Our website uses a small number of cookies: some essential ones that make the site work and keep it secure, and, with your consent, analytics cookies that help us understand how the site is used. You can accept or reject non-essential cookies, and you can manage or delete cookies through your browser at any time. We do not currently use cookies for paid advertising.
Introduction
Like almost every website, the Hackles & Co website uses cookies: small files that help the site work properly and help us understand how it is used.
This policy exists so you know exactly what that means in practice: what cookies are, which kinds our site may use, what they do, and the choices you have about them. UK law requires websites to be clear about cookies and to ask for consent before using the non-essential kinds, and we think that is exactly how it should be.
This Cookie Policy should be read alongside our Privacy Policy, which explains more broadly how Hackles & Co collects, uses and looks after personal information.
Who We Are
Hackles & Co helps small and growing businesses get practical business needs sorted through one clear route, providing recruitment and staffing support, Business Presence Reviews and Business Essentials Reviews directly, and helping arrange specialist support through trusted providers. This website is operated by Hackles & Co, and we are responsible for the cookies it sets.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that a website places on your computer, phone or tablet when you visit. They let the site remember things, such as that you are the same visitor moving from page to page, or the choices you made on a previous visit.
Some cookies last only as long as your visit and disappear when you close your browser (often called session cookies). Others stay on your device for a set period so the site can recognise you next time (often called persistent cookies). Similar technologies, such as small tracking images and local storage, work in much the same way, and we use the word cookies in this policy to cover them all.
How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for a small number of practical purposes:
- Keeping the website working. Core functions, such as moving between pages and submitting contact forms, rely on essential cookies.
- Protecting site security. Some cookies help protect the site and its visitors, for example by supporting checks that prevent misuse of forms.
- Improving site performance. Performance information helps us spot slow pages and technical problems so the site stays fast and reliable.
- Understanding how visitors use the site. With your consent, analytics cookies show us, in aggregate, which pages are visited and how people find us, which helps us improve the site.
- Remembering your choices, where applicable. For example, remembering your cookie preferences so we do not ask you on every visit.
We do not currently use cookies for paid advertising. If that ever changes, this policy will be updated first and the relevant cookies will be optional, used only with consent.
Types of Cookies We May Use
- Strictly necessary cookies
- Needed for the website to work at all: page navigation, forms and core functions. These are always on, because the site cannot run without them.
- Performance and analytics cookies
- Help us understand how the site is used and how it is performing, in aggregate. Used only with your consent.
- Functionality cookies
- Remember choices you make, such as your cookie preferences, so the site behaves the way you asked.
- Security cookies
- Support the protections that keep the site and its forms safe from misuse.
- Third-party cookies
- Set by services that help run parts of the site, as explained in Section 08.
Essential Cookies
Essential cookies are the ones the website cannot function without. They make it possible to move around the site, submit enquiry forms and use core features securely. Because the site does not work properly without them, essential cookies are always active and cannot be switched off through the website itself. They are used solely to make the site function; they are not used to build profiles of visitors.
Analytics Cookies
Analytics cookies help us understand how the website is used: which pages people visit, how long they stay, and how they found us. This information is looked at in aggregate, to answer questions like “is this page useful?” rather than to study individuals, and it helps us make the site clearer and more helpful.
Analytics cookies are used only where the required consent has been provided. If you choose not to accept them, the website continues to work normally; we simply learn a little less about how to improve it.
Third-Party Cookies
Some parts of the website are supported by outside services, and those services may set their own cookies. Depending on how the site is built and hosted, this can include analytics tools, embedded contact or booking forms, security and spam-prevention tools, and features provided by our website hosting platform.
Third-party services manage their cookies under their own policies. We choose services we consider reputable, and where their cookies are not essential, they are used only with your consent.
Cookie Consent
When you first visit the website, you are asked about cookies. The choices work like this:
- You can accept or reject non-essential cookies. Analytics and other optional cookies run only if you agree, and rejecting them does not affect your use of the site.
- Essential cookies stay on. They cannot be disabled through the website because the site needs them to function, and they do nothing beyond making the site work.
- You can change your mind. Your preferences can be updated through the website's cookie settings, and you can also manage cookies through your browser at any time, as Section 10 explains.
Managing Cookies
Your browser gives you full control over cookies, independently of any website. In your browser's settings, usually under a heading such as Privacy, you can see what cookies are stored, delete some or all of them, block cookies from particular sites, or block all cookies entirely. Each browser arranges this slightly differently, and its built-in help shows where the settings live; the same applies on phones and tablets.
One honest note: if you block all cookies, including essential ones, parts of our site, and most other websites, may stop working properly. Blocking only non-essential cookies keeps things working while limiting what is collected.
Changes to This Cookie Policy
We update this policy when the website's features change, when the services behind it change, or when legal requirements move. The current version is always available on our website, and the version history is shown in Section 13. Where a change meaningfully affects the cookies used, the consent settings will reflect it and ask again where required.
Contact Us
Questions about this policy or about cookies on our website can be directed to:
Broader questions about how we handle personal information are covered in our Privacy Policy, which includes details of your rights and how to raise a concern.
Version Control
| Version | Date | Changes |
|---|---|---|
| 1.0 | June 2026 | First issue |
Related documents
- Privacy Policy: how Hackles & Co collects, uses and looks after personal information, including your rights.
- Terms of Business: the terms that apply to our services, provided with every engagement.