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Cookies 

What is a cookie?

Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information that a user’s device (computer, tablet or mobile) downloads when it visits a website. They allow the site to “remember” your computer, but not specifically who is using it, and improve your user experience. By associating the identification numbers in the cookies with other customer information when, for example, you log-in to the site, then we know that the cookie information relates to you

What is the scope of Cookies?

Cookies are used generally for different purposes, such as letting the user navigate between pages efficiently, implementing the user's preferences and generally improving their browsing experience, by customizing the website according to their navigation and user profile. They can also help ensure that the adverts that the user sees online are more relevant to them and their interests.

Session cookies
only last for the duration of a browsing session. They are usually used to facilitate the access to the services on our website, to authenticate you when you are a registered member, and to remember what a user has put in their shopping basket, and

Persistent cookies
which last for more than one visit. They are used to remember a user’s preferences and actions within the website. In this case, when a user returns to our website, or visits sites that use the same cookies, the site reads the cookies and identifies the user’s browser.

Among these cookies it is possible to refer to:

First party cookies
which are supplied by the website you are visiting, for example the cookies that maintain product in the shopping bag of a user while the user is still surfing the site. First party cookies can be either session or permanent cookies.

Third party cookies
which are meant to collect data on an anonymous way, for example analytics information, including browsing statistics. Other third party cookies are meant to track our visitors’ response to our online promotional activities. This technology uses information about your visits to our website and third parties' sites on which we advertise, to deliver relevant advertisements.

Type of cookie

How to Manage Your Cookie Preferences

At any time, you have the option to accept or decline the use of cookies/pixel tags by changing your browser application settings.

Most browser applications automatically accept cookies but you can set it to receive an alert each time an operator tries to send you cookies/pixel tags, and/or prevent it from accepting them. On most browsers, the “Help” portion of the toolbar will tell you how to prevent it from accepting cookies, how to have it notify you when you receive cookies/pixel tags, or how to disable cookies/pixel tags altogether.

Below are pages describing these settings in more detail for each browser:

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en-GB

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/cookies-information-websites-store-on-your-computer

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies

https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/en-ww/cookies/

http://help.opera.com/Linux/10.10/en/cookies.html