Use of cookies
This website uses so-called "cookies", which are small information files that are temporarily or permanently stored on your computer or other device by the server of a website via the browser and simplify, complete or personalise the use of the website.
By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google.
You can deactivate the storage of cookies in your browser or delete stored cookies, but this may result in limited functionality, delays or unusability of certain parts of the website.
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Which cookies do we use and why?
In general, our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users on our website. This helps us to improve your user experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our website.
The cookies used on our website are categorised as follows:
- Strictly necessary cookies
- Performance cookies
- Functionality cookies
- Targeting cookies
Strictly necessary cookies
"Strictly necessary" cookies enable you to move around the website and use essential features such as secure areas and shopping baskets. Without these cookies, we cannot provide the services you have requested.
We use these strictly necessary cookies to:
- Identify and authenticate you as logged in to our website;
- ensure that you connect to the correct service on our website when we change the way the website works;
- identify these added items when you return to our website;
- for security reasons.
Accepting these cookies is a condition of use for the website, so if you block these cookies we cannot guarantee how the website or the security of our website will function during your visit.
Performance cookies
"Performance" cookies collect information about how you use our website, such as which pages you visit and whether errors occur. These cookies do not collect any information that could identify you and are only used so that we can improve the functionality of our website, understand what interests our users have and measure the effectiveness of our advertising.
We use the performance cookies to:
- Perform web analytics; compile statistics on how our website is used;
- perform affiliate tracking; provide feedback to affiliates that one of our visitors has also visited their website;
- make it easier for us to improve the website by measuring errors that occur;
- test different designs for the website.
Some of our performance cookies are managed for us by third parties. We do not allow third parties to use the cookies for any purpose other than those listed below.
By using our website or expressing your consent as otherwise required by applicable law, you consent to the use of "performance" cookies. Accepting these cookies is a condition of use for the website, if you block these cookies we cannot guarantee how the website will function in your case.
Functionality cookies
"Functionality" cookies are used to provide services or save settings in order to improve your visit.
We use the "functionality" cookies to:
- Save settings you have used, such as layout, text size, preferences and colours;
- remember whether we have already enquired whether you would like to take part in a survey;
- remember if you have engaged with a particular component or product list on the website so that we do not display it again.
- show you when you have logged in to the website;
- provide and show embedded video content.
Some of these cookies are managed for us by third parties. We do not allow third parties to use the cookies for any purpose other than those listed below.
We use the following cookies
- __utma, Google, Performance, lifetime: unlimited. This cookie contains information about when the visitor first visited the site, how often they visited it and when they last visited it.
- __utmb, Google, performance, lifespan: until the end of the session. This cookie contains a timestamp of when the visitor accessed the page. Together with __utmc, this cookie can provide information about how long the visitor has been on a page.
- __utmc, Google, performance, lifetime: 30 minutes. This cookie contains a timestamp of when the visitor left the page. Together with __utmb, this cookie can provide information about how long the visitor has been on a page.
- __utmk, Google, performance, lifespan: unlimited. This cookie contains a hash value of all the UTM cookies mentioned here.
- __utmt, Google, performance, lifetime: 10 minutes. Indicates what type of request was made. (Can be event, transaction, item or custom variable. If no info is given, it is a simple pageview).
- __utmv, Google, performance, lifetime: unlimited. This cookie is intended for individual content, can be freely assigned and is therefore used to control user-defined analyses.
- __utmx, Google, performance, lifespan: 2 years. This cookie contains values from the Google Website Optimiser.
- __utmz, Google, performance, lifespan: 6 months. This cookie contains information about where the visitor came from before accessing the page to be analysed. It may, for example, contain information about search engines and the search terms entered there or where on earth the calling IP address is located.
- _ga, Google, performance, lifespan: 2 years. Used to distinguish users.
- _gat, Google, performance, lifetime: 10 minutes. Is used to create tracker objects.
- _gid, Google, performance, lifetime: 24 hours. Used to distinguish users.