Cookies policy
Cookies are small files of letters and numbers. These files are either stored in the memory of your computer or other device such as mobile phones or tablet devices (these cookies are generally known as session cookies) or are placed on the hard drive of your device (generally known as persistent cookies).
Cookies are created when you visit a website that uses cookies. Cookies are commonly used by websites to help the user’s browsing experience and provide more information about the user’s experience and interests. This information is generally used to make content, services and advertising more relevant and useful during future visits.
For more details about cookies and details of how to delete and disable cookies you can visit www.aboutcookies.org and also see our section on more information and turning cookies off below.
How do we use cookies?
Our websites use cookies to distinguish you from other users of our websites and to provide increased functionality when you are using our websites. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our websites and also allows us to improve our websites and our services.
Unless you have adjusted your browser settings to refuse cookies, our systems will issue cookies as soon you visit our websites or access other services. If you have switched off cookies then some of the functionality of our services may not be available to you.
The cookies that we use only collect anonymous information to optimise our services, and do not collect personal information.
Please note that not all the cookies on our sites are set by us. Please see the section below on third party cookies.
What cookies are on our websites?
The cookies on our websites generally fall into the following categories:
(1) functional and analytical cookies; and
(2) cookies to help make advertising more relevant to our users.
Functional and analytical cookies
Analytical cookies
Analytical cookies allow us to recognise and to count the number of visitors to our website, to see how visitors move around the website when they are using it and to record which content viewers view and are interested in. This helps us to determine how frequently particular pages and advertisements are visited and to determine the most popular areas of our website and/or services. This helps us to improve the service which we offer to you by helping us make sure our users are finding the information they are looking for, by providing anonymised demographic data to third parties in order to target advertising more appropriately to you, and by tracking the success of advertising campaigns on our website.
Functional cookies
Functional cookies relate to the functionality of our websites and allow us to improve the service we offer to you through our websites, for example:
· by remembering the contents of your shopping basket
· by allowing you to carry information across pages of our website to avoid you having to re-enter information;
· to allow you to access stored information if you have registered with us;
· by recognising your preferences when you return to our website(s);
What functional and analytical cookies do we use?
We have set out below the main functional and analytical cookies that we use.
Tracking cookies allow us to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it, and allow us to record which content viewers view and are interested in. This helps us to improve the service which we offer to you by helping us make sure our users are finding the information they are looking for, by providing anonymised demographic data to third parties in order to target advertising more appropriately to you, and by tracking the success of advertising campaigns on our website.
| Name of Cookie | What does it do? | Duration |
| ASP.NET_SessionId | We use this cookie so that we know when you are actively using our website. It enables us to temporarily store information so that it can be accessed by other pages of our website if necessary to help our website function correctly. | Until browser closes |
| NonRegisteredSessionID | We use this cookie so that we know when you are actively using our website. It enables us to temporarily store information so that it can be accessed by other pages of our website if necessary to help our website function correctly. | 1 Month |
| bSessionID | We use this cookie so that we know when you are actively using our website. It enables us to temporarily store information so that it can be accessed by other pages of our website if necessary to help our website function correctly. | Until browser closes |
| pSessionID | We use this cookie so that we know when you are actively using our website. It enables us to store information so that it can be accessed by other pages of our website if necessary to help our website function correctly. | Permanent |
| sessionTokenSite_www_discount-london_com | We use this cookie so that we know when you are actively using our website. It enables us to temporarily store information so that it can be accessed by other pages of our website if necessary to help our website function correctly. | Immediately expires |
| timesift | We use this cookie to store an estimate of the offset of your time zone from GMT. This can be useful for us when exact timings make a difference on the availability of some products. | Until browser closes |
Our websites use Google Analytics, a web analytics tool provided by Google Ireland Limited (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies to help the website analyse how users use the website. The information generated by the cookies about your use of the website and your current IP-address will be transmitted by your browser to and will be stored by Google on servers in the United States and other countries. Google will use this information on our behalf to evaluate your use of the website, compile reports on website activity and provide us with other services relating to website activity and internet usage. The IP address collected through Google Analytics will not be associated with any other data held by Google.
You may reject or delete these cookies by downloading and installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
| Name of Cookie | What does it do? | Duration |
| _utma | This cookie helps us determine the number of unique visitors to our website. | 2 years |
| _utmz | This cookie helps us determine the referral method for people visiting our website. This helps us to analyse the traffic arriving at our website and to determine which are the most popular routes (e.g. direct, search engine search, email link). | 6 months |
| _utmb | We use this Google Analytics cookie to help us to record the length of individual sessions from our users on our website. Each time you move to a new page within our website within 30 minutes of arriving the cookie updates so that we know that you are still actively using our website within a single session. | 30 mins |
| _utmc | Similar to _utmb, we use this Google Analytics cookie to help us record the length of individual sessions on our website. | Until browser closes |