Cookie Policy

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.

We use the following cookies:

  • Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
  • Analytical or performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
  • Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
  • Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Cookie Title

Purpose

Google Analytics Cookies


 

Third party analytics cookies used by Google to anonymously track aggregate traffic stats for the website. The traffic data is used to enhance the user experience. The cookies are removed when you leave the website.

More information can be located at https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage

Server Session Cookie

Used to store user settings and login status. This session ID is essential for storing shopping basket information and making purchases from the website. No personally identifiable information is stored in this cookie, just a session ID number which is dynamically generated every time you land on the website. Each website visit will generate a different session ID. The session cookie is deleted after your browser is closed or after 20 minutes of inactivity.

 

You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website. For more information on disabling cookies and more information on cookies generally, see www.allaboutcookies.org.

Except for essential cookies, all cookies will be stored/used only for as long as is necessary for the purposes of the tracking, after which they will expire.