What is a Cookie?
Cookies are pieces of information that a website places on your device when you visit a website. Cookies may involve the transmission of information from us to you and from you directly to us, to another party on our behalf, or to another party in accordance with its privacy policy. We may use cookies to bring together information we collect about you. You can choose to have your device warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser settings. If you turn cookies off, you will not have access to many features that make your guest experience more efficient and some of our services will not function properly.
Please see the last section of this Cookies Policy for more information about how to manage or disable browser cookies.
Which Cookies do we use and why?
| Cookie Name | Cookie Purpose |
|---|---|
| __cfduid | Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic. |
| CookieConsent | Stores the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain |
| __stripe_mid, __stripe_sid | This cookie is necessary for making credit card transactions on the website. The service is provided by Stripe.com which allows online transactions without storing any credit card information. |
| m | Determines the device used to access the website. This allows the website to be formatted accordingly. |
| __cf_bm | This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website. |
| JSESSIONID | Preserves users states across page requests. |
| GCLB | This cookie is used in context with load balancing – This optimizes the response rate between the visitor and the site, by distributing the traffic load on multiple network links or servers. |
| wpml_browser_redirect_test, _icl_visitor_lang_js | Saves the user’s preferred language on the website. |
| _ga, _gid | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. |
| _gat | Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate |
| collect | Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor’s device and behavior. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels. |
| p.gif | Keeps track of special fonts used on the website for internal analysis. The cookie does not register any visitor data. |
| vuid | Collects data on the user’s visits to the website, such as which pages have been read. |
| _fbp, fr, tr | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. |
| InfusionsoftTrackingCookie | Collects data on user behaviour and interaction in order to optimize the website and make advertisement on the website more relevant. |
Session Cookie.
Our Subscription Website is built using the most common of all cookies, namely the ‘session cookie’. A session cookie allows your computer to remember each page you have visited on our Subscription Website and it is necessary for our Subscription Website to operate efficiently.
Without this session cookie, the Subscription Website would not be able to remember essential information such as your shopping basket or login details.
You can choose to have your device warn you each time a session cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser settings. If you turn cookies off, you will not have access to many features that make your guest experience more efficient and some of our services will not function properly.
Google Analytics Cookie.
We also use Google Analytics cookies for monitoring website traffic. It allows us to optimise our Subscription Website for search engines and evaluate how easy our site is to find on the web. This data is essential as it helps us to monitor how effective our marketing strategy has been. All Google Analytics information is recorded anonymously and does not provide or share any user-identifiable information. For more information, please see Google’s Privacy Policy.
WordPress Cookie.
Our Subscription Website also uses the popular WordPress blogging system. This system also requires the use of a cookie to store information about your page views and whether you are logged in. For more information, please see WordPress’s Cookie Policy.
Do I need to do anything?
No; if you agree with and consent to our cookies policy and usage, just continue to use our website. However, if you disagree, you can disable cookies in your browser. Instructions on how to do this can be found here: www.allaboutcookies.org
Please note, that if you do disable the use of cookies in your browser, it will prevent our site from functioning correctly.