Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can.
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites.
If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this on the About Cookies website which offers guidance.
We use cookies to make our website work including:
Remembering if you have accepted our terms and conditions
For Stripe purchases through the website i.e. class and event payments. This service is provided by stripe.com which allows transactions without storing credit card information.
Our site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded YouTube video. Our site includes the following which use cookies. Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties:
Social Website Cookies – So you can easily “Like” or message us on the likes of Facebook and Twitter we have included options on our site.
The privacy implications on this will vary from social network to social network and will be dependent on the privacy settings you have chosen on these networks.
We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so called “analytics” programs also tell us if , on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to put more money into developing our services for you instead of marketing spend.
We use: Google Analytics
| Cookie | Provider | Purpose | Expiry |
|---|---|---|---|
| __stripe_mid/ | checkout.stripe.com | This cookie is necessary for making credit card transactions on the website. The service is provided by Strip e.com which allows online transactions without storing any credit card information. | 1 year |
| __stripe_sid | checkout.stripe.com | This cookie is necessary for making credit card transactions on the website. The service is provided by Stripe.com which allows online transactions without storing any credit card information. | 1 day |
| ab_disable_remember_me | checkout.stripe.com | This cookie is used to store customer credentials securely when processing a purchase on the website – th e cookie is essential in making a secure online transaction.. | 1 day |
cid | checkout.stripe.com | This cookie is necessary for making credit card transactions on the website. The service is provided by Stripe.com which allows online transactions without storing any credit card information. | 95765 months |
| m | m.stripe.com | Determines the device used to access the website. This allows the website to be formatted accordingly. | 10 years |
| __widgetsettings | twitter.com | Used by Twitter. | Persistent |
| local_storage_support_test | twitter.com | The cookie is used in context with the local-storage function in the browser. This function allows the website to load faster by pre-loading certain procedures. | Persistent |
| checkout-live-session | checkout.stripe.com | Used by Stripe.com. | 10 years |
| lsid | abelkarate.com | This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. | Persistent |
| simpay_wp_session | abelkarate.com | Unclassified | 1 day |