Our Cookie Policy
Without cookies enabled on your computer, tablet or mobile phone, you will not be able to make full use of the online shopping and personalised features on our website.
Our cookies don't store sensitive information such as your name, address or payment details – they simply associate you with this information for the duration of your session.
Cookies that we use
Our Site Cookies:
ASP.NET_SessionId
We use our this cookie to track you from page to page, allowing us to remember such things as what you have in your shopping basket. Without it, for example, you would be unable to proceed through the shopping process as the order information would not be retained.
.ASPXAUTH
This cookie is used to keep track of whether or not you are logged in, and if so, who you are logged in as. If you are logged in, your shopping basket contents are retained against your user profile in the database. This means that the next time you visit and login to the website, your shopping basket contents can be restored. There is absolutely no sensitive data stored in this cookie - we just store enough information to identify you in our database. This information is fully encrypted.
All cookies used are 'first party' cookies. This means that any cookie set on the website can only be read back from the website. No other website is able to read or access information from any cookie set by the website. We do not use 'third party' cookies which would permit this sort of behaviour by other websites.
Google Analytics Cookies:
__utm(a,b,c,z)
This is a system used by many websites to record information about users that visit a website. These cookies are used mainly to enable us to examine the success of our website, to improve our users’ experience and to differentiate between first time visitors to a website and repeat visitors.
They do not contain any personally identifiable information. You can find out more about how Google use cookies at http://www.google.com/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html
addthis:
xtc, uid, __aruvc
Addthis has access to a certain amount of non-personally identifiable information about your visitors.
This includes information to which you also have access, like where visitors came from (the "referrer"), which type of browser they are using (the "user agent"), and their IP address (from which its possible to determine general geographic location).
To find out more information on addthis cookie usage click here