Cookies

We use cookies to improve your site experience, to assess content usage and to support the marketing of our services. We want to be completely transparent about the cookies we use and to make their control as easy as possible for you.

Our cookies are sorted into five categories, represented by five sections. Each section will show a summary, and can be expanded for more detail. Our last audit date was 2018-09-06

Necessary cookies – 7 found

These cookies are important to the underlying operation of the website, supporting important functionality such as shopping baskets and the technical operation of the website to ensure it performs how you would expect.

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Site experience cookies – 14 found

These cookies are used to support your experience on the site and include user-selected options, site navigation aids, etc. Generally, no personally identifiable data is collected with these types of cookies.

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Performance & operation cookies – 3 found

These cookies are used in the management of the site and include customer surveys, recording visitor numbers and other web analytics. Limited identifiable data may be collected.

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Marketing, anonymous cross site tracking cookies – 8 found

These cookies are used to track our visitors across our websites. They can be used to build up a profile of search and/or browsing history for every visitor. Identifiable or unique data may be collected. Anonymized data may be shared with third parties.

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Marketing, targeted advertising cookies – 1 found

These cookies are used to track browsing habits and activity. We use this information to enable us to show you relevant/personalised marketing content. Using these types of cookies, we may collect personally identifiable information and use this to display targeted advertising and/or share this data with third parties for the same purpose. Any activity tracked and recorded using these cookies maybe shared to third parties.

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Manage your cookies

What are cookies, how are they used and how are they managed?

Cookies are small text files that contain letters and numbers and are placed on your computer or device. Cookies are set when you visit a website that uses cookies and may be used to keep track of pages visited within the site, help you continue where you left off or remember your preferences, such as language settings.

Cookies are very important to help us make online services easier to use, to monitor the use of our site and to help us improve the service to you.

To make it easier for you to understand the way a website uses cookies, we have grouped them into easy to understand categories. The category to which a cookie belongs can be seen in the Cookie Panel.

The information in the Cookie Panel is provided to you in an open and transparent way, so that you can see how cookies are used to enrich your visitor experience and make an informed choice to allow their usage. However, if you wish to control and remove cookies, this can be done via settings in your web browser.

Please be aware that restricting cookies may impact the functionality of a website. Many of the interactive functions offered by websites are dependent on cookies and disabling or blocking cookies can prevent these services from working or reduce their usefulness.

Different web browsers may use different methods for managing cookies. Please follow the instructions below, from the web browser manufacturers directly, to configure your browser settings*.

* These links are to third party sites, over which we have no control – no liability can be claimed if they are inaccurate.