Cookie Policy

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 or performance cookies. These 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. [We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose].

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the text below:

Woocommerce:

woocommerce_cart_hash
woocommerce_items_in_cart
wp_woocommerce_session_

These cookies are used to help generate the unique cart information for each user. They also help WooCommerce determine when cart contents/data changes.

More information

WordPress:

wordpress_[hash]
wordpress_logged_in_[hash]
wp-settings-{time}-[UID]

On login, WordPress uses the wordpress_[hash] cookie to store your authentication details. Its use is limited to the Administration Screen area, /wp-admin/
After login, WordPress sets the wordpress_logged_in_[hash] cookie, which indicates when you’re logged in, and who you are, for most interface use.
WordPress also sets a few wp-settings-{time}-[UID] cookies. The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users database table. This is used to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface.

More information

Facebook pixel

_fbp
_fbc

These cookies store and track visits across the site, the _fbc cookie is only set when a user arrives at the website from an Ad, and the destination URL includes the click identifier “fbclid”.

Google Analytics

_ga
_gid

Google Analytics provides website owners JavaScript tags (libraries) to record information about the page a user has seen, for example the URL of the page.
The cookies are used to identify and “remember” what a user has done on previous pages / interactions with the website.

More information

Hotjar

_hjSessionUser{site_id}
_hjSession{site_id}
_hjClosedSurveyInvites
_hjDonePolls
_hjMinimizedPolls
_hjShownFeedbackMessage
_hjSessionTooLarge
_hjSessionRejected
_hjSessionResumed
_hjid
_hjRecordingLastActivity
_hjTLDTest
_hjUserAttributesHash
_hjCachedUserAttributes
_hjLocalStorageTest
_hjIncludedInPageviewSample
_hjIncludedInSessionSample
_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress
_hjFirstSeen
_hjViewportId
_hjRecordingEnabled

To function properly, Hotjar stores first-party cookies on your browser. Cookies are set by the Hotjar script embedded on this website. Hotjar cookies are responsible for displaying the correct content to our users without personally identifying anyone.

Cookie preference

This is a cookie that is set upon accepting the cookie banner, this cookie means the popup will no longer show until it expires in 7 days

Please note that the following third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These named third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. These third party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies or targeting cookies:

  • Google
  • Facebook

To deactivate the use of third-party advertising cookies, you may visit the consumer page to manage the use of these types of cookies:
https://proprivacy.com/ruinmysearchhistory/how-to-block-cookies