Some of what we store is needed to run the site. The rest is about measuring our advertising and seeing which pages actually help — and that part is yours to switch off, here, whenever you like.
Your choices
Changes take effect immediately, and apply to the ticket shop at tickets.medievalfair.co.za as well. Turning off advertising also deletes the identifiers Meta has already stored on this device.
Strictly necessary
Keeps the site working and remembers the choice you make here. There is nothing to switch off — none of it is used to track or advertise to you.
Advertising
Lets Meta (Facebook and Instagram) recognise that you visited, so we can show the fair to people like you and stop paying to advertise to those who already have tickets. Sets the _fbp and _fbc cookies.
Sharing purchase data
If you go on to buy a ticket, sends your email address and phone number to Meta in scrambled (hashed) form so a sale can be matched to the advert that led to it. Never in readable form, and never sold to anyone.
Improving the site
Google Analytics, which counts which pages people read and where they drop off, so we can fix what isn't working. It reports visits in aggregate, not who you are. Sets the _ga cookies.
Strictly necessary
This cannot be turned off — it is how we remember that you asked us not to track you. It is not used for advertising.
Name
Set by
What it does
Kept for
mf_consent
This site
Remembers the choices you make on this page. Stored for medievalfair.co.za as a whole, so you are asked once rather than again at the ticket shop.
6 months
Advertising — optional
Set only while advertising is switched on above.
Name
Set by
What it does
Kept for
_fbp
Meta
Identifies your browser to Meta so we can measure whether an advert led to a ticket sale, and avoid paying to advertise to people who already bought.
90 days
_fbc
Meta
Records which advert you clicked to arrive here.
90 days
Improving the site — optional
Set only while “improving the site” is switched on above. These tell us how many people read a page and where they lost interest, not who you are.
Name
Set by
What it does
Kept for
_ga
Google
Tells one returning visitor apart from another so visit counts are not wildly overstated. Shared with the ticket shop, so moving between the two counts as one visit.
2 years
_ga_VP1J9XKW66
Google
Keeps track of your current visit.
2 years
Other ways to control this
Every major browser can block or delete cookies in its settings, and that overrides anything set here. You can also change what Meta shows you from your Facebook or Instagram ad preferences, and opt out of Google Analytics entirely with Google's browser add-on.
Last updated August 2026. If you want to know what we hold about you, or want it deleted, contact us and we will sort it out.