Cookies on this site
Cookies
Use of cookies on this site
Cookies are small pieces of text that are stored on your computer to collect information about how you use the site and to make the site work more effectively. We can't identify you personally using cookies. The cookies we set are used to:
- measure how you use the website so it can be updated and improved based on your needs
- provide functionality (such as sharing via social media and saving items for later viewing)
- remember notifications that you've seen so that we don't show them to you again
The cookies that may be set are:
Name | Purpose |
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_ga | Used by Google Analytics.This helps us count how many people visit our site by tracking if you've visited before |
_gali | Used by Google Analytics. Records the name of the page visited |
_gat | Used by Google Analytics to manage the rate at which page view requests are made |
_utma | Used by Google Analytics. Like _ga, this lets us know if you've visited before, so we can count how many of our visitors are new to our site |
_utmb | Used by Google Analytics. This works with _utmc to calculate the average length of time you spend on our site |
_utmc | Used by Google Analytics. This works with _utmb to calculate when you close your browser |
_utmz | Used by Google Analytics. This tells us how you reached our website (eg from another website or a search engine) |
__atuvs | Used by AddThis |
__atuvc | Used by AddThis to store update page share count |
scrollHidden | Used to hide notifications that you have seen before |
GSPRODVIEWS | Used to track products you have previously viewed on our site |
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 any 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. |
All of the above cookies may be disabled or deleted using your browser tools if you don't want them to be set.
There also some cookies set by the webserver which are responsible for making sure that your experience is unique to you e.g that no-one can add items to your basket. These are essential to the functioning of the website and must not be deleted or edited. It is only safe to delete those cookies detailed in the table above.