Cookie Policy

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small file made up of letters and numbers that is downloaded onto a device when a person visits a website. These cookies are used to improve your experience, for example we will use the information to:

Measure how many people use our website to keep it running quickly and efficiently
Analyse how people use the site so we can make sure we provide the best possible service for our customers

Cookies cannot be used to:

Extract information from your device

Types of cookies

There are a number of different types of cookies; session cookies, persistent cookies, first party cookies and third party cookies.

Session cookies

These cookies links your actions on a website to our data system and are used for a number of reasons such as remembering what you’ve put into your shopping basket while browsing the site. The session cookies expire as soon as the browser is closed so no information is stored permanently.

Persistent cookies

These cookies remember your preferences or actions across a website and help us to provide you with information that is relevant to you in the future. The information collected can be used to track actions across multiple browser sessions and may be used to make advertising more relevant to you.

First party cookies

These cookies are set and handled directly by phones4uaccessories.com, they cannot be accessed or read by any other website.

Third party cookies

These are cookies that we have given a separate website permission to use on phones 4uaccessories.com, these allow the separate website to record certain actions you take on the Phones 4u Accessories site.

What cookies do Phones 4u Accessories use?

Functional

Functional cookies are used across the site to make sure certain features work properly like the shopping basket, checkout and account section.

Specifically we use these to:

Remember the products you’ve ordered in your shopping basket
Remember the information you’ve entered in the checkout as you complete your purchase
Remember if you’re logged in

We do not use these to:

Advertise products or services to you
Remember any of your information beyond your current visit

The cookies we use are:

PHPSESSID
acopendivids
acgroupswithpersist

Analytical

Analytical cookies are used to measure site performance such as number of visitors, number of purchases and number of errors.

Specifically we use these to:

Gather anonymous statistics on how our website is used
Help us to identify any errors that may occur

We do not use these to:

Advertise products or services to you

The cookies we use are:

__utma
__utmb
__utmc
__utmz

How to control cookies

Altering your cookie settings is a relatively simple task however the process does differ between browsers. Here’s how to access your cookie settings in the most popular browsers.

Google Chrome

Google Chrome:

Click on the Tools menu and select Options.
Click the Under the Bonnet tab and look for the Privacy section.
Choose the Cookie settings tab.
From here you can change your settings as you see fit.

Internet Explorer 7, 8 & 9:

Choose Tools and then Internet Options.
Click the Privacy tab.
From here you can change your settings as you see fit.(For specialised cookie settings, click on Advanced, click the Override cookies handling button and change your settings).

Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla Firefox:

Click on Tools and then Options.
Select Privacy.
Select Cookies.
From here you can change your settings as you see fit.

Opera

Opera:

Go to Tools in main menu.
Go to Preferences at the bottom of the File menu (or press Alt+P to access them directly).
Click Privacy.
From here you can change your settings as you see fit.

Safari:

Choose Preferences from the Safari menu.
Select the Security icon.
Cookie settings will appear in the window.
From here you can change your settings as you see fit.

How to delete cookies

Deleting your cookie settings is also relatively easy but the process does differ between browsers. Here’s how to delete cookies in the most popular browsers.