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What are Cookies?
Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use them 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 website’s functionality.
For more info, check out this 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 website. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies because disabling them might affect a service that you use.
FOW Cookie Policy (continued)
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. Switching off cookies will usually result in disabling certain functionality and features of this website. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.
The cookies we set
If you create an account with us then we will use cookies for the management of the signup process and general administration. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out, however in some cases, they may remain afterwards to remember your site preferences when logged out.
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We use cookies when you are logged in so that we can remember this fact. This prevents you from having to log in every single time you visit a new page. These cookies are typically removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features and areas when logged in.
This site offers newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.
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.
In order to provide you with a great experience on this site we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page is affected by your preferences.
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.
Third party cookies (continued)
This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the internet. Google Analytics helps us understand how you use this website so we can optimise and improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging and relevant content.
For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.
As we sell products, it's important for us to understand statistics about how many of the visitors to our website actually make a purchase and as such this is the kind of data that these cookies will track. This is important to you as it means that we can accurately make business predictions that allow us to monitor our advertising and product costs to ensure we offer the best possible prices.
We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this website that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work, the following social media sites including; Twitter (X), Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, and Pinterest, will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.
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Hopefully, that clarifies things for you. If there’s something you’re not sure you need, it’s usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it affects one or more of the features you use on this website.
We are here to help, so if you have any questions then head to our customer care page. Alternatively, you can chat with us using one of the methods below.
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: 01606 861 234
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