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.