What are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.
To purchase products on our websites you need to have cookies enabled. Most web browsers have cookies enabled, but see Managing cookies for help to turn them on should you need to.
Cookies are commonly used on the Internet and do not harm your computer. We don't store personally identifiable information such as credit card details in cookies we create, but we do use encrypted information gathered from the cookies to help improve your experience of the site. For example, they help us to identify and resolve errors.
We're giving you this information as part of our initiative to comply with recent legislation, and to make sure we're honest and clear about your privacy when using our websites. We will continue to focus on our website privacy and ensure you are kept fully informed.
Our Cookies Policy
Our cookies don't store sensitive information such as your name, address or payment details. However, if you'd prefer to restrict, block or delete cookies from our websites, or any other website, you can use your browser to do this. Each browser is different, so check the 'Help' menu of your particular browser (or your mobile phone's handset manual) to learn how to change your cookie preferences.
Here's a list of the main cookies we use, and what we use them for.
| Cookie name | Cookie Purpose |
|---|---|
| Session Id cookie _utmz, _utmc, _utmb, _utma, PHPSESSIS | This cookie allows our web servers to respond to your actions on the website. |
| Online Quote Engine session cookies CFTOKEN, CFID | This session cookie is essential for visitors obtaining a quote and/or buying online. This ensures we capture the quote and purchase. It is set only for those people using the online quote engine and the cookie is deleted when you close your browser. |
| Google Analytics cookies | This cookie collects information about how visitors use our sites. This is used to compile reports and to help us improve the sites. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. |
Third Party Cookies
We may engage in advertising on other websites to promote our websites. The advertising partners we use may serve adverts that it believes are most likely to be of interest to you, based on information about your visit to this and other websites (this information is anonymous in that it does not include your name, street address, email address or telephone number). In order to do this, our advertising partner may need to place a cookie on your computer. For more information about this type of online behavioural advertising and how to opt out, please visit http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices.
The cookies used by our advertising partners and their purposes are outlined below.
| Cookie name | Cookie Purpose |
|---|---|
| DoubleClick Floodlight cookie Doubleclick.net id | This cookie allows us to capture and report on the actions of users who visit our website after viewing or clicking on one of our adverts on the DoubleClick Ad Serving platform. |
If you find other third party cookies have been set on your computer you will need to check the third-party websites for more information about their cookies and how to manage them. We do not control the setting of any other 3rd party cookies.