Cookie Policy

Information about our use of cookies

This website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of this website. This helps to provide you with a good experience when you browse the website and to enable improvements to our site. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to the use of cookies.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that is stored on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.

The following cookies are used on this site:

Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of the website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of the website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.

Analytical/performance cookies. They recognise and count the number of visitors and to record how visitors move around the website when they are using it. This helps to improve the way the website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to the website. It means content can be personalised for you, including remembering your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).

Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to the website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. This information is used to make the website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. This information may be shared with third parties for this purpose.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and their purpose in the table below:

Cookie NameCookie Purpose
woocommerce_cart_hashHelps WooCommerce determine when cart contents/data changes.
woocommerce_items_in_cartHelps WooCommerce determine when cart contents/data changes.
wp_woocommerce_session_Contains a unique code for each customer so that it knows where to find the cart data in the database for each customer.
mm_user_local_website_choiceRemembers the user’s language preferences

This cookie:

Store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise our site and to provide you with offers that are targeted at your individual interests.

Recognise you when you return to our site.

Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, which are not under the control of this website. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies. Please see below for a list of the services we use and how to find information on the cookies that they use.

 

Third PartyBing
PurposeThese cookies allow us to track conversions that have come via paid advertisements within the Bing search engine. They are also used to build lists of users who have previously visited the Mathmos site, so that we can target our advertising more effectively.
TypeAnalytical / Performance Cookie
How we use your dataTo find out more about Bing cookies and you please visit: https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-gb/privacystatement

 

 

Third PartyFacebook
PurposeWe use Facebook cookies in order to display ads on their network that our visitors have shown an interest in or, may be interested in.
TypeAnalytical / Performance Cookie
How we use your dataTo find out more about Facebook cookies: https://www.facebook.com/full_data_use_policy

 

 

Third PartyGoogle
PurposeIn order to help Google manage their advertising and websites, Google offer many products, including AdSense, AdWords, Google Analytics, and a range of DoubleClick-branded services. When you visit a page that has one of the aforementioned products, either on one of Google’s sites or one of their partners’, various cookies can be used. Google may use cookies for a number of purposes, such as to stop you from seeing the same ad over and over again, to detect and stop click fraud, and to show ads that are likely to be more relevant (such as ads based on websites you have previously visited).
TypeAnalytical / Performance Cookie
How we use your dataTo find out more about Google cookies and you please visit: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

 

 

Third PartyAlexa
PurposeWe use Alexa to monitor the performance of our website in order to provide a better service to our customers. We do not use this data for marketing or advertising purposes.
TypeAnalytical / Performance Cookie
How we use your dataTo find out more about Alexa cookies and you please visit: https://www.alexa.com/help/privacy

 

 

Third PartyMailchimp
PurposeIf you are signed up to our mailing list and are a logged in user on our web site we will use Mailchimp tracking to share information about the products you order with Mailchimp so that we can be selective about products you may be interested in. We will not use your information for other marketing/advertising purposes unless you specifically confirm that you allow us to when you sign up.
TypeAnalytical / Performance Cookie
How we use your dataTo find out more about Mailchimp cookies and you please visit: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/

 

Please see our Privacy Statement for all information relating to our treatment of your personal data and your privacy when visiting our site and using our services.

You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of the site.

You can check and manage your cookies using your browser settings. Please find information/instructions below for the most common browsers:

Explorer: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/internet-explorer/delete-manage-cookies#ie=ie-11

Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences

Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en

Safari: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH19214?locale=en_GB

You can also find more information and manage cookie storage at: www.youronlinechoices.eu