Cookies

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We use cookies on this website. A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your computer to help the site provide a better user experience.

Generally, we use cookies to help us administer this website and to improve the website’s usability. We may also use cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us to analyse data about webpage traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to visitors to our website. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not.

Cookies do not contain any information that personally identifies you. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you.

You can read our full online privacy policy here.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

Cookies on this website

There are two main kinds of cookies: 'session' cookies and 'persistent' cookies. Session cookies only last for the duration of users using the website and are deleted from your computer when you close your browser, whereas persistent cookies outlast user sessions and remain stored on your computer until deleted, or until they reach their expiry date.

We use both session cookies and persistent cookies on this website.

E-Commerce

This is an e-commerce website. E-commerce websites use a combination of session cookies and persistent cookies to create a seamless shopping cart experience such as retaining login credentials, identifying customers, and providing a customised shopping experience.

Secure websites such as this one use cookies to validate a user's identity as they browse from page to page. Without cookies, login credentials would have to be entered between before every product added to the cart. As the user adds items to their cart, session cookies keep track of the items. Cookies enable and improve:

  • Customer log-in
  • Persistent shopping carts
  • Product recommendations
  • Custom user interfaces (i.e. "Welcome back, Steve")
  • Retaining customer address and payment information

Third-Party Cookies

We also use third-party cookies to provide statistical analysis of site usage. We create reports that we use to tune the system and provide a better interface for the end-user.

For this purpose we use Google Analytics to analyse the use of this website. Google Analytics generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies, which are stored on users' computers. The information generated relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of the website. Google will store and use this information. Google's privacy policy is available at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/. If you would like to opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites please visit: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Most browsers allow you to reject all cookies, whilst some browsers allow you to reject just third-party cookies.

How do I change my cookie settings?

You can see a full list of the cookies this website uses, and control and manage your cookies, by clicking on the floating Privacy Centre button in the bottom left hand corner of the screen. Here you can view both the Cookies Manager and your Privacy Profile.

Please keep in mind that removing or blocking cookies can negatively impact your user experience and parts of our website may no longer be fully accessible.

Most web browsers also allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:

To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer's website.


This policy was last modified on 28th July 2022.