What this site stores
in your browser

Effective [EFFECTIVE DATE]. This is the version of the notice currently in force.

What cookies are

A cookie is a small file a website asks your browser to keep, so that your next request can be recognised as coming from you. Local storage and session storage do much the same job by other means, and this notice treats all of them the same way.

What this site actually sets

Nothing, on an ordinary visit. Every published page was checked - the home page, About, Partners, Portfolio, Tournaments, the press kit, Contact, News, the tournament info page, the Accademy and these three legal pages, along with every article and every category page - and not one of them sets a cookie.

There is no analytics on this site. No advertising, no tracking pixel, no social widget, no preference cookie, and no consent banner, because there is nothing to consent to. Fonts and images are served from this site rather than from anybody else’s network, and the contact form remembers that you have already sent something using a one-time key in the web address rather than a cookie.

There are two exceptions, and they are the only two:

• Signing in. If you are one of the few people who administers this site, WordPress sets session and security cookies when you sign in. They are strictly necessary, they exist only for signed-in staff, and an ordinary visitor never receives one.
• Pressing play on a video. Nothing is set until you do, and then it is YouTube rather than us. See below.

Cookies other people set

The videos on this site are click-to-load. What you see before you press play is a still image stored here, so YouTube is not contacted at all and can set nothing. When you press play we load the player from youtube-nocookie.com, YouTube’s reduced-tracking domain, which does not set its advertising cookies - but YouTube does receive the request and may store what it needs in order to play the video. From that point YouTube’s own privacy policy applies to what happens.

Everything else that belongs to somebody else is a plain link, not an embed: Discord, Instagram, Twitch, YouTube, X, start.gg and the news sites we link to. No widget, no iframe, no pixel. Nothing is set until you choose to go there, and then you are on their site under their rules.

Bracket and standings data does come from start.gg, but this site’s server fetches it on a schedule and stores the result. Your browser never talks to start.gg, so start.gg learns nothing about your visit.

Controlling cookies

Since the site sets nothing on an ordinary visit, there is nothing here to switch off. For the two exceptions:

• Every browser can block or delete cookies for a particular site, usually under Privacy in its settings. Blocking cookies for this site stops staff from signing in and changes nothing at all for a visitor.
• Don’t press play, and YouTube receives nothing. If you have already played something and want it cleared, delete cookies for youtube-nocookie.com and youtube.com in your browser.

Nothing on this site stops working if you block cookies, because it was not relying on any.

Consent

South African law has no separate cookie rule of the kind the European Union has. POPIA applies to a cookie where that cookie processes personal information, and the only cookies this site sets are the strictly necessary ones that give a signed-in administrator the session they asked for.

So there is no consent banner, and that is a decision rather than an oversight. We would rather not set the cookies than ask you to agree to them.

If we ever add analytics, or anything else that observes visitors, we will ask before it runs and this notice will be updated first. The privacy notice covers everything else the site does with information about you.