This is to ensure that experience using the website is the best possible.
You can find out more about the cookies we use by reading our cookie declaration.
Like most websites this website uses cookies. You can find information about cookies and how we use them below. What are cookies?Cookies are small files stored in your web browser to help the website interact with you. Without cookies, every time you visit a new page the website thinks you are a new visitor. This would mean for example shopping baskets would empty each time you clicked onto a new page. If you would like to
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What if I do not want cookies stored on my browser?You can block cookies via your web browser. You can find out specific instructions for your browser via Google. Please note though we provide no guarantee against unexpected results should you choose to block cookies on this website.
What cookies do you store on my browser?Details of the cookies we use on this site are listed below:
- CookieMessage - This records the answer you gave regarding accepting our cookies. Without this the cookie notification would pop up every time you went to a new page
- MCPopupClosed - This cookie is associated with the MailChimp sign up form that will pop-up on the homepage. Will store the value 'yes' to prevent the popup being displayed again. Expiry - 12 months
- MCPopupSubscribed - This cookie is associated with the MailChimp sign up form that will pop-up on the homepage. Will store the value 'yes' to confirm that the email address provided has subscribed to Hard To Resist mail list. Expiry - 3 months
- PHPSESSID - Allows the website to function correctly such as retaining a shopping basket
- trackingcode - If you visited us by clicking on a link on a site e.g. an advert. We sometimes store the origin of your click so we can monitor which marketing is most effective.
- _ga - This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. This is is associated with Google Universal Analytics
- _gat - Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate.
- _gid - Used by Google to distinguish users
Occasionally the way third-party add-ons store cookies change. Because of this the list above may not always contain an exhaustive list of the cookies which are saved. We do regularly audit the cookies stored as a result of visiting our website.
