Information about our use of cookies

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.

This policy should be read together with our Privacy Notice which sets out how and why we collect, store, use and share personal information generally, as well as your rights in relation to your personal information and details of how to contact us and the Information Commissioner in the event you have a complaint.

We use the following cookies:

• 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.
• 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.
• 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).
• 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 below.

Necessary Cookies

Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.

Cookie: PHPSESSID

Cookie purpose: Preserves user session state across page requests.

Data is sent to: United Kingdom

Type: HTTP

Cookie: wc_cart_hash_#

Cookie purpose: Remembers what’s in your shopping cart.

Data is sent to: United Kingdom

Type: HTML

Cookie: wc_fragments_#

Cookie purpose: Remembers what’s in your shopping cart.

Data is sent to: United Kingdom

Type: HTML

Statistics

Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.

Cookie: _ga

Cookie purpose: Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.

Source: Google Tag Manager

Data is sent to: United States

Type: HTTP

Cookie: _gat

Cookie purpose: Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate.

Source: Google Tag Manager

Data is sent to: United States

Type: HTTP

Cookie: _gid

Cookie purpose: Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.

Source: Google Tag Manager

Data is sent to: United States

Type: HTTP

Cookie: _gid

Cookie purpose: Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.

Source: Google Analytics

Data is sent to: United States

Type: HTTP

Marketing

Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third party advertisers.

Cookie: __atuvc

Cookie purpose: Updates the counter of a website’s social sharing features.

Source: Add This

Data is sent to: Spain

Type: HTTP

Cookie: __atuvs

Cookie purpose: Ensures the updated counter is displayed to the user if a page is shared with the social sharing service, Add This.

Source: Add This

Data is sent to: Spain

Type: HTTP

Cookie: _at.cww

Cookie purpose: Used by the social sharing platform Add This

Source: Add This

Data is sent to: Spain

Type: HTML

Cookie: _at.cww

Cookie purpose: Used by the social sharing platform Add This

Source: Add This

Data is sent to: United Kingdom

Type: HTML

Cookie: ads/ga-audiences

Cookie purpose: Used by Google AdWords to re-engage visitors that are likely to convert to customers based on the visitor’s online behaviour across websites.

Source: google.com

Data is sent to: Netherlands

Type: Pixel

Cookie: at-lojson-cache-#

Cookie purpose: Used by the social sharing platform Add This

Source: Add This

Data is sent to: United Kingdom

Type: HTML

Cookie: at-rand

Cookie purpose: Used by the social sharing platform Add This

Source: Add This

Data is sent to: United Kingdom

Type: HTML

Cookie: loc

Cookie purpose: Geo location, which is used to help providers determine how users who share information with each other are geographically located (state level).

Source: Add This

Data is sent to: United States

Type: HTTP

Cookie: uvc

Cookie purpose: Detects how often the social sharing service, Add This, encounters the same user.

Source: Add This

Data is sent to: United States

Type: HTTP

Cookie: xtc

Cookie purpose: Registers the user’s sharing of content via social media.

Source: Add This

Data is sent to: United States

Type: HTTP

Turning off Cookies

If you do not want to accept cookies, you can change your browser settings so that they are not accepted, but this may lead to reduced website functionality. For further information about cookies and how to disable them please go to the Information Commissioner’s webpage on cookies: https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/online/cookies/

This policy was published on 13.02.2019 and last updated on 19.02.2019.