Use of Cookies
When you visit our website or use our apps we may send your browser a cookie. A cookie is a small file placed on your computer or mobile phone's browser that helps us recognise you when you return to our website or to the app and can tell us whether or not you've visited the site before. Your browser will tell us if you have these cookies, and if you don't, we may generate new ones.
The following table explains which cookies we may use and why:
Cookie Name |
Use |
Description/Purpose |
Duration |
_utma, _utmb, _utmc, _utmz (and occasionally other cookies starting with _utm) |
Google Analytics |
This allows us to track how many individual unique users we have, and how often they visit the site. These cookies are used for statistical purposes only. These may last for up to 1 year to help us gather statistics about whether you return to the website after you have first visited. |
Up to 1 year |
.ASPXAUTH |
Logged in |
Whilst you are logged in (after you have registered), this allows the site to identify you as you navigate between pages. We store the contents of your shopping basket, personal account information, browsing history within this site and favourites in our secure database. |
Current session only |
ASP.Net_SessionId |
Various user specific settings |
.ASP.Net_SessionId
cookie will be placed automatically by our web server software when you visit the site and used to reference a number of items to improve your site experience, including:
ReturnUrls (used through navigation throughout the site, when a user needs to be redirected)
The previous search text and various search terms (dates etc) that need to be remembered when returning from a Facebook login redirect
Users IP (to stop multiple poll vote attempts) |
Current session only |
.ASP.Net_SessionId |
Remember me |
Remembers who you are so you don’t have to sign in each time you visit the site. |
Up to 1 year. |
Various
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External API login tokens |
Twitter, Facebook OAuth tokens |
Up to 1 year. |
Various |
Other external cookies |
Google and Youtube (NID, PREF, YSC etc) |
Up to 1 year. |
BIGipServerGWA-Group-_pool |
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Set by our hosting environment to make sure you are directed to the same server between different web pages on the same website. |
Current session only |
keepLaunchCookie |
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For keeping track of Overlays |
Current session only |
HachetteRequest
VerificationToken |
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Antiforgery token |
Current session only |
CookieAcceptance |
Cookie acceptance |
Remembers that you have accepted our use of cookies |
3 months |
AddThis |
AddThis use cookies to track users across domains to personalize their services and to collect behavior data for publishers. This data isn't personally identifiable and users can opt out by visiting http://www.addthis.com/privacy/opt-out .
Since AddThis cookies change frequently, AddThis don't typically list a description for each cookie.
The cookies AddThis use store information such as:
* Uniquely assigned machine-generated user ID
* Maintenance cookies that help manage expiration for other cookies
* User interest modeling
* How often we see an AddThis user
* Recording user sharing and social activity
* Geolocation, used to help publishers know approximately where people sharing information are located. (State level)
* Record user-specified sharing preferences
* Optimizing sharing settings for the user.
The AddThis tools also, in some circumstances, set cookies on the first-party website domain much like Google Analytics and other packages do. These cookies are used for per-site user preferences and analytics, and are always preceded with an underscore.
Finally, the AddThis tools may expose visitors to various advertising partners, who may in turn set cookies themselves. Any cookies delivered in this way will only be set on the partner's domain.
For more information on how these practices relate to the AddThis privacy features, advertising offerings, and user opt-out, see the AddThis What you Should Know page. |
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By continuing to use the website and/or app you are giving your consent to allow us to use the above cookies.
You can disable cookies from our site at any time - all modern browsers allow you to change your cookie settings, and these settings will typically be found in the 'options' or 'preferences' menu of your browser. Please note, this may prevent areas of a website from working as intended.
If you do not agree with the described use of the cookies on this website or app and do not wish to disable cookies, we respectfully ask that you do not use this website or app.
For additional information please see our Privacy Policy.