General Information
This website uses cookies. A cookie is a small text file that is stored by your browser, and allows it to remember information between web pages and browser sessions. This website uses a number of 'first party' cookies generated and used by our website and some 'third party' cookies generated on our site by third parties. They enable us to remember each part of your order as you go through the site, remember your login details and display appropriate content based on your selected options and journey. They also help us to understand user behaviour within our site, which means we can make the experience better for you.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files generated by websites that you visit holding session data that may be of use later in the site. The data allows the site to maintain your information between pages, and also to analyse the way you interact with the site.
Cookies are secure, they can only store information that is put there by the browser, which is information the user has entered into the browser or that is included in the page request. They cannot run code and they cannot be used to access your computer. If a website encrypts the information in the cookie, only that website can read the information.
There are two different types of cookies: Session and Persistent. They are used for different things and contain different informations.
Session cookies contain information that is used within your current browser session. These cookies are automatically deleted when you close your browser. Nothing is persisted on your machine beyond the time you spend on the site.
Persistent cookies are used to hold information that is used between visits. This data allows sites to recognise that you are a returning customer and react accordingly. Persistent cookies have a lifetime value that is set by the website, which can vary between a few minutes or several years.
Why use cookies?
Cookies are used by the site to keep your session as you progress through the site, keeping track of your order details and whether you've logged in. They are used to display relevant products within your journey.
Web analytics cookies allow us to track customer interaction within the site. This gives us valuable insights which enable us to improve the site and the products and services we offer.
We also work with partners who will write third party cookies which are then used by advertisers on other sites to give you appropriate and relevant adverts based on your browsing history. These cookies do not store personal information enabling other sites to identify you, they are based purely on the browsing history.
Turning off and deleting cookies
All web browsers allow you to limit cookie behaviour or turn off cookies within the settings or options of the browser. The steps to do this are different for each browser, you can find instructions under the Help menu of your browser.
Through your browser you can also view the cookies that are on your computer, and delete individual ones, or purge them all.
Cookies are just text files so you can open them and read the contents.
If you turn off cookies, this website will not be able to create an order. Disabling cookies will also affect the monitoring of your progress through the site, but will not stop the analytics code from recognising your visit.
What cookies does this website create?
If you create an account with us we will use cookies for the management of the signup and login process.
This website uses cookies to store your order, your shipping location, your wish list, your language and to track your navigation inside the website and inside the products catalogue.
The session cookies that Avis writes includes data used by the web server hardware about which server is processing your session, your authentication status (against the Avis customer database) and the details of your reservation.
In order to remember your preferences we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page is affected by your preferences.
Some cookies will be deleted when you log out, other cookies may remain afterwards to remember your site preferences when logged out.
