What Are Cookies?

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A cookie is a small text file which is stored on your computer when you visit a website. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognise a user's device. This can be very helpful for things like remembering your preferences, saving passwords, keeping track of your ecommerce basket, or ensuring you see only relevant adverts or messaging.

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Our Cookies

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The cookies on https://www.dixons-department-store.com (“Our Site”) are not harmful and are used to make your browsing experience better by providing better site functionality and customised experiences.

The cookies used on our site will not store sensitive or personally identifiable information, such as name, address or credit card details. The list below show a list of all of the types of cookies on our site and how we use them.

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Necessary Cookies

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These cookies are essential for you to browse and shop on our site and use many of its exciting features, such as adding products to your cart and accessing secure areas of our site. These cookies will generally be first-party session cookies.

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Performance Cookies

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These functionality cookies give our site a much more personal feel and will remember choices that you have made in the past, such as what language you prefer, or what your user name and password are so you can automatically log in.

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Statistics Cookies

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These cookies allow us to supercharge the performance of our site by collecting information about how you use a website, like which pages you visited and which links you clicked on. This information allows us to analyse and improve the functioning of our site. No information that is stored can identify you, as the information is aggregated and anonymised.

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Marketing Cookies

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Marketing Cookies allow us to use your online activity to provide you advertising across the web, including away from our site. Allowing these cookies will mean that the ads you see are more likely to be relevant to you or may limit the amount of times you see a particular ad or advertiser. These cookies may share this information with third-party organizations or advertisers, and may follow you onto other websites.

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Unclassified Cookies

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These cookies are currently unclassified and their purpose is unknown. These will be updated and moved to the correct section as their purpose is detailed.

How do I change my cookie settings?

Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit https://www.aboutcookies.org or https://www.allaboutcookies.org.