Cookies & Privacy
Cookies & Privacy
What is a Cookie?
A cookie is a small text file of letters and numbers that is used to distinguish you from another user and enables swift passage from one page to the next on our website.
Why do we use Cookies?
Cookies help us to provide you with a better customer experience when you browse to our website and allow us to improve and tailor the site for you. For example, we keep track of the domains from which people visit and we also measure visitor activity on the site, but we do so in ways that keep the information anonymous. We use the information that we collect to measure the number of visitors to the different areas of our website, and to help us make the site more useful to you.
Our website uses four types of cookies. They are as follows:
System Cookies
These enable us to keep track of your movement from one page to another so that you do not get asked for the same information twice. Our shopping basket uses system cookies to remember your selections so that when you proceed to the checkout we know what you have selected rather than your shopping basket being empty.
For more information on these type of cookies click here.
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- Name: MailingListPrompted
Typical content: boolean value
Usage: stores whether or not the visitor has received the popup regarding joining the mailing list.
Expires: 1 year -
Name: frontend
Typical content: encrypted text
Usage: allows the website to track each user and link them to their shopping cart
Expires: when user exits browser -
Name: external_no_cache
Typical content: boolean value
Usage: prevents the product pages being cached
Expires: when user exits browser
Analytic Cookies
These enable us to recognise and count the number of visitors to the website, and to see how you navigate the site. These cookies help us to improve the way our website works, for example by making sure that users can find what they want quickly and easily.
For more information on these type of cookies click here.
Google Analytics
- Name: _utma
Typical content: numeric string
Usage: registers the unique id of the brower
Expires: 2 years -
Name: _utmb
Typical content: numeric string
Usage: registers the current user session
Expires: 30 minutes -
Name: _utmc
Typical content: numeric string
Usage: now deprecated
Expires: when user exits browser -
Name: _utmz
Typical content: numeric string
Usage: stores the type of referral used to link to the site
Expires: 6 months
For more information about Google Analytics and the cookies it sets, visit this link. To opt out of storing cookies for Google Analytics, please install this browser plugin.
Marketing Cookies
These cookies allow us to track web browsing habits and to tailor advertisements and promotional campaigns to you, for example targeted ads.
For more information on these type of cookies click here.
Google Doubleclick
- Name: id
Typical content: numeric string
Usage: counts the number of times each browser visits these specific pages
Expires: 18 months -
Name: _drt_
Typical content: short text
Usage: tracks which website has brought traffic to our website
Expires: 2 hours -
Name: ug
Typical content: encrypted text
Usage: registers the unique id of the brower
Expires: 4 years -
Name: JSESSIONID
Typical content: encrypted text
Usage: registers the current user session
Expires: when user exits browser -
Name: UID
Typical content: numeric string
Expires: 18 months -
Name: UIDR
Typical content: numeric string
Expires: 18 months
For more information about Doubleclick, please visit this link. To opt out of storing cookies set by Google DoubleClick, please install this browser plugin.
Social Network Cookies
These cookies are set by the social network plugins we use on the site, such as our Twitter feed and the Add This share widget on our product pages.
For more information on these type of cookies click here.
- Name: guest_id
Typical content: a string of characters
Expires: 2 years -
Name: k
Typical content: some numbers
Expires: 1 week -
Name: _twitter_sess
Typical content: a string of random characters
Expires: when user exits browser -
Name: pid
Typical content: a string of random characters
Expires: 2 years -
Name: external_referer
Typical content: a string of random characters
Expires: 30 minutes -
Name: original_referer
Typical content: a string of random characters
Expires: when user exits browser -
Name: js
Typical content: a 1 or 0
Expires: 30 minutes -
Name: twll
Typical content: numeric string
Expires: 10 years
You can read more about how Twitter users cookies in their privacy policy.
Add This
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Name: ssh
Typical content: encrypted text
Usage: service share history
Expires: 18 months -
Name: sshs
Typical content: text
Usage: service share history
Expires: 18 months -
Name: loc
Typical content: encrypted text
Usage: geographical location of user
Expires: 6 months -
Name: uit
Typical content: boolean value
Usage: user login time
Expires: 1 day -
Name: uid
Typical content: short text
Usage: user id
Expires: 2 years -
Name: psc
Typical content: numeric value
Usage: user view count
Expires: 2 years -
Name: ssc
Typical content: encrypted text
Expires: 2 years -
Name: uvc
Typical content: numeric values
Expires: 2 years -
Name: di
Typical content: numeric values
Expires: 2 years -
Name: dt
Typical content: text value
Expires: 1 month -
Name: _atuvc
Typical content: numeric string
Usage: stores the client id from the addthis service
Expires: 2 years
For more information about how Add This uses cookies, please visit this link. If you would like to opt out of storing cookies set by Add This, you can do so here.
For more information on how we securely manage and protect your data please see our privacy policy page
