Cookie Policy
This site uses Cookies – small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping carts, and provide anonymised tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics.
What are cookies?
Cookies are very small text files that are stored on your computer when you access certain web pages. These text files contain no personal information and we use them to help improve your experience with our website. 90% of websites use cookies for numerous reasons, such as advertising, website analysis and, most commonly, shopping baskets. We’re letting you know about cookies to comply with recent legislation changes, and to make sure you know exactly what is going on when you visit our web site.
The cookies we use
Below we’ve put together a list of all the cookies that our site uses, and the reasoning behind why we are using them.
Google Analytics (3rd party)
We use Google Analytics (GA) to track user interaction, to see how many visitors we are getting, and how they found us. Although GA records data such as your geographical location, device, internet browser and operating system, none of this information personally identifies you to us. GA also records your computer’s IP address which could be used to personally identify you but Google do not grant us access to this. We consider Google to be a third party data processor. You can find out more about Google Analytics’ Cookies here.
Cookie Confimation
We only use this cookie to remember that you have accepted that we use cookies and are happy with us store them on your computer.
Social Media Sharing and Integration (3rd party)
We use Google+, Facebook and Twitter functionality within this site so that you can share items of interest, or become a fan of our Social Media Profiles. You can find out more about Google’s Cookie use here, Facebook’s here, and Twitter’s here.
Managing cookies
As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience better. However if you don’t want cookies to be stored on your PC or Mac, you can turn them on or off (see your browser instructions).