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.
We use the following cookies:
Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example use of the shopping cart function.
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. .
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which they are used in the table below:
Cookie |
Expiry |
Purpose |
More information |
__utma | 2 Years from set/update | This cookie enables us to distinguish users and sessions | These Cookies are for Google Analytics. For more information go to: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage |
__utmt | 10 Minutes | This cookie is used to throttle the request rate. | |
__utmb | 30 minutes from set/update | This cookie is used to determine new sessions/visits | |
__utmc | End of browser session | This cookie operated in conjunction with the __utmb cookie to determine whether the user was in a new session/visit. | |
__utmz | 6 months from set/update | This cookie stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached the site | |
e774cfccd97e6bd24a1f4d4cded8243e | End of browser session | Session cookie for website users. Enables functionality of the Shopping Cart, Newsletter Sign up and Language Switcher | This is a session cookie used by the website |
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