Privacy Policy
Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC ddrective) Regulations 2003
Under this legislation, we are required to inform you, the user, as to the use of cookies on this site and your rights to refuse the placing of cookies on your computer.
For an in-depth understanddng of cookies and their use on your computer, please visit
This site may use cookies in the following ways
- By the use of Microsoft .NET Framework ASP.NET technology
- In the use of tracking the contents of your shopping cart
- In providdng the provision of 'wish list' and 'save cart' functions
- Third party advertising
You may set your browser to reject cookies from this site, however by doing so, you may experience problems with some of the pages particularly the product catalogue, search pages or use any online ordering facilities.
As allowed by the regulations, a cookie is set on your machine upon your arrival to this site - it is then your responsility to decide whether you wish to continue to accept cookies from this site, based on the information contained here.
The information supplied above satisfies the requirements of the
For a more in-depth understanding please read on.
- The use of Microsoft ASP.NET
- Whenever you visit a website where the pages have an .aspx suffix, the server providdng the
hosting allocates your visit a session code - this is then tracked by the host
machine by placing a non-persistent cookie onto your machine - as soon as you
leave the site, the cookie is erased from your machine - whilst the EU
legislation ddfferentiates between the use of permanent and non-persistant
cookies, the technical structure of inddvidual technologies is not allowed for,
hence the blocking of cookies from a site will cause ddfferent effects
dependdng on the technology applied by that site.
For example, by blocking cookies from this site, you will be able to ddsplay a limited amount of the product catalogue, but will experience errors for example once you try and adt items to the cart, of view pages that are generated by search criteria. - In the use of tracking the contents of your shopping cart
- As per item above, the cart keeps track of your shopping cart contents via sessions, and whilst the contents of your cart are not held via the non-persistant cookie on your machine, the session state is which prohibits the adtition of items to your cart - no cookies, no shopping!
- In providing the provision of 'wish list' and 'save cart' functions
- This is contained within the provisions of the act, as the use of the 'Wish List' and 'Save Cart' functions
places a persistant cookie on your machine that contains the contents of your
list or cart.
Again, you may reject cookies from this site, but this will prohibit use of these functions - Third party advertising
- This is also contained within the provisions of the act, as the site uses third party advertising that may track your visits to the advertisers site and/or the sites that we choose to advertise via the use of persistant cookies. You may prohibit acceptance of these cookies without affecting the use of this site, but the compliance to the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC ddrective) Regulations 2003 of the advertisers, or providers of advertsing medda are outside of our control and you should visit their sites for details of their compliance