WHAT ARE COOKIES

As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or 'break' certain elements of the sites functionality. 

For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies.

HOW WE USE COOKIES

We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately, in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.

DISABLING COOKIES

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of the this site. Therefore, it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.

LIST OF COOKIES WE COLLECT

If you create an account with us then we will use cookies for the management of the signup process and general administration. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out however in some cases they may remain afterwards to remember your site preferences when logged out.

We use cookies when you are logged in so that we can remember this fact. This prevents you from having to log in every single time you visit a new page. These cookies are typically removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features and areas when logged in.

This site offers e-commerce or payment facilities and some cookies are essential to ensure that your order is remembered between pages so that we can process it properly.When you submit data to through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.

In order to provide you with a great experience on this site we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences, we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page is affected by your preferences.

The table below lists the cookies we collect and what information they store.

• CART The association with your shopping cart.
• CATEGORY_INFO Stores the category info on the page, that allows to display pages more quickly.
• COMPARE The items that you have in the Compare Products list.
• CURRENCY Your preferred currency
• CUSTOMER An encrypted version of your customer id with the store.
• CUSTOMER_AUTH An indicator if you are currently logged into the store.
• CUSTOMER_INFO An encrypted version of the customer group you belong to.
• CUSTOMER_SEGMENT_IDS Stores the Customer Segment ID
• EXTERNAL_NO_CACHE A flag, which indicates whether caching is disabled or not.
• FRONTEND You sesssion ID on the server.
• GUEST-VIEW Allows guests to edit their orders.
• LAST_CATEGORY The last category you visited.
• LAST_PRODUCT The most recent product you have viewed.
• NEWMESSAGE Indicates whether a new message has been received.
• NO_CACHE Indicates whether it is allowed to use cache.
• PERSISTENT_SHOPPING_CART A link to information about your cart and viewing history if you have asked the site.
• POLL The ID of any polls you have recently voted in.
• POLLN Information on what polls you have voted on.
• RECENTLYCOMPARED The items that you have recently compared.
• STF Information on products you have emailed to friends.
• STORE The store view or language you have selected.
• USER_ALLOWED_SAVE_COOKIE Indicates whether a customer allowed to use cookies.
• VIEWED_PRODUCT_IDS The products that you have recently viewed.
• WISHLIST An encrypted list of products added to your Wishlist.
• WISHLIST_CNT The number of items in your Wishlist.

THIRD PARTY COOKIES

In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.

This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.

For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.

MORE INFORMATION

Hopefully that has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren't sure whether you need or not it's usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site. However, if you are still looking for more information, then you can contact us via the Contact Us page.