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How cookies are used on Coffebeans.co.uk

Measuring website usage (Google Analytics)

We use Google Analytics software to collect information about how you use Coffebeans.co.uk. We do this to help make sure the site is meeting the needs of its users and to help us make improvements, for example improving site search.

Google Analytics stores information about:

the pages you visit on Coffebeans.co.uk
how long you spend on each Coffebeans.co.uk page
how you got to the site
what you click on while you’re visiting the site
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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 Coffebeans.co.uk by tracking if you’ve visited before 2 years
_gid This helps us count how many people visit Coffebeans.co.uk by tracking if you’ve visited before 24 hours
_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 Coffebeans.co.uk or to a certain page 2 years
_utmb This works with _utmc to calculate the average length of time you spend on Coffebeans.co.uk 30 minutes
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_utmz This tells us how you reached Coffebeans.co.uk (for example from another website or a search engine) 6 months