Cookies

COOKIES

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.

We use the following cookies:

  • Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.

  • Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

  • Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).

  • Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Cookie Name Purpose More information
acenet.co.uk ASP.NET_SessionId This cookie contains the user's session ID and is only used by the webserver to ensure continuity.  
Google Analytics __utma These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use the website into Google Analytics. This is used throughout the website. http://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html
  __utmb A timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor enters the site. More information on the cookies set by Google Analytics and how to opt out are on the Google Analytics website.  
  __utmc A timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor leaves the site - having waited 30 minutes for another pageview to happen, and if it doesn’t, it expires. More information on the cookies set by Google Analytics and how to opt out are on the Google Analytics website.  
  __utmz This keeps track of where the visitor came from, what search engine was used, what link was clicked on, what keywords used, and where in the world the site was accessed from. More information on the cookies set by Google Analytics and how to opt out are on the Google Analytics website.  
AddThis __atuvc This cookie is set once a user visits an SDA product page and is used to provide Analytics and insight to AddThis http://www.addthis.com/privacy#.T7Dk7utYua8
acenet.co.uk _cartItemsCount This cookie contains the user's session ID and is used by the webserver to store informations about items count.  
acenet.co.uk _currentSiteID This cookie contains the site ID and is used by the webserver to display the correct microsite.  
acenet.co.uk _shoppingCartID This cookie contains the user's shopping cart ID and is used to store informations about shopping cart products.  

Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.

You block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.

Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after the end of session.