Cookie Policy
Last updated: 4 June 2026
This Cookie Policy explains what cookies and similar technologies are, how racingplacebetting.com (FrameCourse, the “Site”) uses them, how long they last, and how you can control them. It should be read together with our Privacy Policy and Legal Information page.
We use as few cookies as we can while still running an editorial site that is secure, measurable and accessible. We do not run advertising cookies, behavioural tracking across other sites, or any cookie used for profiling.
What is a cookie
A cookie is a small text file that a website asks your browser to store on your device. The next time you visit the same site, the browser returns the file. Cookies allow a website to remember information across pages, sessions and visits. Similar technologies — local storage, session storage, web beacons, browser fingerprinting fragments — perform comparable functions and are covered by the same rules under the UK Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR) and the UK GDPR. Where this policy refers to cookies, it covers those similar technologies as well.
The categories of cookie we use
We group the cookies set in connection with the Site into three categories: strictly necessary, performance and preference. We do not use marketing, advertising or social-tracking cookies.
Strictly necessary cookies
Strictly necessary cookies are required for the Site to operate. They include a session cookie set by the hosting platform to maintain page-state across a single visit, a security cookie used to detect and block hostile traffic, and a consent cookie that records your choice on the cookie banner so that you are not asked again on every page load. Strictly necessary cookies are exempt from the consent requirement under PECR because the Site cannot function without them. They expire either at the end of your browser session or, in the case of the consent cookie, after twelve months.
Performance cookies
Performance cookies are set by our analytics provider and help us understand how the Site is being read — which pages perform well, how long visitors spend on each guide, what proportion of readers reach the end of a long article, and which referring sites bring readers to us. The data is collected against a randomised visitor identifier and is not used to identify you personally. We do not link analytics data to any direct identifier such as an email address.
Performance cookies are loaded only after your explicit consent through the on-page banner. If you decline, no analytics cookie is set and no analytics data is collected. Performance cookies expire after a maximum of twenty-six months in line with the analytics provider’s default retention setting.
Preference cookies
Preference cookies remember choices you make on the Site that affect how it is displayed, such as a chosen reading mode, a typeface preference or an accessibility setting. These cookies are not used to identify you and are loaded only when you actively change a preference. They expire after twelve months.
A note on third-party services
The Site uses a small number of third-party services to deliver content and to measure readership. These include a hosting provider, a content delivery network, an analytics provider and a font-delivery service. Each of these services may set or read cookies on its own domain when its content is served to your browser. We have set up the Site to minimise this footprint — for example, by serving fonts in a way that does not require third-party cookies wherever feasible — but you should be aware that any third-party service is governed by its own cookie practices in addition to ours.
How long cookies last
Session cookies last until you close your browser. Persistent cookies set by the Site itself last for the periods stated above: twelve months for consent and preferences, twenty-six months for performance. Cookies set by third-party services are subject to those services’ own retention periods, which we publish where the provider makes them available.
How you can control cookies
The simplest way to control cookies on the Site is the on-page banner. The banner asks for your consent before any non-essential cookies are loaded, and a settings link in the Site footer allows you to change your choice at any time. Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before the withdrawal but stops further use of non-essential cookies from that point.
You can also control cookies at the browser level. Every major browser allows you to view the cookies stored on your device, delete them individually or in bulk, and refuse cookies from specific sites or from all sites. The browser’s help pages describe the precise mechanics for your version. Be aware that blocking all cookies will affect the Site’s functionality, in particular the session and security cookies that fall under the strictly-necessary category.
You can also use the “Do Not Track” signal supported by some browsers to indicate that you do not wish to be tracked across sites. The Site does not load behavioural tracking cookies in any case, so the signal does not materially change our processing.
Children
The Site is intended only for adults aged eighteen or over. We do not knowingly load cookies or collect data from children. If you become aware that a child has used the Site, please contact us through the channels published in our Legal Information page so that any data associated with the visit can be reviewed and, where appropriate, deleted.
International cookies
Where a cookie is set by a third-party provider operating outside the United Kingdom or the European Economic Area, the transfer is governed by the same safeguards described in our Privacy Policy — the UK International Data Transfer Agreement or Standard Contractual Clauses approved for UK use. We do not transfer cookie data to jurisdictions without these safeguards.
Updates to this policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in the services we use, in the underlying technology, or in UK law. The “last updated” date at the top of this page shows the date of the most recent revision. Material changes — for example, the introduction of a new third-party provider or a new category of cookie — will be flagged on the Site for at least thirty days after publication.
Contact
Questions about how we use cookies, or about how to exercise your rights under UK GDPR in relation to cookie data, should be raised through the contact channels published on the Legal Information page of this Site. Where you cannot resolve a complaint with us directly, you retain the right to raise the matter with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ico.org.uk).