Cookie Policy

Why we use cookies

1. This website may place and access certain cookies on your device. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, tablet or mobile phone when you browse websites. We use cookies to improve your experience of using our website and to improve our range of products. We have carefully chosen these cookies and have taken steps to ensure that your privacy is protected and respected at all times.

2. All cookies used on this website are used in accordance with current UK and EU cookie law. Specifically, our cookies help us:

  1. make our website work as you would expect;

  2. save you having to login every time you visit the site;

  3. remember your settings during and between visits;

  4. improve the speed/security of the site;

  5. personalise our site to you.

Granting us permission

3. Before our website places cookies on your device, you will be presented with a message bar requesting your consent to set those cookies. By giving your consent to the placing of cookies, you are enabling us to provide a better experience and service to you. You may, if you wish, deny consent to the placing of cookies, however certain features of our website may not function correctly or as intended.

Functional and required cookies

4. Our website may place functional and required cookies on your device. These are cookies that are either required for the operation of our website or are used to recognise you when you return to our website. They include, for example, cookies that:

  1. allow you to log into secure areas of our website;

  2. enable the use of a shopping basket and payment services;

  3. remember your preferences; and

  4. help tailor content to your needs.

Analytics and performance cookies

5. Our website may also place analytics and performance cookies on your device. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors to our website and view how visitors interact with our content. Analytical cookies help us improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users find what they are looking for easily.

6. Our website includes functionality provided by third parties that help to compile visitor statistics. We use Google Analytics who will place cookies on your device that tell us how you reached our site (from a search engine, for example) and whether you have been to our website before.

7. You can find a full list of cookies that we use on our website in the Cookies Schedule below.

Turning Cookies Off

8. You can choose to enable or disable cookies in your internet browser. By default, most internet browsers accept cookies but this can be changed.

9. You can also choose to delete the cookies that have been placed on your device, however you may lose information that enables you to access our website more quickly and efficiently, and remove your personalisation settings.

More information

10. For more information on cookies, including how to disable or remove them, please refer to aboutcookies.org.

Cookies Schedule

Functional and required cookies

acloggedin, _client_acloggedin
Supports login if you have an account.

algoliasearch-client-js
Adds auto-populated suggestions to address fields to help you complete forms faster.

AWSALB, AWSALBCORS
Improves performance by using one server during a session.

CART
Shows when you add a product to your basket.

Commerce-checkout-state
Stores your checkout details if you are completing your order in PayPal.

Crumb
Prevents cross-site request forgery (CSRF).

hasCart
Tells us that you have a basket.

Locked
Prevents the password-protected screen from displaying if you enter the correct site-wide password.

PHPSESSID
Securely authenticates you during checkout.

remember_client
Remembers your login details if you have an account.

siteUserCrumb
Prevents cross-site request forgery (CSRF) for logged in site users.

SiteUserInfo
Identifies you when you log into your account.

SiteUserSecureAuthToken
Authenticates you when you log into your account.

Test
Checks if your browser supports cookies.

Analytics and performance cookies

ss_cid, ss_cpvisit, ss_cvisit, ss_cvr, ss_cvt
Identifies you as a unique visitor and tracks your sessions.

ss_cookieAllowed
Remembers if you agreed to placing analytics cookies on your browser.

Last update: 10 August 2020