Cookies we use on this website

To ensure that you are fully informed of all the cookies we are using, our site is independently audited by Cookie Reports Limited - the last review was on 2020-12-08.

The cookies in use are organised by category to help you identify them and support your informed choice.

Necessary cookies – 12 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.

Name of cookie	Type of cookie	Purpose	Description
Name of cookie: _vapi<digits>+ (x 2)	Type of cookie: Session cookie	Purpose: Your visit	Description: Cookie that contains a session identifier used to authenticate the use and deliver different APIs. The cookie is dynamic so it cannot be updated, as each customer will have a unique cookie.
Name of cookie: cookietest (x 5)	Type of cookie: Session cookie	Purpose: Your visit	Description: Check if cookies are enabled.
Name of cookie: JSESSIONID	Type of cookie: Session cookie	Purpose: Your visit	Description: Stores session data during a website visit, issued by Jetty Web Server.
Name of cookie: sc.ASP.NET_SESSIONID	Type of cookie: Session cookie	Purpose: Authorisation	Description: Stores session data during a website visit, issued by Microsoft's ASP.NET Application, a framework for building websites.
Name of cookie: utag_main (x 3)	Type of cookie: Persistent cookie	Purpose: Your visit	Description: Used to store the Tealium ID required to enable visitor information to be analysed.

Site experience cookies – 11 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.

Name of cookie	Type of cookie	Purpose	Description
Name of cookie: __adal_ca	Type of cookie: Persistent cookie	Purpose: Under review	Description:
Name of cookie: __adal_cw	Type of cookie: Persistent cookie	Purpose: Under review	Description:
Name of cookie: __adal_id	Type of cookie: Persistent cookie	Purpose: Under review	Description:
Name of cookie: __adal_ses	Type of cookie: Persistent cookie	Purpose: Under review	Description:
Name of cookie: check	Type of cookie: Session cookie	Purpose: Under review	Description:
Name of cookie: ens_awch	Type of cookie: Session cookie	Purpose: Under review	Description:
Name of cookie: POSTOFFICE_ENSIGHTEN_PRIVACY_BANNER_LOADED	Type of cookie: Persistent cookie	Purpose: Under review	Description:
Name of cookie: QSI_HistorySession	Type of cookie: Session cookie	Purpose: Under review	Description:
Name of cookie: s_CVP	Type of cookie: Persistent cookie	Purpose: Under review	Description:
Name of cookie: s_pageName	Type of cookie: Persistent cookie	Purpose: Under review	Description:
Name of cookie: test	Type of cookie: Session cookie	Purpose: Under review	Description:

Performance & operation cookies – 27 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.

Name of cookie	Type of cookie	Purpose	Description
Name of cookie: _ga	Type of cookie: Persistent cookie	Purpose: Analytics	Description: A unique identifier given to each browser to track user interactions with the website.
Name of cookie: _gat	Type of cookie: Persistent cookie	Purpose: Analytics	Description: A unique identifier given to each browser to track user interactions with the website.
Name of cookie: _gat_UA-128946534-1	Type of cookie: Persistent cookie	Purpose: Analytics	Description: A unique identifier given to each browser to track user interactions with the website.
Name of cookie: _gid	Type of cookie: Persistent cookie	Purpose: Analytics	Description: A unique identifier given to each browser to track user interactions with the website.
Name of cookie: AKA_A2	Type of cookie: Persistent cookie	Purpose: Performance / Networking	Description: Speed up website via the "adaptive acceleration feature" (A2) from Akamai.
Name of cookie: AMCV_*AdobeOrg (x 3)	Type of cookie: Persistent cookie	Purpose: Analytics	Description: Helps Adobe to only analyse traffic from legitimate websites.
Name of cookie: AMCVS_*AdobeOrg (x 2)	Type of cookie: Session cookie	Purpose: Analytics	Description: Session cookie with Adobe. It indicates that a session has been initialized. The organisation ID helps Adobe to only analyse traffic from legitimate websites.
Name of cookie: AMP_TOKEN (x 2)	Type of cookie: Persistent cookie	Purpose: Analytics	Description: A unique identifier given to each browser to track user interactions with the website.
Name of cookie: mbox (x 2)	Type of cookie: Persistent cookie	Purpose: Analytics	Description: This cookie is used to control which elements should be shown to a visitor and gives website operators the ability to test which online content and offers are more relevant to visitors.
Name of cookie: mboxEdgeCluster (x 2)	Type of cookie: Persistent cookie	Purpose: Analytics	Description: Cookie set to remember the visitor, when experimenting with which content should be served to the visitor.
Name of cookie: s_cc (x 2)	Type of cookie: Session cookie	Purpose: Analytics	Description: Stores whether cookies are enabled, on behalf of the SiteCatalyst Analytics platform.
Name of cookie: s_ecid	Type of cookie: Persistent cookie	Purpose: Analytics	Description: The purpose of this cookie is to allow ID tracking in the 1st-party state and is used as a reference ID if the AMCV cookie has expired
Name of cookie: s_fid (x 2)	Type of cookie: Persistent cookie	Purpose: Analytics	Description: Stores the current version of flash that is available in the web browser.
Name of cookie: s_ppv	Type of cookie: Session cookie	Purpose: Analytics	Description: Stores the percentage of the page that was displayed vertically to the end user.
Name of cookie: s_ppvl	Type of cookie: Session cookie	Purpose: Analytics	Description: Stores the percentage of the page that was displayed vertically to the end user.
Name of cookie: s_vi (x 2)	Type of cookie: Persistent cookie	Purpose: Analytics	Description: Identifies a visitor by a unique ID time/date stamp, on behalf of the SiteCatalyst Analytics platform.
Name of cookie: SESS*+	Type of cookie: Session cookie	Purpose: Analytics	Description: Used to analyse customer behaviour
Name of cookie: YSC	Type of cookie: Session cookie	Purpose: Analytics	Description: A unique identifier given to site visitor when viewing a video.

Marketing, anonymous cross site tracking cookies – 92 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.

Name of cookie	Expiry period	Purpose	Description
Name of cookie:	Expiry period: Session cookie	Purpose: Social networking	Description: Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real-time bidding from third party advertisers.
Name of cookie: __adal_root_domain_test_<digits>+ (x 39)	Expiry period: Session cookie	Purpose: Advertising	Description: Part of the advertising platform Adalyser
Name of cookie: __atuvc	Expiry period: Persistent - 2 years	Purpose: Social networking	Description: Stores the result of code executed by AddThis to maintain a consistent counter when content is shared.
Name of cookie: __atuvs	Expiry period: Persistent - 30 minutes	Purpose: Social networking	Description: Stores the result of code executed by AddThis to maintain a consistent counter when content is shared.
Name of cookie: _EDGE_S	Expiry period: Session cookie	Purpose: Advertising	Description: Used widely by Microsoft as a unique e user ID. The cookie enables user tracking by synchronizing the ID across many Microsoft domains.
Name of cookie: _fbp	Expiry period: Persistent - 90 days	Purpose: Advertising	Description: This cookie will help deliver our advertising to people who have already visited our website when they are on Facebook or a digital platform powered by Facebook Advertising.
Name of cookie: _gcl_au	Expiry period: Persistent - 3 months	Purpose: Advertising	Description: Google AdSense gather statistics on the use of their service to help inform marketing decisions
Name of cookie: _pin_unauth	Expiry period: Persistent - 1 year	Purpose: Social networking	Description: This cookie ensures that you can share our website pages via Pinterest by means of the 'share' button.
Name of cookie: _SS	Expiry period: Session cookie	Purpose: Advertising	Description: Used widely by Microsoft as a unique e user ID. The cookie enables user tracking by synchronizing the ID across many Microsoft domains.
Name of cookie: _tpsample	Expiry period: Session cookie	Purpose: Under review	Description:
Name of cookie: _uetsid	Expiry period: Persistent - 30 minutes	Purpose: Advertising	Description: Maintains a session with Microsoft Inc. advertising platform Bing.
Name of cookie: _uetvid	Expiry period: Persistent - 2 weeks, 2 days	Purpose: Advertising	Description: Identify an existing user by Microsoft Bing's advertising suite Universal Event Tracking.
Name of cookie: check	Expiry period: Session cookie	Purpose: Under review	Description:
Name of cookie: cobrowse_10006572	Expiry period: Persistent - 1 day	Purpose: Under review	Description:
Name of cookie: cookie-persistence	Expiry period: Persistent - 12 hours	Purpose: Under review	Description:
Name of cookie: da_lid	Expiry period: Persistent - 1 year	Purpose: Under review	Description:
Name of cookie: da_sid	Expiry period: Persistent - 30 minutes	Purpose: Under review	Description:
Name of cookie: demdex	Expiry period: Persistent - 2 years	Purpose: Advertising	Description: Used to build unique audience profiles. The audience management capabilities in Adobe Media Optimizer integrate online and offline data from every imaginable source to deliver a unified view of all audiences. Used by companies to quickly identify their most valuable customers and deliver targeted messages that inspire them to act.
Name of cookie: dpm	Expiry period: Persistent - 2 years	Purpose: Advertising	Description: Used to build unique audience profiles. The audience management capabilities in Adobe Media Optimizer integrate online and offline data from every imaginable source to deliver a unified view of all audiences. Used by companies to quickly identify their most valuable customers and deliver targeted messages that inspire them to act.
Name of cookie: ev_sync_dd	Expiry period: Persistent - 30 days	Purpose: Advertising	Description: Provides feedback on the effectiveness of the advertising displayed on our site and helps show you offers which may be of interest to you.
Name of cookie: everest_g_v2	Expiry period: Persistent - 2 years	Purpose: Advertising	Description: These cookies provide feedback on the effectiveness of the advertising displayed on our site and helps show you offers which may be of interest to you.
Name of cookie: everest_session_v2	Expiry period: Session cookie	Purpose: Advertising	Description: These cookies provide feedback on the effectiveness of the advertising displayed on our site and helps show you offers which may be of interest to you.
Name of cookie: fr	Expiry period: Persistent - 3 months	Purpose: Advertising	Description: Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real-time bidding from third party advertisers.
Name of cookie: GPS	Expiry period: Persistent - 30 minutes	Purpose: Advertising	Description: A unique identifier given to each mobile device that allows tracking based on GPS location.
Name of cookie: IDE	Expiry period: Persistent - 2 years	Purpose: Advertising	Description: Contains a unique code to determine which advertisements have been shown on a device, on behalf of Google Inc. Advertising platform DoubleClick. Allows monitoring of the effectiveness of the ads and make the ads more relevant to the user.
Name of cookie: inqPc	Expiry period: Persistent - 1 year	Purpose: Under review	Description:
Name of cookie: inqSession_10006572	Expiry period: Persistent - 1 year	Purpose: Under review	Description:
Name of cookie: inqState_10006572	Expiry period: Persistent - 1 year	Purpose: Under review	Description:
Name of cookie: inqVital_10006572	Expiry period: Persistent - 1 year	Purpose: Under review	Description:
Name of cookie: lang (x 2)	Expiry period: Session cookie	Purpose: Social networking	Description: Used to remember a user's language setting
Name of cookie: lissc	Expiry period: Persistent - 1 year	Purpose: Social networking	Description: Used to ensure there is correct SameSite attribute for all cookies in that browser
Name of cookie: loc	Expiry period: Persistent - 2 years, 3 weeks	Purpose: Social networking	Description: Records user geographic location, on behalf of AddThis which is owned and operated by Clearspring Technologies. AddThis is a content sharing platform which gives end users a way to share content across the social web, and provides analytics to publishers.
Name of cookie: mboxPC	Expiry period: Persistent - 2 years	Purpose: Under review	Description:
Name of cookie: mboxSession	Expiry period: Persistent - 31 minutes	Purpose: Under review	Description:
Name of cookie: MUID	Expiry period: Persistent - 2 years	Purpose: Advertising	Description: This cookie is widely used my Microsoft as a unique user identifier. It can be set by embedded microsoft scripts. Widely believed to sync across many different Microsoft domains, allowing user tracking.
Name of cookie: MUIDB	Expiry period: Persistent - 1 year	Purpose: Advertising	Description: Used widely by Microsoft as a unique e user ID. The cookie enables user tracking by synchronizing the ID across many Microsoft domains.
Name of cookie: OPT_IN_CONSENT	Expiry period: Session cookie	Purpose: Under review	Description:
Name of cookie: personalization_id	Expiry period: Persistent - 2 years	Purpose: Social networking	Description: Collects anonymous data and monitors how users navigate and interact with the Site and Services of real-time information networking platform Twitter, Inc.. The aim is to customise and improve the Services.
Name of cookie: RoyalMailPostCodeRMLPOL342	Expiry period: Persistent - 1 day	Purpose: Under review	Description:
Name of cookie: RT	Expiry period: Persistent - 1 week	Purpose: Under review	Description:
Name of cookie: seg_cookie	Expiry period: Session cookie	Purpose: Under review	Description:
Name of cookie: seg_prompt	Expiry period: Persistent - 1 week	Purpose: Under review	Description:
Name of cookie: SRCHD	Expiry period: Persistent - 1 year	Purpose: Advertising	Description: Used widely by Microsoft as a unique e user ID. The cookie enables user tracking by synchronizing the ID across many Microsoft domains.
Name of cookie: SRCHUID	Expiry period: Persistent - 1 year	Purpose: Advertising	Description: Used widely by Microsoft as a unique e user ID. The cookie enables user tracking by synchronizing the ID across many Microsoft domains.
Name of cookie: SRCHUSR	Expiry period: Persistent - 1 year	Purpose: Advertising	Description: Used widely by Microsoft as a unique e user ID. The cookie enables user tracking by synchronizing the ID across many Microsoft domains.
Name of cookie: TDCPM	Expiry period: Persistent - 1 year	Purpose: Advertising	Description: TDCPM (TradeDesk Cookie Partner Mapping) records which partners the trade desk has matched IDs with in order to prevent redundant matching calls
Name of cookie: TDID	Expiry period: Persistent - 1 year	Purpose: Advertising	Description: TDID (Trade desk ID) is the main cookie and ID used to recognize web browser profiles over time across sites
Name of cookie: test_cookie	Expiry period: Persistent - 15 minutes	Purpose: Advertising	Description: Tests if the user's browser supports cookies, on behalf of Google Inc. Advertising platform DoubleClick.
Name of cookie: TS*+	Expiry period: Session cookie	Purpose: Survey	Description: Maintains a session with SurveyMonkey, who conduct web-based surveys.
Name of cookie: UserMatchHistory	Expiry period: Persistent - 1 month	Purpose: Social networking	Description: LinkedIn Ads ID syncing
Name of cookie: uvc	Expiry period: Persistent - 2 years	Purpose: Social networking	Description: Measures how often AddThis see a user. AddThis, owned and operated by Clearspring Technologies, uses this information to give end users a way to share content across the social web, and provide publishers with in-depth analytics.
Name of cookie: VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE	Expiry period: Persistent - 240 days	Purpose: Advertising	Description: Remembers if YouTube should show the new-style or old-style video interface to you.
Name of cookie: xtc	Expiry period: Persistent - 2 years	Purpose: Social networking	Description: Records user sharing and social activity, on behalf of AddThis which is owned and operated by Clearspring Technologies. AddThis is a content sharing platform which gives end users a way to share content across the social web, and provides analytics to publishers.

Marketing, targeted advertising cookies – 0 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.

Detailed information on all of the cookies in this policy can be downloaded separately.