COOKIE POLICY

Last reviewed: October 2022​


What are 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. 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 or any similar technologies used from time to time, as described in this policy. To ensure our website works fully for you it is recommend that they be enabled.

What do cookies do?
Cookies allow websites to offer the best possible experience for each user. Without cookies this website would not be able to do simple tasks such as storing products in a shopping basket. We use cookies and similar technologies on our website and they are also used by some of our third-party partners.

Are cookies safe?
Yes, they do not harm your computer and they do not contain any information that could be used by others to identify you personally. They also do not contain any confidential details such as your email address or payment details.

Can I turn cookies off?
This website uses strictly necessary cookies to make the website work. They are an essential part of how the website works, and to ensure it works properly for you, we recommend that they are enabled, but you are in control. You can revoke marketing, social and statistical cookies at any time in our cookie settings and only visit the website with necessary cookies.

This website also uses certain analytics cookies (which are explained fully below). If you wish to block the use of these technologies, or you would like to withdraw your consent to our cookies that are not strictly necessary for the operation of this website, you can find out how do to so below.

What cookies does this website use?
We use the following cookies:

Necessary: Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies

Necessary Cookies

Necessary Cookies

Cookie Name

Description

Cookie duration

Provider

JSESSIONID

A platform session cookie used by our site. Saves your current session anonymously and ensures that all functions the page are fully displayed.

Session

.Ocedar.com

userConsent

Used to manage your consent to different cookies on this website.

Session

.Ocedar.com

AKA_A2

This is a content delivery and cloud infrastructure service cookie that distributes, accelerates and protects online applications. The Akamai cookie called A2 is used to protect our website, reduce page load time by using the Adaptive Acceleration feature and improve the user experience. 

1 hour

.Akamai.com

YouTube-Nocookie

Youtube’s official URL for embedding videos that do not set HTML cookie immediately on the user browser. Our website uses an iframe technology to embed videos.

Session

.Youtube.com

RT

This cookie is necessary for the Akamai cache function. A cache is used by the website to optimize the response time between the visitor and the website. The cache is usually stored on the visitor's browser. This cookie contains information on the users session to support Akamais cache functionality.

Session

.Akamai.com

ROUTE

Necessary technical cookie used to improve website page loading on user browser.

Session

.Ocedar.com

acceleratorSecureGUID

Secure necessary cookie transmitted over https connection for a customer to complete an order on our website.

Session

.Ocedar.com

Statistics Cookies

Statistics Cookies

Statistics cookies help us to analyze our website anonymously.
 

Cookie Name

Description

Cookie duration

Provider

OTZ

Used by Google Analytics that provides an aggregate analysis of Website visitors.

1 year

.Google.com

S

Google Analytics may collect certain information used to help improve services, including the pages users visit most often and whether users get error messages from certain pages.

1 year

.Google.com

SIDCC

Google Analytics uses this security cookie to protect a user’s data from unauthorised access.

1 year

.Google.com

_glc_au

Used by Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics to store and track conversions on our website.

3 months

.Google.com

_gid

Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.

1 day

.Google.com

_ga, _dc_gtm_UA-44297323-40, G-YJ65CVJLRF

Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.

1 year

.Google.com

Search engine marketing cookies

Search engine marketing cookies

Search Engine Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites and search engines. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third party advertisers.
 

Cookie Name

Description

Cookie duration

Provider

1P_JAR, CONSENT, NID

Set by Google. This group sets a unique ID to remember your preferences and other information such as website statistics and track conversion rates

Session

.Google.com

ANID

This is an advertising cookie set by DoubleClick to make advertising more engaging to users and more valuable to publishers (third party websites) and advertisers.

1 year

.Google.com

APISID

Set by DoubleClick. This cookie is set through the site by advertising partners, and used by them to build a profile of the website visitors interests and show relevant ads on other sites. This cookie works by uniquely identifying your browser and device.

1 year

.Google.com

HSID

Google uses this cookie for security. It contains digitally signed and encrypted records of a user’s Google account ID and most recent sign-in time. This cookie allows google to block many types of attack, such as attempts to steal the content of forms that you complete on web pages.

1 year 

.Google.com

SAPISID

This DoubleClick cookie is generally set through the site by advertising partners, and used by them to build a profile of the website visitor’s interests and show relevant ads on other sites. This cookie works by uniquely identifying your browser and device.

1 year

.Google.com 

SID

Google uses this cookie for security. It contains digitally signed and encrypted records of a user’s Google account ID and most recent sign-in time. This cookie allows google to block many types of attack, such as attempts to steal the content of forms that you complete on web pages.

1 year

.Google.com 

SSID

Google set a number of cookies on any page that includes a Google Map. While we have no control over the cookies set by Google, they appear to include a mixture of pieces of information to measure the number and behavior of Google Maps users.

1 year

.Google.com

__Secure-3PAPISID

These cookies are used to deliver ads more relevant to you and your interests.

1 year 

.Google.com

__Secure-3PSID

These cookies are used to deliver ads more relevant to you and your interests.

1 year

.Google.com

__Secure-3PSIDCC

These cookies are used to deliver ads more relevant to you and your interests.

1 year

.Google.com

__Secure-APISID

These cookies are used to deliver ads more relevant to you and your interests.

1 week

.Google.com

__Secure-HSID

These cookies are used to deliver ads more relevant to you and your interests.

1 week

.Google.com

__Secure-SSID

These cookies are used to deliver ads more relevant to you and your interests.

1 week 

.Google.com

YSC

YSC is used by YouTube to remember user input and associate user’s actions. 

Session

.YouTube.com

_sm_au_c

Related to Google Ads used for retargeting ads.

6 months

.Google.com

_gac_

Used by advertisers to measure user activity and the performance of ad campaigns.

90 days

.Google.com

_gads

Used to provide ad delivery or retargeting by Google.

1 year

.Google.com

SEARCH_SAMESITE

This cookie is used to prevent the browser from sending this cookie along with cross-site requests.

Session

.Google.com

CONSENT

Stores user consent given by a visitor on our website. Can come from different Google products e.g. Google Account, YouTube etc. If the cookie is linked to Google Account it will remain active for 1 year. If there is no Google Account connected, the cookie remains for the duration of the session

Session (if no Google Account), 1 year (if Google Account is linked)

.Google.com

1P_JAR

This cookie is set when you visit Google.com and stores settings like your region or language.

7 days

.Google.com

NID

The NID cookie contains a unique ID that Google uses to store your preferred settings and preferred language.

6 weeks 

.Google.com

IDE

Used by Google for advertisements that display at various locations on the web’s non-Google sites.

Session

.Google.com

_ftv, EE, IDSYNC, _D9J

Used by Amazon Advertising to serve certain type of ads including for products on this website or listed on Amazon.

1 year

.Amazon.com

flashtalkingad1

Cookie collects data anonymously if you click certain adverts including which ad you clicked on and when. It  is used to make advertising more relevant to the user. 

2 years

.Flashtalking

TDCPM

This cookie is used to register a unique ID that identifies a returning user’s device. The ID is used for targeted ads.

1 year

.Adsrvr.org

TDID

Cookie used to register a unique ID that identifies a user’s device in order to target ads.

1 year

.Adsrvr.org

Channel Advisor (where-to-buy.co)

Cookie dropped only if where to buy widget is used on a product page to facilitate sales tracking.

1 year 

.ChannelAdvisor.com

Social media marketing cookies

Social media marketing cookies

These are cookies set by social media platforms when you view embedded media. These cookies also help to personalize advertising on social media platforms.  
 

Cookie name

Description

Cookie duration

Provider

usida

This is a cookie that has been set by Facebook to aid with their functionality.

Session

.Facebook.com

Xs

This cookie stores the session number and if the user has enabled the secure browsing feature.

1 year 

.Facebook.com

wd

This cookie stores the browser window dimensions and is used by Facebook to optimize the rendering of the page.

7 days

.Facebook.com

cppo

Statistical purposes.

90 days

.Facebook.com

presence

Used to contain the user’s chat state. For example, which chat tabs are open.

Session

.Facebook.com

c_user

Contains the user ID of the currently logged in user.

1 year

.Facebook.com

fr

Used to deliver, measure and improve the relevancy of ads.

90 days

.Facebook.com

dpr

Identifies how content is loaded on the screen i.e. ratio and dimension of browser window. 

7 days

.Facebook.com

sb

Cookie securely identifies the browser

1 year

.Facebook.com

oo

Used to opt out of seeing ads from Facebook based on your activity on third party websites.

1 year

.Facebook.com

datr

Cookie is used to identify the web browser being used to connect to Facebook independent of the logged in user.

1 year

.Facebook.com

_fbp

Used by Facebook to provide a variety of advertising products such as real-time offers from third party advertisers.

90 days

.Facebook.com

personalization_id

This cookie is used for Twitter integration and sharing capabilities for the social media.

2 years

.Twitter.com

guest_id

This cookie is set due to Twitter integration and sharing capabilities for the social media.

1 year 

.Twitter.com

_pinterest_sess

This cookie is used for Pinterest integration and content sharing capabilities for the social media.

Session

.Pinterest.com

spotify, sp_landing

This cookie is used for Spotify integration and music sharing capabilities for the social media.

1 day

.Spotify.com

bttrack, bidtellect 

Used to measure and analyze user engagement and post-click activity on website.

Session

.Bttrack.com/.Bidtellect.com

Youtube-nocookie.com

Youtube’s official URL for embedding videos that do not set HTML cookie immediately on the user browser.

Session

.Youtube.com

Visitor_Info1_Live

Used by YouTube to detect and resolve problems with video playing service.

6 months

.YouTube.com

Managing cookies

Managing cookies

If you would prefer us not to use cookies in your browser, you can set your browser to reject cookies or to let you know
when a website tries to put one in your browser software.

How to Disable Cookies

On Your PC

Internet Explorer

  1. Go to "Tools" and then "Internet Options"
  2. Click on the "Privacy" tab
  3. Click on the "Advanced" button
  4. Choose your preferred option in the cookies menu

Mozilla Firefox

  1. Go to "Tools" and then "Internet Options"
  2. Click on the Privacy icon
  3. Change the history settings to set your browser to reject all cookies, or to tailor your cookie settings to how you want them.

Google Chrome

  1. Click the Chrome menu button ()
  2. Click the "Settings" button
  3. Click "Show advanced settings" or "Advanced"
  4. Click "Site Settings" or "Content settings". This is in the "Privacy and security" section
  5. Choose your preferred option in the cookies menu

On an Apple Mac
Google Chrome

  1. Click the Chrome menu button ()
  2. Click the "Settings" button
  3. Click "Show advanced settings" or "Advanced"
  4. Click "Site Settings" or "Content settings". This is in the "Privacy and security" section
  5. Choose your preferred option in the cookies menu

Internet Explorer 5 (MacOS X)

  1. Choose Preferences from Explorer menu
  2. Select Receiving Files options
  3. Select Cookies
  4. Choose your preferred settings

Mozilla

  1. Choose Preferences from the Edit menu.
  2. Select Privacy & Security, then select Cookies.
  3. Choose your preferred settings.

Safari

  1. Choose Preferences from Safari menu
  2. Select Privacy icon
  3. Cookie settings are shown in window
  4. Choose your preferred settings

Opera

  1. Go to Opera in the main menu and select Preferences (or press Alt+P to access them directly)
  2. Select Privacy


Mobile

iPad

  1. Go to "Settings" and then select "Safari"
  2. Scroll to "Privacy & Security"
  3. Choose your preferred settings

iPhone

  1. Go to "Settings" and then select "Safari"
  2. Scroll to "Privacy & Security"
  3. Choose your preferred settings

Samsung Galaxy

  1. In the Internet browser, open the menu and select "More"
  2. Choose "Settings"
  3. Scroll down to "Privacy", and then click to accept or reject cookies, or to clear cookie data


All Other Mobile Devices

Please consult the device owner's manual.

a brand of FREUDENBERG