INFORMATION ABOUT OUR USE OF COOKIES
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.
We use the following cookies:
- Strictly necessary cookies.
- These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
- Analytical/performance cookies.
- They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
- Functionality cookies.
- These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
- Targeting cookies.
- These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests.
The table below explains the cookies we use and why.
| Cookie name | Provider | Purpose | Category | Typical duration | 1st/3rd party |
| wordpress_test_cookie | WordPress | Checks whether cookies are enabled | Strictly necessary | Session | First-party |
| wordpress_[hash] | WordPress | Auth cookie used for admin area | Strictly necessary | Session | First-party |
| wordpress_logged_in_[hash] | WordPress | Indicates you’re logged in/who you are | Strictly necessary | Session | First-party |
| wp-settings-{UID}, wp-settings-time-{UID} | WordPress | Stores admin UI/front-end preferences for logged-in users | Preferences | Up to 1 year | First-party |
| wpEmojiSettingsSupports | WordPress | Determines if user’s browser can display emojis | Strictly necessary | Session | First-party |
| woocommerce_cart_hash | WooCommerce | Helps WooCommerce know if cart data changes | Functionality / E-commerce | Session | First-party |
| woocommerce_items_in_cart | WooCommerce | Records items in the cart | Functionality / E-commerce | Session | First-party |
| wp_woocommerce_session_[hash] | WooCommerce | Unique code linking visitors to cart/sessions | Functionality / E-commerce | 2 days | First-party |
| woocommerce_recently_viewed | WooCommerce | Shows recently viewed products | Functionality / E-commerce | Session | First-party |
| _ga, _ga_* | Google Analytics 4 | Distinguishes users/sessions for analytics | Analytics | Up to 2 years | First-party |
| _gid | Google Analytics | Distinguishes users over 24 hours | Analytics | 24 hours | First-party |
| __stripe_mid, __stripe_sid, m | Stripe | Fraud prevention and secure payments | Strictly necessary | Up to 1 year | Third-party |
| cookieyes-consent / cmplz_* | Cookie banner tool | Stores your cookie preferences | Preferences | 1 year | First-party |
| pmpro_visit | PaidMemberships Pro | Manages user memberships and access | Strictly necessary | Session | First-party |
| sbjs_migrations | Sourcebuster | Identifies source of visit, stores user actions | Analytics / Behavioural | Session | First-party |
| sbjs_current_add | Sourcebuster | Identifies source of visit, stores user actions | Analytics / Behavioural | Session | First-party |
| sbjs_first_add | Sourcebuster | Identifies source of visit, stores user actions | Analytics / Behavioural | Session | First-party |
| sbjs_current | Sourcebuster | Identifies source of visit, stores user actions | Analytics / Behavioural | Session | First-party |
| sbjs_first | Sourcebuster | Identifies source of visit, stores user actions | Analytics / Behavioural | Session | First-party |
| sbjs_udata | Sourcebuster | Identifies source of visit, stores user actions | Analytics / Behavioural | Session | First-party |
| sbjs_session | Sourcebuster | Identifies source of visit, stores user actions | Analytics / Behavioural | ~1 hour | First-party |
| __cf_bm | Cloudflare (via WP Engine) | Supports bot management/security | Strictly necessary | ~30 minutes | Third-party |
Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control and we cannot accept any liability for the third party’s compliance with its legal obligations. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies:
Details of third parties
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