What Are Cookies

As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the sites functionality.

How We Use Cookies

When you submit data to through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.

In order to provide you with a great experience on this site we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page is affected by your preferences.

A detailed breakdown of typical cookies on our site will include:

Name Expires Description
wordpress_logged_in_[hash] A session cookie, deleted when you close your web browser. The cookie wordpress_logged_in_[hash] is used to indicate when you are logged in, and who you are. This cookie is maintained on the front-end of the website as well when logged in.
wordpress_test_cookie A session cookie, deleted when you close your web browser. WordPress also sets a cookie named wordpress_test_cookie is set by WordPress to check if the cookies are enabled on the browser to provide appropriate user experience to the users.
wp-settings-{time}-[UID] 12 months The cookie wp-settings-{time}-[UID] is used to customize the view of your admin interface and the front-end of the website. The value represented by [UID] is the individual user ID of the user as given to them in the users database table.
comment_author_[hash] 12 months The cookie comment_author_[hash] cookies is set to remember the value entered into the comment form’s name field.
comment_author_email_[hash] 12 months The cookie comment_author_email_[hash] is set to remember the value entered into the comment form’s email field.
comment_author_url_[hash] 12 months The comment_author_url_[hash] is set to remember the value entered into the comment form’s URL field.
woocommerce_cart_hash A session cookie, deleted when you close your web browser. Helps WooCommerce determine when cart contents/data changes.
woocommerce_items_in_cart A session cookie, deleted when you close your web browser. Helps WooCommerce determine when cart contents/data changes.
wp_woocommerce_session_ 2 days Contains a unique code for each customer so that it knows where to find the cart data in the database for each customer.
woocommerce_recently_viewed A session cookie, deleted when you close your web browser. Powers the Recent Viewed Products widget.
store_notice[notice id] A session cookie, deleted when you close your web browser. Allows customers to dismiss the Store Notice.
aviaCookieConsent 3 months Allows customers to dismiss the cookie consent bar.
aviaPrivacyEssentialCookiesEnabled 12 months Allows the website to understand the customers cookie preferences.
aviaPrivacyRefuseCookiesHideBar 12 months Allows the website to understand the customers cookie preferences.

Third Party Cookies

In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.

This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.

For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.

From time to time we test new features and make subtle changes to the way that the site is delivered. When we are still testing new features these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience whilst on the site whilst ensuring we understand which optimisations our users appreciate the most.

As we sell products it’s important for us to understand statistics about how many of the visitors to our site actually make a purchase and as such this is the kind of data that these cookies will track. This is important to you as it means that we can accurately make business predictions that allow us to monitor our advertising and product costs to ensure the best possible price

More Information

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