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Cookie policy

Who are we?

Our websites, including(www.lincolnshire.coop) uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our websites. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our websites and also allows us to improve our site.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store 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.

What cookies does our websites use?

We use the following cookies:

  • Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our websites. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our websites, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
  • Analytical or performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our websites when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our websites works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
  • Functionality cookies. These allow us to provide features which can improve your experience on the websites. They include, for example, cookies that enable the browser to store your member number in the log in process.

Strictly necessary cookies

You can find more information about the individual strictly necessary cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Cookie

Name

Purpose

CRAFT_CSRF_TOKEN

CRAFT_CSRF_TOKEN

This cookie is set by the provider Craft CMS.

This cookie is used for the purpose of websites security that is Cross-Site-Request forgery prevention whenever a form is used.

Craft Session ID

CraftSessionId

These are Craft CMS cookies. The cookies are used to track a user's recent activity, last visit and general site movements and are a necessary cookie.

Like the Google Analytics cookies, these contain no personally identifiable information.


Analytical or performance cookies

You can find more information about the individual analytical or performance cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Cookie

Name

Purpose

Universal Analytics (Google)

_ga
_gat
_gid

These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our websites.

These cookies do not store any user information;

_gat is used to limit the request rate that have to be made and limit the collection of data on high traffic sites. This cookie expires after 1 minute.

_ga is used to distinguish individual users and has an expiration of 2 years.

_gid is used to distinguish users and stores information on how visitors use a website, while also creating an analytics report of the website's performance. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously and has an expiration of 24-hours

For more information read Google's overview of cookie usage.

Cookies Accepted

cookiesAccepted

This cookie is set by the websites when the user accepts the use of cookies on the websites.

This cookie expires after 1 year.


Functionality cookies

You can find more information about the individual functional cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Cookie

Name

Purpose

Saved Membership Number

SavedMembershipNumber

This cookie is set by the website to allow users to save their membership number on the MyAccount login page.

This cookie expires after 1 year


How can you manage your preferences?

You can choose whether we set analytical or performance or functionality cookies by clicking here or by clicking on the Manage My Cookie Preferences link in the footer below.

You can change your mind at any time by clicking here or by clicking on the ‘Manage My Cookie Preferences’ link in the footer below.

Please be aware that if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our websites.

cookie icon Our use of cookies

We use necessary cookies to make our site work. These cookies ensure our core functionality works, such as signing into your membership account and keeping our website secure.

We also use analytics cookies to help us make improvements to our website experience by evaluating how visitors use the site. You can manage these cookies by clicking the below button.


More information on this can be found on our cookies page and privacy policy.

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Necessary cookies

We use necessary cookies to enable core functionality on our website such as security, network management and for our membership area to work. You may choose to disable these by changing your browser settings, but this may affect how the website functions.

To help us continue to improve our website, we’d like to use Google Analytics cookies which will provide us with information on how you use the site. These cookies collect general behaviour information and doesn’t directly identify anyone. More information on how these cookies work can be found on our cookies page.

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