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What are Cookies?
Often referred to as browser cookies or tracking cookies, cookies are small, often encrypted text files, located in your web browser's directory. They cannot be used to identify you personally and can't harm your computer or mobile device. Their use is standard practice for almost all websites and, in the case of an e-commerce site such as little-linguist.co.uk, they are essential to allow the site to function correctly when shopping online.
Our Use of Cookies
We use cookies on our website (little-linguist.co.uk) to make your shopping experience with us easy, useful and reliable. Example roles of cookies on this website include:
- keeping track of what items you have added to your basket
- remembering who you are when you return at a later time
At little-linguist.co.uk, we use two different types of cookies:
First Party Cookies - These are cookies that are our own, and are controlled by us. They are used to allow our website to function as an e-commerce (online shopping) site and provide information about the usage of our site.
Third Party Cookies - These are cookies owned by other companies that we use to enhance and optimise our website, such as allowing social media sharing.
Cookies used by little-linguist.co.uk
| Name | Purpose | Typical content | Expires |
| PHPSESSID | Enables the website to recognise the same user from page to page. Without it, every page would be treated as your first visit to the site and anything added to your basket would be instantly forgotten. Online shopping would, therefore, be impossible. | General information about your session | When your browser is closed |
| SESSION | Enables you to return to the website and have it recognise you from your previous visit. If logged in, it allows you to remain logged in until you sign out, and it will also remember the contents of your basket. | Contains information about your session as above & can also contain an email address and encrypted password. | 12 months |
Third Party Cookies
| Source | Name | Purpose | Further Information |
| Google Analytics | (Prefixed with _utm, e.g): | Used to collect anonymous information about how users are using our website, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come from and the page(s) they are visiting. This information is used by us to produce reports and improve our website. | Google Privacy Policy (UK) |
| Facebook | c_user datr locale lu s xs | Social sharing - allows you to "like" a product on the website by clicking the Facebook "like" button. | Facebook Privacy Policy |
| Twitter | _twitter_sess auth_token auth_token_session guest_id k lang original_referrer secure_session twid twll | Social sharing - allows you to "tweet" about a specific product by clicking on the Twitter "tweet" button. | Twitter Privacy Policy |
| Google Plus | BEAT ULS | Social sharing - allows you to "+1" a specific product by clicking on the Google Plus "+1" button. | Google Privacy Policy (UK) |
| Pinterest | _pinterest_sess csrftoken | Social sharing - allows you to "pin" a product to your Pinterest account by clicking on the Pinterest "pin" button. | Pinterest Privacy Policy |
Disabling Cookies
If you don't wish to enable cookies you will be unable to shop online with us. However, you'll still be able to browse the website and use it for research purposes.
If you want to disable cookies, you will need to change your website browser settings to reject cookies. How to do this will depend on the browser you use. If you need further information regarding enabling and disabling cookies on your browser, please visit this website.
You can also delete any cookies stored on your computer after using our website. To learn how to delete cookies stored in your browser, click here. us.
Shopping online is safe with us!
Website Security
Our website is secured with a Thawte SSL123 Certificate. Thawte's SSL certificates are 256-bit encryption enabled and boast the highest level of browser compatibility in the industry. This certificate ensures that any information provided is kept private between your Web browser and our Web server.
Credit Card Security
Our website is integrated with Sage Pay, who will securely handle your credit or debit card transaction. Sage Pay uses high levels of encryption and have been audited and approved by all of the major UK acquiring banks.
Sage Pay security measures include the following:
- All transaction information passed between us and Sage Pay’s systems is encrypted using 128-bit SSL certificates. No cardholder information is ever passed unencrypted. You can be completely assured that nothing we pass to Sage Pay’s servers can be examined, used or modified by any third parties attempting to gain access to sensitive information.
- All sensitive data is secured by Sage Pay using the same internationally recognised 256-bit encryption standards used by, among others, the US Government.
- The data held by Sage Pay is extremely secure and they are regularly audited by the banks and banking authorities to ensure it remains so.
- Sage Pay has multiple private links into the banking network that are completely separate from the Internet and which do not cross any publicly accessible networks. Any cardholder information sent to the banks and any authorisation message coming back is secure and cannot be tampered with.
Sage Pay is designed so that we, the vendors, do not have to hold sensitive information on our site. Therefore, in the unlikely event that someone should gain access to our database, they will be unable to recover credit card details or similar sensitive information.
We know of no documented cases of credit card fraud using our shopping system over the Internet and we have been using these systems since 2004.
Data Protection
We are committed to protecting your privacy. We will only use the information that we collect about you lawfully (in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998).
Under no circumstances will we disclose any information about you to a third party without first gaining your full consent.
We will not rent, sell or volunteer your personal information, including email address, to any third party for marketing purposes, and you will always have the chance to decline future promotional emails from us.
When using our site, we will collect certain information about you for 2 reasons: firstly, to process your order and second, to provide you with the best possible service.
The type of information we will collect about you includes:
- your name
- address
- phone number
- email address
When purchasing online, information about your credit / debit card is encrypted and so we do not have access to this information.
Customers choosing to pay over the telephone should note that we do not store information about your credit / debit card and your transaction will be processed promptly and the information destroyed securely.
We will never collect sensitive information about you without your explicit consent.
The information we hold will be accurate and up to date. You can check the information that we hold about you by contacting us here. If you find any inaccuracies we will delete or correct it promptly.
The personal information which we hold will be held securely in accordance with our internal security policy and the law.
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