Cookies used on our sites

COOKIE WHAT WE USE THEM FOR
_utmz  This cookie stores where a visitor (you) came from. E.g. search engine, search keyword, link, etc.
_utma  This cookie stores each user’s amount of visits, and the time of the first visit, the previous visit, and the current visit.
_utmc, _utmb  These are used to check approximately how long a user (you) stay on our site: when a visit starts, and approximately ends.
cookiebar  This cookie stores whether you have been made aware of the site cookie policy.

 

Some of these cookies are placed by google analytics. The Google privacy policy can be found at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/.

Local storage

Our web shop uses local storage rather than cookies to store information essential to the site’s functionality. This includes the number and identity of products in your shopping cart, your billing and shipping address, and your account ID. This information is only used to provide you service on the site.

How to manage cookies

Our cookies do not store financial information, or information which is capable of directly identifying you (such as your name or address). Cookies simply allow our website to retrieve this information in order to personalise and improve your experience of our website.

However, if you wish to restrict, block or delete cookies provided by our site – or any other website – you can use your browser to do this. Each browser is different so check the ‘Help’ menu of your particular browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences, or use the following on your particular browser.

Mozilla Firefox

  1. Click the orange Firefox button at the top of the window (Tools menu in Windows XP) and then click Options
  2. Select the Privacy panel
  3. From the history drop down select “Use custom settings for history”
  4. Un-check “Accept cookies from sites”
  5. Click OK

Google Chrome

  1. Click on the wrench icon, within Chrome
  2. Select “Settings”
  3. Select “Under the Hood”
  4. Click “Content Settings” in the “Privacy” section
  5. Under the “Cookies” section select “Block sites from setting any data”

Internet Explorer 9

  1. Click the gear-wheel icon in the top right corner of the browser
  2. Click Internet Options
  3. Navigate to the Privacy Tab
  4. Set the slider to “High” or above
  5. Click OK to confirm

Apple Safari

  1. Click the gear-wheel icon in the top right corner of the browser
  2. Click the “Privacy” icon
  3. Choose “Block cookies” as “Always”
  4. Close window

Please bear in mind that if you do this, certain personalised features of this website and others cannot be provided to you.

Third Party Cookies

To help improve your experience of our site we use content from other sites to help users and improve usability for example Google Maps for store locators. We also use social sites such as Facebook and Twitter In to allow businesses to communicate with their clients along with analytics to help improve user experience. We don’t control these sites and we suggest you read their cookie policy to see which ones they use and how to manage them.

THIRD-PARTY COOKIES WHAT THEIR COOKIES ARE USED FOR
Google We use Google Maps to show our location.
Googles privacy policy:
http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/policies/privacy/
Social Tools We take advantage of social networks and like to share our content with friends across these networks, such as twitter, you may receive cookies from these websites. We are not incrtoll of these third-party cookies, if you’d like to learn more about them – visit their websites.

Facebooks privacy policy
http://www.facebook.com/policy.php

Twitters privacy policy
https://twitter.com/privacy

Further information

If you wish to learn more about cookies in general and how to manage them, visit www.aboutcookies.org.