Britannia

Session Cookies

This type of cookie is only active during the time you are using the website. As soon as you leave the site, it is deleted from your device or browser cache memory. Typical uses for these cookies include:

Completing Forms
When you enter details on a form a cookie will be used to store the information you enter. If you then go back to a previous page, the cookie will remember the data you have entered so that you don’t have to enter this again.

Persistent Cookies

These are cookies that will remain on your device after you have left the site or closed your web browser. They are typically used to remember settings.

Third Party cookies

We have carefully selected other companies to work with in order to give the best service to our customers. Like most websites, we use 3rd party companies to provide analytics software. We use these as they are able to provide specialist software that would be expensive for us to develop ourselves.

These companies use cookies to provide us with information about how people use our site. This information is completely anonymous and is only used to improve our website.

Our website uses the following 3rd parties’ cookies for analytics purposes:

• Webtrends Analytics
• Omniture SiteCatalyst
• Google Analytics.

Our branch locator uses cookies set by The Co-operative Group, who we are a part of. You can find out more about the cookies they use on The Co-operative Group website. This also includes a list of cookies used by us and other websites in The Co-operative Group.

Most websites use cookies but not all use them for the same purpose. The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has categorised cookies into four main groups. Below is a guide to these different types of cookies and how we use each type of cookie.

Further information about the ICC’s cookies can be found on The ICC website.

Strictly necessary cookies

These are essential in order for you to move around the website and use its features. Without these cookies, services you have asked for cannot be provided. ‘Strictly necessary’ cookies will not be used to gather information about you that could be used for marketing or remember where you’ve been on the internet.

We use these cookies to:

• Remember the information you have entered on forms so that you do not have to re-enter these details if you go back to a previous page.

Performance cookies

These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website. These cookies do not collect information that can identify a user of the site. All information these cookies collect is anonymous and is only used to improve the performance of the site.

We use these cookies to:

• Provide statistics about how people use our site, e.g. the number of visitors to a page.
• Identify any errors that occur so that we improve our website.
• Test different designs of our website..

Our website uses the following 3rd parties’ cookies for analytics purposes:

• Omniture SiteCatalyst
• Google Analytics

Functionality cookies

These cookies allow the website to remember the choices you make, such as your username or your location in order to provide enhanced and personalised features. For example a news website may store your location to provide you with the most up to date local news.

We work with a wide variety of partners to bring benefits to our customers and to local communities. These partners include Trade Unions and Football Clubs that have websites on the Britannia domain.

We use cookies on these sites to set the partner name which allow the website to display the look and images for that partner.

Targeting and Advertising cookies

We do not use cookies to target advertising or use cookies provided by 3rd parties to provide advertising.

These cookies are used for websites to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organisations such as advertisers.

We use advertising on other websites to bring visitors to our site. We use cookies provided by the following sites to track the number of visitors from advertisements to see how succesful they have been:

• doubleclick.net

Disabling Cookies

Cookies can be disabled by changing the settings in your web browser. Details on how to do this in the most common browsers are detailed below. If your browser is not listed here, you can find out how to disable cookies in the browser help section or by contacting the manufacturer.

Chrome

1. Click the spanner icon on the browser toolbar.
2. Select Settings > advanced settings > Privacy > Content settings.
3. In the "Cookies" section, select Block cookies by default

Find out more on the Google Chrome help pages.

Firefox

1. At the top of the Firefox window, click on the Firefox button ( or Tools menu in Windows XP) and then click Options > Privacy.
2. Set Firefox will: to Use custom settings for history.
3. Uncheck "Accept cookies from sites" to disable cookies.

Find out more on the Mozilla Firefox help pages.

Internet Explorer

1. At the top of the Internet explorer window, select Tools > Internet Options > Privacy.
2. Use the slider to select Block all cookies.

Alternatively, you can manage cookies via the Advanced tab. Find out more on the Microsoft help pages.

Opera

1. Select the opera in the top-left corner of the browser window.
2. Go to settings > Preferences > Advanced > Cookies.
3.Select Never accept cookies.

Find out more on the Opera help pages.

Safari

1. Choose Safari > Preferences > Privacy.
2. In the Block cookies section, select Always.

To see an explanation of the options, click the Help button (looks like a question mark). Find out more on the Apple support pages.