- Category 1: strictly necessary cookies
- Category 2: performance cookies
- Category 3: functionality cookies
- Category 4: targeting cookies or advertising cookies
CATEGORY 1: STRICTLY NECESSARY COOKIES
At times we may use technology to track information and the patterns of behaviour of visitors to our website. This may include using a cookie internet file, a file that is sent by our website server to your computer, which we can access when you make return visits to our website. Only to enhance the performance of website.
Storing cookies is a usual practice for our website that needs to remember what its users’ preferences are and we use cookies to keep track of your selections on the website.
You can make changes to your browser to prevent this happening (visit www.aboutcookies.org for more information on this)
If you choose not to receive cookies, you may still use most of the features on our website, including the ability to purchase items and interact with us.
In line with the ICC UK Cookie Guide, four types of cookies function online:
Strictly important and necessary cookies.
These cookies are important and essential in order to enable you to navigate around the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the website. Without the essential cookies services you have asked for, like shopping baskets or e-billing, cannot be provided.
CATEGORY 2: PERFORMANCE COOKIES
These cookies collect important information about how visitors use a website, for example which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies do not collect information that show a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how a website works.
CATEGORY 3: FUNCTIONALITY COOKIES
These cookies inform the website to remember choices you make (for example your user name, language or the region you are in) and improve and enhance personalised features. For instance, a website may be able to provide you with local information of reports or traffic news by storing in a cookie the area in which you are currently located. The cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can change to suit your requirements. They can also be used to provide services you have asked for example as watching a video or commenting on a blog. The information which the cookies collect could be anonymised and will not track your browsing activity on other websites.
CATEGORY 4: TARGETING COOKIES OR ADVERTISING COOKIES
These cookies have been in place to deliver adverts and information which are to your interests. They can also be used to limit the number of times you may see an advertisement and help with the measure of effectiveness the advertising campaigns can have. They are mostly placed by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission. They capture information to remember that you have visited a website and then this information is shared with other organisations such as advertisers. Most often targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organization and any other relevant information. https://www.cookielaw.org/media/1096/icc_uk_cookiesguide_revnov.pdf You are able to delete previous cookies from your web browser and choose not to receive cookies in the future. This can be done by following the steps of editing your web browser options. Please be aware that if you disable cookies, certain functionality of the website will be affected.
