Your choices matter
Last updated: 11 September 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how HGV Drivers Diary uses cookies and similar technologies, which services may place them and how you can control your choices.
1. What are cookies and similar technologies?
Cookies are small text files stored on your computer, telephone or other device when you visit a website. They can remember a basket, keep a session secure, save preferences, measure website use or support advertising. Similar technologies include pixels, tags, local storage and software development tools that store or access information on a device.
Under the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations, we provide clear information and ask for consent before storing or accessing information that is not strictly necessary for a service you request. Continuing to browse the website does not, by itself, count as consent.
2. Cookie categories
| Category | Purpose | Consent |
|---|---|---|
| Necessary | Operate the basket, checkout, account, security, load balancing, payment flow, fraud prevention and consent-recording functions requested by you. | Usually not required where the technology is strictly necessary, but we still provide information about it. |
| Preferences | Remember choices that improve how the website appears or behaves for you. | Requested where the technology is not strictly necessary. |
| Statistics | Understand how visitors use the website, diagnose performance and improve pages and products. | We request consent for optional analytics used on this website. |
| Marketing | Measure advertising, attribute conversions, limit or personalise adverts and understand campaign performance. | Required before optional marketing cookies, pixels or similar technologies are enabled. |
| Unclassified | Technologies still being investigated and awaiting final classification. | They should remain blocked unless and until an appropriate classification and legal basis are confirmed. |
3. Services used by our website
Depending on the page you visit and the choices you make, the website may use:
- Shoper — ecommerce platform functions such as basket, checkout, customer account, security and site operation;
- Cookiebot by Usercentrics — display of the consent interface, storage of your choices and generation of the Cookie Declaration;
- Stripe — secure payment, authentication and fraud-prevention technologies during checkout;
- Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager — consented statistics, website measurement and tag management;
- Google Customer Reviews and other Google services — review functions, measurement and security features where enabled;
- Meta Pixel and Meta Conversions API — consented advertising measurement and conversion attribution for Facebook and Instagram;
- GetResponse — newsletter forms, mailing-list management and email-campaign measurement;
- YouTube — video playback. Embedded videos may connect to YouTube when loaded or played, subject to the applicable consent settings;
- TikTok Pixel — marketing measurement only if this tool is enabled in future. It was not active on the website on the “last updated” date above; this Policy and the Cookie Declaration must be updated when it is introduced; and
- WhatsApp and other social-media links — clicking an external link takes you to the relevant provider, whose own cookies and privacy terms then apply.
The precise cookies may change when our ecommerce platform or integrations are updated. The live Cookie Declaration below is the most detailed source for cookie names, providers, purposes and expiry periods detected by our consent-management service.
4. How to manage your choices
- On our website: use the Cookiebot cookie-settings icon to review, accept, reject or withdraw consent by category.
- In your browser: you may delete or block cookies through browser settings. Blocking necessary cookies may prevent the basket, account or checkout from working correctly.
- Marketing: withdrawing cookie consent does not automatically unsubscribe you from emails. Use the unsubscribe link in an email or contact us separately to stop email marketing.
Withdrawing consent does not affect processing that was lawful before withdrawal. Your selection may need to be renewed if our use of cookies changes, the consent record expires or you use a different browser or device.
5. Cookie Declaration
The declaration below is generated and maintained through Cookiebot using scans of this website.
6. Changes to this Policy
We review our cookies and consent settings regularly. We will update this page when we add a material new service, change the purposes for which technologies are used or need to obtain fresh consent.
7. Contact us
Kierowcy HGV UK Ltd is responsible for this website. For questions about cookies or personal data, email contact@hgvdriversdiary.uk. Please also read our Privacy Policy.