WHAT COOKIES DO WE USE?
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| Essential | These cookies are essential to the basic operation of the website and cannot be disabled because the website will not function without them. These cookies are essential to the basic operation of the website and cannot be disabled because the website will not function without them.
They are used for various functions that allow the website to operate, including:
Security functions including;
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| Functional | These cookies make your shopping experience easier. They enable basic functions such as seeing recently viewed products or searches.
Switching off these cookies will mean that areas of our website won’t work properly. They are used for various functions to improve your shopping experience such as:
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| Personalisation | These cookies help us to learn what you’re interested in so we can show you relevant content while you shop on our site. Switching off these cookies will mean you see a generic version of the website, rather than content which is more relevant to you
They are used for various functions to tailor our website to your preferences and interests, including:
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| Analytics | These cookies gather information such as how many people are using our site or which pages are popular to help us improve customer experience. Switching off these cookies will mean we are less able to gather information to improve your experience.
They are used to help us understand how you interact with our website, products and/or services so that we can better understand your needs. For example, we collect and analyse information about:
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| Advertising | These cookies help us to learn what you’re interested in so we can show you relevant adverts on other websites. Switching off these cookies will mean you will see generic advertising on other websites, rather than ads which are most relevant to you.
They are used to:
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| NAME | DESCRIPTION | CATEGORY | EXPIRY |
| ASP.NET_SessionId | General purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written with Microsoft .NET based technologies. Usually used to maintain an anonymised user session by the server. | Strictly necessary | End of browser session |
| AWSALBCORS | This cookie is managed by AWS and is used for load balancing. AWS Classic Load Balancer Cookie: Load Balancing Cookie: Used to map the session to the instance. Same value as AWSELB. | Strictly necessary | End of browser session |
| AWSELB | AWS Classic Load Balancer Cookie: Load Balancing Cookie: Used to map the session to the instance. | Strictly necessary | 1 day |
| AWSALB | Registers which server-cluster is serving the visitor. This is used in context with load balancing, in order to optimize user experience. AWS Classic Load Balancer Cookie: Load Balancing Cookie: Used to map the session to the instance. Same value as AWSELB. | Strictly necessary | 1 day |
| AWSALBTG | AWS Application Load Balancer Cookie: Load Balancing Cookie: Used to encode information about the selected target group. | Strictly necessary | End of browser session |
| AWSALBTGCORS | AWS Application Load Balancer Cookie. Load Balancing Cookie: It includes the same information as the original stickiness cookie plus this SameSite attribute. | Strictly necessary | End of browser session |
| __CookieConsent* | A JavaScript plugin that alerts users of the use of cookies on this website. | Strictly necessary | 90 days |
| _ga | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics – which is a significant update to Google’s more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners | Performance | 2 years |
| _gid | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This appears to be a new cookie and as of Spring 2017 no information is available from Google. It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited. | Performance | 24 hours |
| _gat | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics, according to documentation it is used to throttle the request rate – limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. It expires after 10 minutes. | Performance | 1 minute |
| vuid | This domain is owned by Vimeo. The main business activity is: Video Hosting/Sharing |
Targeting | 2 years |
| __cf_bm | This is a CloudFoundry cookie | Functionality | 0 |
| CONSENT | YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. | Targeting | 17 years |
| YSC | YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. |
Targeting | Session |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | This cookie is used as a unique identifier to track viewing of videos |
Targeting | 6 months |
