What are cookies?
Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the site’s or service provider’s systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information.
What do cookies do?
We use cookies to help us remember and process the items in your shopping basket. They are also used to help us understand your preferences based on previous or current site activity, which enables us to provide you with improved services. We also use cookies to help us compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future. Please be rest assured that cookies do not store any personal or confidential information about you.
Are cookies safe?
Yes, cookies are small text files. They can’t look into your computer or read any personal information or other material on your hard drive. Cookies can’t carry viruses or install anything harmful on your computer.
Why should you keep cookies switched on?
If you turn cookies off, you won’t have access to many features that make your site experience more efficient and some of our services will not function properly. For instance, we use cookies to help us remember and process the items in your shopping basket.
More about our 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 if you have accepted our terms and conditions.
- Showing you which pages you have recently visited.
- Allowing you to add comments to our site.
- Tailoring content to your needs.
- Remembering if we have already asked you certain questions (e.g. you declined to use our app or take our survey).
Third party cookies
Our site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded YouTube video. Our site includes the following which use cookies:
- Google Analytics – Google Analytics uses cookies to help us to track which pages are accessed. This allows us to understand how popular our site is and record visitor trends over time. The cookies contain no personally identifiable information but some of them do use your IP address to help determine where in the world you are accessing the site from and to track pages you visit within the site.
- Social website cookies – These allow you to easily share our content on the likes of Facebook, Twitter and Google+ whose cookie usage policies you can view on their own websites.
- Remarketing cookies – These allow us advertise special offers etc to you on other websites once you have visited our site. Don’t worry we are unable to proactively reach out to you as the whole process is entirely anonymised.
- Affiliate cookies – We have a number of partners who promote our service on a success-only basis (i.e. instead of paying for advertising, we pay them commissions on sales). Cookies are required to allow us to reward these partners and these cookies are provided by Monetise affiliate network. Neither us, the network, or the partner advertising or recommending our services are able to identify you personally. We ask you to support us by allowing these cookies which ultimately help us to offer you the service we do at the price we do.
Turning cookies on or off in your browser
You have a number of options when it comes to receiving cookies. You can set your browser either to reject all cookies, to allow only ‘trusted’ sites to send them, or to accept only those cookies from websites you are currently using.
Click on your browser in the list below to find out how to turn cookies on and off in your browser: