Last updated: July 15, 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how VolleyCommunity uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit https://volleycommunity.com/. It should be read together with our Privacy Policy, which explains more broadly how information may be collected, used and shared.
In this policy, “VolleyCommunity,” “we,” “us” and “our” refer to the VolleyCommunity website and its operator. Cookies used on the website may be set by VolleyCommunity or by third-party service providers that support analytics, website performance, security or advertising.
What Are Cookies and Similar Technologies?
Cookies are small text files stored on your browser or device when you visit a website. They can help a website function, remember settings, measure usage and support advertising. Some cookies last only for the current browsing session, while others remain until they expire or are deleted.
We may also use related technologies, including pixels, tags, web beacons, local storage and device or browser identifiers. In this policy, references to “cookies” include these similar technologies where appropriate.
How We Use Cookies
VolleyCommunity and its service providers may use cookies to:
- operate, secure and maintain the website;
- remember choices and support basic website functionality;
- understand how visitors find and use articles and pages;
- measure traffic, engagement, referrals and website performance;
- identify navigation or usability problems;
- deliver, limit, measure or personalise advertising where permitted;
- detect invalid traffic, fraud, spam, abuse or technical problems.
Categories of Cookies We May Use
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies support functions required for the website to operate securely and reliably. They may be used for security, load balancing, content delivery, administrator sessions, consent preferences or other core functions. Because they are necessary for the requested service, they may not be subject to the same consent choices as non-essential cookies, depending on applicable law.
Analytics and Performance Cookies
These cookies help us understand website traffic and visitor interaction. They may record information such as page views, referral sources, device category, browser type, approximate location, clicks, scrolling and time spent on pages. We use this information to improve content, navigation and performance.
Functionality Cookies
Functionality cookies may remember preferences or settings that make the website easier to use. VolleyCommunity currently offers limited personalised functionality, so the use of this category may be minimal.
Advertising Cookies
When advertising is displayed, advertising providers may use cookies and similar technologies to select and deliver ads, limit repeated ads, measure campaign performance, detect invalid activity and provide personalised advertising where you have consented and where permitted by law. Non-personalised or contextual ads may also use cookies for functions such as frequency capping, aggregated reporting and fraud prevention.
Services That May Use Cookies
Cookie names, purposes and retention periods can change as providers update their services. The examples below are intended to help explain the main technologies currently used or planned for VolleyCommunity.
WordPress and Website Infrastructure
VolleyCommunity is built with WordPress and uses hosting, caching, security and content-delivery services. These services may set necessary or technical cookies for administrators, security, performance, consent storage or other core website functions. Ordinary visitors may not receive every cookie associated with WordPress administration.
Google Analytics 4
We use Google Analytics 4 to measure traffic and content performance. Google Analytics may use first-party cookies such as _ga and _ga_<measurement-id> to distinguish browsers or sessions and create aggregated reports. When analytics storage is denied through an applicable consent mechanism, Analytics may adjust its behaviour and may not store these identifiers.
Learn more in Google’s information about cookies and Google Analytics.
Microsoft Clarity
We use Microsoft Clarity to understand how visitors interact with pages through aggregated heatmaps and session-replay style visualisations. Clarity may use cookies such as _clck and _clsk, together with related Microsoft identifiers, to connect page activity with a browsing session and produce usage insights. The exact cookies used may depend on browser, region, consent status and Microsoft service configuration.
Learn more in the Microsoft Clarity cookie documentation and the Microsoft Privacy Statement.
Google AdSense and Advertising Partners
VolleyCommunity may display advertising provided by Google AdSense and authorised advertising partners. Google and third-party vendors may place or read first-party or third-party cookies, use web beacons or process IP addresses and similar information as a result of ad serving on the website.
Google’s use of advertising cookies can enable Google and its partners to serve ads based on a visitor’s activity on VolleyCommunity or other websites, subject to consent and applicable law. Advertising providers may also use cookies for ad measurement, frequency limits, aggregated reporting, security and invalid-traffic detection.
You can review how Google uses cookies in advertising and manage eligible advertising preferences through Google Ads Settings.
Consent and Your Choices
Where required by applicable law, VolleyCommunity requests consent before non-essential analytics or advertising cookies are stored or accessed. The consent interface may allow you to accept all, reject non-essential technologies or manage choices by purpose and provider. You may withdraw or change consent through the available cookie settings without affecting processing that was lawful before the change.
For users in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, advertising consent may be managed through a Google-certified consent management platform when Google advertising services are enabled.
You can also control cookies through your browser. Most browsers allow you to view, block or delete cookies and to limit how websites store data. Blocking certain cookies may affect website functionality, analytics accuracy or the availability of personalised advertising. Browser settings differ, so consult your browser’s help documentation for instructions.
Cookie Duration
Session cookies generally expire when you close your browser. Persistent cookies remain for a defined period or until you delete them. Retention periods depend on the cookie’s purpose, provider settings, consent status and service configuration. Third-party providers control the retention of cookies they set, subject to their own documentation and legal obligations.
Third-Party Websites
VolleyCommunity articles may link to official tournament websites, federations, media publications, social networks and other external services. Those websites may use their own cookies when you visit them. We do not control their cookie practices, and this Cookie Policy does not apply to external websites.
Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy when website features, service providers, advertising arrangements, legal requirements or cookie practices change. The revised version will be posted on this page with an updated “Last updated” date.
Contact Us
For questions about cookies or privacy choices, contact:
VolleyCommunity
Email: volleycommunity.team@gmail.com
Website: https://volleycommunity.com/
Contact page: https://volleycommunity.com/contact/