What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are stored by the browser you use on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website.
All websites use cookies, primarily to:
- Allow websites to work or work more efficiently
- Make the site easier to navigate by remembering information you’ve entered, like keeping track of what you may have in your basket
- To remember you when you return to our site so that we can personalise your experience.
- To customise the site by showing you information that’s relevant to you.
Why do we use cookies?
We and our marketing partners and analytics service providers may use cookies and other technologies to ensure users of our website have the best possible experience and to tailor our website to your needs.
Examples of how we use cookies include:
- Supporting you to log into your website
- To remember your shopping basket and to enable you to checkout
- To gather information which allows us to identify your platform and record sales
- To ensure you are provided with correct and useful information during your visit to our site
- Ensuring our ads are served accurately and to the appropriate audience
- To collect data which allows us to improve our services based on purchases and site usage
- For statistical analysis purposes
You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking Manage cookies. You can then change the settings by moving the sliders to ‘On or ‘Off’, and then click ‘Save’. You may need to refresh your page for some of these settings to take effect.
Types of Cookies we use
The cookies we use fall under five main categories and you can opt in or opt out of any of these categories any time:
Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not then work. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.
Performance cookies
These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance.
Functional Cookies
These cookies enable the website to provide enhanced functionality and personalisation. They may be set by us or by third party providers whose services we have added to our pages. If you do not allow these cookies then some or all of these services may not function properly.
Targeting Cookies
These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. They do not store directly personal information, but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising.
Social Media Cookies
These cookies are set by a range of social media services that we have added to the site to enable you to share our content with your friends and networks. They are capable of tracking your browser across other sites and building up a profile of your interests. This may impact the content and messages you see on other websites you visit. If you do not allow these cookies you may not be able to use or see these sharing tools.
What are First Party and Third Party cookies?
Cookies set by the website you are visiting are called 'First Party' cookies. Cookies that have been set by parties other than the website owner are called 'Third Party' cookies. This typically occurs when a website incorporates elements from other sites, such as images, social media plugins or advertising. You don’t have to enable all cookies on your computer or device. You can configure your browser not to accept certain cookies, although this means that in some cases your website experience could be impaired, as some of the cookies we use help us to identify and resolve errors, or enable certain features. You can read up on our use of cookies below and manage your cookie preferences at any time by clicking Manage cookies.
How to change your cookie settings
You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking Manage cookies. You can then change the settings by moving the sliders to ‘On or ‘Off’, and then clicking ‘Save’. You may need to refresh your page for some of these settings to take effect.
Alternatively, most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:
To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer's website.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
For more information about cookies and how to disable them, please visit the Information Commissioner’s webpage about cookies: https://ico.org.uk/your-data-matters/online/cookies/
Other websites
Our website may contain links to other websites. Once you have clicked on these links we do not have any control over the websites at which you will arrive. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information that you provide whilst visiting such sites. You should look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.