Use of cookies
Cookies are small data files that allow a website to collect and store a range of data on your computer or mobile device when you visit the website if you agree to the site doing so. Cookies are then sent back to the website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognises that cookie. Note Cookies do not contain confidential information.
Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognise a user’s device and are widely used in order to either make websites, work more efficiently, let you navigate between pages, remember your preferences, and generally improve your user experience.
Premium Plus uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of premiumplusuk.com. This helps us to provide you with a better experience when you browse our website and make improvements. Some of the cookies we use are “analytical” cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around the site 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.
A full list of all the cookies we use, and their uses’ can be found in the table below.
The cookies we use
There are generally four categories of cookies: ‘Strictly Necessary,’ ‘Performance,’ ‘Functionality,’ and ‘Targeting.’ We only use the first three categories of cookies on our website.
- Strictly necessary cookies: are essential, as they enable you to move around the website and use its features, such as accessing logged in or secure areas, adding things to your basket and proceeding to secure payment.
- Performance cookies: allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around the website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way the website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
- Functionality cookies: allow us to remember the choices you make (such as your user name, language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features.
| Cookie Name | Purpose |
| wordpress_test_cookie | Used to test cookie functionality. |
| wordpress_logged_in, wc_fragments_# |
To determine if a user is logged in or not. |
| wp-settings-1 | When logged in, this is used for customisations in the WordPress admin. |
| wp-settings-time-1 | When logged in, this is the time your user account is registered to e.g. (GMT) |
| wp_woocommerce_session, wc_cart_hash_# |
Used for checkout and basket recovery etc. |
| woocommerce_items_in_cart | Counts the items in the cart which is used and displayed in the website header. |
| woocommerce_cart_hash | Used to identify a users session with a saved cart. |
| cookieconsent_status | When a user has dismissed the cookie popup it will store a cookie to prevent it the popup showing again. |
| Google Analytics (Third-party)
_ga |
These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. These cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. |
| JSESSIONID | Preserves users states across page requests. |
First and third-party cookies
First-party cookies are cookies that belong to our website, third-party cookies are cookies that another party places on your device through our Service. Third-party cookies may be placed on your device by someone providing a service for Premium Plus, for example to help us understand how our service is being used (Google Analytics). We recommend checking the third-party websites for more information about their cookies and how to manage them. We do not use third-party cookies to advertise products and services to you elsewhere on the Internet.
Your choices when it comes to cookies
You can use your browser settings to accept or reject new Cookies and to delete existing Cookies. You can also set your browser to notify you each time new Cookies are placed on your computer or other device. You can find more detailed information about how you can manage Cookies at the All About Cookies and Your Online Choices websites.
If you choose to disable some or all Cookies, you may not be able to make full use of our Websites. For example, you may not be able to add items to your shopping basket, proceed to checkout, or use any of our products and services that require you to sign in.
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