Cookies

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files which a website may put on your computer or mobile device when you first visit a site or page. The cookie will help the web site, or another web site, to recognise your device the next time you visit. There are many functions that cookies serve, for example they help us to remember your user name and preferences, analyse how well our web site is performing, or allow us to recommend content we believe will be most relevant to you.

Certain cookies contain personal information, for example, if you click on something like “remember me” when logging in, a cookie will store your user name. Most cookies won’t collect information that identifies you and will instead collect more general information such as how users arrive at and use our web site, or a user’s general geographic location.

What sort of cookies do we use?

We use cookies for different functions:

1. Essential Cookies - Some cookies are essential for the operation of our web site. For example, some cookies allow us to identify registered users and ensure they can access the secure pages. If a registered user opts to disable these cookies the user will not be able to access these pages.

2. Performance Cookies - We use other cookies to analyse how our visitors use our web sites and to monitor web site performance. We use performance cookies to keep track of which pages are most popular, which method of linking between pages is most effective and to determine why some pages are receiving error messages.

3. Functionality Cookies - We use functionality cookies to allow us to remember your preferences such as currency or language preference or what you have in your shopping basket or wish list, where available.

Can I block cookies?

Yes, but as we’ve explained above, cookies help you to get the most from our web site. If you do wish to disable our cookies then please see the instructions on How to Manage Cookies below. Please remember that if you do choose to disable cookies you may find that certain sections of our web site do not work properly.

More Information

More detail on how web sites use cookies is available at www.allaboutcookies.org

How to manage cookies in Google Chrome

Click on the Tools icon on the browser
Then select Options
Click the Under the Hood tab from the left hand menu
In the Privacy section, select the Content settings button
To enable cookies: select Allow local data to be set option
To disable cookies: select Block all cookies option

How to manage cookies Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8 and 9

Click on Tools at the top of your browser window
Select Internet Options
In the options window navigate to the Privacy tab
To enable cookies: Set the slider to Medium or below
To disable cookies: Move the slider to the top to block all cookies

How to manage cookies Mozilla Firefox

Click on Tools at the browser menu
Select Options
Select the Privacy panel
To enable cookies, check Accept cookies for sites
To disable cookies, uncheck Accept cookies for sites

How to manage cookies in Safari on MAC OSX

Click on Safari at the menu bar
Select Options
Select the Preferences option
Click on Security
To enable cookies: In the Accept cookies section select Only from site you navigate to
To disable cookies: In the Accept cookies section select Never