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 |