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Cookies

What Are Cookies?

Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device 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.

You can find more information about cookies at the UK Information Commissioner‘s website. For a 3 minute video about cookies watch What are Cookies and what “crumbs” are you leaving on the internet>

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.

 

Strictly Necessary Cookies

Our website requires the use of some cookies to enable you to be able to browse and add items to your shopping bag. Without these cookies you would not be able to place your order.

 

Performance Cookies

We also use a common website performance function from Google called Google Analytics. It uses performance cookies to collect information about how visitors use our website: for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages.These cookies do not collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to help us improve how our website works.

It is possible to turn off your cookies through your website browser settings. Please visit the help section of your website browser to learn how to turn your cookie settings off. While not affecting the functionality and experience of our site, you should be aware that most websites use cookies and turning off cookies in your browser might affect your browsing experience elsewhere, and may prevent purchasing on online shopping websites.

 

Information We Collect

In operating our website we may collect and process the following data about you:

  • Details of your visits to our website and the resources that you access, including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data.
  • Information that you provide by filling in forms on our website, such as when you registered for information or make a purchase.
  • Information provided to us when you communicate with us for any reason.

 

Opt-out

In order to provide website visitors with more choice on how data is collected by Google Analytics, Google has developed the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. The add-on communicates with the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js) to stop data being sent to Google Analytics. The Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on does not affect usage of the website in any other way. A link to further information on the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on is provided below for your convenience.

http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=None

For more information on the usage of cookies by Google Analytics please see the Google website. A link to the privacy advice for this product is provided below for your convenience.

http://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html

 

Disabling Cookies

If you would like to restrict the use of cookies you can control this in your Internet browser. Links to advice on how to do this for the most popular Internet browsers are provided below for convenience and will be available for the Internet browser of your choice either online or via the software help (normally available via key F1).