Cookie Policy
Five Churches Festival
Website: https://www.fivechurchesfestival.com
Festival area: Glaven Valley, North Norfolk Coast
Churches: Blakeney, Cley, Glandford, Letheringsett and Wiveton
This Cookie Policy explains how Five Churches Festival uses cookies and similar technologies on this website.
This website provides information about Five Churches Festival, its events, venues, performers, Friends membership, ticket booking, contact options, social media links and festival updates.
By using this website, cookies and similar technologies may be placed on your device. Some cookies are necessary for the website to function properly, while others may help improve website performance, security, analytics, booking, checkout, communication and user experience.
What cookies are
Cookies are small text files placed on your computer, phone, tablet or other device when you visit a website. Cookies help a website recognise your device, remember certain information, keep the website secure, support forms and checkout features, improve performance, and understand how visitors use the site.
Cookies may be temporary, meaning they are deleted when you close your browser, or persistent, meaning they remain on your device for a set period of time unless you delete them earlier.
How this website uses cookies
Five Churches Festival may use cookies to ensure the website works correctly, keep the website secure, remember cookie preferences, support contact forms, support the chat box, enable Friends membership forms, assist with checkout and payment processes, manage coupon codes or membership-related functions, monitor website performance, understand visitor behaviour, and improve the website.
The website includes a contact form asking for first name, last name, email address and message details, and it also invites visitors to use a chat box. The Friends membership page includes a membership form asking for personal and address details, membership choice, consent to be added to the festival database and shared with the box office contractor, and a checkout/payment step.
Types of cookies we may use
Essential cookie Essential cookies are required for the website to work properly. These cookies may support page loading, website security, session management, form submissions, checkout processes, fraud prevention, accessibility features, cookie preference settings and other core website functions - These cookies cannot usually be switched off through the website because they are necessary for the site to operate.
Performance and analytics cookies
Performance and analytics cookies may help Five Churches Festival understand how visitors use the website. For example, they may show which pages are visited, how long visitors stay on the site, which devices or browsers are used, whether users experience errors, and how people move around the website.
This information helps the festival improve the website, understand visitor interest, identify technical issues and improve the user experience.
Functionality cookies
Functionality cookies may allow the website to remember choices you make, such as cookie preferences, form progress, display settings, chat interactions or other website preferences.
These cookies help provide a smoother and more convenient website experience.
Booking, checkout and membership cookies
Cookies may be used to support Friends membership applications, checkout, payment processes, ticket-related functions, coupon codes, booking confirmations and related website features.
For example, the Friends membership page explains that once payment is made, the user receives an email containing a coupon code allowing them to select their free ticket or tickets. Cookies may be used to support this type of website, checkout or membership functionality.
Marketing cookies
Marketing cookies may be used where marketing, advertising, tracking pixels, social media tools, remarketing tools or similar features are enabled.
These cookies may help measure the effectiveness of promotional activity, understand how visitors reached the website, or support more relevant festival communication and online promotion.
Five Churches Festival should only use non-essential marketing cookies where legally permitted and, where required, with visitor consent.
Wix cookies
This website is built on Wix. Wix may use cookies and similar technologies to host the website, deliver pages, protect the website, prevent fraud, support forms, enable checkout, provide analytics, maintain security, support chat features and operate other website functions.
Some Wix cookies are essential for the website to function. Other Wix-related cookies may be used for analytics, performance, marketing or user experience, depending on the settings enabled on the website.
Third-party cookies
Some cookies may be placed by third-party services connected to the website. These may include Wix, payment providers, checkout providers, box office systems, analytics tools, email systems, chat tools, social media platforms, embedded content providers or other services used to operate the website and festival functions.
The website includes Instagram and Facebook links. If you click those links or interact with content connected to social media platforms, those platforms may place cookies or process information according to their own privacy and cookie policies.
Five Churches Festival does not control all third-party cookies. Third-party providers may process data in accordance with their own privacy and cookie policies.
Consent
Where required by law, visitors will be asked to consent before non-essential cookies are placed on their device.
Essential cookies may be used without consent because they are necessary for the website to work.
You can change or withdraw your cookie consent at any time where the website provides cookie settings or a cookie banner. You can also manage cookies through your browser settings.
Managing cookies
You can control cookies through your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to block cookies, delete cookies, receive warnings before cookies are stored, or manage cookies on a site-by-site basis.
If you block or delete cookies, some parts of the website may not work correctly. This may affect forms, chat features, checkout, payment functions, membership forms, cookie preferences, security features or other website services.
Personal information and cookies
Some cookies may collect information that could be treated as personal data, such as IP address, device information, browser details, approximate location, usage activity or online identifiers.
Where cookies involve personal information, that information will be handled in accordance with the Five Churches Festival Privacy Policy.
Children and family events
Five Churches Festival may include family events or events suitable for children. Cookies used on the website are intended to support website functionality, security, booking, analytics and user experience. The website should not intentionally use cookies to collect unnecessary personal information from children.
Where a child uses the website, a parent, guardian or responsible adult should manage cookie settings and online privacy choices where appropriate.
Updates to this Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy may be updated from time to time to reflect changes to the website, Wix settings, ticketing systems, checkout tools, membership forms, analytics, marketing features, legal requirements or festival operations.
The latest version will apply from the date it is published on the website.
Contact details
If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy or how cookies are used on this website, please contact Five Churches Festival using the contact options provided on the website.
The website contact page allows visitors to submit a contact form or use the chat box.
Last updated: 11 June 2026