Cookie policy

Your privacy: how cookies are used on this website

Cookies are used to help track activity across a website.

In particular to:

  • measure how you use the website so it can be updated and improved based on your needs

  • remember the notifications you’ve seen so that we don’t show them to you again

  • Find out more about how to manage cookies.

HS2 uses cookies on our website for the following purposes:

HS2 developer portal website

Name: AUTH

Purpose: used to keep a user authenticated after they log into a website or service.

Expires: 1 hour

Name: RETURNURL

Purpose: used to store the URL the user was attempting to access before they were redirected to log in. Once the user successfully logs in, the application can use the value stored in the returnUrl cookie to redirect the user back to their intended destination.

Expires: 1 hour