Our website (www.bugweedslimited.co.uk) uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website.  This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.  By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or on the hard drive of your computer, if you agree.  Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.

We use the following cookies:

  • 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, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
  • 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 (for example, your choice of language or region).

We DO NOT use the following cookies:

  • Targeting cookies. These cookies would record your visit to a website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed.  This information would be used to make a website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests.  Such information would potentially be shared with third parties for that purpose.

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

CookieNamePurposeExpiration
Strictly Essential__stripe_midto provide fraud prevention1 year
Strictly EssentialWordpress_logged_in_*Indicates if the user is logged in and who it is. Session
Strictly EssentialWordpress_sec_*Stores the current user's authentication details. Its use is limited to the administration interface.Session
Strictly EssentialWordpress_test_cookieTo test cookies can be setSession
Strictly Essentialwp_langTo remember the language chosen by the user while browsing
Strictly Essentialwoocommerce_items_in_cartAllows keeping of the current user's basket during their navigation.Session

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