Cookies

Cookies explained

A cookie is a small piece of data, used by a website to send information to your browser and for the browser to return the information to the website.

The information can be used for such things as authentication, recognition, to record preferences and for shopping cart contents. Most website use cookies and online shopping and banking is only possible through the use of cookies.

Some cookies can also be used for tracking of individuals across the internet.

Cookie use at rareplants.co.uk

We use session cookies to store your order details whilst you are shopping with us.

They are termed 'session cookies' as they last only for the duration of users shopping on the website. A web browser normally deletes session cookies when it leaves the site.

These 'strictly necessary' cookies are the only cookies that we use and are essential for shopping with us.

If you disable cookies for our site, then you will disable online shopping with us.

What we do not do

We DO NOT use cookies for casual browsers and visitors, they are used to aid shopping only.

We DO NOT use cookies for any purpose except maintaining your shopping basket.

We DO NOT track your internet use or use tracking cookies.

We DO NOT ever pass any personal or marketing details to any other person or website

* We recommend that you configure your browser to wipe cookies when it is closed. This is safer and sensible.

* We DO NOT support the use of 'third party cookies' (the ones that enable other companies to work out what you look at, what you might buy or track you and your interests around the internet).

* Flash cookies. You might not even be aware of a new generation of Flash super-cookie. These are insidious, persistent and do not obey the usual 'cookie rules'. Flash cookies don't expire, they can be shared across any websites and they offer industry and market research virtually unlimited storage on your own machine. They enable individual user-tracking and marketing data-storage around the Internet.

For internet browsing we ourselves use a free, Firefox add-on called Better Privacy to refuse or remove these potentially unpleasant Flash Super-Cookies.

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