This is the Cookie Policy for the Hilda Lane Community Association website (the HLCA website), accessible from https://hlca.org.uk/. (See also our Privacy Policy)

What Are Cookies

Cookies are small text files that are downloaded by your web browser onto your computer, mobile phone, or any other device used when visiting websites, and mostly used to improve the user experience. There are two types; a) “persistent” cookies, which are stored by the web browser and will remain valid until their set expiry date (unless deleted by the user before then), and b) “session” cookies, which are temporary & expire at the end of the user session (when the web browser is closed).

Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that is stored elsewhere may be linked to the information they contain.

If you want to find out more about cookies, check out the links at the bottom of this page.

How We Use Cookies

We ask you to consent to our use of cookies when you first visit this website, as we use them to improve the functionality, speed & security of this website, to analyse website traffic, and to improve the way we offer our services. You can opt not to accept them but this may impact on the usability in certain areas of this website. We do not use cookies to collect any personally identifiable or sensitive information (without your express permission), for advertising, or to pass on personally identifiable or sensitive information to third parties.

The Cookies We Set

General

Cookies may be set to remember if you have accepted our cookies

Email & Newsletters

This website offers email & newsletter subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.

Third Party Cookies

In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this website.

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use this website and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on this website and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content. Your data is “anonymized”, which means your IP address is hidden from Google. For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.

Disabling Cookies

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these links:

• Chrome
• Firefox
• Opera
• Internet Explorer
• Safari
• Edge

N.B. Blocking all cookies may impact on the usability in certain areas of this website, and may also have a negative impact upon the usability of many other websites.

More Information

If you are still looking for more information then you can contact us through one of our preferred contact methods:

• Email: info@hlca.org.uk
• By visiting this link: https://hlca.org.uk/contact

You can also find out more about cookies at the following websites:

• Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies
• All About Cookies.org

It is Hilda Lane Community Association’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect from you including on this website, https://www.hlca.org.uk.

We only ask for personal information when we need it to provide a service to you. We collect it by fair and lawful means, with your knowledge and consent. We also let you know why we’re collecting it and how it will be used.

We collect:

• Personal identifiers, such as your name, contact details and email address. This is collected when you make a booking enquiry or hire application, if you opt to join our email update list, or if you contact us by email for another reason.
• Information on how you use this website.  This includes IP address and analytical cookies used to understand how users interact with this website. Further information on which cookies we use and why can be found in our cookie notice.

We use the lawful basis of ‘consent’ to process this data. You can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us at info@hlca.org.uk.

We only retain collected information for as long as necessary to provide you with your requested service. What data we store, we’ll protect in line with normal commercial good practice to prevent loss and theft, as well as unauthorised access, disclosure, copying, use or modification.

We don’t share any personally identifying information publicly or with third-parties, except when required to by law.

We will not use your data for any automated decision making or profiling.

Our website may link to external sites that are not operated by us. Please be aware that we have no control over the content and practices of these sites, and cannot accept responsibility or liability for their respective privacy policies.

You are free to refuse our request for your personal information, with the understanding that we may be unable to provide you with some of your desired services.

Your continued use of our website will be regarded as acceptance of our practices around privacy and personal information. If you have any questions about how we handle user data and personal information, feel free to contact us.

This policy was originally prepared on 25 May 2018 and last updated 7 February 2025.