INTRODUCTION
By visiting this website with your browser settings adjusted to allow cookies, you are consenting to Witsend Community Ltd (“Witsend”) using cookies for the purposes outlined below in order to provide you with a fully functional user experience.
WHAT IS A COOKIE?
A cookie is a small text file which is downloaded and stored on your computer or mobile device by websites that you visit. Where cookie technology is not available, an anonymous identifier may be used instead. An anonymous identifier is a random string of characters used for the same purposes as a cookie.
Your browser accesses the cookie file only when you visit the website that generated it. This helps to ease your navigation by automatically logging you in and remembering things like your preferences and what’s in your shopping basket. Cookies allow sites like Witsend to deliver you a user personalised experience.
The information stored within any given cookie can only be accessed by the website that created it and cookies are limited to communicating only the information that you have disclosed to the site.
Cookies duration can be defined as either session based or as persistent.
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Session (or Transient) Cookies are stored in your computer's memory for the length of your browsing session. They become inaccessible after the session has been inactive for a time and are automatically deleted from your computer when the browser is closed. They allow you to move from page to page without having to log-in repeatedly.
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Persistent (or Permanent) cookies are stored in your computer memory and are not deleted when the browser is closed. They are used to keep your preferences for the website, so they will be remembered for next time you visit the website. They are also used to collect information about the numbers of visitors, the average time spent on a particular page and analyse behaviour on the website. This information is used to find out how well the website works and where it can be improved.
FOR WHAT PURPOSES DO WE USE COOKIES?
Our website is built on Wix’s platform. Wix uses cookies for important reasons, such as:
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To enable us to provide a great experience for visitors and customers.
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To identify our registered members (users who register to our site)
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To monitor and analyze the performance, operation and effectiveness of Wix's platform and our site on their platform
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To ensure their platform is secure and safe to use.
WHAT COOKIES DO WE USE?
We use the following types of cookie:
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Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website
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Functional cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences
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Analytical & experience testing cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users can navigate efficiently to the content they want.
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Targeting/advertising cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website, the advertising displayed on it, and any external marketing we perform more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties (see list below) for this purpose.
The list below details the cookies used on Witsend. We have outlined who – via the Wix platform -sets these cookies and their purpose.
Cookie Name
Purpose
Duration
Cookie Type
XSRF-TOKEN
Used for security reasons
Session
Essential
hs
Used for security reasons
Session
Essential
svSession
Used in connection with user login
12 months
Essential
SSR-caching
Used to indicate the system from which the site was rendered
1 minute
Essential
_wixCIDX
Used for system monitoring/debugging
3 months
Essential
_wix_browser_sess
Used for system monitoring/debugging
session
Essential
consent-policy
Used for cookie banner parameters
12 months
Essential
smSession
Used to identify logged in site members
Session
Essential
TS*
Used for security and anti-fraud reasons
Session
Essential
bSession
Used for system effectiveness measurement
30 minutes
Essential
fedops.logger.X
Used for stability/effectiveness measurement
12 months
Essential
wixLanguage
Used on multilingual websites to save user language preference
12 months
Functional
We also use Google analytics, which uses cookies to collect data, as set out below
Analytics & experience testing
Google Analytics (including Universal Analytics and Google Analytics for Display Advertisers)
Google Analytics (GA) uses cookies (or, if applicable, anonymous identifiers) to collect data that helps us understand how people are using the site. We use this information to identify how and where we can improve the customer experience, and to help us determine where our ads will be most effective online.
SHARING WITH SOCIAL NETWORKS
If you use the buttons that allow you to share content with your friends via social networks like LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter, these companies may set a cookie on your computer. Find out more about these here:
https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/
http://www.google.com/intl/en-GB/policies/privacy/
https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy
MANAGING COOKIES
If cookies aren't enabled on your computer, it will mean that your user experience on our website will be limited to browsing and researching; you won't be able to add products to your basket or buy them. To enable and manage cookies, you can use your browser to do this. Each browser is different, so check the 'Help' menu of your particular browser (or your mobile phone's handset manual) to learn how to change your cookie preferences.
If you have any questions on this policy, please Contact Us.
Last updated: 5 March 2023