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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, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
- 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.
- 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:
| 1P_JAR | 1 month | Used by Google for user tracking and ad targeting purposes. |
| APISID | Session | Used by Google to store user preferences and information on Google maps. |
| catAccCookies | 1 month | Used to record that the user consents to accept cookies. |
| cblon | 4 days | Used to ensure that the shopping cart works appropriately. |
| cbuid | Persistent | Used to ensure that the shopping cart works appropriately. |
| cbuid_meta | 1 week | Used to ensure that the shopping cart works appropriately. |
| _cfduid | 5 years | Used by the CloudFlare service to identify trusted web traffic. |
| CONSENT | 1 month | A Google cookie. No information on this. |
| country | Persistent | Used by Stripe, our payment gateway provider to provide a unique session identifier for authentication. |
| datr | Persistent | Used by Facebook to help identify suspicious login activity and keep users safe. |
| fr | 3 months | Used by Facebook for advertising and contains an encrypted Facebook ID and browser ID |
| _ga | 2 years | Used by Google to distinguish unique users to measure and improve site performance. |
| _ga_gtag | 24 hours | Identification code of website used by Google for tracking visits to measure and improve site performance. |
| _gid | 24 hours | Used by Google to identify if a user returns within 24 hours of their first view to measure and improve site performance. |
| gf_display_empty_fields | 3 weeks | Allows users to view blank fields in a form to help prevent spam. |
| _icl_current_language | Session | Saves the user’s preferred language on the website. |
| HSID | Session | Used by Google to store user preferences and information on Google maps. |
| _lc.visitor_id | Persistent | Used by our LiveChat to recognise a returning visitor to the website. |
| merchant | Persistent | Used by Stripe, our payment gateway provider to provide a unique session identifier for authentication. |
| machine_identifier | Persistent | Used by Stripe, our payment gateway provider to provide a unique session identifier for authentication. |
| NID | 6 months | Contains a unique ID that Google uses to remember your preferences and other information. |
| OTZ | 1 month | Used by Google to help customise advertising on Google properties, like Google Search. |
| PHPSESSID | Session | Used to save information about the current user session. |
| private_machine_identifier | Persistent | Used by Stripe, our payment gateway provider to provide a unique session identifier for authentication. |
| SAPISID | 10 years | Used by Google to store your options and settings for pages containing a Google Map. |
| SID | 10 years | Used by Google to store your options and settings for pages containing a Google Map. |
| SIDCC | 10 years | Used by Google to store your options and settings for pages containing a Google Map. |
| SSID | 10 years | Used by Google to store your options and settings for pages containing a Google Map. |
| sb | 90 days | Allows control over the “Follow us on Facebook” and “Like” buttons, collect the language settings and allow you to share the page. |
| so_guest_id | Session | Collects anonymous data regarding the user’s visits to the website, in order to improve the special offers delivered on the basket page. |
| _stripe_mid | Session | Used by Stripe, our payment gateway provider to manage payments in our online shop. |
| _stripe_orig_props | Session | Used by Stripe, our payment gateway provider to manage payments in our online shop. |
| _stripe_sid | Session | Used by Stripe, our payment gateway provider to manage payments in our online shop. |
| user | Persistent | Used by Stripe, our payment gateway provider to provide a unique session identifier for authentication. |
| woocommerce_cart_hash | Session | Contains information about the shopping cart as a whole and helps WooCommerce know when the cart data changes. No personal information is stored within this cookie. |
| woocommerce_items_in_cart | Session | Contains information about the shopping cart as a whole and helps WooCommerce know when the cart data changes. No personal information is stored within this cookie. |
| wp_woocommerce_session | 48 hours | Contains a unique code for each customer so that we know where to find the cart data in the database for each customer. No personal information is stored within this cookie. |
| wordpress_logged_in | Session | Uses to determine whether a user is logged in or not. |
| wordpress_sec | Session | Authentication cookie tagged containing the “secure” flag that causes information to be sent encrypted. |
| wplc_chat_status | 24 hours | Stores your preferences for our live chat application. |
| wplc_cid | 24 hours | Used to distinguish users if our live chat is active. |
Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
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