Cookie Policy
HOW WE USE COOKIES
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website however.
LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
CONTROLLING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:
- Whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes.
- If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writing to or emailing us.
We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties.
COOKIES USED ON OUR SITES
| Cookie | What we use them for |
|---|---|
| _utmz | This cookie stores where a visitor (you) came from. E.g. search engine, search keyword, link, etc. |
| _utma | This cookie stores each user’s amount of visits, and the time of the first visit, the previous visit, and the current visit. |
| _utmc, _utmb | These are used to check approximately how long a user (you) stay on our site: when a visit starts, and approximately ends. |
| is_returning | This cookie is used to collect information about how visitors (you) use our site, all information is collected anonymously and helps us inprove our site. |
| _atuvc | This cookie lets us integrate our site with social networks, allowing our users to share content over social networks |
| compare | This cookie stores IDs of the products that you have added to the website’s Compare tool. |
| cookieyes-consent | This cookie records your cookie consent preferences. |
HOW TO MANAGE COOKIES
Our cookies do not store financial information, or information which is capable of directly identifying you (such as your name or address). Cookies simply allow our website to retrieve this information in order to personalise and improve your experience of our website.
However, if you wish to restrict, block or delete cookies provided by our site – or any other website – you can use your browser to do this. Each browser is different so check the ‘Help’ menu of your particular browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences, or use the following on your particular browser.
THIRD PARTY COOKIES
To help improve your experience of our site we use content from other sites to help users and improve usability for example Google Maps for store locators. We also use social sites such as Facebook and Twitter In to allow businesses to communicate with their clients along with analytics to help improve user experience. We don’t control these sites and we suggest you read their cookie policy to see which ones they use and how to manage them.
| Third-party cookies | What their cookies are used for | |
|---|---|---|
| We use Google Maps to show our location. Googles privacy policy: http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/policies/privacy/ | ||
| Social Tools | We take advantage of social networks and like to share our content with friends across these networks, such as twitter, you may receive cookies from these websites. We are not incrtoll of these third-party cookies, if you’d like to learn more about them – visit their websites. Facebooks privacy policy http://www.facebook.com/policy.php Twitters privacy policy https://twitter.com/privacy | |
FURTHER INFORMATION
If you wish to learn more about cookies in general and how to manage them, visit www.aboutcookies.org.