This page forms part of the our full Terms and Conditions relating to your order and your use of our website, and should be read in conjunction with the Legal page and the other pages linked from it.
We use a feature of your internet browser called “cookies” on the Schoolwear Direct website. We do not use cookies to retrieve personal information about you from your computer. We will only gain such information if you have knowingly and willingly provided such information to us.
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a very small piece of information in the form of a text file placed on your computer hard drive by lots of the websites that you visit. Cookies allow us to help you get the best out of your visit to the website and improve your user experience, for instance by remembering that you have visited before. They can also be used to make sure that any advertising you see is relevant to you.
For further information about cookies please visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org
In this policy we have used the following categories of cookies:
- Strictly Necessary cookies
- Performance cookies
- Functionality cookies
- Targeting cookies
This categorisation has been defined by The International Chamber Of Commerce (UK).
Types of cookies
Strictly Necessary cookies
Cookies are set to help support the structure of the pages that are displayed to you. These help the website to remember the products you have added to your shopping basket, your progress through checkout and whether or not you are logged in. This type of cookie only lasts for the duration of the time you are visiting the website and for a short time afterwards in case you decide to return. After you leave the website they are deleted automatically after three hours.
Performance cookies
Cookies are used to provide aggregated statistics on visitors to our websites and their browsing behaviour. This enables us to order the site to make customers’ journeys easier, and if necessary make improvements. The data is aggregated and anonymised, which means we cannot identify you as an individual.
We use Google Analytics to carry out analytical functions on our site. You can view their privacy policy here http://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html
Functionality cookies
We use cookies to make accessing the website more convenient, so you don’t need to remember your username/email address. This information will allow us to welcome you by name, and over time to personalise our website content to reflect your preferences. For security reasons, you will still need to enter your password. Our cookie will remain on your hard drive until you choose to clear it.
Targeting cookies (i.e. Third Party Cookies and Cookies used for Advertising)
Schoolwear 4 You may set cookies on your computer and allow carefully selected third parties to do the same while you are browsing our site. These will collect information about your browsing habits and allow us to show you adverts while you are browsing our site and other sites on the internet. The expiration of these cookies varies but is typically 30 days.
Cookies are used to help us understand the performance of our marketing activity and improve the relevance of the adverts that you see. We use these cookies to display products and services that we think will interest you, both on our website and on other websites across the internet.