Bandstores - Cookies Policy
INFORMATION ABOUT OUR USE OF 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 website.
About 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. By continuing to browse the website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. We may 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 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 visits 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 or share this information with third parties for this purpose, as detailed in our Privacy Policy.
Analytics Providers
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
Please also note that we use Google Analytics, which places cookies on your computer, to help the website analyse how visitors use the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing to us other services relating to website activity and internet usage. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. However, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. Furthermore you can prevent Google’s collection and use of data (i.e. cookies and IP address) by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB. Please visit: http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/ for further information on how Google uses your data.
Rejecting 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 strictly necessary cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.
Further Information
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHP Session Identifier | PHPSESSID | This cookie enables us to identify you as you browse our store in order to keep track of what is in your shopping basket | |
| Cookie Message Flag | cookieMessageDisplayed | This cookie is set once we've shown you information about how we use cookies, so we don't show it to you more than once. | |
| Mailing List Popup Flag | doPopIn | This cookie is set once we've asked you if you would like to join our mailing list, so we don't ask you more than once | |
| Order Number | id1 | This cookie enables us to identify your order when you are checking out on our store | |
| Customer Identifier | id2 | This cookie enables us to store your address details for future orders (only set if you ask us to remember your details when you place an order) | |
| Add this share counter | __atuvc | This cookie stores an updated page share count for our social media sharing buttons | |
| Add this identifier | __atuvs | This cookie allows us to show you social media sharing buttons |
Our website will also set some third party cookies. We do not control the dissemination of these cookies.
AddThis.com: We use AddThis.com to provide you with buttons to easily share our pages on social media sites. For more information about the cookies AddThis.com sets refer to http://addthis.com/privacy.
PayPal.com: PayPal place cookies to recognise you as a PayPal customer, customize the PayPal services, content and advertising, measure promotional effectiveness, collect information about your computer or other access device to mitigate risk, help prevent fraud and promote trust and safety. For further information refer to https://www.paypal.com/uk/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full
Twitter: Twitter places cookies which allow users of our websites, who have already logged into Twitter, to quickly share information via the Twitter social network without having to log into Twitter again.
For further information refer to https://twitter.com/privacy
Facebook: Facebook places cookies which allow users of our websites, who have already logged into Facebook, to quickly share information via the Facebook social network without having to log into Facebook again.
Facebook uses these cookies to make the site easier to use, to personalise the user experience, to improve the ads that you see and to protect you from malicious activity.
For further information refer to http://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/
Our website displays video content using Adobe Flash Player. Adobe uses Flash cookies (also known as Local Shared Objects) to help improve your experience as a user and save your preferences. Flash cookies are stored on your Device in much the same way as usual cookies, but your browser manages them differently. If you wish to disable or delete a Flash cookie, see Adobe Flashplayer Security Settings. Please bear in mind though, that if you disable Flash cookies for the Website you'll be unable to access certain types of content on the Website, such as videos.
We sometimes carry embedded “Like” and “Share” buttons to enable users of the Website to easily share articles through a number of popular social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. These sites may set a cookie when you are also logged in to their service. We do not control the dissemination of these cookies and you should check the relevant third party website for more information about these.
We also sometimes embed content from websites such as YouTube or Flickr. As a result, when you visit a page with content embedded from these websites you may be presented with cookies from these websites. We do not control the dissemination of these cookies. You should check the relevant third party website for more information about these.