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To enhance your shopping experience and to ensure our site works fully for you we recommend cookies are enabled.
Here's how the cookies crumble
Cookies used on hive.co.uk do the following:
- Store the contents of your shopping basket as you proceed through checkout
- Enable you to ‘log in’ to your account so you can see information relating to your orders and manage your account.
- Record the areas in our site you have visited and for how long as well as which products you viewed, purchased. We use this to help us improve our website so that it’s easy to use and so we can improve the services we provide.
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Like momma's recipe, our cookies are good for the soul
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Can I turn cookies off?
We use cookies to make our website easier to use and so we can provide the best possible service. They’re an essential part of how our website works.
If you choose to block cookies on your browser, you will not be able to add items to your shopping basket, proceed to checkout, or use any account features that require you to sign in
Because cookies allow you to take advantage of essential features of this website, we recommend that you accept the settings.
If you do leave cookies turned on, be sure to sign off when you finish, especially when using a shared computer.
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How can I manage cookies?
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- How to disable cookies altogether
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- www.allaboutcookies.org
If have any questions relating to use of cookies on hive.co.uk, please contact us
Cookies used on hive.co.uk
The cookies we use help us to enhance you shopping experience and are 100% safe and secure and we recommend they are switched on. An explanation of the cookies used on hive.co.uk is below:
Essential cookies -These cookies, normally website cookies, are used for essential website functionality and making sure essential features, like the shopping basket, work as they should.
| Cookie name | Purpose |
|---|---|
| basket_hash | These are used to identify the visitor's basket |
| basket_id | The basket_id refers to an ID in our own database, which is retrieved whenever the cookie is present and made available to the visitor |
Session cookie – This cookie is essential for site functionality. It does not store any personal information. A session cookie only lasts for the duration the user is using the website. A web browser normally deletes session cookies when it quits.
| Cookie name | Purpose |
|---|---|
| PHPSESSID | PHPSESSID is the cookie we use to log in users. It refers to an ID on the Hive server which is in turn linked to personal information. |
3rd party cookies include:
Google – These cookies are used by Google to provide different Google services for the user and to collect anonymous data about the user – you can find out more about how Google use cookies at: www.google.com/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html
Twitter - These cookies are created by Twitter to let the site know if the user is logged in to Twitter. These cookies are present if there is a Twitter’s “Tweet widget” or a “Profile widget” present on the page.
