What are cookies?

A cookie is a piece of information in the form of a small text file that is generated and set by our website and placed on your computer’s hard drive.

Cookies make your interaction with our website faster and easier. Without cookies, it would be very difficult for our website to remember your preferences or registration details between each web page you use and between each time you visit the site.

They are not computer programs, and they can’t be executed as code. Cookies cannot access any information on your computer – so a cookie cannot read any other information saved there such as your email address for example.  We do not use cookies for identifying shopping habits or targeting advertising.

We use cookies mainly because they save you time and make your browsing experience more efficient and enjoyable. Without cookies you will have to reset your preferences on each page you visit.  We also use cookies to record anonymous statistics on which parts of the website are popular and how many different people visit the site.

To find out more information about cookies generally, visit All About Cookies.

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What happens if I allow cookies?

Unless you opt out of cookies, we will set a number of cookies on your computer to assist you when using the website and improve your user experience. With any future visits to our website, you will not be prompted with the notice.

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What happens if I decline cookies?

If you do not accept cookies, this will remove all the cookies that are surplus to the basic functionality of this website, and we will not set them again on your machine.  This may affect your user experience.  Unfortunately, because cookies are the only way we have of remembering your preferences, we will have to ask this question on each page you visit; each time you visit our website.

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Cookies on our website

We use cookies for a number of reasons on our website, including; keeping any settings you changed for accessibility, counting visitor numbers and counting social sharing numbers. We use the following cookies on our website:

Name of Cookie

hs

Type of Cookie

HTTP

Reason for Cookie

Necessary

Description

Ensures visitor browsing-security by preventing cross-site request forgery. This cookie is essential for the security of the website and website.

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Name of Cookie

Ssr-caching

Type of Cookie

HTTP

Reason for Cookie

Necessary

Description

This cookie is necessary for the cache function. A cache is used by the website to optimise the response time between the visitor and the website. The cache is usually stored on the visitor’s browser.

 

Name of Cookie

XSRF-TOKEN

Type of Cookie

HTTP

Reason for Cookie

Necessary

Description

Ensures visitor browsing-security by preventing cross-site request forgery. This cookie is essential for the security of the website and visitor

 

Name of Cookie

bSession                     

Type of Cookie

HTTP

Reason for Cookie

Analytics

Description

Sets a unique ID for the session. This allows the website to obtain data on visitor behaviour for statistical purposes.

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Name of Cookie

Fedops.logger.sessionld

Type of Cookie

HTML

Reason for Cookie

Analytics

Description

Registers statistical data on user’s behaviour on the website. Used for internal analytics by the website operator.

Name of Cookie

svSession

Type of Cookie

HTTP

Reason for Cookie

Marketing

Description

A session cookie stores your browsing information and is active until you leave the site and close your browser after which it is deleted.