How HBF uses cookies on its websites
Cookies are small text files that can be used by web sites to make a user's experience more efficient.
The law states that we can store cookies on your machine if they are essential to the operation of this site but that for all others we need your permission to do so.
hbf.co.uk does use some non-essential cookies. We do not do this to track individual users or to identify them, but to gain useful knowledge about how the site is used so that we can keep improving it for our users. Without the knowledge we gain from the systems that use these cookies we would not be able to provide the service we do.
This site uses different types of cookies.
Cookies used on the HBF website
Here is a list of the cookies we use and why, some may collect personal data.
| Name of Cookie | Why we use it | Expiry | |
|---|---|---|---|
| cb-enabled | This cookie is used to determine if the visitor has accepted the cookie consent box. | 1 year | |
| local_storage_support_test | 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 | |
| lang | Remembers the user's selected language version of a website | Session | |
| utm.gif | Google Analytics Tracking Code that logs details about the visitor's brow ser and computer | Session | |
| utma | Collects data on the number of times a user has visited the w ebsite as w ell as dates for the first and most recent visit. Used by Google Analytics. | 2 years | |
| utmb | Registers a timestamp with the exact time of when the user accessed the website. Used by Google Analytics to calculate the duration of a website visit. | 1 day | |
| utmc | Registers a timestamp with the exact time of when the user leaves the website. Used by Google Analytics to calculate the duration of a website visit. | Session | |
| utmt | Used to throttle the speed of requests to the server. | 1 day | |
| utmz | Collects data on where the user came from, what search engine was used, what link was clicked and what search term was used. Used by Google Analytics | 6 months | |
| _pk_id# | Collects statistics on the user's visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on th e website and what pages have been read. | 1 year | |
| _pk_ses# | Used by Piwik Analytics Platform to track page requests from the visitor during the session | 1 day | |
| widgetsettings | Used by twitter | Persistent | |
| i/jot/syndication | Used by twitter | Session | |
| pwk/p.php | Used by Piwik Analytics Platform to track page requests from the visitor during the session | Session |
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