TFM Cookie Policy
What are cookies?
Cookies are pieces of information generated by a web server
and stored in your computer, ready for future access. Cookies
are embedded in the HTML information flowing back and forth between
your computer and the web servers. Cookies were implemented to
allow user-side customisation of web information. They
can be used to personalise your experience on a website to perhaps
welcome you back by name or to store your username and
password to automatically allow you access without having to log
in every time. A cookie can hold various amounts of information such
as storing a lists of items you have selected to purchase or the
pages you have visited on a particular site.
Because a cookie can hold so much information which is transmitted
back to a webserver
without your knowledge, some internet users quite rightly are suspicious
of cookies and their use. Many people choose to turn off their browsers
ability to handle cookies while others prefer to approve (or not)
a cookie as it is set on their computer.
Why are cookies
used on TFM?
When you visit www.tfmsuperstore.co.uk/ a cookie is set
on your computer, this cookie holds a Session ID number.
This number is unique to you while you are browsing the
website, and should you decide to add anything to your
basket, those items are referenced with your Session
ID number, therefore the webserver knows that items X,
Y and Z with your Session number need to be displayed
in your basket page.
Should you then decide to purchase the items in your
basket, your Session ID is saved against your name,
address and credit card details. This way your complete
order can be referenced with just one number.
To alert you of any potential failure of this site, we
also attempt to set a cookie to check whether
your computer can accept cookies. This is merely a flag
that we can check for and if the cookie has failed to
set, the webserver will alert you on the basket page.
What
information is stored in the TFM cookies?
To make sure your basket contents don't get mixed
up with another persons contents the Session ID needs
to be a mixture of numbers and characters to provide
a reference ID with hundreds of thousands permutations.
That way there is absolute certainty that the Session
ID is unique to you at that moment. Here is an example of a Session
ID:
56863DAD1afab252A3Vkvj1013B5
Check your
Session ID cookie
Assuming you have your cookies enabled, here is an example of the contents of the Session ID cookie
that has been set on your computer using the real value of your cookie:
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Check your 'check for cookies' cookie
Here is an example of the 'check for cookies' flag that
we use to alert you of a possible order failure.
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In summary
We utilise cookies on this site in a non-malicious format, the cookie only ever holds a reference ID number to track your shopping through the site, it will expire after 24hrs.
We also check to see if you have cookies enabled and report back to you that the ordering process on this site will fail if cookies are not enabled, however we will also give you the opportunity to call in your order over the phone.
If you have any further questions, or need further clarification please contact via email websales@tfmsuperstore.co.uk