Non-essential cookies should not be activated before the appropriate consent has been obtained where consent is required.

You should be able to:

• accept non-essential cookies;
• reject non-essential cookies;
• review available information about cookie use;
• change or withdraw your choice where the available controls permit this.

Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing that took place before consent was withdrawn.

10. Managing cookies through your browser

Most web browsers allow you to:

• view stored cookies;
• delete some or all cookies;
• block cookies;
• block third-party cookies;
• receive a warning before cookies are stored;
• clear website data after closing the browser.

The precise controls depend on your browser and device.

Blocking or deleting cookies may cause some parts of the website or third-party services to function incorrectly.

11. WordPress.com privacy controls

WordPress.com and Automattic may provide additional privacy and tracking controls for visitors to sites within the WordPress.com network.

The cookies used by WordPress.com may change as its services, security systems and website features develop.

More detailed and current information about cookies used by WordPress.com is available through Automattic’s own Cookie Policy and privacy information.

12. How long cookies remain on your device

Cookies may be either:

Session cookies

These are normally removed when you close your browser.

Persistent cookies

These remain on your device for a defined period or until you delete them.

The duration depends on the purpose of the cookie and the provider that sets it.

Consent-preference cookies may remain for a period so the website can remember your privacy choice.

13. Personal information collected through cookies

Some cookie or technical information may constitute personal information, particularly where it can be connected with an IP address, device identifier, account or other information.

The handling of personal information is explained in the Privacy Policy.

Magda Sports Therapy does not sell personal information collected through this website.

14. Changes to this Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy may be updated when:

• website features change;
• new services are introduced;
• cookies or tracking technologies change;
• WordPress.com changes its services;
• legal or regulatory requirements change.

The “Last updated” date at the top of the page will be changed when material updates are made.

15. Contact

Questions about the use of cookies or other technologies on this website can be sent to:

Magda Sports Therapy
Email: magdasportstherapy@gmail.com
Telephone: 07934 248 251