What Are Cookies?

What Are Cookies?

What are Cookies?

Cookies are little files created by websites to help them store information about your visit on your computer. They act as a kind of short term memory.

Most websites use cookies to some extent, whether it is to store the contents of your shopping cart or to keep you logged in to a members area.

New UK regulations coming into force in May 2012 require that you get a say whether or not a website can create these cookies.

Why do we use cookies?

Primarily we use cookies with our shopping cart area, where the cookies simply allow the browser to remember what you have added to your cart. These cookies are essential to the normal running of the shopping cart.

However, this website also uses cookies to help us analyse how people are using our website, in order for us to deduce what content is working and what needs to be changed. To do this we use a free analytics tool provided by Google (Google Analytics).

The information gathered by these cookies is totally anonymous and is not shared with any third party organisations, including Google themselves.

This information cannot be used for promotional, advertising or customisational purposes.

If you would rather that analytical cookies were disabled on this (and any other website that you visit) you can download and install a free plugin for your browser here.