Cookies
What is a cookie?
Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognises that cookie. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognise a user’s device.
You can find more information about cookies at: www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.eu
For a video about cookies visit Google’s “A Look at Cookies” video
Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improve the user experience. They can also help to ensure that adverts you see online are more relevant to you and your interests.
What cookies are used by and why?
The cookies used on this website have been categorised based on the categories found in the ICC UK Cookie guide.
A list of all the cookies used on this website by category is set out below.
Category 1: Strictly Necessary Cookies
By using our website, you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your device.
| Cookie Name | Description | Expiry |
| SESS + md5 string per user | This cookie contains a session ID which is a mechanism for distinguishing different users’ visits when multiple users are visiting the website at the same time. It is essential for interactive use of the site. For more information see: PHP Features Sessions | 25 days |
| has_js | This cookie contains a session ID to detect if JavaScript is present in the browser. It is essential for interactive use of the site. | On closing the web browser |
Category 2: Performance Cookies
These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how a website works.
By using our website, you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your device.
| Cookie Name | Description | Expiry |
| _session_id | Allows Shopify (our website shopping system) to store information about your session (referrer, landing page, etc..) | Sessional |
| _shopify_visit | Used by our internal stats tracker to record the number of visits to our store. | Persistent for 30 minutes from the last visit |
| _shopify_uniq | Counts the number of visits to our store by a single customer | Expires midnight (relative to the visitor) of the next day |
| cart | Stores information about the contents of your cart | Persistent for 2 weeks |
| _secure_session_id | Stores session information for the checkout process | Sessional |
| Unique to each user | PayPal payment transactions (view PayPal privacy policy ) | Sessional |
| cookie_check | PayPal payment transactions | 10 years |
| navlns | PayPal payment transactions | 20 years |
| consumer_display | PayPal payment transactions | 10 years |
| ts | PayPal payment transactions | 3 years |
| KHcl0EuY7AKSMgfvHl7J5E7hPtK | PayPal payment transactions | 20 years |
| Apache | PayPal payment transactions | 30 years |
| __utma | This cookie is typically written to the browser upon the first visit to our site from that web browser. If the cookie has been deleted by the browser operator, and the browser subsequently visits our site, a new __utma cookie is written with a different unique ID. This cookie is used to determine unique visitors to our site and it is updated with each page view. Additionally, this cookie is provided with a unique ID that Google Analytics uses to ensure both the validity and accessibility of the cookie as an extra security measure. | 2 years from set/update. |
| __utmb | This cookie is used to establish and continue a user session with our site. When a user views a page on our site, the Google Analytics code attempts to update this cookie. If it does not find the cookie, a new one is written and a new session is established. Each time a user visits a different page on our site, this cookie is updated to expire in 30 minutes, thus continuing a single session for as long as user activity continues within 30-minute intervals. This cookie expires when a user pauses on a page on our site for longer than 30 minutes. You can modify the default length of a user session with the _setSessionCookieTimeout() method. | 30 minutes from set/update |
| __utmc | This cookie is no longer used by the ga.js tracking code to determine session status. Historically, this cookie operated in conjunction with the __utmb cookie to determine whether or not to establish a new session for the user. For backwards compatibility purposes with sites still using the urchin.js tracking code, this cookie will continue to be written and will expire when the user exits the browser. | Not set |
| __utmz | This cookie stores the type of referral used by the visitor to reach our site, whether via a direct method, a referring link, a website search, or a campaign such as an ad or an email link. It is used to calculate search engine traffic, ad campaigns and page navigation within our own site. The cookie is updated with each page view to our site. | 6 months from set/update |
For more information about Google’s privacy policy see: Google Privacy Policy
For more information about Google’s cookies see: Cookies & Google AnalyticsYouTube cookies
We embed videos from YouTube channel using YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode. This mode may set cookies on your computer once you click on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode. To find out more please visit YouTube’s embedding videos information page.
How to control cookies
You can find information about how to control cookies here >> at aboutcookies.org
How to delete cookies
You can find information about how to delete cookies here >> at aboutcookies.org
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