Cookie Policy

We use cookies to help identify your computer so we can tailor your user experience, track shopping basket contents and remember where you are in the order process.

You can disable any cookies already stored on your computer, but these may stop our website from functioning properly. 

Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognises that cookie. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognise a user’s device.

You can find more information about cookies at: www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.eu

For a video about cookies visit www.google.co.uk/goodtoknow/data-on-the-web/cookies

The following cookies are used by the website.

Necessary Cookies

The following are necessary in the operation of our website.

Name Description Duration
astronomy.tools_astronomy.tools_session This contains a unique id that allows the website to track you from page to page - this is used for storing things like the location you have picked and any error messages that need to be displayed. Session
astronomy.tools_csrf_cookie This cookie is used to prevent cross site request forgieries. Session

This Website Will:

    Remember any error messages that are generated and need to be displayed to you
    Remember the location you have picked to view the forecast of

Functional Cookies

The following are not necessary, but are required to provide you with the best user experience and also to tell us which pages you find most interesting (anonymously).

Name Description Duration
astronomy.tools_default_latitude Used to remember your default forecast location. 1 Year
astronomy.tools_default_longitude Used to remember your default forecast location. 1 Year
_ga Used to distinguish users. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing _ga cookies exists. 2 Years
cookieconsent_status Used to identify if you have dismissed the Cookie information popup message. 1 Year

This Website Will:

    Track the pages you visits via Google Analytics

Targeting Cookies

These are no targetting cookies set by this site.


This Website Will:

    N/A

This website will not:

    N/A.
 

Additional privacy and security information can be found in our Privacy Policy and our Terms and Conditions.