The UK's leading book distributor and independent's specialist
Cookies are electronic tags that most websites place on your computer in the process of sending your computer a file, such as a web page. We use them as well. A cookie can tell us when a computer that has previously visited our site returns, and what pages it requests on each of its visits.
Cookies help us keep track of how our visitors (or more accurately, their computers) use our website, including such things as the type of browser they use, the frequency of their visits and the pages that are most popular.
They can help smooth your travel through our website by keeping track of information that has already been provided by your computer so that you do not need to re-enter it. In no event do the cookies we place on your computer tell us anything about your visits to other websites (except those you enter through a link on our website), or your use of the internet in any other way.
If you would still prefer not to receive any cookies, most browsers can be set to refuse cookies or to alert you when one is being sent. http://www.aboutcookies.org contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of browsers and details on how to delete cookies from your computer. However, some portions of the Website may not function properly if the cookies are disabled.
Please see the table below for an overview of the cookies that we use.
| Host | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| The Book Service | ASPSESSIONIDXXXXXXXX | This cookie name is generally associated with use as a general purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written with Microsoft ASP based technologies. The structure of the cookie name is a common root - ASPSESSIONID, followed by a series of unique letters. It is usually used to maintain an anonymised user session by the server. |
| The Book Service | ASPSESSIONIDXXXXXXXX | This cookie name is generally associated with use as a general purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written with Microsoft ASP based technologies. The structure of the cookie name is a common root - ASPSESSIONID, followed by a series of unique letters. It is usually used to maintain an anonymised user session by the server. |
| One Trust | OptanonAlertBoxClosed | This cookie is set by websites using certain versions of the cookie law compliance solution from OneTrust. It is set after visitors have seen a cookie information notice and in some cases only when they actively close the notice down. It enables the website not to show the message more than once to a user. The cookie has a one year lifespan and contains no personal information. |
| One Trust | OptanonConsent | This cookie is set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust. It stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. This enables site owners to prevent cookies in each category from being set in the users browser, when consent is not given. The cookie has a normal lifespan of one year, so that returning visitors to the site will have their preferences remembered. It contains no information that can identify the site visitor. |
| Host | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Google Analytics | _ga | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. 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. By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners.To generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the Service |
| Google Analytics | gid | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This appears to be a new cookie and as of Spring 2017 no information is available from Google. It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited._gid |
| Google Analytics | _ga_xxxxxxxxxx | To generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the Service |
| Google Analytics | _gat | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics, according to documentation it is used to throttle the request rate - limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. It expires after 10 minutes.To generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the Service |