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.

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, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
  • Analytical and 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.
  • Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region)
  • Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
  • You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Cookie

Type

What it does

Duration

ASP.NET_SessionId

Necessary

Issued by Microsoft's ASP.NET Application, this cookie stores session data during a user's website visit.

session

shopperID

Necessary

This remembers the users basket

1 day

__user_id

Necessary

This remembers the users username if this option is selected

session

__user_traits

Necessary

If the user has changed the layout selection on the search results page this remembers this (i.e. list / grid view)

session

    The following Google analytics cookies can also come into play - depending on your set up:

Cookie

Type

What it does

Duration

_ga

Analytics

The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors.

2 years

_gid

Analytics

Installed by Google Analytics, _gid cookie stores information on how visitors use a website, while also creating an analytics report of the website's performance. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously.

1 day

_gat_UA-XXXXXXXX-1

Analytics

A variation of the _gat cookie set by Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager to allow website owners to track visitor behaviour and measure site performance. The pattern element in the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to.

1 minute

__utma

Performance

This cookie is set by Google Analytics and is used to distinguish users and sessions. The cookie is created when the JavaScript library executes and there are no existing __utma cookies. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.

2 years

__utmb

Performance

Google Analytics sets this cookie, to determine new sessions/visits. __utmb cookie is created when the JavaScript library executes and there are no existing __utma cookies. It is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.

30 minutes

__utmc

Performance

The cookie is set by Google Analytics and is deleted when the user closes the browser. It is used to enable interoperability with urchin.js, which is an older version of Google Analytics and is used in conjunction with the __utmb cookie to determine new sessions/visits.

session

__utmz

Performance

Google Analytics sets this cookie to store the traffic source or campaign by which the visitor reached the site.

6 months

__utmt

Performance

Google Analytics sets this cookie to inhibit request rate.

10 minutes

We do not share the information collected by the cookies with any third party for the purpose of that third party sending marketing

Cookie Settings

You can choose which analytical, functionality and targeting cookies we can set by clicking on the button(s):

Strictly essential cookies OFF
Analytical or performance cookies OFF
Functionality cookies OFF
Targeting cookies OFF

However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website. Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after the period shown above.