What are cookies?
Cookies are small data files placed on your computer or other internet-enabled device that enable our features and functionality. They allow us to record information when you visit or interact with our websites, products and services (collectively, our “Website”).
How do we use cookies?
We use cookies to make our Website easier to use and to better tailor them to your interests and needs. We use the information we obtain from cookies to carry out profiling activities in order to compile anonymous, aggregated information that allow us to better understand our customers and visitors.
What kinds of cookies and tracking technologies do we use?
Session & Persistent Cookies
We use two categories of cookies: Session cookies and Persistent cookies and session cookies.
Session Cookies: These cookies store information about the activities users perform during a single session. They are used to persist data about your activities as you browse through a site but are erased at the end of your session.
Persistent Cookies: You’ll also hear these referred to as tracking cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your hard drive until they expire or are erased. These are often used to manage user preferences over longer periods of time.
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics which is a web analytics tool that helps us understand how users engage with our Websites. Like many services, Google Analytics uses first-party cookies to track user interactions as in our case, where they are used to collect information about how users use our Website. This information is used to compile reports and to help us improve our Websites. The reports disclose website trends without identifying individual visitors.
Why do we use cookies?
We generally use cookies that are necessary or essential to the functioning of our Website and cookies that help us improve the performance or customize the functionality of our Website. The types of cookies described below may be set by us to assist us in performing the below functions. Specifically, we use cookies for the following reasons:
- Strictly Necessary: These cookies and tracking technologies let you navigate our Website and use essential features, including secure areas and shopping baskets. Without these technologies, we are unable to deliver core functionality of our Website, products and services to you.
- Performance: These cookies and tracking technologies help us understand how customers and visitors interact with our Websites. They provide us with information about areas of our website visited, time spent on our Websites and any error messages you receive, allowing us to improve the performance of our Websites. They do not collect any information that could identify you.
- Functional: These cookies and tracking technologies are used to provide certain services or to remember settings that will improve your visit, but are not essential to your use of our Websites. They may include personal information that you have disclosed to us.
How can I control cookies?
Internet browsers allow you to change your cookie settings via the “options’ or “preferences” menu in your browser. Please note that if you set your browser to refuse or block all cookies, certain features or functionalities of our Websites will be limited or unavailable to you.
Some internet browsers include the ability to transmit “do not track” signals. Because no industry standard has yet been developed with respect to “do not track,” our Websites do not currently process or respond to such “do not track” signals.
You can opt out of Google Analytics without affecting how you visit our site. For more information on opting out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites you use, visit this Google page: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
To learn how to manage privacy and storage settings for Flash cookies, visit http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html.
Further information about deleting and blocking cookies can be found at http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
