Cookie Policy

Our website www.hubeastcentralscotland.co.uk uses cookies for various purposes as detailed below.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that is stored on your browser or the hard drive of your device.

We use the following types of cookies:

Issued on 17/03/2025 and supersedes all previous versions.

Cookie Type 

Description  

Necessary  

 These are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. The website cannot function without these cookies.

Functionality  

 These are used to allow certain functions to be carried out on the website such as our chat box service or to recognise you when you return to our website. These are optional but we recommend that these cookies are allowed to be able to use the features on the website.   This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).

Analytical  

 These are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. These are anonymised before collection and are not accessible in the reporting of the website.

Performance

 Performance cookies are used to understand and analyse the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors.

Third Party 

 These cookies are used by third parties on our website to provide specific functions, for example displaying and playing video content. 

Other Cookies 

 These are other uncategorised cookies are those that are being analysed and have not been classified into a category as yet.

Under the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003, we can store Necessary cookies on your device without your consent. For all other types of cookies, we require your permission.

Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies. Learn more about who we are, how you can contact us and how we process personal data in our Privacy Policy: www.hubeastcentralscotland.co.uk/privacy

You can find our more information about individual cookies we use and the purpose for which we use them in the table below. 

Cookie  Name 

Cookie Type 

Purpose  

Expiry Period 

Has_js

Necessary  

 Registers whether or not the user has activated JavaScript in their web browser. Session  

CookieControl

Necessary  

 Enables use of the cookie acceptance pop up on the website and settings to be remembered. 3 months 

_ga

Analytic  

 Used to distinguish users. 2 years 

_ga_<container-id>          

Analytic  

 Used to persist session state. 2 years

player_clearance

Third Party / Functionality

 Vimeo cookie used for bot prevention 7 days

cf_clearance

Third Party / Functionality

 Cloudflare cookie used for bot prevention. 1 year

_cf_bm

Third Party / Functionality

 Cloudflare bot manager, manages incoming traffic that matches criteria associated with bots. 30 minutes

_cfuvid

Third Party / Functionality

 Cloudflare cookie used to enforce rate limiting rules. session

vuid

Third Party / Functionality

 See ‘vuid’ purpose. See ‘vuid’ duration.

Third Parties 

Please note that the following third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These named third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like video content and web traffic analysis services. These third-party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies or targeting cookies:

  • Google Analytics

  • Vimeo

  • Cookie Control

Please note Vimeo sets third-party cookies which are deemed essential for the videos to operate. A DNT (do not track) parameter has been implemented so that no third-party analytics or advertising cookies are used by Vimeo. However, we cannot control the cookies that are used by Vimeo when a user is logged into the service. This sits with the user’s acceptance of Vimeo’s cookie and privacy policies. If you are a registered Vimeo member, you can also manage the cookies you use in the Vimeo settings. 

For further information please see Vimeo’s cookie policy: https://vimeo.com/cookie_policy.

Changing cookie settings

You can at any time change or withdraw your consent for all non-Necessary Cookies. To do this please contact us at mail@hubeastcentralscotland.co.uk

To deactivate the use of third party advertising cookies, you may visit the consumer page to manage the use of these types of cookies. To prevent Google Analytics tracking in your browser, you may use the Google Analytic Opt-Out Browser Add: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. 

Please note that if you block cookies, you may not be able to use all the features on our website. This may also “break” certain elements of our website and prevent them from functioning correctly for you only.

Updates to this Notice

We reserve the right to amend this Cookie Notice at any time. Any changes to this Cookie Notice will be contained here. Please refer to this page regularly to keep up to date. This Cookie Policy was last updated 17/03/2025 and supersedes all previous versions.