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What is a Cookie?
A cookie, also know as a HTTP cookie, web cookie or browser cookie, is a small text file that a website asks a browser to store for future use. The website can then ask the browser for this file in the future. Cookies are designed to allow websites to reliably store your details and preferences, so you do not have to enter them every time you visit a site; they are also used for operational reasons like remembering the items in your shopping cart or if you are logged in. Cookies are also used by sites to track your progress though a site to enable them to help improve the user experience.
Our Cookies
The main cookies we use are Google analytical cookies; They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors arriving at our site, how they found us & where they came from. They also allow us to see how our visitors utilise our site while using it. We then use this data to make changes to hopefully improve the way the website works and improve the experience for our visitors e.g. Visitors can find the pages and or items they are searching for.
1) Google Analytics - This allows us to track how visitors use our site for future improvements, all information is collected in an anonymous form.
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- Get more information
- Google Analytics Privacy Policy. You can choose to opt out of Google Analytics.
2) DoubleClick.net (Google) - We use Adsense advertising provided by Google on this site to help pay for its annual running costs. “Google uses the DoubleClick cookies to serve more relevant ads across the web and limit the number of times a given ad is shown to you. When you visit a website, view an ad, or click an ad supported by Googles advertising services, they may set a cookie on your browser. This advertising cookie will appear in your browser as coming from the domain doubleclick.net” Google states the information is not personally identifiable to you - these are third party cookies automatically produced by Google and unfortunately we have not control over them
- Cookies will be marked in your browser as coming from doubleclick.net and not us.
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- Permanently Opt out of Googles advertising via its dedicated tool
- Google Adsense Privacy Policy. You can choose to opt out of Google Adsense.
3) Amazon.co.uk - We have an integrated amazon shop offering products related to our site, We have this to earn commission to help pay for its annual running costs. “Amazon will place cookies on your machine to allow it to track your progress though its shop and to enable ti to pass any commission on purchases back to us”
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- Get more information on Amazons privacy policy.
- We have no access or control of any third party cookies that are operated by amazon.co.uk
How can I Manage Cookies on my Web Browser?
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