Cookies
Cookie Policy and Information
What is a Cookie?
Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device (computer, laptop, mobile phone, etc) when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognises that cookie. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognise a user’s device.
Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improve the user experience. They can also help to ensure that adverts you see online are more relevant to you and your interests. The cookies used on this website have been categorised based on the categories found in the ICC UK Cookie guide.
Category 1: Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the website. Our shopping baskets and online payment facility cannot be provided without the use of cookies.
By using our website, you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your device.
Category 2: Performance Cookies
These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how a website works.
By using our website, you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your device.
- · To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Category 3: Functionality Cookies
These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. For instance, a website may be able to provide you with local weather reports or traffic news by storing in a cookie the region in which you are currently located. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customise. They may also be used to provide services you have asked for such as watching a video or commenting on a blog. The information these cookies collect may be anonymised and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.
By using our website, you agree that we can place these type of cookies on your device.
We use the following cookies on our website:
Cookie Name: PHPSESSID
Purpose of Cookie: Set automatically by the content management system that delivers our website, this cookie is essential to the correct working of our website as you browse from page to page, and will expire when your visit is over.
Cookie Name: __utmz, __utmc, __utmb, __utma
Purpose of Cookie: Set by Google Analytics, these cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited.
Google Analytics (and most web tracking software) uses cookies in order to provide meaningful reports about website visitors.
Google Analytics cookies do not collect personal data about website visitors.
Descriptions
__utma
This cookie is typically written to the browser on the first visit to this website. If the cookie has been deleted by the user and they return to this website, a new __utma cookie is written with a different unique ID. This cookie is used to determine unique visitors to this website and it is updated with each page view. Additionally, this cookie is provided with a unique ID that Google Analytics uses to ensure both the validity and accessibility of the cookie as an extra security measure.
Expires: 2 years from set/update.
__utmb
This cookie is used to establish and continue a user session on this website. When a user views a page on this website, the Google Analytics code attempts to update this cookie. If it does not find the cookie, a new one is written and a new session is established. Each time a user visits a different page on this website, this cookie is updated to expire in 30 minutes, thus continuing a single session for as long as user activity continues within 30-minute intervals. This cookie expires when a user pauses on a page on this website for longer than 30 minutes.
Expires: 30 minutes from set/update.
__utmz
This cookie stores the type of referral used by the visitor to reach this website, whether via a direct method, a referring link, a website search, or a campaign such as an ad or an email link. It is essentially used to calculate search engine traffic, ad campaigns and page navigation within this website. The cookie is updated with each page view on this website.
Expires: 6 months from set/update.
