Introduction
Our website uses cookies to collect information. This includes information about browsing and purchasing behavior. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.
We use the following cookies:
- Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website or make use a shopping cart.
- Performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
- Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences.
- Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
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Strictly necessary cookies |
These are essential to navigate around our website and use its functions. Without them you wouldn’t be able to use our basic services like registration and shopping cart. Examples of purposes for which a cookie may be used: (a) allow you to sign into the Home Bargains website as a registered user; (b) remember things you have already done i.e. products added to your basket; (c) Speed up your searches;
(d) Recognise you when you return to our site.
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These cookies essentially let you use all the different parts of the Home Bargains website. Without them, services which you have asked for cannot be provided. |
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Performance cookies |
These help us to understand how you use the Home Bargains website.
Some examples of how we use performance cookies are set out below:
(a) whether or not you have visited before;
(b) what you have looked at or clicked on;
(c) we can then use this data to help improve our services;
(d) making sure our website is working properly and fixing errors;
(e) testing designs to help improve the look and feel of our website.
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We sometimes use independent analytics companies to analyse how you are using the Home Bargains website. These companies might set their own performance cookies, over which we have no control. The third party companies we use are:
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Functional cookies |
These help us personalise the Home Bargains website, by remembering your preferences and settings.
An example of how we use these cookies are:
(a) remembering if you have used our website before;
(b) remembering your user preferences on Your Account page. |
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Targeting cookies
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These cookies are used to show you specifically targeted adverts when you visit. These are placed by third-party advertising networks. They cannot determine who you are though, as the data collected is never linked to your profile. |
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You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.
Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after 13 months.