Cookie Policy

This page explains all about our cookie policy and how they are used on our website. If

you want to see our full privacy policy, click here

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Cookies In Use on This Site

COOKIE SETTINGS

Cookies and how they Benefit You

Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best

experience we can. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or

mobile phone when you browse websites

Our cookies help us:

Make our website work as you’d expect

Save you having to login every time you visit the site

Remember your settings during and between visits

Improve the speed/security of the site

Allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook

Personalise our site to you to help you get what you need faster

Continuously improve our website for you

Make our marketing more efficient (ultimately helping us to offer the service we do at the

price we do)

We do not use cookies to:

Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)

Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)

Pass personally identifiable data to third parties

You can learn more about all the cookies we use below

Granting us permission to use cookies

When you first arrived at our website, you were shown a cookies settings box where you

were asked if you wanted to accept all cookies or to customise and select which cookies

you consent to us using. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you

can learn how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that our site will not

work as you would expect.

More about our Cookies

Website Function Cookies

Our own cookies

We use cookies to make our website work including:

Making our shopping basket and checkout work

Determining if you are logged in or not

Remembering your search settings

Allowing you to add comments to our site

Tailoring content to your needs

There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use our site.

Third party functions

Our site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. A common

example is an embedded YouTube video. Our site includes the following which use

cookies:

Google – Privacy Policy

Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties

Social Website Cookies

So you can easily “Like” or share our content on the likes of Facebook and Twitter we

have included sharing buttons on our site.

Cookies are set by:

The privacy implications on this will vary from social network to social network and will be

dependent on the privacy settings you have chosen on these networks.

Site Improvement Cookies

We regularly test new designs or site features on our site. We do this by showing slightly

different versions of our website to different people and anonymously monitoring how our

site visitors respond to these different versions. Ultimately this helps us to offer you a

better website.

We use:

Anonymous Visitor Statistics Cookies

We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our

website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to

identify when our site isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long they

spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our

website. These analytics programs also tell us if , on an anonymous basis, how people

reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before

helping us to put more money into developing our services for you instead of marketing

spend.

We use:

Advertising Cookies

Cookies are widely used in online advertising. Neither us, advertisers or our advertising

partners can gain personally identifiable information from these cookies.

You can learn more about online advertising at http://www.youronlinechoices.com . You

can opt-out of almost all advertising cookies at

http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices although we would prefer that you

didn!t as ultimately adverts help keep much of the internet free. It is also worth noting that

opting out of advertising cookies will not mean you won’t see adverts, just simply that

they won’t be tailored to you any longer.

We use:

DoubleClick – Privacy Policy owned by Google

Remarketing Cookies

You may notice that sometimes after visiting a site you see increased numbers of

adverts from the site you visited. This is because advertisers, including ourselves pay for

these adverts. The technology to do this is made possible by cookies and as such we

may place a remarketing cookie during your visit. We use these adverts to offer special

offers etc to encourage you to come back to our site. Don’t worry we are unable to

proactively reach out to you as the whole process is entirely anonymised. You can opt

out of these cookies at anytime as explained above.

Affiliate Cookies

We have a number of partners who promote our service on a success-only basis (i.e.

instead of paying for advertising, we pay them commissions on sales). Cookies are

required to allow us to reward these partners and these cookies are usually provided by

specialist companies (known as affiliate networks). Neither us, the networks, or the

partner advertising or recommending our services are able to identify you personally. We

ask you to support us by allowing these cookies which ultimately help us to offer you the

service we do at the price we do. Our affiliate cookies are provided by:

Turning Cookies Off

You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from

accepting cookies (Learn how here). Doing so however will likely limit the functionality of

our’s and a large proportion of the world’s websites as cookies are a standard part of

most modern websites

It may be that you concerns around cookies relate to “spyware”. Rather than switching

off cookies in your browser you may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same

objective by automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive