Consumables.com ™ The workplace supplies superstore

Cookies in use on Consumables.com

Cookies and how they benefit you

Our website, like almost all other websites in action across the world, uses cookies to help provide you with the best experience that we can. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites

Our cookies help us:

• Make our website work as you'd expect
• Save you having to login every time you visit the site
• Remember your settings during and between visits
• Improve the speed/security of the site
• Allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn
• Continuously improve our website for you
• Make our marketing more efficient (ultimately helping us to offer the service we do at the price we do

We do not use cookies to:

• Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
• Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
• Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
• Pay sales commissions

Our website has live chat functionality, e-mail links and a contact form. These features require the capture of some personal information such as name and contact details. While using these features you may provide us with additional information that would help us to provide a service to you. None of the above features are automated and personal information is not captured unless expressly provided by the user.

You can learn more about all the cookies we use below.

If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect.To enable cookies, follow the instructions below for the browser version you are using.

How do I change my cookies setting so I can shop online?

To enable cookies, follow the instructions below for the browser version you are using.

Mozilla Firefix

• Go to the "Tools" menu.
• Select "Options".
• Select the "Privacy" icon.
• Check the box corresponding to "Allow sites to set cookies".
• Click "OK" to save changes.

• Select "Preferences" from the Edit menu.
• Click on the arrow next to "Privacy & Security" in the scrolling window to expand.
• Under "Privacy & Security", select "Cookies." icon.
• Select "Enable all cookies".
• Click "OK" to save changes.

• Select "Internet Options" from the Tools menu.
• Click on the arrow next to "Privacy & Security" in the scrolling window to expand.
• Under "Privacy & Security", select "Cookies." icon.
• Select "Enable all cookies".
• Click "OK" to save changes.

• Select "Internet Options" from the Tools menu.
• Click on the "Security" tab.
• Click the "Custom Level" button.
• Scroll down to the "Cookies" section.
• Set "Allow per-session cookies" to "Enable".
• Click "OK".

• Select "Internet Options" from the View menu.
• Click on the "Advanced" tab.
• Scroll down to find "Cookies" within the "Security" section.
• To enable: Select "Always accept cookies".
• Click "OK".

• Select "Preferences" from the Edit menu.
• Find the "Cookies" section in the "Advanced" category.
• To enable: Select "Accept all cookies" (or "Enable all cookies").
• Click "OK".

More about our Cookies

Website Function Cookies:

Our own cookies

We use cookies to make our website work including:

• Making our shopping basket and checkout work
• Determining if you are logged in or not
• Remembering your search settings
• Remembering if you have accepted our terms and conditions
• Allowing you to add comments to our site
• Remembering if we have already asked you certain questions

There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use our site.

Third party functions

Our site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded YouTube video. Our site includes the following which use cookies:

Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties

Social Website Cookies

So you can easily 'Like' or share our content on the likes of Facebook and Twitter we have included sharing buttons on our site.

Cookies are set by:

• Facebook
• Twitter
• Youtube

The privacy implications on this will vary from social network to social network and will be dependent on the privacy settings you have chosen on these networks.

Site Improvement Cookies

We regularly test new designs or site features on our site. We do this by showing slightly different versions of our website to different people and anonymously monitoring how our site visitors respond to these different versions. Ultimately this helps us to offer you a better website.

We use:

• Google Website Optimizier

Anonymous Visitor Statistics Cookies

We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn't working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These programs also tell us if , on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to put more money into developing our services for you instead of marketing spend.

We use:

• Google Analytics

Turning Cookies Off

You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies (Learn how here). Doing so however will likely limit the functionality of ours and a large proportion of the world's websites as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites

It may be that your concerns around cookies relate to so called "spyware". Rather than switching off cookies in your browser you may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive. Learn more about managing cookies with antispyware software.

The cookie information text on this site was derived from content provided by Attacat Internet Marketing http://www.attacat.co.uk/, a marketing agency based in Edinburgh. If you need similar information for your own website you can use their free cookie audit tool.