Cookies Policy

Cookies Policy

What are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that websites store on your device when you visit them. They help remember information such as the items in your shopping cart, preferences like language or font size, and even authenticate you to access secure areas of a website.

Why Are Cookies Used?

Cookies facilitate various aspects of online browsing, including:

  • Session management: keeping track of user interactions on a site
  • Authentication: verifying users' identities when logging into protected sections of the site
  • Personalization: adapting content and design based on user preferences or language settings
  • Advertising and marketing: tracking usage patterns for targeted advertising and campaign optimization

Essential Cookies

Essential cookies are necessary to ensure proper functionality. These include:

  • Session IDs: temporary tokens assigned upon each login, ensuring users can proceed with secure interactions without issues.
  • Authentication cookies: retain access credentials between sessions.

These do not impact user experience adversely when disabled; they're integral for the site's core operations.

Session Cookies

Session cookies are temporary and automatically delete themselves after a short period. They help:

  • Authenticating users to maintain session continuity
  • Tracking login attempts
  • Keeping track of current activity (e.g., shopping cart contents)

These cookies do not store personal data and do not remain on your device past the specified time frame.

Persistent Cookies

Persistent cookies are stored for a longer period, as defined by their settings. They aid in:

  • Language selection: remembering preferences
  • Font size adaptation
  • Tracking usage patterns

While these can be deleted manually or cleared through browser controls, they persist across sessions until removed.

Functional and Analytics/Performance Cookies

Functional cookies allow the site to remember your preferred layout for a better experience.

Analytics and performance cookies are used by us (and our third-party service providers) in order to improve user experience and engagement on the platform. For example:

  • Google Analytics collects anonymous, aggregate data about visits (e.g., traffic sources, clickstream patterns).

Preference and Language Settings

Cookies facilitate language settings and device adaptations for enhanced accessibility.

Login/Session Continuity

Our site utilizes cookies to maintain session continuity securely. Upon login, you'll receive an essential cookie that tracks your progress through the platform.

Device Recognition

For improved service delivery (and compliance with legal requirements), we utilize technical solutions for:

  • IP tracking: gathering device information for content optimization and fraud prevention
  • Geolocation services to tailor experience based on region or location, ensuring accessibility in your local settings

Security features are always implemented considering the lowest risk options that remain effective.

Third-Party Integrations and Marketing/Communication Preferences

As a value-added service:

We allow access to various third-party platforms for advertising and marketing purposes. These tools may collect data as well, but this is not part of our primary system configuration.

Cookie Consent Management

You can opt-out from receiving targeted ads by selecting appropriate preferences on each participating platform (e.g., Google Ads). Keep in mind, opting out won't eliminate all commercial communication entirely; these settings only exclude personalized marketing based on your profile.

When you first enter the website or change some of your browser's cookies' parameters we ask for consent to continue using those and other forms of technology as described above. You may choose at any point to accept new settings, not accept them, delete existing ones - your options are below:

Browser Cookie Controls

Most web browsers allow you to manage cookie acceptance on an individual basis, with varying degrees of control.

To clear or disable cookies in commonly used browsers follow these steps:

Google Chrome: Settings > Show advanced settings > Content settings.

Mozilla Firefox: Options/Preferences > Privacy & Security > Cookies and Site Data.

You can always block future sets if you don't like it, but may have to re-authenticate. Clearing existing cookies will require logging in again.

Impact of Cookie Blocking

Some platform functions might be unavailable or diminished without persistent storage capabilities provided by our site's primary session-based authentication mechanism (cookie). We try our best not to let your preferences hamper any function at all – just a few ones may have the cookie preference integrated into its default functionality.

Technical Diagnostics and Performance Optimisation

Some necessary tools will remain for monitoring issues on the website. These allow us:

  • To check system performance
  • To make continuous improvements without disturbing you

These are strictly anonymised, don't compromise your data integrity.

User Experience Improvements

We're dedicated to perfecting our platform according to user needs and satisfaction feedback - all changes made through insights collected here help maintain the best environment possible for users such as yourself.