Information About Our Use of Cookies
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.
We use the following cookies:
- Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
- Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
- Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
- Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
| Cookie | Name | Purpose | More Information |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cookie Consent | catAccCookies | Cookie set by the UK cookie consent plugin to record that you accept the fact that the site uses cookies. | |
| Google Analytics | _ga | Used to distinguish users. | https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage |
| Google Analytics | _gat | Used to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be named _dc_gtm_. | https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage |
| Google Analytics | _gid | Used to distinguish users. | https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage |
| Google Analytics | _gac | Contains campaign related information for the user. If you have linked your Google Analytics and AdWords accounts, AdWords website conversion tags will read this cookie unless you opt-out. | https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage |
| Google Analytics | gadwp_wg_default_dimension | These cookies uses a fraction of the data that is collected by Google Analytics cookies and is used by system administrators. | |
| Google Analytics | gadwp_wg_default_metric | These cookies uses a fraction of the data that is collected by Google Analytics cookies and is used by system administrators. | |
| Google Analytics | gadwp_wg_default_swmetric | These cookies uses a fraction of the data that is collected by Google Analytics cookies and is used by system administrators. | |
| WordPress | wordpress_logged_in | WordPress uses this cookie to indicate when you’re logged in, and who you are, for most interface use. | |
| WordPress | wordpress_sec | WordPress uses this cookie to indicate when you’re logged in, and who you are, for most interface use. | |
| WordPress | wordpress_test_cookie | WordPress sets this cookie when you navigate to the login page. The cookie is used to check whether your web browser is set to allow, or reject cookies. | |
| WordPress | wp-settings-1 | WordPress uses this cookie to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface. | |
| WordPress | wp-settings-time-1 | WordPress uses this cookie to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface. | |
| WooCommerce | woocommerce_cart_hash | Contains information about the cart as a whole and helps WooCommerce know when the cart data changes | https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/woocommerce-cookies/ |
| WooCommerce | woocommerce_items_in_car | Contains information about the cart as a whole and helps WooCommerce know when the cart data changes | https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/woocommerce-cookies/ |
| WooCommerce | wp_woocommerce_session | Contains a unique code for each customer so that it knows where to find the cart data in the database for each customer. | https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/woocommerce-cookies/ |
| Google Advertising Services | AID | Used to link your activity across devices if you’ve previously signed in to your Google Account on another device. We do this to coordinate the ads you see across devices and measure conversion events. | https://policies.google.com/technologies/types?hl=en |
| Wordfence | wfwaf-authcookie-(hash) | This cookie is used by the Wordfence firewall to perform a capability check of the current user before WordPress has been loaded. | |
| personalization_id | This cookie is set due to Twitter integration and sharing capabilities for the social media. | ||
| guest_id | This cookie is set due to Twitter integration and sharing capabilities for the social media. | ||
| 1P_JAR | Google advertising cookie used for user tracking and ad targeting purposes. | https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage | |
| CONSENT | Cookie consent setting. | https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage | |
| NID | Plug-ins from other websites, such as ours, Google uses these cookies to improve your user experience. | ||
| YouTube | GPS | Registers a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking based on geographical GPS location. | |
| YouTube | PREF | Registers a unique ID that is used by Google to keep statistics of how the visitor uses YouTube videos across different websites. | |
| YouTube | VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Tries to estimate the users' bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. | |
| YouTube | YSC | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. |
Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
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