Cookie Policy

We use cookies to give you the best experience on this website. This policy explains what cookies we use and why we use them. We recommend that you read the policy fully. For more details about your personal data please refer to our privacy policy.

What are cookies?

Cookies are a small text file that is placed on your computer, tablet or mobile phone when you access our websites. They are not harmful to your devices (like a virus or malicious code) and allow you to use many of the useful features of our website.

How do we use cookies?

The information below sets out what cookies we use on our website and how they are used. When reading the information below it is useful to know the following: Cookies have a lifetime. Some only last until you close your browser or a short time. These are called 'session cookies'. Some last longer though, for example, to enable a website to recognise you when you return to them. These are called 'persistent cookies'. Cookies placed directly by a website owner (like us) are known as 'first party cookies' and most modern websites also use technology provided by other people/businesses, for example to provide online advertising. Cookies placed by other parties are known as 'third party cookies'.

Cookie name	What is it used for?	Other information	Expiry
Strictly necessary cookies What are they? These cookies are essential to enable you to move around our website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the website. Without these cookies, services you have asked for, like logins, shopping baskets or electronic billing cannot be provided.
XSRF_TOKEN	Fresh Website	This cookie is written to help with site security in preventing Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks	1 year
cookie-banner-hidden	Fresh Website	Stores your preference to accept/reject non-essential cookies, and is used to keep those changes applied and to prevent the cookie banner from showing once your preference is set.	1 year
where_amazing_things_happen_session	Fresh Website	Used for authentication and session management. Only set when required.	1 hour
Functionality cookies What are they? These are cookies that allow our website to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language or the region you are in) and to provide enhanced, more personal features. These cookies can remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages you can customise. They may also be used to provide services you have asked for, such as watching a video or commenting on a blog.
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Performance cookies What are they? These cookies collect information about how you use our websites, for example which pages you go to most often and if you get an error message. These cookies are used to improve how our website works.
_ga	Google Analytics	Records a particular ID used to come up with data about website usage by the user.	2 years
_ga_#	Google Analytics	Used to distinguish individual users by means of designation of a randomly generated number as client identifier, which allows calculation of visits and sessions.	2 years
_gat#	Google Analytics	Enables Google Analytics regulate the rate of requesting. It is a HTTP cookie type that lasts for a session.	1 minute
_gid	Google Analytics	Keeps an entry of unique ID which is then used to come up with statistical data on website usage by visitors. It is a HTTP cookie type and expires after a browsing session.	24 hours
Targeting or advertising cookies What are they? These cookies are used to drive online advertising that is relevant to you by building up a picture of what you are interested in from your use of the internet. The cookies can limit the number of times you see an advert and help to measure the effectiveness of any advertising. They remember that you have visited a website and this information may be shared with other organisations or advertisers. Quite often targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to website functionality provided by the other organisation.
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Third party cookies What are they? We sometimes include content from other websites, such as YouTube videos and give you the option to share on social media, such as Facebook. We love it when you share information from our website, but when you do, please be aware that additional cookies and similar technologies may be placed on your computer, mobile phone or tablet device from these other websites. We're not responsible for these so please check the privacy and cookie policies of the social media networks you use for full details of what they do. Where we put YouTube videos on our website, we use cookies to capture and analyse visitor information as number of views and shares.
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How can you manage cookies?

By continuing to use our websites you are agreeing to our use of cookies. To manage all cookies placed on your computer, mobile phone or tablet device through your web browser settings, please consult your browser's guide or visit www.allaboutcookies.org or www.aboutcookies.org for more information. Some browsers are more sophisticated than others in managing these technologies, so if you want greater controls, it would be worth comparing a few of them. To manage cookies on your mobile phone please refer to your user manual.

If you are particularly concerned about third party cookies, you can often opt-out directly (such as Google Analytics, please visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout). Note, these providers may use cookies to power their opt-out service, so if you change your browser settings to block all cookies, their opt-out service may cease to work and you may still receive adverts.

Our websites are designed to use cookies, so if you choose not to allow cookies you may not be able to access all of the features we provide and your shopping experience on our website will be limited.

Updates to this cookie policy

We regularly review the cookies we and our suppliers use to continually improve our services to you. As a result, we will need to change this policy from time to time to keep it accurate and up to date. If we change this policy, we will tell you. That way you can check to see if you are happy with our new policy and adjust your browser settings if you want to before proceeding any further. Please look out for these notices in future when you are using our website.

Contact us

If you want any further information about our approach to cookies and similar technologies, our websites in general or have any other privacy questions relating to us, we'd be happy to help you. Our contact details are set out here and our address is: fresh, Union, 2-10 Albert Square, Manchester, M2 6LW

Thank you for taking the time to visit our website and reading about our use of cookies.

Happy and safe browsing.