Cookies Policy
When we provide services, we want to make them easy, useful and reliable. Where services are delivered on the internet, this sometimes involves placing small amounts of information on your device, for example, computer or mobile phone. These include small text files known as cookies. They cannot be used to identify you personally, cannot carry viruses, or install malware.
WHAT IS A COOKIE?
A cookie is a piece of data sent to your device from a website. This means the website can recognise your device if you return to the same website. Cookies do not contain any personal information about you and cannot be used to identify an individual user. A cookie often includes a unique identifier, which is an anonymous number (randomly generated) and is stored on your device. Some expire at the end of your website session; others remain on your computer for longer.
These pieces of information are used to improve services for you through,
for example:
• enabling a service to recognise your device so you don't have to give the
same information several times during one task, e.g. filling out a web form or
a web survey
• recognising that you may already have given a username and password so you
don't need to do it for every web page
• measuring how many people are using services, so they can be made easier to
use and there's enough capacity to ensure they are fast
• analysing anonymised data to help us understand how people interact with the
different aspects of our online services so we can make them better.
You can manage these small files and learn more about them from this article, Internet Browser cookies- what they are and how to manage them.
For more information about cookies or if you would like to learn how to remove cookies set on your device, visit: http://www.aboutcookies.org
Cookies used on this website
This website uses both first and third party cookies. All the cookies on
this site are identified below and categorized according to whether they are
first or third party.
First party cookies
These are cookies set by our website.
Purpose: Session management. These are “session-based” cookies used in order to
ensure the smooth running of users’ sessions. This classification includes
remembering your selections or preferences that you’ve already made when
looking at information or using a service
Benefit: To remember your selections or preferences that you’ve already made
when looking at information or using a service on the site. To make it easier
to log in again if you choose ‘Remember me’.
|
Description |
Expires |
Beauty Oasis |
Store items added to shopping basket |
7 Days |
listlast |
Used to store the last 5 product detail pages viewed so that we can potentially generate a recently viewed list to allow customers to quickly navigate back |
7 Days |
shoprefr |
Remembers where the customer came from |
7 Days |
shopreginame & shopregipass |
Store the log-in status/details |
7 Days |
Third
party cookies
We use one supplier who may also set cookies on their websites'
on their behalf.
Google
Analytics:
Purpose: Web Analytics/metrics. This category comprises cookies used to
evaluate site performance in terms of number of visits, unique visitors,
drop-off rate for transactions etc. We measure numbers and volumes of visitors
to different parts of our site and this helps us ensure the service is fast and
available when you want it. It also helps us ensure that different pages on our
site are useful and easy to find.
Benefit: So service is available when you want it and fast.
Google analytics cookie information:
http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/concepts/gaConceptsCookies.html
|
Typical content |
Description |
Expires |
_utma |
Randomly generated number |
Minimally intrusive Google Analytics Web metrics |
2 years |
_utmb |
Randomly generated number |
Minimally intrusive Google Analytics Web metrics |
When user exits browser |
_utmc |
Randomly generated number |
Minimally intrusive Google Analytics Web metrics |
30 minutes |
_utmz |
Randomly generated number + info on how the site was reached (e.g. directly or via a link, organic search or paid search) |
Minimally intrusive Google Analytics Web metrics |
6 months |
How
to control and delete cookies
We will not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information about
you.
However, if you wish to restrict or block the cookies which are set by our
websites, or indeed any other website, you can do this through your browser
settings. The ‘Help’ function within your browser should tell you how.
Alternatively, you may wish to visit www.aboutcookies.org which contains comprehensive
information on how to do this on a wide variety of browsers. You will also find
details on how to delete cookies from your machine as well as more general
information about cookies.
Please be aware that restricting cookies may impact on the functionality of our
website.
If you wish to view a cookie's code, just open your cookie file in
your browser and click on a cookie to open it. You'll see a short string of
text and numbers. The numbers are your identification card, which can only be
seen by the server that gave you the cookie.
For information on how to do this on the browser of your mobile phone you will
need to refer to your handset manual.
To opt-out of third-parties collecting any data about your interaction on
our website, please email [email protected]