Cookie Policy

Cookies explained

A cookie is a small text file that may be placed on your device when you visit this website. When you next visit this website the cookie will allow us to distinguish you from other users.

What happens if I choose to refuse cookies?

Most browsers are by default set to accept cookies, but should you wish you can set your browser to refuse some or all cookies. However you should be aware that if you choose to delete or refuse all cookies from this website that it will not operate correctly and you will not be able to make use of all otherwise available functions.

For more information on cookies, how to manage cookie settings and delete cookies using your browser, please visit http://www.aboutcookies.org

How does this website use cookies?

This website uses cookies to offer our visitors the greatest possible user experience, remembering simple information such as your website preferences and the products you have recently viewed. Some of the cookies used are categorized as marketing cookies which allow us to tailor the content and products on the site to suit the kind of products you buy. Other cookies used on the site are essential to performance, undertaking such tasks as keeping you logged in while you are signed into the website; remembering what products to keep in your shopping basket as you browse through the website and working with your browser to keep the speed of the website at an optimum.

Full list of cookies used by this website explained

This website uses the following cookies to offer you the best possible user experience. The names of each cookie in use are provided to allow you to identify them in your browsers cookie management tool should you need to.

CUSTOMER

This website uses this cookie to identify the customer ID number assigned to users who have previously registered on the website. Each customer is only identified as a unique customer number.

CUSTOMER_INFO

In order to offer our customers the greatest possible shopping experience and present them with products and deals relevant to them we group our customers according to their activity. This cookie is present to identify the users customer group. Each customer group is only identified as a unique customer group number.

NEWMESSAGE

This cookie indicates whether or not a message to the user from the website administrator has been acknowledged.

CART

This website uses the cart cookie to remember the products you add to your shopping basket as you continue to browse through the website.

COMPARE

This cookie stores the product information of all products you choose to compare when you click ‘add to compare’, allowing the website to display your chosen comparisons once selected. Each product is only stored as a unique product ID number.

POLL

From time to time we offer our customers the chance to vote in polls intended to gather opinions to help us continue to improve our service. The website uses this cookie to store your poll answers until they have been submitted.

pollN

This cookie enables the website to tell if a poll has already been voted in.

RECENTLYCOMPARED

This cookie stores a list of products compared in the past.

WISHLIST

This cookie stores a record of all products a user has chosen to add to their wishlist. Each product is identified only as a unique product ID number.

WISHLIST_CNT

This cookie stores the number of products a user has chosen to add to their wishlist.

CUSTOMER_AUTH

The website uses this cookie to identify whether a user is logged in or logged out and is necessary to keep the customer logged in as they browse through the website.

CATEGORY_INFO

As the customer browses through the websites catalogue, this cookie is used to remember the filtering options chosen by the client to narrow down their product search results.

LAST_CATEGORY

The website uses this cookie to store which categories the user has previously visited. Each category is identified only as a unique category ID number.

VIEWED_PRODUCT_IDS

The website uses this cookie to store which products the user has previously visited. Each product is identified only as a unique product ID number.

Currency

When multiple currency options are available, the website uses this cookie to remember which currency the user has selected to display all product prices in.

Store

When multiple country options are available, the website uses this cookie to remember which country the user has selected to display the content for.

NO_CACHE

To keep the customers browsing experience as fast as possible, this website will make use of the users browser cache. The browser cache remembers the website content and upon the next visit to that page, will recognize that if the content is the same, it does not need to re-download that page. The website uses this cookie to identify whether or not this function is allowed.

External_no_cache

To keep the customers browsing experience as fast as possible, this website will make use of the users browser cache. The browser cache remembers the website content and upon the next visit to that page, will recognize that if the content is the same, it does not need to re-download that page. The website uses this cookie to identify whether or not this function is allowed.

LAST_PRODUCT

The website uses this cookie to store which products the user last visited. Each product is identified only as a unique product ID number.

Persistent_shopping_cart

To make the user experience as smooth as possible this website uses this cookie to remember what products are in the customers incomplete shopping basket between visits to the website so ensuring the user does not have to re-add those products at a later date to purchase them.

Stf

For some products this website allows a link and information about those products to be sent to a friend. The website uses this cookie to remember the date and time a link to a product was sent to a friend.

frontend

This cookie stores the visitor/customer session ID.

guest-view

This cookie stores an encoded order protection code.

Full list of Google cookies used by this website explained

This website makes use of Google Analytics cookies to help us better understand the behavior and actions of our visitors. Using this information we can tailor the content of the website to help our visitors find exactly what they are looking for more quickly.

Google _utma

The website uses this cookie to identify whether or not the visitor to a page on the website is a new visitor, or has been to the page before.

Google _utmz

The website uses this cookie to establish where the visitor came to the site from – be that from a link in another website, a search engine listing or if the website address was typed directly into the browser address bar.

Google _utmb

The website uses this cookie to open up and keep open a browsing session between Google and the users activity on the website, allowing for a record to be kept by the previously mentioned cookies.