Why we use cookies

Like most sites, we use cookies to deliver some of our content – it helps keep our website fast, so you get the best experience. These are essential cookies – without them, our website would not work.

If you have agreed to analytics tracking, we also keep track of how our website is used and how well it’s working (e.g. page speeds and broken links). To do this we use Google Analytics.

Essential cookies

  • DYNSRV – Load balancing cookie (will expire 30 minutes after your last visit to the site)
    woocommerce_cart_#### – Helps our store determine when cart contents/data changes (will expire 30 minutes after your last visit to the site)
  • woocommerce_items_in_cart – Helps our store determine when cart contents/data changes (will expire 30 minutes after your last visit to the site)
  • wp_woocommerce_session_ – Contains a unique code for each customer so that it knows where to find the cart data in the database for each customer (will expire 48 hours after your last visit to the site)
  • woocommerce_recently_viewed – Powers the Recent Viewed Products widget
  • _stripe_mid – Learn more https://stripe.com/gb/privacy
  • _stripe_sid – Learn more https://stripe.com/gb/privacy

Facebook chat plugin

  • wd, spin, xs, fr, _fbp, c_user, locale, sb, datr

These Cookies are placed by Facebook so that we can display our chat plugin. They enable Facebook to verify if a visitor has logged into Facebook to use the chat service. See Facebook’s cookie policy for more information about their cookies, and how to change your privacy settings.

Analytics cookies

_ga – used to distinguish visitors (lasts 2 years)
_gid – used to distinguish visitors (lasts 24 hours)
_dc_gtm_ – used to throttle request rate (lasts 1 minute)
_gat – used to throttle request rate (lasts 1 minute)