Cookie Policy
Overview
Our website uses technology to collect information about its use, to distinguish between users, to help us provide you with a good experience and to allow us to improve the site and the service we offer. This means that when you visit our website, cookies or similar technologies will be placed on your computer or other device.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, smartphone or other device when you visit our website. A cookie file is stored on your device and allows us, or our third party partners (see below) to recognise you and make your visit easier and more useful to you when you revisit our website.
How does Benchmark use cookies?
Cookies allow us to recognise users (where appropriate), tailor the content on our website to fit the needs of our website's visitors, track shopping basket contents and remember where you are in the order process, and helps us improve the user experience. Without certain types of cookies enabled, we can't guarantee that the website and your experience of it are as we intended it to be.
We use cookies to obtain information about your visits and about the device you use to access our website.
This includes where available, your IP address and pseudonymous identifiers, operating system and browser type and, depending on the cookie, also includes the reporting of statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns.
Cookie Details
| Cookie | Expiration Time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| cookie_notice_accepted | 3 Months | A persistent cookie that records if you have dismissed the cookie notice. |
| wp_woocommerce_session_ | 48 Hours | A persistent cookie that contains a unique code for each customer so that it knows where to find the cart data in the database for each customer. |
| woocommerce_cart_hash | 24 Hours | A session cookie that stores an encoded string representing the contents of the shopping cart |
| woocommerce_items_in_cart | 24 Hours | A session cookie that records if there are any items in the shopping cart. |
Your Control Over Cookies
Cookies help you get the most out of our website. You can however set up your browser to delete or refuse some or all of them, or to notify you when you are sent a cookie and therefore choose whether or not to accept it. You may also delete or refuse, some or all of the cookies, on our website at anytime.
Please remember, if you do delete some or all your cookies, some features on our website, such as remembering your username and shopping, may not work and your experience on our website may be affected. Unless you’ve adjusted your browser settings so that they’ll delete or refuse cookies, cookies will be issued or reissued when you log on to our website. If you do decide to delete or refuse cookies but subsequently decide that you would in fact like to allow cookies, you should adjust your browser settings and continue using our website. Cookies will then be sent to and from our website.
If your computer is shared with others, you should either set your browser to refuse cookies before accessing our website or clear cookies stored by the browser every time you close your browser to avoid your email address or other details being displayed in the log on field to a subsequent user of our website.
This policy was last updated on 9th October, 2018.