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Cookie and browser-storage policy

This policy explains how the Kiwi Football Clubhouse website uses browser storage. Kiwi Football Clubhouse is a welcoming place for football fans across New Zealand. The clubhouse operates from 113 Fitzgerald Avenue, Christchurch Central City, Christchurch 8011, New Zealand, and can be reached at [email protected] or +6433667370. The website is an information and enquiry channel for the clubhouse, fan passes and first-visit requests. It is not a payment portal and it is not an advertising network. The site uses one essential browser-storage preference and does not add analytics or advertising cookies in this build.

What this policy covers

A cookie or similar browser store is a small piece of information kept on your device so a website can remember a choice. Some sites use many cookies to measure traffic, personalise ads or follow visitors across other pages. Kiwi Football Clubhouse does not do that on this website. The only stored preference described here is the choice that hides the cookie notice after you accept it. That preference is essential to the notice itself. Without it, the notice would appear again on every page view, including the clubhouse page, the fan-pass page and the first-visit form.

This policy does not cover cookies set by your own browser or extensions, and it does not cover paper records created later at the Christchurch desk after a guest joins a fan pass. Photographs on the site illustrate typical match-day gatherings and do not store a visitor identity.

Storage used

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Stores your cookie-notice choice so the notice does not appear on every page view at Kiwi Football Clubhouse.

The stored value is a simple accepted state. It does not contain your name, email, phone number, suburb, fan-pass interest or the text of a first-visit request. Those details, if you submit a form, are sent to the operator and handled under the privacy policy. The browser preference only remembers that you have already seen and accepted the notice. It is kept in local browser storage on the device you used. It is not used to identify you across other websites and it is not shared with advertisers. Visit preferences such as live screens, fan talks or local sides belong in a first-visit form, not in this storage key.

If local storage is blocked by your browser settings, the notice may appear again. That is expected. The site can still be read and the forms can still be used. Blocking this preference does not prevent you from booking a first visit, comparing Flex pass, Season pass or Match reserve, or contacting the clubhouse through the published telephone and email details.

Why an essential preference is used

A notice that returns on every click makes the clubhouse, match days and enquiry forms harder to use. The essential preference exists so that one acceptance is enough for later page views on the same browser. The preference is not used to measure visits or to score member ratings such as 4.7 from 186 members or a match-day welcome of 4.8. Those decisions happen after a human reads a form.

Analytics and advertising cookies

No analytics or advertising cookies are included in this build. The site does not embed third-party advertising tags, social pixels or cross-site trackers. If tracking tools are added later, this policy must describe the provider, purpose and available controls before publication. Until that happens, visitors should treat the website as a local information service for the Christchurch clubhouse, not as a marketing platform. Pass prices, when confirmed, are arranged with the desk after a visit and are not processed through advertising cookies.

If a future update introduces a measurement tool, Kiwi Football Clubhouse will name the tool and explain how a visitor can refuse a non-essential cookie. No such tool is active in the current website. Match-day stories on the content pages are not tracked through this storage key.

Forms and this storage

Submitting a first-visit or general enquiry form is separate from the cookie notice. The form sends the fields you type so the desk can reply. That transmission is a request, not a cookie. Consent on the form covers storage of the request for reply and abuse-prevention purposes. Accepting the cookie notice does not enrol you in a fan pass and does not share your enquiry with other guests. Likewise, sending a form does not create extra advertising cookies.

Browser controls

You can clear local browser storage through your browser settings. Clearing the saved choice may cause the notice to appear again the next time you open a page. You can also use private or guest browsing, which often starts without the saved preference. Those controls belong to your browser. Kiwi Football Clubhouse cannot remotely delete storage from a device it does not operate. If you use more than one phone, tablet or computer, each device keeps its own copy of the preference.

Clearing storage does not delete a request that you already sent to the clubhouse. If you want a submitted enquiry removed, use the privacy policy process and write to [email protected] or call +6433667370, including the email address used on the original form. The desk will search the stored requests and handle deletion as described in that policy.

Children and shared devices

Younger guests may visit the website with a parent or carer. The cookie notice preference is a device setting, not a junior profile. First-visit requests for younger guests should still be submitted by an adult using an adult email and telephone number.

Changes to this policy

Kiwi Football Clubhouse may update this policy if the notice or the website tools change. The current text will appear on this page. If a new non-essential cookie is ever introduced, the operator will describe it here before that cookie is used on the live site. The storage key remains vanta_fit_cookie_notice_v2.

Questions

For browser-storage questions, contact Kiwi Football Clubhouse by email at [email protected] or by telephone on +6433667370. The postal and clubhouse address is 113 Fitzgerald Avenue, Christchurch Central City, Christchurch 8011, New Zealand. The desk reviews these questions during ordinary opening hours and can explain, in plain language, that the current website stores only the essential notice preference described above.