Cookie Privacy Policy

This site does not use cookies. Nothing is stored on your device when you visit sportsmedicalcertificate.co.uk, and nothing is read back from it. That includes analytics, advertising and cross-site tracking cookies.

Last updated: 19 August 2026

Why there is no cookie banner

Regulation 6 of the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 was replaced on 5 February 2026 by the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025. Regulation 6(1) now says that a person must not store information, or gain access to information stored, in the terminal equipment of a subscriber or user, subject to Schedule A1. Schedule A1 sets out the gateways that make storage or access lawful, and consent is one of them.

This site sets no cookies and stores no identifier on your device, so we do not need to rely on a consent gateway for storage, and no consent banner is shown. Regulation 6(2)(b) also treats collecting or monitoring information automatically emitted by your device as gaining access to it, so we keep analytics to the minimum described below, we build no profile, and we honour a do not track setting. The Information Commissioner's Office has said its guidance in this area is under review following the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025, and this page will be updated as that guidance is published.

This is a deliberate choice rather than an oversight. Measuring visits without cookies means we collect less about you, and it means every visitor is treated the same way instead of the site behaving differently depending on what was clicked on a banner.

How visits are measured

The site uses Clicky, a web analytics service operated by Roxr Software Ltd, configured so that it sets no cookies and creates no identifier on your device. Clicky records the following when a page is opened:

• the page visited and the time of the visit
• the website or search engine you arrived from, where your browser sends it
• an approximate location, derived from your IP address at country or city level
• the type of browser, operating system and device

Because no identifier is stored, visits cannot be linked together. Repeat visits from the same person are counted as separate visits, and there is no profile of you built over time.

What is not collected

• No advertising or cross-site tracking of any kind
• No marketing profile, and no data sold or shared with advertisers
• No health information. Nothing you enter into a consultation form is used for analytics

Applying for a certificate

Applications are completed on medicalcert.co.uk, which is a separate website operated by MedicalCert. That site sets its own cookies and publishes its own cookie and privacy notices. This policy covers sportsmedicalcertificate.co.uk only.

Blocking analytics anyway

You can stop the analytics script loading even though it sets no cookies. Enabling a do not track setting in your browser is honoured by Clicky, and any browser extension that blocks analytics scripts will also prevent it. Blocking it does not affect your ability to read the site or to apply for a certificate.

Checking this for yourself

You do not have to take our word for it. Open your browser's developer tools, look under storage or application, and you will see no cookies listed for this domain.

More information

How we handle personal data more generally is covered in our privacy policy. Guidance on cookies for the public is published by the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.