Our use of cookies

Some of the cookies we use are essential for the site to work (for example, to manage your session). Necessary cookies enable core functionality on our website such as security, network management, and accessibility. You may disable these by changing your browser settings, but this may affect how the website functions. By continuing to use this website you accept our use of necessary only cookies.

Cookies statement

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or other device by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.

Information we collect about your use of our website

The Bank of England ('we' or the 'Bank') collects personal data about visitors to this Event Booking Portal.

In any instance where we collect personal data through our websites, we will make this clear and will set out how we will use this. We will only use your personal data in a way that is compatible with the uses outlined to you, except where it’s necessary for us to do otherwise - for example, where we have a legal obligation to disclose your personal data. We won’t share your information with any other organisations for marketing, market research or commercial purposes and we don’t pass on your details to other websites.

Managing or removing cookies

You can remove cookies by deleting them from your browser history (cache) when you leave the site.  You can find more information about cookies, including how to control the use of these through your browser settings, at Allaboutcookies.org or www.aboutcookies.org.

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Please note that the Bank Event Booking Portal will not work properly without cookies.

Cookies we use

Cookie Name Purpose
Cookie preference boeconsent

A pop-up welcome message will be displayed when you first visit our websites. We’ll store a cookie so that your computer knows that you’ve accepted our necessary cookies and knows on subsequent visits not to show it again.

Our necessary cookies expire after 1 day.
Session ASP.NET_SessionId

These cookies identify your browsing session. We do not seek to identify the identity or nature of individual users.

These cookies expire at the end of your session.
Session ARRAffinity Azure Web App Affinity - used to ensure an affinity of requests to an Azure Web App Resource
Session ContextLanguageCode Used to store the configured language code for the user
Session Dynamics365PortalAnalytics Used to carry out page tracking - no personal data is stored
Session isDSTObserved
isDSTSupport

This cookie stores a value to indicate if the user is in daylight saving time.

This cookie indicates whether a specified date and time falls in the range of daylight saving time.
Session timeZoneCode
timezoneoffset

This cookie holds the timezonecode field value of CRM timezonedefinition entity for the current timezone.

Your rights

You have various rights under data protection laws. See our main privacy page.

Changes to this statement

We keep our cookies information under regular review. This statement was last reviewed in 2021.