Cookie Policy

This site uses cookies – small text files that are placed on your computer/device to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping carts, and provide anonymised tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics. As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. We suggest consulting the Help section of your browser or taking a look at the About Cookies website which offers guidance for all modern browsers.

The cookies we set are a mix of essential cookies and non-essential cookies. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form.

The list below describe the cookies we use on this site and what we use them for. We currently place these cookies using Implied Consent – if you are not happy with the usage of cookies on this website, then you should delete the cookies having visited the site, or you should browse the site using your browser’s anonymous usage setting (called “Incognito” in Chrome, “InPrivate” for Internet Explorer, “Private Browsing” in Firefox and Safari etc.)

First Party Cookies
These are cookies that are set by our website directly.

Cookie Consent
Cookie Names: OptanonConsent, OptanonAlertBoxClosed – These cookies are used to remember your cookie preference if you visit the website multiple times.

Session Cookies
Session cookies are essential cookies that are used to remember the status of logged in users, items in your shopping cart or for security purposes.

Cookie Name: PHPSESSID – Expires at end of session when you leave the website.

WordPress
Cookie Name: wordpress_sec_{random} – Expires at end of session when you leave the website.

Cookie Name: wordpress_sec_{random} – Expires at end of session when you leave the website.

Cookie Name: wordpress_logged_in_{random} – Expires at end of session when you leave the website.

Cookie Name: wordpress_test_cookie – This cookie is used by WordPress to test that cookies are enabled on your browser.

Cookie Name: wp-settings-{time}-[UID] – The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users database table. This is used to customize your view of admin interface.

WordPress Comments
If you leave a comment on our blog, cookies will be placed on your computer. This is purely a convenience, so that you won’t need to re-type all your information again when you want to leave another comment.

Cookie Name: comment_author_{HASH} – Expires after 1 year

Cookie Name: comment_author_email_{HASH} – Expires after 1 year

Cookie Name: comment_author_url_{HASH} – Expires after 1 year

WooCommerce
Cookie Name: woocommerce_recently_viewed – Expires at end of session – This cookie contains information about items in the shop that you have recently viewed.

Cookie Name: woocommerce_items_in_cart – Expires at end of session – This cookie contains information about the cart as a whole and helps WooCommerce know when the cart data changes.

Cookie Name: woocommerce_cart_{random} – Expires at end of session – This cookie contains information about the cart as a whole and helps WooCommerce know when the cart data changes.

Cookie Name: wp_woocommerce_session_{random} – Expires after 48 hours – This cookie contains a unique code for each customer so that it knows where to find the cart data in the database for each customer.

Email Marketing Opt-in
Cookie Name: mailchimp_landing_site – Expires after 1 month – This cookie is used to remember interactions with our newsletter signup system.

Third Party Cookies
These are cookies set on your computer or device by external websites whose services are used on this site.

You should check the respective policies of each of these sites to see how exactly they use your information and to find out how to opt out, or delete, such information.

Google Analytics & Google Tag Manager
Cookie Name: _ga – Expires after 2 years – This cookie is used to distinguish users.

Cookie Name: _gid – Expires after 24 hours – This cookie is used to distinguish users.

Cookie Name: _gat_UA-{#} – Expires after 1 minute – This cookie is used to throttle request rate.

Cookie Name: _gclxxxx – Expires after 3 months – This cookie is used by Google to track conversions.

You can find out more about Google’s position on privacy as regards its analytics service at https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en-GB

External Websites
This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that xxx is not responsible for the cookie policies of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the cookie policies of each and every web site that they visit. This cookie policy applies solely to this Web site.