Cookie Policy Last updated: 17 April 2026. This policy applies to citizens and legal permanent residents of the United Kingdom.
1. Introduction Our website, https://westcountrywaterpark.co.uk, uses cookies and other related technologies (for convenience, all technologies are referred to as “cookies”). Cookies are also placed by third parties we have engaged. In the document below we inform you about the use of cookies on our website.
We use only the minimum cookies necessary to run our website and understand how visitors use it. We do not use cookies to serve advertising, track you across other websites, or sell your data to third parties.
2. What are cookies? A cookie is a small simple file that is sent along with pages of this website and stored by your browser on the hard drive of your computer or another device. The information stored therein may be returned to our servers or to the servers of the relevant third parties during a subsequent visit.
3. What are scripts? A script is a piece of program code that is used to make our website function properly and interactively. This code is executed on our server or on your device.
4. What is a web beacon? A web beacon (or a pixel tag) is a small, invisible piece of text or image on a website that is used to monitor traffic on a website. In order to do this, various data about you is stored using web beacons.
5. Cookies
5.1 Technical or functional cookies
Some cookies ensure that certain parts of the website work properly and that your user preferences remain known. By placing functional cookies, we make it easier for you to visit our website. We may place these cookies without your consent.
5.2 Statistics cookies
We use statistics cookies to understand how visitors find and use our site, for example, which pages are most popular and how long people spend on them. This helps us improve the site. We ask your permission to place statistics cookies.
We use Google Analytics for this purpose. It is configured to:
- Anonymise your IP address before it is stored (this is on by default in GA4 and cannot be disabled)
- Not share your data with other Google products or services
- Not be used to identify you personally
We do not use this data for advertising.
5.3 Social media and third-party content
Our website includes embedded content from Instagram and Google Reviews. This content is hosted by third parties (Meta and Google respectively) and may place their own cookies when you view or interact with it. Some of these cookies may be used to recognise you across other websites. We ask your permission before loading this content.
We also embed Google Maps to show our location. Google Maps may set cookies when you interact with the map.
Links to our Facebook and LinkedIn pages appear in the footer. These are plain hyperlinks only – no content from those platforms is embedded on this site and no cookies are set by them.
6. Placed cookies
WordPress – Functional
| Cookie | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|
PHPSESSID | Standard PHP session management – maintains your session on the server during your visit | Session |
wordpress_* | WordPress login session (only set for logged-in administrators, not regular visitors) | Session |
wp_lang | Stores your language preference | Session |
Complianz (Cookie Consent) – Functional
Complianz manages our cookie consent banner. These cookies store your consent choices so we do not show the banner on every visit. They are functional cookies and do not require your consent to be placed.
| Cookie | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|
cmplz_banner-status | Records whether you have dismissed the cookie consent banner | 1 year |
cmplz_consented_services | Stores which cookie services you have consented to | 1 year |
cmplz_functional | Records your consent choice for functional cookies | 1 year |
cmplz_marketing | Records your consent choice for marketing cookies | 1 year |
cmplz_preferences | Records your consent choice for preference cookies | 1 year |
cmplz_statistics | Records your consent choice for statistics cookies | 1 year |
cmplz_policy_id | Records the version of the cookie policy you consented to, so your preferences remain valid if the policy changes | 1 year |
Popup Maker – Functional
| Cookie | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|
pum-bundle-aquapark | Remembers if you have dismissed a popup so it does not show again during your visit | 1 day |
Wordfence – Functional
Wordfence is our website security plugin. It may set cookies in specific circumstances, such as when verifying that a visitor is a real person rather than an automated bot. No Wordfence cookies were observed during standard visitor testing of this site.
Google Analytics – Statistics
| Cookie | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|
_ga | Distinguishes unique visitors | 2 years |
_ga_* | Stores session state | 2 years |
Google Fonts – Functional
We primarily self-host our fonts to protect your privacy. In some cases, fonts not yet locally cached may be requested directly from Google’s servers, which may result in your IP address being transmitted to Google.
Google Maps – Functional
Google Maps is embedded on our website to show our location. When you interact with the map, Google may set cookies.
Instagram – Marketing, Functional
We embed an Instagram feed on our website. Instagram (operated by Meta Platforms Inc., United States) may set cookies when you view or interact with this content.
| Cookie | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|
ig_did | Assigns a unique identifier to your device | 10 years |
ig_nrcb | Stores your cookie consent preference for Instagram | 1 year |
mid | Used to optimise content delivery | 2 years |
csrftoken | Security cookie – protects against cross-site request forgery | 1 year |
Google Reviews – Functional, Statistics
We embed Google Reviews on our website. Google may set cookies when this content loads.
7. Consent
When you visit our website for the first time, we will show you a pop-up with an explanation about cookies. As soon as you click on “Save preferences”, you consent to us using the categories of cookies and plug-ins you selected in the pop-up, as described in this Cookie Policy.
7.1 Manage your consent settings
- Functional – Always active
- Statistics – On/off
- Marketing – On/off (controls Instagram embedded content)
8. Enabling/disabling and deleting cookies
You can use your internet browser to automatically or manually delete cookies. You can also specify that certain cookies may not be placed. For more information, please refer to the instructions in the Help section of your browser.
Please note that our website may not work properly if all cookies are disabled. If you delete cookies in your browser, they will be placed again after your consent when you visit our website again.
To opt out of Google Analytics specifically, you can use Google’s opt-out tool at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
9. Your rights with respect to personal data
You have the following rights with respect to your personal data:
- You have the right to know why your personal data is needed, what will happen to it, and how long it will be retained for.
- Right of access: You have the right to access your personal data that is known to us.
- Right to rectification: You have the right to supplement, correct, have deleted or blocked your personal data whenever you wish.
- If you give us your consent to process your data, you have the right to revoke that consent and to have your personal data deleted.
- Right to transfer your data: You have the right to request all your personal data from the controller and transfer it in its entirety to another controller.
- Right to object: You may object to the processing of your data. We comply with this, unless there are justified grounds for processing.
We do not sell, rent, or share your personal data with third parties for marketing purposes.
To exercise these rights, please contact us using the details below. If you have a complaint about how we handle your data, we would like to hear from you, but you also have the right to submit a complaint to the supervisory authority, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) at ico.org.uk.
10. Contact details
Lakeside Ventures Ltd, trading as West Country Water Park
Registered in England and Wales. Company Registration Number: 13743205
VAT Registration Number: 410 8933 09
Registered address: Trench Lane, Frampton Cotterell, BS36 1RY, United Kingdom
Website: https://westcountrywaterpark.co.uk
Email: hello@westcountrywaterpark.co.uk
This Cookie Policy was last reviewed on 17 April 2026.
