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Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites.
Cookies and how they benefit you
Our cookies help us:
Make our website work as you'd expect
Save you having to login every time you visit the site
Remember your settings during and between visits
Improve the speed/security of the site
Continuously improve our website for you
Make our marketing more efficient (ultimately helping us to offer the service we do at the price we do)
We do not use cookies to:
Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
Pass data to advertising networks
Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
Pay sales commissions
You can learn more about all the cookies we use below
Granting us permission to use cookies
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More about our Cookies
Website Function Cookies
Our own cookies
We use cookies to make our website work including:
Making our shopping basket and checkout work
Determining if you are logged in or not
Remembering your search settings
There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use our site.
Anonymous Visitor Statistics Cookies
We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn't working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so called “analytics” programs also tell us if , on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here.
Turning Cookies Off
You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies (Learn how here). Doing so however will likely limit the functionality of our's and a large proportion of the world's websites as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites.
The cookies that we use are listed below:
guest-view
Stores the Order ID that guest shoppers use to retrieve their order status.
Preserves the destination page the customer was navigating to before being directed to log in.
mage-messages
Tracks error messages and other notifications that are shown to the user, such as the cookie consent message, and various error messages, The message is deleted from the cookie after it is shown to the shopper.
mage-translation-storage
Stores translated content when requested by the shopper.
product_data_storage
Stores configuration for product data related to Recently Viewed / Compared Products.
recently_compared_product
Stores product IDs of recently compared products.
recently_compared_product_previous
Stores product IDs of previously compared products for easy navigation.
recently_viewed_product
Stores product IDs of recently viewed products for easy navigation.
recently_viewed_product_previous
Stores product IDs of recently previously viewed products for easy navigation.
stf
Records the time messages are sent by the SendFriend (Email a Friend) module.
X-Magento_Vary
Configuration setting that improves performance when using Varnish static content caching.
form_key
A security measure that appends a random string to all form submissions to protect the data from Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF).
mage-cache-sessid
The value of this cookie triggers the cleanup of local cache storage. When the cookie is removed by the backend application, the Admin cleans up local storage, and sets the cookie value to “true.”
mage-cache-storage
Local storage of visitor-specific content that enables ecommerce functions.
mage-cache-storage-section-invalidation
Forces local storage of specific content sections that should be invalidated.
persistent_shopping_cart
Stores the key (ID) of persistent cart to make it possible to restore the cart for an anonymous shopper.
private_content_version
Appends a random, unique number and time to pages with customer content to prevent them from being cached on the server.
section_data_ids
Stores customer-specific information related to shopper-initiated actions such as display wish list, checkout information, etc.
store
Tracks the specific store view / locale selected by the shopper.
Google Analytics Cookies
__utma
Distinguishes shoppers and sessions .This cookie is created when the JavaScript library executes and there is no existing __utma cookie. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.
__utmt
Used to throttle request rate.
__utmb
Determines new sessions/visits. This cookie is created when the JavaScript library executes and there is no existing __utmb cookie. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.
_utmz
Saves the traffic source or campaign that explains how the shopper reached your site. The cookie is created when the JavaScript library executes, and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.
__utmv
Stores visitor-level custom variable data. This cookie is created when a developer uses the _setCustomVar method with a visitor-level custom variable. This cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.
