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Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003

Under this legislation, we are required to inform you, the user, as to the use of cookies on this site and your rights to refuse the placing of cookies on your computer

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Sportzwear.com uses cookies on the site in the following ways

1. By the use of Microsoft Active Server Pages technology

2. In the use of tracking the contents of your shopping cart

3. In providing the provision of ‘wish list’ and ‘save cart’ functions

4. Third party advertising

You can set your browser to reject cookies from this site - by doing so, you will be able to browse the non shopping cart pages of the website, but you may experience problems browsing the product catalogue or using the online ordering facilities.

As allowed by the regulations, a cookie is set on your machine upon your arrival to this site - it is then your responsibility to decide whether you wish to continue to accept cookies from this site, based on the information contained here.

The information supplied above satisfies the requirements of the
Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 in relation to the use of cookies on this site.

For a more in-depth understanding please read on.

1. The use of Microsoft Active Server Pages

Whenever you visit a website where the pages have an .asp or .aspx suffix, the server providing the hosting allocates your visit a session code - this is then tracked by the host machine by placing a non-persistent cookie onto your machine - as soon as you leave the site, the cookie is erased from your machine - whilst the EU legislation differentiates between the use of permanent and non-persistent cookies, the technical structure of individual technologies is not allowed for, hence the blocking of cookies from a site will cause different effects depending on the technology applied by that site.
For example, by blocking cookies from this site, you will be able to display a limited amount of the product catalogue, but may experience errors for example once you try and add items to the cart, of view pages that are generated by search criteria depending on the severity of restrictions you have in place.

2. In the use of tracking the contents of your shopping cart

As per item 1., the cart keeps track of your shopping cart contents via sessions, and whilst the contents of your cart are not held via the non-persistent cookie on your machine, you may experience problems if you have your security settings set too restrictive

3. In providing the provision of ‘wish list’ and ‘save cart’ functions

This is contained within the provisions of the act, as the use of the ‘Wish List’ and ‘Save Cart’ functions places a persistent cookie on your machine that contains the contents of your list or cart.
Again, you may reject cookies from this site, but this will prohibit use of these functions

4. Third party advertising

This is also contained within the provisions of the act, as the site uses third party advertising that may track your visits to the advertisers site and/or the sites that we choose to advertise via the use of persistent cookies

You may prohibit acceptance of these cookies without affecting the use of this site, but the compliance to the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 of the advertisers, or providers of advertising media are outside of our control and you should visit their sites for details of their compliance