Cookies (not the type you eat!) and web analytics

This site uses cookies – small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience.

In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping baskets, and provide anonymised tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics. As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. We suggest consulting the Help section of your browser or taking a look at the About Cookies website which offers guidance for all modern browsers

Generally speaking, when you visit our Sites, there’s certain information that’s recorded which is generally anonymous information and may not reveal your identity. If you’re logged into your account some of this information could be associated with your account. We’re talking about the following kinds of details:

1. your IP or proxy server IP
2. basic domain information
3. your Internet service provider is sometimes captured depending on the configuration of your ISP connection
4. the date and time of your visit to the website
5. the length of your session
6. the pages which you have accessed
7. the number of times you access our site within any month;
8. the size of file you look at
9. the website which referred you to our Sites
10. the operating system which your computer uses.

Occasionally, we may use third party advertising companies to serve ads based on prior visits to some Sites. These advertising companies use cookies to anonymously collect data. No personally identifiable information is collected by these cookies. The anonymous data they collect is kept separate from the personal information about you as a user.