Cookie Policy
Hamilton Waste & Recycling Limited (a company registered in Scotland with registration number SC233908) and forms part of the Biffa Group of Companies (“Biffa”).
This Cookie Policy forms part of our Privacy Policy which can be viewed here.
Our websites and apps use cookies and other technologies to collect information about visitor’s activities, including browsing. This includes information about pages viewed and your journey across our websites.
Our websites use cookies in order to make your experience of our sites better. Cookies support the provision of information and functionality for users within our sites, as well as providing us information about how the websites are used so that we can make sure they are up to date, relevant and error free for you.
Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you access most websites on the internet. Cookies, among other things, allow a website to recognise your device and remember if you have visited the website before. The term cookie refers to cookies and technologies that perform a similar function to cookies (e.g. tags, pixels, web beacons, etc). Cookies can be read by the originating website on each subsequent visit and by any other websites that recognises the cookie.
You can choose to restrict or block cookies through your browser settings at any time. Please note that certain cookies may be set as soon as you visit a website, but you can remove them using your browser settings.
However, please be aware that restricting or blocking cookies set on our websites may impact the functionality or performance of the website, or prevent you from using certain services provided through the website. It will also affect our ability to update the website to cater for user preferences and improve performance.
Please note that third parties (including, for example, Google Analytics) may also use cookies. These cookies are likely to be performance cookies or targeting cookies (as described in the table).
Discovered Cookie Table
| Type | ID | Duration | Description |
| Uncategorized | CF_Session | 4 hours | Description not available. |
| Necessary | cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary | 1 year | Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie records the user consent for the cookies in the “Necessary” category. |
| Necessary | cookielawinfo-checkbox-functional | 1 year | The GDPR Cookie Consent plugin sets the cookie to record the user consent for the cookies in the category “Functional”. |
| Necessary | cookielawinfo-checkbox-performance | 1 year | Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie stores the user consent for cookies in the category “Performance”. |
| Necessary | cookielawinfo-checkbox-analytics | 1 year | Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie records the user consent for the cookies in the “Analytics” category. |
| Necessary | cookielawinfo-checkbox-advertisement | 1 year | Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie records the user consent for the cookies in the “Advertisement” category. |
| Necessary | cookielawinfo-checkbox-others | 1 year | Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie stores user consent for cookies in the category “Others”. |
| Necessary | _GRECAPTCHA | 6 months | Google Recaptcha service sets this cookie to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. |
| Necessary | rc::a | Never expires | This cookie is set by the Google recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. |
| Necessary | rc::f | Never Expires | This cookie is set by the Google recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. |
| Necessary | wpEmojiSettingsSupports | Session | WordPress sets this cookie when a user interacts with emojis on a WordPress site. It helps determine if the user’s browser can display emojis properly. |
| Necessary | rc::b | Session | This cookie is set by the Google recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. |
| Necessary | rc::c | Session | This cookie is set by the Google recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. |
| Necessary | woocommerce_items_in_cart | Session | WooCommerce sets this cookie to record if there are any items in the WooCommerce shopping cart. |
| Necessary | woocommerce_cart_hash | Session | WooCommerce sets this cookie to determine when cart contents/data changes. |
| Necessary | wp_woocommerce_session_* | 2 days | WooCommerce sets this cookie to make a unique code for each customer so that it knows where to find the cart data in the database for each one. |
| Advertisement
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_gcl_au | 3 months | Google Tag Manager sets this cookie to experiment advertisement efficiency of websites using their services.
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| Analytics
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sbjs_migrations | Session | Sourcebuster sets this cookie to identify the source of a visit and stores user action information in cookies. This analytical and behavioural cookie is used to enhance the visitor experience on the website. |
| Analytics
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sbjs_current_add | Session | Sourcebuster sets this cookie to identify the source of a visit and stores user action information in cookies. This analytical and behavioural cookie is used to enhance the visitor experience on the website. |
| sbjs_first_add | Session | Sourcebuster sets this cookie to identify the source of a visit and stores user action information in cookies. This analytical and behavioural cookie is used to enhance the visitor experience on the website. | |
| Analytics
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sbjs_current | Session | Sourcebuster sets this cookie to identify the source of a visit and stores user action information in cookies. This analytical and behavioural cookie is used to enhance the visitor experience on the website. |
| sbjs_first | Session | Sourcebuster sets this cookie to identify the source of a visit and stores user action information in cookies. This analytical and behavioural cookie is used to enhance the visitor experience on the website. | |
| Analytics
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sbjs_udata | Session | Sourcebuster sets this cookie to identify the source of a visit and stores user action information in cookies. This analytical and behavioural cookie is used to enhance the visitor experience on the website. |
| Analytics | sbjs_session | 1 hour | Sourcebuster sets this cookie to identify the source of a visit and stores user action information in cookies. This analytical and behavioural cookie is used to enhance the visitor experience on the website. |
| Analytics
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_ga_* | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views. |
| Analytics
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_ga | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Google Analytics sets this cookie to calculate visitor, session and campaign data and track site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognise unique visitors. |
| Analytics
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_gid | 1 day | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store information on how visitors use a website while also creating an analytics report of the website’s performance. Some of the collected data includes the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. |
| Analytics
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_gat_UA-* | 1 minute | Google Analytics sets this cookie for user behaviour tracking. |
Updates to this Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy was last updated in 22nd September 2025. We reserve the right to update and change this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect any changes to the way in which we process your personal data or changing legal requirements. In case of any such changes, we will post the changed Cookie Policy on our website or publish it otherwise. The changes will take effect as soon as they are posted on this website.
How to get in touch with us
If you would like to contact us with any queries or comments regarding this Cookie Policy please send an email to GDPR@biffa.co.uk or send a letter to The Company Secretary, Biffa plc, Coronation Road, Cressex, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire HP12 3TZ