What are cookies?

Cookies are small data files that websites place on your computer, laptop or mobile device and are stored by your web browser.

What we use cookies for

As with most website providers, we use cookies in our website.  Cookies do not give us access to your personal information.  Cookies perform a number of functions associated with browsing websites and are used for a variety of different purposes, such as tracing users from page to page on an internet site, thereby enhancing your browsing experience.  For example, they allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around the site when they are using it.  This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.  They are generated by the website when the user accesses a web page.  Persistent cookies are then stored on your device for subsequent future access.

Southern Co-op’s cookies

Southern Co-op uses cookies in certain areas of this website and the purposes for which they are used are set out below and listed by the provider of the service that sets and maintains the cookies.

IBM Watson Campaign Automation

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All used to track user behaviour to help Southern Co-op measure the performance of campaigns and sign-up pages. There is no PII or Personally Identifiable Information stored within the cookies, but we may relate this information to information stored about the user that is personally identifiable, such as from the sign up form or from membership.

SP_IDENTITY

Created whenever a user identifies themselves, either by submitting a form or clicking-though from an email and relates to Southern Co-op’s records of you as a customer, member or user of the website.

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Set by pages06.net or pages.all-yours.co.uk to record the source of traffic for measurement purposes to understand where browsing traffic originates.

Google Tag Manager

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Not storing any Personally Identifiable Information or information relating to the user – recorded as a result of the use of Google Tag Manager on the All Yours site. We use Google Tag Manager to add additional functionality to our website.

Google Analytics

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_gid

Both used by Google Analytics to distinguish users.

IBM Customer Experience Analytics

TLTSID

A session cookie used to identify the page views and interactions that form part of a visit to a website.

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Cookies used to identify the page views and interactions that form part of a visit to a site as well as that same browser when it’s used to access the site again. We use them to track what the website visitor has looked at, so that this can be used to serve more relevant content to them in the future. No Personally Identifiable Information is stored in the cookies, but it may be linked to information that is personally identifiable as stated above.

WordPress – Wonder Popup Plugin

No storing of any Personally Identifiable Information. Cookies are solely used to control when a lightbox is displayed where relevant.

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Retention of cookie data

We retain the data related to the above cookies for the following length of time.

Acceptance of cookies

We use the cookie “catAccCookies” to record the most recent version of the cookie banner accepted and dismissed by the user. This cookie is set to expire after 30 days, at which time the user will be presented with the banner to review and accept again. The banner will also be shown when a revision is made to the cookie policy that the user may wish to review.

Blocking or restricting cookies

If you don’t want to accept cookies, you can modify your browser accordingly by going into your settings. Please visit www.allaboutcookies.org to find out how.  However, if you do so this it may affect your browsing experience and certain functions within the website may not work. Please note we can’t be responsible for the content of third party websites.