What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files stored on your computer when you visit websites.

For example, when you visit a website that uses cookies for the first time, a cookie is downloaded onto your computer. The next time you visit this website, your computer checks if it has a relevant cookie and sends the information contained in this cookie back to the website, which then knows that you have visited the website before and can tailor what shows on screen to your requirements.

Our Cookies Policy

At steadandsimpson.com we use cookies for several purposes. They allow us to keep track of what you have added to your shopping bag, ensure you are secure when purchasing, show different content and learn about how you use our website to help us make it better for you and identify and resolve errors.

To order products at steadandsimpson.com you need to have cookies enabled. However if you’d prefer to restrict, block or delete cookies from steadandsimpson.com or any other site you can use your browser to do this. See the Managing Cookies section below.

Cookies can’t harm your computer. All data stored by these cookies is anonymous. They never store personally identifiable information; i.e. name, address or payment details. A full list of cookies used on our website is below.

Cookie Name	Cookie Purpose	Duration
_szgaff	We use this to determine if you arrived at Stead & Simpson by clicking on an advertising link, and allow us to reward some external websites for directing visitors to us.	30 days
_szgs	These cookies allow our web servers to remember what you have added to your basket.	Session
_szgBag		30 days
_szga	This ensures you are secure when either going through our checkout process or when you sign in to your account.	Session
_utma	These cookies enable the function of Google Analytics software. This helps us collect and analyse visitor information such as browser usage, new visitor numbers, response to marketing activity and shopping times. This information helps us to improve the website and your shopping experience, and to make our marketing campaigns relevant. The data stored by these cookies is confidential and can be seen only by the relevant teams at Stead & Simpson and Google.	2 years
_utmb		30 minutes
_utmc		Session
_utmz		6 months
_utmx	These cookies are used for Google Experiments and are used to deliver different versions of our site (or parts of the site) to you. This helps us to see which version works best for our customers. No personal information is stored.	2 years
_utmxx		2 years
mobile-override	This cookie is used to remember if the customer would like to see the full desktop version of the site rather than the mobile version (only set if you visit our mobile site).	Session

3rd Party Cookies

You may notice some cookies on our site aren't related to Stead & Simpson. These are set by carefully selected and monitored suppliers with whom we have relationships, as listed below.

Cookie Name	Cookie Purpose	Duration
JSESSIONID	This is set by Datacash.com to ensure you are secure when entering your payment details.	Session
NSC****	These cookies are set by your bank if you need to enter 3D - Secure payment details and ensures you do so securely.	1 day
riskfortcookie		2 years 9 months
aw4253	Affiliate Window (our affiliate programme provider) uses this to determine if you arrived at Stead & Simpson by clicking on an advertising link. The data collected is not confidential or interchangeable.	30 days
Test_cookie	These cookies are created by Google owned "Doubleclick.net" and are stored to ensure we know if sales are made on our website after a customer visited our site via a paid-for advertisement.	1 day
id		2 years

Social "share" Cookies

If you choose to "share" our products or content through social networks you may be sent cookies from these sites. We do not control these cookies, so we suggest you check their websites for more information about their cookies and how to manage them.

Cookie Name	Cookie Purpose	Duration
k	These cookies are used by Twitter when you click the "tweet" button (product page)	2 years
original-refer		Session
guest_id		2 years
_twitter_sess		Session
PREF	These cookies are used by Google when you click the Google + 1 button (product page)	2 years
nid		6 months

Managing Cookies

If cookies aren’t enabled on your computer it will mean that your shopping experience on our site will be limited to browsing; you won’t be able to add items to your shopping bag and buy them.

You can manage cookies in the "Tools" menu of your browser or for more information visit www.aboutcookies.org