Use of cookies on this website.

What are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files which are downloaded to your computer when you visit a website. Your web browser (such as Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome) then sends these cookies back to the website or application on each subsequent visit so that they can recognise you and remember things like user preferences.

Burn Stewart Distillers uses cookies in order to make the website easier to use, to support the provision of information and functionality to you.

Using Burn Stewart Distillers websites means you agree to our use of cookies. You can choose to restrict or block cookies set on our websites through your browser settings at any time. For more information about how to do this, and about cookies in general, you can visit www.allaboutcookies.org . Please note that Burn Stewart Distillers is required to obtain specific confirmation that users are of Legal Drink Age. This means that a ‘Strictly Necessary’ session cookie may be placed as soon as you visit this website.

Please be aware that restricting or blocking cookies may impact the functionality or performance of the website. For example, you will not be able to use our online shops. It will also affect our ability to update our websites and to cater for user preferences and improve performance.

What Cookies Do We Use And Why?

Session Cookies

These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features. Without these cookies services you have asked for, cannot be provided. These cookies are deleted when the user closes their browser
We use these cookies to:
• Identify you as being of legal drinking age throughout your visit
• Remember products added to your shopping basket

These are the session cookies we use:

Name Information
_orson2_session_id Confirms LDA of visitor during session. Remembers items added to shopping cart
use_hitbox Increments ‘view’ counter on You Tube video
 


‘Performance’ Cookies

These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is used to improve how our website work and provide you with interesting and relevant content.

We use these cookies to:
• Provide statistics on how our websites are used
• See how effective our promotions are and try to ensure they are as relevant as possible
• Test our website design and operability

We use Google Analytics which uses the following cookies:

Name Expires After Information
__utma 730 days Identifies unique visitors to site
__utmb 30min Determines visitor session
__utmc Session Determines visitor session
__utmz 182 days Tracks how you found us and is used to calculate traffic and navigation within the website.
 

We also use elements supplied by You Tube to play video. These use the following performance cookies:

VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE 240 days estimates user bandwidth
 

‘Functionality’ Cookies

These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make (such as your video settings and map scale preference) and provide enhanced, more personal features. They may also be used to provide services you have asked for such as watching a video. The information these cookies collect is anonymised and cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.
We use these cookies to:
• Provide individual services, such as watching a video or viewing maps

We use Google Maps which uses the following functionality cookies:

Name Expires After Information
PREF 730 days Stores options such as zoom level
testcookie Session Google maps unique identifier
khcookie Session Google maps unique identifier
NID 6 months Google maps unique identifier
SNID 6 months Google maps unique identifier
 

These are the You Tube functionality cookies we use

PREF 3650 days Stores You Tube session preferences