Use of Cookies

Cookies enable you to use shopping baskets and to personalise your experience on our sites, tell us which parts of our websites people have visited, help us measure the effectiveness of ads and web searches, and give us insights into user behaviour so we can improve our communications and products.

If you want to disable cookies in the web browser your using, you will have to check with your provider to find out how to disable cookies.

Because cookies are used throughout our websites, disabling them may prevent you from using certain parts of the sites.

The cookies used on our websites have been categorised based on the guidelines found in the ICC UK Cookie guide. We use the following categories on our websites and other online services:

Category 1 - Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are essential to enable you to browse around our websites and use their features. Without these cookies, services like shopping baskets and e-billing cannot be provided.

Category 2 - Performance Cookies

These cookies collect information about how you use our websites - for instance, which pages you go to most. This data may be used to help optimise our websites and make them easier for you to navigate. These cookies are also used to let affiliates know if you came to one of our websites from an affiliate and if your visit resulted in the use or purchase of a product or service from us, including details of the product or service purchased. These cookies don't collect information that identifies you. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous.

Category 3 - Functionality Cookies

These cookies allow our websites to remember choices you make while browsing. For instance, we may store your geographic location in a cookie to ensure that we show you our website localised for your area.

We may also remember preferences such as text size, fonts and other customisable site elements. They may also be used to keep track of what featured products or videos have been viewed to avoid repetition. The information these cookies collect will not personally identify you, and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.

We use cookies to improve performance, security and user experience.

Below are the cookies that are used on our website, and why we use them.

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Opt-Out of Cookies

Our first party cookies are necessary for the website to function. Most of our third-party cookies allow opt-outs via their privacy dashboards, however, some will require you to change your cookie settings for your web browser.

Google Analytics Opt-Out

Analytics & Performance

Name of Cookie

First / Third Party

Provider

Purpose

_ga
_gid
_gat

First

Google Analytics

Used to register a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how a visitor uses the website.

collect

Third

google-analytics.com

Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor's device and behaviour. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels.

Strictly Necessary

Name of Cookie

First / Third Party

Provider

Purpose

PHPSESSID

First

[put domain name here]

A general-purpose identifier used to maintain user session variables, such as logged-in status for a user.

CookieConsent

First

[put domain name here]

Used to store your cookie consent state.

_cfduid

Third

cloudflare.com

Used to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address and apply security settings on a per-client basis.