Our website and online services, along with most other websites, use cookies and similar technologies. For the purpose of this policy, ‘cookies’ and ‘similar technologies’ will be referred to collectively as ‘cookies’.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files containing pieces of information that websites can store on your computer’s hard disk. Cookies enable users to navigate around the website and (where appropriate) allow us to continually improve the website and make it more efficient to use on future visits.
We use two types of cookies on this website:
Session cookies are temporary cookies that remain on your machine only for as long as you are on the website and are deleted after each visit
Persistent cookies which remain on your machine until expiry or deletion (many of these have automatic deletion dates). Persistent cookies may store your personal preferences, for example your language preferences on multi-lingual sites. They may also be used to record activity you may have previously completed, such as completing an online survey, so that you are not asked to complete the survey every time you use the site.
How we use cookies on our website
We use some ‘strictly necessary’ cookies within our online services. These are limited to those deemed essential to provide you with the services you have requested, for example "the shopping basket and checkout", and therefore must be allowed to continue with that service.
In addition we use cookies to:
Collect anonymous information that will help us understand visitor browsing habits on our website;
compile statistical reports on website activity, e.g. number of visitors and the pages they visit;
in some cases, remember information about you when you visit our site. We may need to do this to provide some of our services.
We sometimes use third parties to assist us in the analysis of visits to and performance of our website, but no personal information is collected and no personal information is sent to the third parties for this purpose.
We do not use cookies to track your use of the internet after you leave our site, nor do we use them to store any personal information in them that others could read and understand.
Cookies Used, Cookie Name
Purpose/Explanation, Type
PHPSESSID
PHP Session Cookie - used to store data for the user's session (until the browser is closed). This includes login status and checkout progress.
First party - integral to site operation
basket_hash
Used to store the users basket data - without this the user cannot add to basket and proceed to checkout.
First party - integral to site operation
testcookie
Used to test whether the user has opted to accept cookies on the Khandi.co.uk and Khandigifts.com site - this cookie is only set if the user accepts cookies.
First party - integral to site operation
__utma, __utmb, __utmc, __utmz
Google Analytics cookies for anonymously tracking visitor data and profiles.
Third party - useful for Khandi.co.uk and Khandigifts.com to make user specific improvements to the website
__atuvc, bt, di, loc, psc, uid, uit, uvc
Used by the service "AddThis" to provide the social share widget at the bottom of the page.
Third party - to provide further functionality
datr
Used by Facebook to allow use of the Facebook widget on the left hand side of the site, and Facebook Like buttons.
guest_id, k, external_referer, js
Used by Twitter to allow use of the social networking "Tweet" button
Third party - to provide further functionality
APISID, HSID, NID, PREF, SAPISID, SID, SSID, docsperf, BEAT, ULS
Used by Google (+1) to allow the use of the social networking "+1" button
Third party- to provide further functionality
Changing your cookie settings
You can block any cookies from any website through your browser settings. For more specific information about how to do this and how to manage cookies to suit your preferences, including deleting those that have already been added to your computer, please visit www.aboutcookies.org.