Cookie Policy

Cookies and How They Benefit You

Our website uses cookies, as is common with most websites, to help deliver the best possible experience for you. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer or mobile device when you browse websites.

How Our Cookies Help

Our cookies allow us to:

  • Ensure the website works as you would expect
  • Save you from having to log in every time you visit
  • Remember your preferences during and between visits
  • Improve the speed and security of the site
  • Enable sharing of pages on social networks such as Facebook
  • Continuously improve our website for your benefit
  • Make our marketing more efficient, helping us to offer our services at competitive prices

Giving Us Permission to Use Cookies

If your browser settings are configured to accept cookies, we take this—along with your continued use of our website—as your consent to their use.

If you would prefer to disable or remove cookies from our site, you can find instructions on how to do so below. Please note that disabling cookies may prevent parts of the site from working as intended.

More Information About Our Cookies

We use cookies to ensure our website functions properly, including:

  • Making the shopping basket and checkout process work
  • Identifying whether you are logged in

There is no way to prevent these cookies from being set other than by choosing not to use the website.

Third-Party Functionality

Like many websites, our site includes features provided by third parties. Please refer to the sections below for an overview of the cookies we use.

Social Media Cookies

To make it easy for you to like or share our content on platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, we have included social sharing buttons on our website. These services may set cookies themselves.

The privacy implications of these cookies vary between social networks and depend on the privacy settings you have selected on each platform.

Visitor Statistics Cookies

We use cookies to collect anonymous visitor statistics, such as how many people visit our website, the type of technology they use (e.g. Mac or Windows), how long they stay on the site, and which pages they view.

This information helps us identify issues and continually improve our website. These analytics programs also show us how visitors found our site (for example, via a search engine) and whether they have visited before.

This allows us to focus more resources on improving our services rather than increasing marketing spend.

Turning Cookies Off

You can usually disable cookies by adjusting your browser settings to prevent them from being accepted. However, doing so may limit the functionality of this website and many others, as cookies are a standard feature of most modern websites.

If your concerns relate to so-called “spyware,” you may prefer to use anti-spyware software instead of disabling cookies entirely. Such software can automatically remove cookies considered to be intrusive.

You can learn more about managing cookies using anti-spyware tools online.

Cookie Information

Provider, cookie name, purpose, and type:

  • Microsoft ASP.NET
    • __RequestVerificationToken (Expiry: Session)
      This is a security cookie used to protect your website against CSRF attacks (Cross-Site Request Forgery).
    • ASP.NET_SessionId (Expiry: Session)
      This is a session management cookie that identifies a user’s current session on the server and lets the website remember things like logged-in state and basket contents. It does not store personal data itself; it only stores a session ID.
  • Mace Systems
    • maceBasket
      Handles the functionality of the shopping basket.