To give you the best user experience this website places small data files on your computer. These are known as cookies. Most websites do this too.
What are cookies?
Usually cookies improve things by:
- remembering settings, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you visit a new page
- remembering information you’ve given (eg your postcode) so you don’t need to keep entering it
- measuring how you use the website so we can make sure it meets your needs
- remember your shopping basket content if applicable
Cookies aren’t usually used to identify you personally. They’re just there to make the site work better for you. Indeed, you can manage and/or delete these small files as you wish.
To learn more about cookies and how to manage or delete them, visit AboutCookies.org. Or please read on to find out more about how and where we use cookies.
How we use cookies
This website uses cookies in several places – we’ve listed each of them below with more details about why we use them and how long they will last.
Measuring website usage (Google Analytics)
We use Google Analytics to collect information about how people use this site. We do this to make sure it’s meeting its users’ needs and to understand how we could do it better.
Google Analytics stores information about what pages you visit, how long you are on the site, how you got here and what you click on. We do not collect or store your personal information (e.g. your name or address) so this information cannot be used to identify who you are. We do not allow Google to use or share our analytics data.
The following cookies are set by Google Analytics:
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Name
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Typical Content
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Expires
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|---|---|---|
| _utma | randomly generated number | 730 days |
| _utmb | randomly generated number | Less than one day |
| _utmc | randomly generated number | Date not set |
| _utmz | randomly generated number and information on how the site was reached (e.g. direct or via a link, organic search or paid search) | 182 days |
Find out how to reject or delete these cookies by going to http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacypolicy.html
Browser Session Information
When you interact with this website the server hosting the website needs to know who you are so it can keep track of your interaction. (i.e. the pages you have visited/viewed/interacted with)
The way the server does this is through a Session Cookie. This is a memory based unique ID that is sent to your browser to identify your unique connection to the website. Nothing is stored on your hard drive and as soon as you close the browser the Session Cookie is removed.
This is a typical Session Cookie
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Name
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Typical Content
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Expires
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| ASPSESSIONIDQCTSTARV | Session information to identify your web browser to the website | When Browser is Closed |
| ASP.NET_SessionId | Session information to identify your web browser to the website | When Browser is Closed |
