Cookies policy

Design Centre Jewellery puts small files (known as ‘cookies’) onto your computer to collect information about how you browse the site.

Cookies are used to:

  • measure how you use the website so it can be updated and improved based on your needs
  • remember the notifications you’ve seen so that we don’t show them to you again

Design Centre Jewellery cookies aren’t used to identify you personally.

You’ll normally see a message on the site before we store a cookie on your computer.

Find out more about how to manage cookies.

How cookies are used on Design Centre Jewellery

Measuring website usage (Google Analytics)

We use Google Analytics software to collect information about how you use Design Centre Jewellery. We do this to help make sure the site is meeting the needs of its users and to help us make improvements. 

Google Analytics stores information about:

  • the pages you visit on Design Centre Jewellery
  • how long you spend on each Design Centre Jewellery page

  • how you got to the site

  • what you click on while you’re visiting the site

We don’t collect or store your personal information (eg your name or address) so this information can’t be used to identify who you are.

We don’t allow Google to use or share our analytics data.

Google Analytics sets the following cookies:

Universal Analytics

Name Purpose Expires
_ga This helps us count how many people visit Design Centre Jewellery by tracking if you’ve visited before 2 years
_gat Used to manage the rate at which page view requests are made 10 minutes

Google Analytics

Name Purpose Expires
_utma Like _ga, this lets us know if you’ve visited before, so we can count how many of our visitors are new to Design Centre Jewellery or to a certain page 2 years
_utmb This works with _utmc to calculate the average length of time you spend on Design Centre Jewellery 30 minutes
_utmc This works with _utmb to calculate when you close your browser when you close your browser
_utmz This tells us how you reached Design Centre Jewellery (eg from another website or a search engine) 6 months

Design Centre Jewellery events

Name Purpose Expires
analytics_next_page_call This lets us know the next page you visit on Design Centre Jewellery, so we can make journeys better when you close your browser
DesignCentreJewellery_contact_referrer This lets us know the last page you visited before using the contact Design Centre Jewellery form 1 day

You can opt out of Google Analytics cookies.

Our introductory message

You may see a pop-up welcome message when you first visit Design Centre Jewellery. We’ll store a cookie so that your computer knows you’ve seen it and knows not to show it again.

Name Purpose Expires
seen_cookie_message Saves a message to let us know that you’ve seen our cookie message 1 month