Cookies Policy

Cookies Policy

What are Cookies?

A cookie is a small piece of data that a website stores on your device when you visit it. Cookies can be used for various purposes, such as remembering your preferences or keeping track of your login session.

Why are Cookies Used?

We use cookies to improve the functionality and user experience of our site. They help us remember your preferences, such as language settings or location, so that we can provide you with a more personalized experience.

Essential Cookies

Some cookies are essential for our website to function properly. These cookies enable core features like login sessions, secure authentication, and session handling.

• Session ID: This cookie is used to identify your active session on our site.
• Authentication Token: We use this token to securely authenticate your login credentials.
• Secure Flag: This flag indicates that the cookie is transmitted over a secure connection (HTTPS).

Session Cookies

These cookies are temporary and remain stored only until you close your browser. They help us keep track of your progress on our site, such as items in your shopping cart or your current session.

Persistent Cookies

Unlike session cookies, persistent cookies remain stored on your device even after you close your browser. These cookies can be used to remember your preferences for a longer period.

• Language Preference: We use this cookie to remember your preferred language setting.
• Location Setting: This cookie helps us determine your location or region based on your previous selections.

Functional Cookies

We also use functional cookies to provide you with an enhanced user experience. These cookies help us understand how users interact with our content, allowing us to make improvements and optimize the site for better performance.

• Page Views Counter: We use this cookie to count the number of times a page has been viewed.
• Click Tracking: This cookie helps us monitor which elements on our pages are most frequently clicked by visitors.

Analytics and Performance Cookies

In addition, we employ analytics cookies from trusted third-party providers like Google Analytics. These cookies help us understand your behavior on our site, enabling us to refine the user experience, improve performance, and optimize the content for better engagement.

• Google Analytics ID: This cookie allows us to monitor traffic patterns, page loading times, and other site metrics.
• Google Analytics Category IDs: We use these identifiers to segment data related to specific product categories or sections of our website.

Preference and Language Settings

We respect your right to customize your browsing experience. By changing the language settings on our site, you can determine which version of our content is displayed based on your preferences.

• Language Preference Cookie: This cookie stores your chosen language for subsequent visits.
• Location Setting Cookie: We use this cookie to adjust content and features based on your self-identified location or region.

Login/Session Continuity

For security reasons, we employ login session management using cookies. These ensure that you are securely logged in across multiple pages within our site while keeping track of the remaining time left for active sessions.

• Auth Token: This token authenticates each user during every new request from their browser.
• Refresh Token: We use this cookie to refresh authentication tokens periodically, ensuring your session remains secure and valid over extended periods.

Device Recognition

For personalized advertising, content recommendation services or targeted content may be enabled. To optimize the content served on our platform and provide a better user experience, device recognition may occur using cookies:

• User ID Cookie: This cookie allows us to associate actions performed by you across multiple browsers for optimization of experiences and advertising.
• Device Fingerprinting Cookies: We use these to identify users based on their unique browser configurations or usage patterns.

Security-Related Cookies

We place security-related cookies when required, such as encryption or two-factor authentication. These are essential for our site's functionality in ensuring that your session remains secure:

• Secure Flag Cookie: Indicates the presence of an active HTTPS connection.
• 2FA Token Cookie: Stores a temporary token used to facilitate two-factor authentication.

Browser Storage Technologies

Cookies work hand-in-hand with other browser storage technologies like LocalStorage, SessionStorage or IndexedDB for storing and managing website-related data.

We have been transparent about our cookies' purpose on this page. However, we also provide you with full control over cookie acceptance through your web browser settings:

How to Clear Cookies

The procedure will vary slightly depending upon the specific user agent/browser version you are currently using but should follow these steps:

• In Internet Explorer 9.x onwards click 'Tools', then select 'Internet Options'.

  a. Click on ‘Delete’ under the General tab.

  i. Navigate back to the general tab, find Cookies and make sure they're unchecked.

• Safari for Windows users (Apple's Mac OS X doesn't have this problem):

  1. Choose Edit > Preferences
  2. Then click Internet. Under Advanced choose the box labeled ‘Clear history when Firefox closes’
  3. Clearing cookies deletes your browsing history along with all other records, including login information and search histories.

• On Mozilla's own browser go to Options within Settings

  a. Look for ‘History’

  i. Ensure that they are set on at least one or several categories depending upon which ones you want to save or delete according to preference; there is no limit beyond three different groups available here so if possible please categorise yours first by clicking "Manage Saved Logins" located near top right of screen near corner icons when looking straight down

  b. Under privacy & Security choose: "Tracking control"i. Set 'Allow Sites To Use Cookies' slider button at extreme left (on)

Impact on Site Functionality When Cookies are Disabled

When you disable cookies, some features on our site may not function as intended:

• Logging in might require additional manual steps.
• Customizations like language settings won't be saved.

However, all areas of functionality that don't depend directly upon individual user data (like analytics and login sessions) will still operate correctly without interruptions.