Cookie Policy

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

This cookie is used to determine if the visitor has accepted the cookie consent box.

Expiry: 1 year

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

Expiry: Persistent

Remembers the user's selected language version of a website

Expiry: Session

Google Analytics Tracking Code that logs details about the visitor's brow ser and computer

Expiry: Session

Collects data on the number of times a user has visited the website as well as dates for the first and most recent visit. Used by Google Analytics.

Expiry: 2 years

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.

Expiry: 1 day

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.

Expiry: Session

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

Expiry: 6 months

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.

Expiry: 1 year

Used by Piwik Analytics Platform to track page requests from the visitor during the session

Expiry: 1 day

Used by twitter

Expiry: Persistent

Used by twitter

Expiry: Session

Used by Piwik Analytics Platform to track page requests from the visitor during the session

Expiry: Session