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. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
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. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
We use the following cookies:
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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.
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Analytical/performance cookies. They 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.
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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).
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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:
Cookies used by our website
We encourage users to share our content and/or like our on profile on the popular Social Media websites Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google+ and LinkedIn. In order to make ‘Social Sharing’ accessible, our website utilises widgets either provided directly from the Social Networks and/or via amalgamative widgets from third parties such as AddThis. Cookies and privacy implications from the social networks vary and will be dependent on your nominated privacy settings with each Social Network. Social Sharing buttons will only deploy cookies if you are signed to that respective Social Network at the time of being on our website.
Our website has Google Analytics installed which allows us to track and compile anonymous visitor statistics. The information collected ranges from simple traffic volume to the type of browser you are viewing our website with. This information is valuable to us not just for marketing analysis and quantification, but to improve the usability, security and load speed of our website content. Google Analytics is a popular, secure, flagship webmaster product from Google. The privacy and security of Google Analytics data is a high priority at Google that you can read more about on Google’s Analytics Data Safeguarding page. Google also offer a Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on that will allow you to automatically Opt-out of all websites that track your activity via Google Analytics. No personal information is collected by Google Analytics.
Upon your first visit to our website, you will notice a subtle banner on the page alerting you to the fact that cookies are being placed onto your computer by our website. In order for our website to remember your choice of opting-in, we store a cookie which expires after the set amount of days below (see table).
Our website, either in full or in part, is built on the popular open-source CMS framework – WordPress. WordPress utilises cookies to allow visitors to register, login and comment on our website’s content. If you do not wish to participate in commenting on our website, WordPress will not deploy any cookies onto your device. Cookies will only be created by WordPress if you actively register or comment via the clear forms on our website.
Our e-commerce website is built on the popular open-source platform – Magento. Magento and e-commerce platforms in general require the use of several essential cookies for the website to function correctly. A comprehensive list of the cookies placed by Magento is detailed in the table below.
Our website’s visitors can choose to contact us via form(s) on our website. In order to prevent spam enquiries, we protect our forms with anti-spam challenges which ensure the visitor is an actual living person, rather than a computer bot or spider.
How to disable cookies
Most modern browsers allow you to control your cookie settings for all websites that you browse. You can disable cookie deployment completely by editing your browser settings, however in doing this you may be limiting the functionality that is displayed on our website. To learn how to disable cookies on your preferred browser we recommend reading this advice posted by Google.
If you are concerned about cookies tracking your movements on the Internet then you may be concerned about spyware. Spyware is the name given to a particular band of cookies that track personal information about you. There are many antispyware programs that you can use to prevent this from happening. Learn more about antispyware software – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spyware. You call also disable Google Analytics on all websites by downloading the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
You 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 site.
Actual cookies deployed
Below is a table of information which lists all cookies deployed and used on our website.
| Cookie Category |
Cookie Name |
Cookie Description |
| Cookie Consent |
complianceCookie |
This cookie is set by our website once you have seen and acknowledged our Cookie banner. This cookie will expire and automatically delete itself after [14] days. |
| Google Analytics |
_ga |
The single default cookie for Google Universal Analytics. This sole cookie used by Goole Analytics stores a unique client identifier (Client ID) which is set randomly. This cookie is set to expire after 24 months (2 years) and is refreshed each time you visit our website. |
| WordPress |
wp-settings-{time}-[UID] |
Serveral WP Settings cookies may be set if you log into the website. The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users database table. This is used to customise your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface. |
| WordPress |
wordpress_test_cookie |
These WordPress session cookies are created if and when you log into WordPress either as an administrator or contributor to the website. |
| WordPress |
wordpress_test_cookie
wordpress_
wordpress_logged_in |
These WordPress session cookies are created if and when you log into WordPress either as an administrator or contributor to the website. |
| WordPress |
comment_author
comment_author_email
comment_author_url |
If you choose to submit a discussion/comment to our website, you will be asked to provide certain information about yourself including your name, email and website address. |
| WordPress |
devicePixelRatio |
This cookie records your device’s pixel ratio. If your screen resolution is a retina or Hi DPI screen, then the website may choose to serve you higher resolution graphics. |
| Magento |
CART |
The association with your shopping cart. |
| Magento |
CATEGORY_INFO |
Stores the category info on the page, that allows to display pages more quickly. |
| Magento |
COMPARE |
The items that you have in the Compare Products list. |
| Magento |
CURRENCY |
Your preferred currency |
| Magento |
CUSTOMER |
An encrypted version of your customer id with the store. |
| Magento |
CUSTOMER_AUTH |
An indicator if you are currently logged into the store. |
| Magento |
CUSTOMER_INFO |
An encrypted version of the customer group you belong to. |
| Magento |
CUSTOMER_SEGMENT_IDS |
Stores the Customer Segment ID |
| Magento |
EXTERNAL_NO_CACHE |
A flag, which indicates whether caching is disabled or not. |
| Magento |
FRONTEND |
You sesssion ID on the server. |
| Magento |
GUEST-VIEW |
Allows guests to edit their orders. |
| Magento |
LAST_CATEGORY |
The last category you visited. |
| Magento |
LAST_PRODUCT |
The most recent product you have viewed. |
| Magento |
NEWMESSAGE |
Indicates whether a new message has been received. |
| Magento |
NO_CACHE |
Indicates whether it is allowed to use cache. |
| Magento |
NO_CACHE |
A link to information about your cart and viewing history if you have asked the site. |
| Magento |
POLL |
The ID of any polls you have recently voted in. |
| Magento |
POLLN |
Information on what polls you have voted on. |
| Magento |
RECENTLY COMPARED |
The items that you have recently compared. |
| Magento |
STF |
Information on products you have emailed to friends. |
| Magento |
STORE |
The store view or language you have selected. |
| Magento |
USER_ALLOWED_SAVE_COOKIE |
Indicates whether a customer allowed to use cookies. |
| Magento |
VIEWED_PRODUCT_IDS |
The products that you have recently viewed. |
| Magento |
WISHLIST |
An encrypted list of products added to your Wishlist. |
| Magento |
WISHLIST_CNT |
The number of items in your Wishlist. |
£11.95Product added to basket
£7.50Product added to basket
