Strictly necessary cookies

These are cookies which are needed for our websites, applications or services to function properly, for example, these cookies allow you to access secure areas of our website or to remember what you have put into your shopping basket.

Performance cookies and analytics technologies

These cookies collect information about how visitors and users use our websites, applications and services, for instance which functionality visitors use most often, and if they get error messages from areas of the websites, applications or services. These cookies don't collect information that identifies a visitor or user directly. We only use these cookies to improve how our website, applications and services work.

Functionality cookies

These cookies allow our websites, applications and services to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customise. They may also be used to provide services you have asked for. The information these cookies collect may be anonymised and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.

Targeting or advertising cookies

These cookies are used to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the website operators' permission. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organisations such as advertisers. Quite often targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organisation.

Web beacons, tags and parameter tracking

We also use cookies and similar software known as web beacons and tags to track where users have visited our website after clicking through from one of our advertisements on another website or in emails and to collect details of any products or services purchased and other key user actions and events. These web beacons and tags collect limited information which may sometimes include information which identifies particular users. It is not possible to refuse the use of web beacons and tags. However, because they are used in conjunction with cookies, you can effectively disable them by setting your browser to restrict or block cookies or by opting out of Performance Cookies through the Cookies Settings link.

Web beacons, tags and parameter tracking

We also use cookies and similar software known as web beacons and tags to track where users have visited our website after clicking through from one of our advertisements on another website or in emails and to collect details of any products or services purchased and other key user actions and events. These web beacons and tags collect limited information which may sometimes include information which identifies particular users. It is not possible to refuse the use of web beacons and tags. However, because they are used in conjunction with cookies, you can effectively disable them by setting your browser to restrict or block cookies or by opting out of Performance Cookies through the Cookies Settings link.

IP Address, device tracking and traffic data

We keep a record of traffic data which is logged automatically by our servers, such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address, device information, the website that you visited before ours and the website you visit after leaving our site. This may include using certain masked (unidentifiable) data to track where users switch between different devices when accessing the website. We also collect some site, application and service statistics such as access rates, page hits and page views. We are not able to identify any individual from traffic or device tracking data or site statistics.