Our online auction of breeding rights and nominations

Godolphin operates a number of websites. Our websites use cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. For more information about how we use your data please visit the relevant website’s Privacy Policy. All of these sites use cookies.

This policy applies to the following websites, all of which are operated or controlled by Godolphin entities:

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information which is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.

We use the following cookies:

  • Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
  • Analytical / performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
  • Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences including your language preferences.
  • Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, this includes the pages you have visited and the links that you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed to you personalised to the content that may interest you. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.

You may disable the use of cookies by activating the setting on your internet browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. Please note, if you change your settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all (or parts) of a site and our site may not function properly.

Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire within the time periods set out in the table below, the browser will not send that particular cookie to the server with the page request, however, this will also depend on the specific browser and the user’s personal settings.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Type Provider Name Purpose Expiry
Strictly necessary Cookiebot CookieConsent Stores the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain. 1 year
Google test–cookie Used to check if the user’s browser supports cookies. 1 day
_GRECAPTCHA This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website. 179 days
rc::a This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. Persistent
rc::b This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. Session
rc::c This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. Session
LinkedIn li_gc Stores the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain. 2 years
equineline.com incap_ses_# Preserves users states across page requests. Session
visid_incap_# Preserves users states across page requests. 1 year
nlbi_# Used to ensure website security and fraud detection. Session
play.google.com CONSENT Used to detect if the visitor has accepted the marketing category in the cookie banner. This cookie is necessary for GDPR-compliance of the website. 2 years
youtube.com CONSENT Used to detect if the visitor has accepted the marketing category in the cookie banner. This cookie is necessary for GDPR-compliance of the website. 2 years
darleyeurope.com _grecaptcha This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website. 2 years
csrf_token Ensures visitor browsing-security by preventing cross-site request forgery. This cookie is essential for the security of the website and visitor. Session
darleywinningbid.com elementor Used in context with the website’s WordPress theme. The cookie allows the website owner to implement or change the website’s content in real-time. Persistent
wpEmojiSettingsSupports Unclassified. Session
Bidlogix JSESSIONID Preserves users states across page requests. Session
Functionality LinkedIn lang [x2] Remembers the user’s selected language version of a website. Session
Bidlogix switch-SitePref Unclassified. 1 year
Analytical / performance Google _dc_gtm_UA-# Used by Google Tag Manager to control the loading of a Google Analytics script tag. 1 day
_ga Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. 2 years
_ga_# Used by Google Analytics to collect data on the number of times a user has visited the website as well as dates for the first and most recent visit. 2 years
_gat Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate. 1 day
_gid Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. 1 day
collect Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor’s device and behaviour. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels. Session
LinkedIn AnalyticsSyncHistory Used in connection with data-synchronization with third-party analysis service. 29 days
Twitter personalization_id This cookie is set by Twitter – The cookie allows the visitor to share content from the website onto their Twitter profile. 2 years
Bidlogix sentryReplaySession Registers data on visitors’ website-behaviour. This is used for internal analysis and website optimization. Session
Targeting Meta Platforms, Inc _fbp Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. 3 months
fr Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. 3 months
tr Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. Session
Google _gcl_au Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services. 3 months
IDE Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user’s actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser’s ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user. 1 year
pagead/landing [x2] Collects data on visitor behaviour from multiple websites, in order to present more relevant advertisement – This also allows the website to limit the number of times that they are shown the same advertisement. Session
pagead/1p-user-list/# Tracks if the user has shown interest in specific products or events across multiple websites and detects how the user navigates between sites. This is used for measurement of advertisement efforts and facilitates payment of referral-fees between websites. Session
ads/ga-audiences Used by Google AdWords to re-engage visitors that are likely to convert to customers based on the visitor’s online behaviour across websites. Session
LinkedIn bcookie Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services. 2 years
bscookie Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services. 2 years
lidc Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services. 1 day
UserMatchHistory Ensures visitor browsing-security by preventing cross-site request forgery. This cookie is essential for the security of the website and visitor. 29 days
Twitter Inc i/adsct [x2] The cookie is used by Twitter.com in order to determine the number of visitors accessing the website through Twitter advertisement content. Session
muc_ads Collects data on user behaviour and interaction in order to optimize the website and make advertisement on the website more relevant. 2 years
YouTube VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE Tries to estimate the users’ bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. 179 days
YSC Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. Session
ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video Persistant
yt-remote-cast-available Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video Session
yt-remote-cast-installed Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video Session
yt-remote-connected-devices Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video Persistent
yt-remote-device-id Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video Persistent
yt-remote-fast-check-period Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video Session
yt-remote-session-app Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video Session
yt-remote-session-name Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video Session
equineline.com ___utmvc# Collects information on visitor behaviour on multiple websites. This information is used on the website, in order to optimize the relevance of advertisement. Session
Unclassified equineline.com nlbi_2435080_2147483392 Pending – no info supplied Session
x-d-token Pending – no info supplied 29 days

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