Cookies and storage

1. Visit counting, and the switch

We count visits with Cloudflare Web Analytics, so that we can see which pages are read and which are slow. It uses a short script from Cloudflare that reads your browser’s page-timing measurements and sends a report. Cloudflare says that it sets no cookies, does not store anything in your browser and does not track individual visitors across its customers’ sites. The privacy policy has the full account.

If your browser sends a Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control signal, the script isn’t loaded at all, whatever the switch says. Clearing this site’s data in your browser, or blocking cloudflareinsights.com with a content blocker, also stops it.

2. What this page covers

A cookie is a small file that a website asks your browser to save. Browsers offer other places to keep things as well, such as local storage and session storage. UK law treats all of them alike: the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 (PECR), regulation 6, says a website may not store information on your device, or read information from it, unless you have been given clear information and have agreed, or an exception applies.

This page covers every use of your device’s storage by tekkersandtactics.com, the visit counting, the videos, and the ways the site reads from your device. How we handle personal data in general is in our privacy policy.

3. What Tekkers & Tactics keeps on your device

Name	Where	What it holds	When it is set	How long it lasts	Why
tt-motion	Local storage	The word “on” or “off”	Only when you press the Motion button at the top of a page	Until you press it again, clear this site’s data, or your browser clears it	So that animation stays the way you set it on every page
tt-skill	Local storage	The dates and scores you record on the skill check	Only when you press “Save these scores”	Until you press “Delete all my scores”, clear this site’s data, or your browser clears it	So you can see your progress over time. The skill check is something you asked for, and keeping your scores is what makes it work
tt-profile	Local storage	The display name, role (coach or player), age band, position and favourite drills you choose	Only when you press a save button on the profile page	Until you press “Delete everything I saved”, clear this site’s data, or your browser clears it	So the site can tailor drills and tactics to you. You asked for it, and it never leaves your device
tt-lineups	Local storage	The lineups you build and name	Only when you press “Save lineup”	As above	So you can come back to your lineups
tt-saved	Local storage	The tactics boards and drills you save	Only when you press “Save”	As above	So you can come back to them
tt-no-count	Local storage	The single character 1	Only if you press the switch in the first section to stop being counted	Until you switch counting back on, clear this site’s data, or your browser clears it	To remember that you don’t want to be counted

That is the full list. Nothing else is written to local storage, session storage, IndexedDB or cookies by this site. You can check for yourself in your browser’s developer tools, under the Application or Storage tab.

Your browser also keeps its ordinary cache of the pages, pictures and fonts it has fetched from us, so that it needn’t download them again. That is part of how browsers work and isn’t something the site does.

4. What Tekkers & Tactics reads from your device

Some of what the site does depends on facts about your device. These are read inside your browser, used straight away and not sent to us or to anyone else.

• Reduced motion. Whether you have asked your device to keep animation to a minimum. We respect it.
• Screen. The size of the window, so that the pitch boards and pages fit.
• The page address. The session planner and the weekly practice plan keep your choices in the page address, not in your browser’s storage, so that you can bookmark and share them. Closing the page forgets them unless you bookmarked it.

5. Videos from YouTube

Some pages carry a video that is hosted on YouTube, which is run by Google. We use YouTube’s privacy-enhanced embed (the address is youtube-nocookie.com), and we load it only when you ask.

• Before you press play, nothing is loaded from YouTube. The page shows a still picture that is kept on our own server, a line saying what will happen, and a Play button. YouTube and Google are not contacted, and do not learn that you visited.
• When you press play, your browser loads YouTube’s player from youtube-nocookie.com. Google then receives your IP address and details of your browser and device, as any website would, and it may store or read information on your device, such as cookies or local storage, to run the player and to prevent abuse. Google says that in this mode, views of embedded videos are not used to personalise your YouTube experience or the adverts it shows you outside the site. We do not control what Google does and we cannot list its storage here, because it can change. Google’s own privacy policy applies from that moment.
• Pressing play is your consent. It is you asking for the video, after we have told you in plain words what it does, which is how PECR expects consent to be given where an exception doesn’t apply. If you don’t want that, don’t press play. Every video has a link to where it came from, and the same facts are given in the text of the page wherever we can.
• To stop it afterwards, clear this site’s data and the data for youtube-nocookie.com in your browser, and don’t press play again.

We only use videos whose owners allow them to be embedded and reused, and we say who made each one and under what licence. See licences and credits.

6. Why this is allowed without a banner

PECR lets a website store or read information without consent in some situations. The ones relevant here are in Schedule A1 to the regulations, most of which came into force on 5 February 2026 under the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025.

• Counting visits (the statistics exception). Paragraph 5 of the schedule allows storage or access whose sole purpose is to collect statistics to improve a website, where the figures are shared only to help make those improvements, the visitor is told clearly, and the visitor has a simple, free way to object. We use Cloudflare Web Analytics for that purpose and no other. This page tells you, and the switch in the first section is the way to object, as is a Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control signal, which stops the script loading at all. Cloudflare says that the script reads the browser’s performance timings and does not store anything in the browser, so it may not even need an exception, but we treat it as if it does.
• Adapting the site to your preferences. This covers storage or access whose only purpose is to adapt how the website looks or works to your preferences, as long as you are told clearly what it is for and have a simple, free way to object. Your display settings, and the reading of your screen size and motion setting, are used for that and nothing else. You are told here, and you can object whenever you like by changing the setting or clearing your site data. The site works without any of it.
• Strictly necessary for a service you asked for. This covers technical storage that is strictly necessary for a service you have requested, and its examples include recording selections you have made on a website. What you choose on the site’s own controls is a selection you have made, kept so that the site does what you asked next time.
• Videos (consent). Anything that Google stores or reads when you press play is covered by your consent, given by pressing play after being told what it does (paragraph 2 of the schedule).

We use these things for the purpose we have given and no other. They aren’t used for advertising or to follow you around the web, and they aren’t combined with anything. If we ever wanted to use them for something else, we would ask for your consent first.

We think this is the right reading of the law. It is the law and the Information Commission’s guidance on “storage and access technologies” that matter, not our opinion, so if you disagree or have a concern, tell us at [email protected].

7. What other people’s services might set

Apart from the visit-counting script and a video you choose to play, nothing on tekkersandtactics.com loads from another company’s servers: not fonts, not maps, not pictures. The counting script comes from Cloudflare (static.cloudflareinsights.com) and reports to Cloudflare. Cloudflare says that it sets no cookies. It only loads if you haven’t opted out. A video’s player comes from YouTube (youtube-nocookie.com) and only loads after you press play. Our content security policy tells your browser to refuse anything else.

Our web host, Cloudflare, may in some situations set a security cookie, usually to tell people from automated attacks. That would be strictly necessary for keeping the site safe, and wouldn’t need consent. At the time of writing we have checked and none is set. If that changes, we will list it here.

If you follow a link from a page here to The FA, a club or any other site, that site’s own cookies and policies apply from then on.

8. How to remove or block what is kept

• Visit counting. Use the switch in the first section, send a Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control signal, or block cloudflareinsights.com.
• Your skill check scores. Press “Delete all my scores” at the bottom of the skill check.
• Everything you saved. Press “Delete everything I saved” on the My Tekkers page. It removes your profile, lineups, saved tactics, skill check scores and Motion setting from this browser. It keeps only the note that you don’t want to be counted, if you set one.
• The Motion setting. Press the Motion button again to change it.
• Anything a video has stored. In your browser’s settings, clear the data for youtube-nocookie.com and google.com.
• Everything the site keeps. In your browser’s settings, clear this site’s data. The wording differs between browsers, but it is usually under Privacy, then Site settings or Cookies and site data, then tekkersandtactics.com. Closing a private or incognito window also clears it.

9. Changes

If we add anything that stores or reads information on your device, we will update this page first, change the date at the top, and ask for your consent where the law requires it.

• 11 November 2026. Added visit counting with Cloudflare Web Analytics, the opt-out switch and the click-to-play YouTube videos.
• 11 November 2026. First version.

10. Questions

Email [email protected]. Our registered office is FALLINGHIPPO LIMITED, 71-75 Shelton Street, London, England, WC2H 9JQ, company number 17415391.