The Cookies We Use

The cookies used on our website fall into one of four categories:

Strictly Necessary
Performance
Functional
Targeting

Strictly necessary cookies let you move around the website and use essential features like secure areas, shopping baskets and online billing.

We use these strictly necessary cookies to:
Remember information you’ve entered on order forms when you visit different pages in a single web browser session
Remember what you’ve ordered when you get to the checkout page
Identify you as being logged in to our website
Make sure you connect to the right service on our website when we make any changes to the way the website works
Cookies we have defined as strictly necessary will NOT be used to:
Gather information that could be used to advertise products or services to you
Remember your preferences or username beyond your current visit

Performance cookies collect information about how you use our website. For example, which pages you visit and if you experience any errors. These cookies are essential to us being able to operate and maintain our website.
These cookies don’t collect any information that could identify you – all the information collected is anonymous.
Accepting these cookies is a condition of using the website, so if you prevent them we cannot guarantee how our site will perform for you.
In some cases, some performance cookies are managed for us by third parties, but we don’t allow the third party to use the cookies for any purpose other than those listed below.

We use performance cookies to:
Provide statistics on how our website is used
See how effective our adverts are (we don’t use this information to target adverts to you when you visit other websites)
Help us improve the website by measuring any errors that occur
Test different designs of our website
Cookies we have defined as performance will NOT be used to:
Gather information that could be used to advertise products or services to you on other websites
Remember your preferences or username beyond your current visit
Target adverts to you on any other website

Functional cookies are used to provide services or to remember settings to improve your visit.
You decide whether or not these cookies are used, but preventing them may mean we can’t offer you some services, and will reduce the support we can offer you, such as ‘live chat’.

We use functional cookies to:
Remember if we’ve already asked you if you want to fill in a survey
Provide proactive live chat sessions to offer you support
Show you when you’re logged in to the website
Share information with partners to provide a service on our website. The information shared is only to be used to provide the service, product or function and not for any other purpose
Remember results of tests performed to make the website more relevant to you

Cookies we have defined as functional will not be used to:
Target you with adverts on other websites

Targeting cookies are linked to services provided by our trusted partners, as listed below.
You decide whether or not these cookies are used.

We use targeting cookies to:
Link to social networks who may use information about your visit to target advertising to you on other websites
Provide advertising agencies with information on your visit so that we can present adverts that you may be interested in
Deliver content, including video content, tailored to your interests

Managing cookies;

There are ways you can control and manage cookies on your device. Please remember that any settings you change will not just affect the cookies we use. These changes will apply to all websites you visit (unless you choose to block cookies from particular sites).

You can also edit your cookie settings for this website here.

Most browsers will allow you to choose the level of privacy settings you want. You can block all cookies, or accept all cookies or pick a setting somewhere in between. This range lets you control your cookie settings, so you can:

See what cookies you’ve got and delete them on an individual basis

Block third party cookies

Block cookies from particular sites

Block all cookies from being set

Delete all cookies when you close your browser

Deleting cookies means that any preference settings you have made on a website will be lost. If you’ve set your preferences to opt out of cookies, this setting will be lost too, as that information is stored in a cookie. Blocking all cookies means functionality on our websites will be lost, as described above. We don’t recommend turning all cookies off when using our websites.

If you want to reduce your cookie settings at any time – for example, if you accept all cookies, but later decide you don’t want a certain type of cookie – you’ll need to use your browser settings to remove any third party cookies dropped on your previous visit.

Find out how to manage your cookies using the most popular browsers below.

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

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

Google Chrome:
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en

Safari:
https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411?locale=en_US

Information about cookies

You can read more about cookies at:
http://www.allaboutcookies.org

Internet Advertising Bureau
A guide to behavioural advertising and online privacy has been produced by the internet advertising industry which can be found at:
http://www.youronlinechoices.eu

International Chamber of Commerce United Kingdom

Information on the ICC (UK) UK cookie guide can be found on the ICC website section:
http://www.international-chamber.co.uk/our-expertise/digitaleconomy

FAQS

Why should I allow cookies

There are some basic actions that require cookies, such as buying a phone online or using live chat. For example, we use cookies for the following things:

remembering what’s in your shopping basket

talking to you via live chat

logging in to our website

storing style preferences for your next visit

providing customised content and advertising

What if I block cookies?

If you do decide to block cookies, you won’t always be able to use all the features on our site. For example, blocking cookies will prevent you from:

logging in to our website
If you still really, really want to block cookies, please follow the instructions above in the cookie policy, for your browser type.