Cookies are small files that websites save to your computer. They are used to make the website work better for you, and to help us understand how people use our website.
These cookies are used to remember activities and preferences chosen by you and your browser. You can manage your own cookies by specifying which cookies can be saved, or you can delete them if you wish.
Information stored in cookies
The website uses cookies for the following things when you're not logged in:
- Understanding how people use our website - the type of routes that people take through the site and how long they tend to spend on each page. This is done without identifying who you are. Cookies named "__utma", "__utmb", "__utmc", "__utmz" and "__utmmobile" are used by Google Analytics for this purpose.
- Remembering whether you've seen the informational cookie banner. The cookie named "CakeCookie[CookieWarning][seen]" is used for this.
When you're logged in to the website, cookies are also used for the following purposes:
- Remembering your login username, if you choose to use that function. This is stored inside a cookie named "Session".
- Storing an identifier which is used to keep track of a "session" on the website server. This is stored inside a cookie named "Session".
The website session stored on the server is used to store information about your visit to the website, to enable it to work properly. Without a session, you'd have to log in on every single page that you visited. The following information is stored in your session:
- Who you are
- When you last visited a page on the website - so we can calculate how long you've been inactive for on the website (so we can log you out when you've been inactive for a while)
- The contents of your basket in the shop
Blocking cookies
To find out more about how to block cookies in your web browser, please click on the following link for your particular browser.
