Cookie Notice
Cookies – What are they and how do we use them?
"Cookies" are small bits of electronic information that a website can transfer to the equipment you are using to access the website to help tailor and keep records of your visit to that website. If you visit the Websites, cookies are used to allow us to better customise your visit to your individual preferences, helping us provide you with the best possible service on the Websites. This is statistical data about our users' browsing actions and does not identify any individual. Most major websites use cookies and their use is standard on the Internet. You can find out more about the way cookies work on www.allaboutcookies.org.
We use cookies to:
- help ensure the security and authenticity of registered users;
- provide the mechanisms for online shopping;
- enable monitoring of traffic and usage patterns;
- to report aggregate information to our advertisers; and
- remember the settings of any profile you set up on the websites.
On visiting our Websites you will be sent anonymous cookies to keep track of your browsing patterns and build up a demographic profile. In addition, if you have clicked on a Lil-Lets advertisement on another site that links to any of the Websites you may be sent an anonymous cookie that will allow us to analyse advertising effectiveness and manage our relationship with our associated websites. Please note that our advertisers may also use cookies, over which we have no control.
Whilst you do not need to allow your browser to accept cookies in order to browse much of the Websites or to access many of our services, you must have cookies enabled if you wish to shop online or access any areas reserved for registered users.
Most browsers allow you to turn off the cookie function. If you want to know how to do this please look at the help menu on your browser, but this may restrict the use of some parts of the Websites.
We are using the following cookies on the website:
Cookie name and Purpose
_utma A
Google Analytics cookie which records the number of times a user has visited the site as well as the time of their first visit and last visit.
_utmb A
Google Analytics cookie which stores details of the moment when a user enters a site.
_utmc A
Google Analytics cookie which stores details of the moment when a user leaves the site.
_utmz A
Google Analytics cookie which records where the user came from, including details of the search engine, keywords and links used.
_atuvc
The __atuvc cookie is created and read by AddThis javascript on the client side in order to make sure you see the updated count if you share a page and return to it before our share count cache is updated. No data from that cookie is sent back to AddThis and removing it when disabling cookies would cause unexpected behaviour.
cookies_enabled
This cookie tells the application that you have cookies enabled.
sc_analytics_global_cookie
Collection anonymous information about how you use our website to help us improve our service.
sc_analytics_session_cookie
Collection anonymous information about how you use our website to help us improve our service.
asp.net_sessionid
Used by our web content management system to serve pages.
Web Beacons – what are they and how do we use them?
We or third parties on our behalf may use web beacons in combination with cookies on the Websites, in our emails or in our advertisements. Web beacons help us understand how visitors interact with the Websites and enable us to measure the effectiveness of the Websites and our advertising, for example by counting the number of individuals who have visited the Websites via a particular advert.
A web beacon is typically an electronic image that is placed on a site, email or advert which allows a website to record the simple actions of the user opening the page that contains the beacon. Web beacons provide us with details of how the Websites are navigated, how many individuals visit specific pages, the time material was viewed, the types of browsers and computer operating systems used and the Internet Protocol addresses from which you connect to the Websites. This is information that is available to any web server you visit and web beacons do not give any extra information away. Web beacons are simply a convenient way of gathering simple statistics and managing cookies and by being able to recognise you this allows us to improve your experience of the Websites by enabling us to tailor and personalise your visit.
Where web beacons are used in connection with cookies then they may be rendered ineffective by either opting out of the cookies or changing the cookie settings in your browser.
You can find out more about the way web beacons work on www.allaboutcookies.org
Links
The Websites contain links to other websites. Please note that these websites have their own privacy notices and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these. We recommend that you read the privacy statements immediately on entering other websites.