Cookies and how they Benefit You

Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites

Our cookies help us:

  • Make our website work as you’d expect
  • Save you having to login every time you visit the site
  • Remember your settings during and between visits
  • Improve the speed/security of the site
  • Making our shopping basket and checkout work
  • Determining if you are logged in or not

There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use our site.

We do not use cookies to:

  • Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
  • Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
  • Pass data to advertising networks
  • Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
  • Pay sales commissions

 You can learn more about all the cookies we use below:

On some of our systems we use a cookie called “_RequestVerificationToken” to help protect you against a specific form of malicious attack called Cross Site Request Forgery. Searching for this term will reveal a wealth of information about this potential vulnerability, and how it is closed through the use of cookies.

Table of Cookies Used

ItemCookiePurpose
Security_RequestVerificationTokenThis to help protect you against a specific form of malicious attack called cross Site Request Forgery
Functional CookiesASP.NET_SessionldThese cookies are used to enable core site functionality. They do not contain any personal information and are automatically deleted when you close your browser.
Google Analytics_utma
(730 Days)

_utmb
_utmc
(Less than one day)

_utmz
(182 days)
This cookie keeps track of the number of times a visitor has been to the site pertaining to the cookie, when their first visit was, and when their last visit occurred.


These cookies define the arrival time and departure time of a visitor to a page


This cookie keeps track of where each visitor has come and where they were in the world when they accessed this website

Granting us permission to use cookies

If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect.

The data collected is only used to identify browsing patterns and so help us provide an improved service for visitors to our website. No personal details are collected in the process, and in any case, we will never pass on such detail even if it were available (unless ordered by a court to do so).

No action is required on your part if you are happy for us to continue to collect non-personal data on browsing patterns for the purpose of improving our website.