What Are Cookies
As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the sites functionality.
For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies.
How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately, in most cases, there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.
Disabling Cookies
You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.
The Cookies We Set
When you submit data to through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.
The following first party Cookies may be placed on your computer or device:
Name of Cookie | Purpose | Strictly Necessary |
PHPSESSID | A general-purpose identifier used to maintain user session variables, such as logged-in status for a user. | YES |
ContactID | Identifies you during the Checkout process | YES |
CookieConsent | Used to store your cookie consent status. | YES |
Third Party Cookies
In some special cases, we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.
The analytics service(s) used by Our Site use(s) the following Cookies:
Name of Cookie | First/Third Party | Provider | Purpose |
_ga | First | Google Analytics | Used to register a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how a visitor uses the website. |
_utma | First | Google Analytics | Collects data on the number of times a user has visited the website as well as dates for the first and most recent visit. Used by Google Analytics. |
_utmb | First | Google Analytics | Registers a timestamp with the exact time of when the user leaves the website. Used by Google Analytics to calculate the duration of a website visit. |
_utmc | First | Google Analytics | Registers a timestamp with the exact time of when the user leaves the website. Used by Google Analytics to calculate the duration of a website visit. |
_utmz | First | Google Analytics | Collects data on where the user came from, what search engine was used, what link was clicked and what search term was used. |
_utmt | First | Google Analytics | Used to throttle the speed of requests to the server. |
For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.