Cookies

  1. Our Use Of Cookies

    We use cookies to enhance your experience and monitor how visitors interact with our website. This includes Google Analytics, which collects anonymized data such as page views, scroll depth, and outbound link clicks. These insights help us understand performance and improve usability.No personally identifiable information is stored, and the cookies we use are purely for performance and operational purposes. By continuing to use our site, you agree to our use of cookies and accept our Privacy Policy.To opt out of Google Analytics tracking across all websites, you may visit: Google Analytics Opt-Out Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.The cookies we use help enhance your experience on this website while providing essential functionality for our visitors and customers. As of now, we only use Google Analytics to gather performance-related data. If we introduce marketing or tracking cookies in future—for instance, to support online advertising—you will be notified and given a choice via an updated banner.

    Consent

    According to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), consent to store cookies is not required “for cookies that are essential to provide an online service at someone's request” (e.g. to remember what's in your online basket, or to ensure security). ICO: Guide to Cookies All of our cookies currently fall under this exception. Therefore, we are not required to gain consent before the use of cookies on this site. If our cookie usage changes, appropriate consent options will be made available.Please contact us if you cannot find what you are looking for.

  2. Cookie Details

    * indicates a wildcard

    We use cookies and similar technologies for the operation of our website and to understand how our website is used.

    CookiePurpose

    basket
    quote

    This is a functional cookie that is stored when you add an item to your basket or quotation. It enables the site to remember the contents of your basket.

    It stores an overview of the items added to your basket together with the unique identification code assigned to your basket.

    token

    This is a functional cookie that is stored when a registered user logs into the site. It enables the site to recognise the logged-in customer and maintain their authenticated session.

    __Host-vbm_sid

    This is a first-party session identifier used by our server-side analytics to understand how our website is used.

    It contains a randomly generated identifier which allows page views and other interactions occurring during the same browsing session to be counted together. It does not contain your name, email address or other directly identifying information.

    __Host-vbm_vid

    This is a first-party visitor identifier used by our server-side analytics to produce statistics about use of our website, such as visitor numbers, page views and user journeys.

    It contains a randomly generated identifier and does not contain your name, email address or other directly identifying information. We do not use this identifier for advertising or to create profiles about individual visitors.

    Our server-side analytics

    Information collected through our server-side analytics is used solely to produce statistical information about how our website is used and to help us monitor and improve the service.

    Individual-level analytics information is retained only for as long as necessary to produce aggregate statistics. We aggregate this information regularly, including hourly and daily, and do not retain individual browsing histories for long-term analytics.

    We do not use our server-side analytics for advertising, cross-site tracking or to make decisions about individual visitors.

    _ga*

    These cookies relate to Google Analytics and are separate from our server-side analytics. They are used to collect information about how visitors use our site so that we can compile reports and improve the site.