Cookie Policy
1. What are Cookies?
1.1. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.
1.2. Cookies allow us to distinguish you from other users of our site, which helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our site and also allows us to improve our site.
1.3. We use the following cookies:
• Strictly necessary cookies: These are required for the operation of our site. Their functions include: enabling you to log into secure areas of our site, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
• Analytical/performance cookies: These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors to our site and to see how they move around our site when using it. This information helps us to improve the way our site works, for example by ensuring users can find what they are looking for easily.
• Functionality cookies: These are used to recognise you when you return to our site. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
• Targeting cookies: These record your visit to our site, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We may use this information to make our site and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interest. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
2. Cookies on Our Site
2.1. The individual cookies we use on our site and the purposes for which we use them are set out in the table below:
Cookie name
Duration of cookie
What it does
ASPSESSIONIDXXXXXXXX
Session
This is an ASP session cookie that identifies your current session with the server. This cookie does not contain any content other than the session ID (indicated in the cookie name by “XXXXXXXX”)
Vsettings
Session
This cookie stores any site settings for that session. This cookie does not contain any content other than the session settings. For example, if you choose to display 24 results per page on Search Results and Category pages, this cookie will store that setting throughout your browsing experience.
Slt
Session
This cookie is a session login token that gets set when you log in to the store. It is necessary for you to be able to log in to the store and allows you to check out as a returning customer. This cookie is only set when the you login, and is not set if you are returning to an active session.
CartID5
This cookie allows you to add items to the cart. This cookie is required in order for the shopping cart to function, and without this cookie you would not be able to proceed to the checkout page.
This cookie allows you to add items to the cart. This cookie is required in order for the shopping cart to function, and without this cookie you would not be able to proceed to the checkout page.
History50
Session
This cookie stores the ProductIDs of the last items viewed by you at the store. This cookie is used to control the My Recent History functionality.
atuvc
Session
This cookie comes from AddThis. The store’s integration with AddThis allows share buttons (Twitter, Email, Google+, etc.) to appear beneath the product image.
Referrer
Session
This cookie comes from AddThis. The store’s integration with AddThis allows share buttons (Twitter, Email, Google+, etc.) to appear beneath the product image.
AffiliateID
Session
Affiliates Only: This cookie is used to tell the store which Affiliate should get credit/commission for items purchased through the Affiliate link.
AffiliateTrackedToday
Session
Affiliates Only: This cookie is used to ensure that the affiliate link does not get click-through credit on each page load (allowing the Affiliate to get credit for a single click-through, even if the customer browses many pages of the store).
VCompareIDs
Session
This is the key of the LocalStorage object used by the Product Comparison feature. This LocalStorage will store the product codes of the products whose Compare boxes are checked when you are browsing the store. This allows you to compare your desired products when the click Compare to open the product comparison pop-up.
3. Blocking Cookies
You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.
4. Third Party Cookies
Please note that our advertisers may also use cookies and we have no control over this.
