Cookies Overview
A cookie is a small piece of information placed on your PC by this Site. It enables your computer to access information on this Site in a faster and more efficient manner. You can think of Cookies as providing a ‘memory’ for the website. They allow websites and apps to store things like user preferences, enabling you to navigate more efficiently between webpages, login information and generally improving your online experience.
Tastes N’Bites uses cookies to recognise where you are from, to help with security and enable many of the features that make this site function.
You can view our site without cookies or to ask your browser to indicate when a cookie is being sent, if your browser permits, but you will not be able to use many of the features unless you have cookies enabled.
If you have any further questions on how we store or use information about you please feel free to contact us.
Example Cookies
Here are some specific examples of the types of Cookies used on our Site.
PHPSESSID – This cookie is used to manage user session on our website. This cookie will expire once you have closed your browser.
We use Google Analytics to analyse our website and improve your experience with the Site. Google uses the following cookies with your browser.
_ga – This cookie is used to distinguish users. This cookie can be set. Its default expiration time is 2 years.
_gid – This cookie is also used to distinguish users. This cookie cannot be set, its default expiration time is 24 hours.
_gat – Used to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be named _dc_gtm_<property-id>. Its default expiration time is 1 minute and cannot be set.
test_cookie – This is a Third Party cookie. This cookie is set by DoubleClick (which is owned by Google) to determine if the website visitor’s browser supports cookies.
Managing Cookies
It is usually possible to stop your browser accepting Cookies, or to stop it accepting Cookies from a particular website. However, if you disable all Cookies we cannot tell if some features of our Site may work correctly and you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit.
All modern browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. You can usually find these settings in the Options or Preferences menu of your browser. To understand these settings, the following links may be helpful, or you can use the Help option in your browser for more details. Alternatively, to manage cookies on your browser, go to https://www.aboutcookies.org/
Disabling Cookies
If you want to disable cookies on our Site, you need to change your website browser settings to reject cookies. How you can do this will depend on the browser you use. Further details on how to disable cookies for the most popular browsers are set out below:
For Microsoft Internet Explorer:
- Choose the menu ‘Tools’ then ‘Internet Options’.
- Click on the ‘Privacy’ tab.
- Click on ‘Advanced’ and then select the appropriate settings.
For Google Chrome:
- Choose Settings ->Advanced.
- Under ‘Privacy and security’, click ‘Content settings’.
- Click ‘Cookies’.
For Safari:
- Choose Preferences->Privacy.
- Click on ‘Remove all Website Data’.
For Edge
- Choose ‘Settings’ on the right hand corner.
- Go to ‘Settings’, click ‘Choose what to clear’ under ‘Clear browsing data’.
- Select the relevant options.
For Mozilla Firefox:
- Choose the menu ‘Tools’, then ‘Options’.
- Click on ‘Privacy & Security’.
- Find the menu ‘Cookies and Seed Data’ and select the relevant options.
For Opera 6.0 and further:
- Choose the menu Files -> Preferences.
- Go to ‘Privacy’.
Please note that our use of cookies ensure the basic functioning of our website. Any editing of your cookie preferences could prevent certain elements of our website functioning.