When we provide services, we want to make them easy, useful and reliable. When services are delivered over internet, placing small amounts of information on your device (computer or mobile phone), can help with the accessibility and experience you have on the site. This information is better known as cookies, they cannot track or identify you personally.
These pieces of information are in place to better your experience on our website, here are some examples on why we use cookies:
- Device Recognition - Used for remembering information you have inputted in the site (for example your username and password, or contents of your shopping basket), so each time you load a different page on our site, you won't have to keep inputting the same piece of information.
- We also use cookies for data analytics, helping us determine how many visitors we have to the site, and where the visits are coming from.
- Finally, cookies help for third party websites (such as MailChimp for our newsletter, RSS feeds, and Hotjar), remember your device so it's stored for your next visit.
If you wish to restrict the use of cookies, or block them altogether on the CFS website, or any website, you're more than welcome to do so, but please be aware these are in place to help you as a user and we will never use cookies to track our users.
Below is a list of the cookies we use on our site, if you would like to restrict any of their permissions.
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Cookie |
Expiry period |
Reason for use of cookie |
Description |
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cfsul |
2-8 hours |
Your visit |
Stores your login information |
|
PHPSESSID |
1 year |
Your visit |
This is your session id we use to navigate our website. |
|
__atuvc |
1 year |
Your visit |
This is used by the Addthis website shareing that can be found at the bottom of our right menu (used for RSS Feeds) |
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__ga |
2 years |
Your visit |
Google Analytics; this is used by google to track website usage statistics. |
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__gat |
1 minute |
Your visit |
This cookie does not store any user information, it's just used to limit the number of requests that have to be made. |
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__gid |
2 days |
Your visit |
Used to distinguish users. |
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gwcc |
3 months |
Your visit |
This cookie allows Google to track any call conversions on mobile devices. For example if a customer is clicking a phone number on the contact us page to dial from their mobile device. |
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_hjIncludedInSample |
1 year |
Your visit |
Hotjar cookie. This session cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the sample which is used to generate funnels. |
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MCPopupClosed |
1 year |
Your visit |
This cookie is associated with the MailChimp sign up form that will pop-up on the homepage. Will store the value 'yes' to prevent the popup being displayed again. |
|
cookie |
Session Duration |
Your visit |
This is used to check that cookies are enabled. |
