Cookie Policy

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small text file that is sent by a website server to your browser and stored on your computer. Cookies allow website operators to accumulate useful information, such as whether the computer (or its user) has visited the website before. Cookies are needed for a number of functions which make websites work, or work more efficiently, and they can provide information to website owners about how you use their website. Cookies can also be used to show you adverts that are relevant to you, based on your browsing habits, to personalise your user experience.

How do we use cookies?

We use cookies to monitor how people use our website, including estimating audience size and patterns of use, to help us provide you with a better service. Cookies also make it easier for you to use the website on future visits, and allow us to personalise the content of the website to you by recording information about your preferences.

We use both persistent cookies (which expire on a specified date) and session cookies (which expire when you close your browser).

The cookies used on this website have been categorised based on definitions given in the ICC UK Cookie Guide. We use the following cookies:

Strictly necessary cookies : These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website.
Analytical/performance cookies: These allow us to recognise and count our website’s visitors and to see how visitors move around our website 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. Some of our performance cookies may be managed by third parties.
Functionality cookies: These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region – or your cookies and marketing preferences).
Targeting cookies: These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. They may be used to display relevant information or adverts to you based on the pages that you visit.

Please note that third parties (including, for example providers of external services like web traffic analysis services such as Google Analytics, or advertising services and vendors) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.

What cookies do we use?

We use the following first and third party cookies on the Speeds Medical Supplies website

Domain	Cookie name (examples)	Description	Expires
www.speedsmedical.co.uk	PHPSESSID	Only contains a reference to a session stored on the web server. No information is stored in the user's browser and this cookie can only be used by the current web site. This cookie is a reference to a unique session ID set by our website code for a current browsing session. No personal data is stored in it. The session is ended when a user’s browser is closed.	End of session
	_hp2_id.1387583879	This cookie issued by Heap Analytics is used to track user behavior on the Website, which allows us to better understand how users are using the Website. This cookie issued by Heap Analytics is used to track user behavior on the Website, which allows us to better understand how users are using the Website.	Two years.
	_hp2_props.1387583879	Contains information related to the user’s session, this cookie is strictly necessary	Two years.
	_hp2_ses_props.1387583879	Heap Analytics Session Property	Session
	ajs_anonymous_id	Used to maintain an anonymised user session by the server	One Year
	ajs_group_id	null -	1 year
	ajs_user_id	This allows segment.ioto collect data about your usage	1 year
	form_key	Stores randomly generated key used to prevent forged requests.	1 Hour
	mage-cache-sessid	Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster.	Session
	mage-cache-storage	Session	Session
	mage-cache-storage-section-invalidation	Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster.	Session
	mage-messages	Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster.	Session
	mage-translation-file-version	Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster.	Session
	mage-translation-storage	Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster.	Session
	private_content_version	Private content is present on the page	10 Years
	product_data_storage	Stores configuration for product data related to Recently Viewed / Compared Products.	Session
	recently_compared_product	Stores product IDs of recently compared products.	Session
	recently_compared_product_previous	Stores product IDs of previously compared products for easy navigation.	Session
	recently_viewed_product	Stores product IDs of recently viewed products for easy navigation.	Session
	recently_viewed_product_previous	Stores product IDs of recently previously viewed products for easy navigation.	Session
	section_data_ids	Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster	Session
	store	User has selected default Store	1 hour

	_ga	Used to distinguish users.	2 years
	_gid	Used to distinguish users.	24 hours
	_gat	Used to throttle request rate.	1 minute
	AMP_TOKEN	Contains a token that can be used to retrieve a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. Other possible values indicate opt-out, inflight request or an error retrieving a Client ID from AMP Client ID service.	30 seconds to 1 year
	_gac_<property-id>	Contains campaign related information for the user.	90 days
	__utma	Used to distinguish users and sessions. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utma cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.	2 years from set/update
	__utmt	Used to throttle request rate.	10 minutes
	__utmb	Used to determine new sessions/visits. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utmb cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.	30 mins from set/update
	__utmc	Not used in ga.js. Set for interoperability with urchin.js. Historically, this cookie operated in conjunction with the __utmb cookie to determine whether the user was in a new session/visit.	End of browser session
	__utmz	Stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached your site. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.	6 months from set/update
	__utmv	Used to store visitor-level custom variable data. This cookie is created when a developer uses the _setCustomVarmethod with a visitor level custom variable. This cookie was also used for the deprecated _setVar method. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.	2 years from set/update

You decide which cookies we use

We understand that not everyone has the same preferences when it comes to cookies and, if you wish, you can configure cookie settings in your web browser. You can find out more about how to do this at the following links:

However, please bear in mind that if you don’t allow us to use certain cookies, it may prevent you from accessing parts of our website or result in a loss of functionality which degrades your experience of the website.

Further information about cookies

There’s a lot of good information about cookies available online. For more information about cookies generally visit allaboutcookies.org.

Get in touch

Please contact us if you have any questions about how we use cookies or about your privacy.