Cookies Statement

Cookies are very small text files that are stored on your computer when you visit some websites. They are commonly used to retain settings or other features ready for your next visit.

We use cookies to make our website easier for you to use. We will only read or write cookies for the preference level set by you. Please note that cookies set prior to you changing your settings will still be on your computer, but you can remove them using your browser settings.

Strictly necessary Cookies

‘Strictly Necessary’ cookies let you move around the website and use essential features like secure areas and shopping baskets. These cookies don’t gather any information about you that could be used for marketing, and they don’t remember where you’ve been on the internet.

We use Strictly Necessary cookies to:

Remember things like information you’ve entered on order forms when you navigate to different pages in a single web browser session

Make sure you connect to the right service on our website when we make any changes to the way the website works

Allow you to opt in or out of functionality

Accepting these cookies is a condition of using the website, so if you prevent these cookies we can’t guarantee your security or predict how our website will perform during your visit.

Google Analytics Cookies

We use Google Analytics on this site to understand how it is used so that we can continually improve the content and organisation in order to ensure that all visitors can find the content they require quickly and effectively. 

 

Cookie Name Cookies Source Function
iao.wordpressCookiesOK WordPress Cookies to acknowledge consent to collect site monitoring analytics or disable them
ga-disable-G Google Analytics Cookie to disable use of collect site monitoring analytics
_ga Google Analytics This is the main cookie used by Google Analytics, and enables us to distinguish unique visitors to our website. Any site that implements Google Analytics, including Google services, uses the _ga cookie
_gid Google Analytics This cookie is used for Google Analytics to store and update a unique value for each page visited
_gat Google Analytics This cookie is used for Google Analytics to control (throttle) data request rate 
_ga_<container-id> Google Analytics Used to persist session state with Google Analytics.

 

Full details on the cookies set by Google Analytics are published on the Google website.

Cookies set by Google Analytics

If required you can opt out of Google Analytics using the buttons below 

Allow Google Analytics?

Yes

No

  This function will set cookies to acknowledge consent (Cookie iao.wordpressCookiesOK) to collect site monitoring analytics or disable them (Cookie ga-disable-G).

Google also publishes a browser add-on to that provides website visitors with the ability to prevent their data from being used/collected by Google Analytics Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on