Cookie Policy

What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on your device by websites you visit. They are widely used to make websites work efficiently, secure user accounts, and provide analytical information to website owners.

How We Use Cookies

We use cookies to manage your secure login sessions, process competition entries safely, and prevent fraudulent activity. We categorize our cookies as follows:

• Strictly Necessary Cookies: These are essential for our website to operate. They include cookies that enable you to log into your account securely using our custom authentication system, hold items in your checkout basket, and process payments securely via Cashflows and PayPal. Because the website cannot function safely or properly without them, they cannot be turned off.
• Performance and Analytics Cookies (Optional): These allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and see how visitors move around our website. While we do not use these tracking tools at launch, we may introduce Google Analytics in the future to improve platform performance.
• Marketing and Targeting Cookies (Optional): These record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited, and the links you have followed. We may introduce tools like the Meta Pixel in the future to deliver relevant advertisements and measure campaign effectiveness.

We also store your display preferences, such as theme and text size, in your browser.

Third-Party Cookies

When you enter a competition, our payment processors—Cashflows and PayPal—may set cookies on your device. These cookies are strictly necessary to authenticate your transaction, verify your identity, and prevent financial fraud.

Managing Your Cookie Preferences

We do not use any performance, analytics, or marketing cookies at launch. If we introduce them, our cookie consent banner will ask for your explicit permission before loading any of them.

Once that banner is in use, you can change your preferences at any time by clicking the "Cookie choices" link in our website footer. Alternatively, you can modify your web browser settings to block all cookies, though blocking strictly necessary cookies will prevent you from logging in or entering competitions.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about our use of cookies or how we protect your data, please contact us at:

Company Name: Island Competitions Ltd

Registered Address: 57 Seaview Road, Cowes, Isle of Wight, PO31 7UN

Email Address: hello@islandcompetitions.co.uk