What are cookies?
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
How we use cookies
We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than any data you choose to share with us, for example via our enquiry form.
We use the following cookies on this website:
Google Universal Analytics
The main purpose of Google Universal Analytics cookies is performance and web usage measurement.
Cookie name: _ga
Expiry: 2 years
This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports.
Cookie name: _gid
Expiry: 10 minutes
This cookie appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited.
Cookie name: _gat
Expiry: 10 minutes
This cookie is used to throttle the request rate. It does not store any user information and is used to limit the number of requests that have to be made to our website.
WooCommerce
WooCommerce provides the shopping functionality on this website and requires the use of cookies to manage shopping basket, checkout and account processes, such as remembering your shopping basket contents and your account details.
Cookie name: woocommerce_cart_hash
Expires: when you exit the website
This cookie contain information about the cart as a whole and helps WooCommerce know when the cart data changes. No personal information is stored within this cookie.
Cookie name: woocommerce_items_in_cart
Expires: when you exit the website
This cookie contain information about the cart as a whole and helps WooCommerce know when the cart data changes. No personal information is stored within this cookie.
Cookie name: wp_woocommerce_session_
Expires: 48 hours
This cookie contains a unique code for each customer so that it knows where to find the cart data in the database for each customer. No personal information is stored within this cookie.
Managing cookies on your computer
Most web browsers allow some control of cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage or delete them, visit the About Cookies website (opens in new window).
You can choose to block the cookies that are set by the English Eccentrics website, however you must be aware that doing so may mean that parts of the site will not work correctly, such as the online shop.
Changes to the way websites use cookies
The law that controls how cookies are used on websites has changed. There is more information on the Information Commissioners website (opens in new window).