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Cookie Policy

Cookie Policy

Our site uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our site. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our site and also allows us to improve our site.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.

We use the following cookies:

  • Strictly necessary cookies: these are cookies that are required for the operation of our site. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to use a shopping cart as part of placing an order with us.
  • Analytical/performance cookies: these cookies allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our site when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our site works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
Cookie Name Purpose More Information
Google Analytics (_utma, _utmb, _utmc, _utmz _ga_#, _gat, _gid) We use these cookies to collect information about how visitors use our site, in order to help us improve our site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to our site, where visitors have come to our site from and the pages they visited. The _gat cookie is used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate. Further information about these cookies is available at http://www.google.com/analytics/index.html and to understand how Google will use the data it collects, you can read more about this on Google's Privacy & Terms site by clicking here
_uetsid, _uetsid_exp Collects data on visitor behaviour from multiple websites, in order to present more relevant advertisement - This also allows the website to limit the number of times that they are shown the same advertisement.
_uetvid, _uetvid_exp Used to track visitors on multiple websites, in order to present relevant advertisement based on the visitor's preferences.
ASP.NET_SessionID, ASPSESSIONID This cookie allows us to recognise your session on our site. This cookie will expire when you exit your browser.
_ga Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.
[Guid]_Viewed, [Guid]_Dismissed, .AspNet.Consent
We use these cookie values to not show you pop ups we have already shown you so we don’t interrupt your browsing unnecessarily

_gcl_au This is used by Google AdSense to experiment with advertising efficiency across websites that use their services.
X-Mapping- This cookie allows us to recognise your session on our site.
.AspNetCore This cookie helps us to keep the site secure.
_clck, _clsk Collects data on the user's navigation and behavior on the website. This is used to compile statistical reports and heatmaps for the website owner.

How to Disable Cookies

Chrome

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Safari

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Firefox

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Internet Explorer

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Apple Devices

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Android

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