How HFlash uses cookies
A cookie is a small text file that a website asks your browser to store. Cookies let a site remember things between page views, such as whether you have already dismissed a banner. This page lists the categories of cookie used on hflash.co.uk, explains what each one does, and shows you how to control them. It sits alongside our privacy policy, which covers personal data more broadly.
Strictly necessary cookies
These make the site work and cannot be switched off. They remember your cookie consent choices, keep security features functioning, balance traffic across our servers and allow logged in contributors to reach the publishing system. They hold no advertising information and are not used to build a profile of you.
Analytics cookies
Analytics cookies tell us how many people read an article, which pages they arrived from, how long they stayed and whether anything on the page failed. We look at this in aggregate to decide what journalism to commission and to find technical faults. These cookies are set only if you consent, and refusing them does not change what you can read.
Advertising cookies
Display advertising funds our journalism. If you consent, our advertising partners may set cookies that limit how often you see the same advertisement, measure whether a campaign worked, and in some cases select advertisements based on the kinds of pages you have viewed. If you refuse them you will still see advertising, but it will be untargeted.
Embedded content
Some articles include material hosted elsewhere, such as a video player, a social media post, a map or a podcast. When you load a page containing an embed, the provider may set its own cookies and can see that you viewed that page. These providers publish their own privacy and cookie policies, which govern what they do with that information.
Managing your choices
You can accept or refuse non essential cookies when you first visit and change your decision at any time through the cookie settings link in our footer. Every major browser also lets you block cookies, delete existing ones, or open a private window that discards them when it closes. Blocking all cookies will break parts of this and most other websites.
How long cookies last
Session cookies are deleted when you close your browser. Persistent cookies remain for a set period, typically from a few days for consent records up to around two years for analytics identifiers, unless you delete them sooner.
Do Not Track
Browsers send a Do Not Track signal inconsistently and there is no agreed standard for honouring it, so we rely on the consent choice you make on this site rather than on that signal. Questions about anything on this page can be sent through our contact page.