Cookie Policy

Our website, (like with most other major e-commerce sites), uses cookies. Cookies enable us improve the user experience. Without cookies enabled we cannot guarantee that the website and your experience whilst visiting are as we designed. None of the cookies used on our website collect personally identifiable information about you.

Karnac Books uses cookies in the following ways :

  • To track how visitors interact with our website, and to allow certain website facilities such as our shopping basket and account login to function.
  • To track how visitors arrive at our site, and the path they take through it to help us improve our service to you. We use Google Analytics, a website analytics service provided by Google - Google Analytics uses cookies to help us analyse how users use the site. Find our more about how these cookies are used on the Google Privacy site.
  • To monitor and manage our Website traffic levels.

We use two types of cookie on our website, neither of which contain any personal information, and cannot be used to identify you.

  • Session Cookies. These are temporary cookies, which only exist for the time period that you actively access the website (or until you close the browser after visiting the website). Session cookies allow the Karnac Books website to remember what you have viewed and entered on previous pages, avoiding the need to re-input information and improve your experience whilst using the site.
  • Persistent Cookies. These are cookies, which remain on your device after you have visited our website. e.g. if you use the 'Remember Me on this computer' option when logging into your account. Persistent cookies help us identify you as a unique visitor; they do not contain any personal information that could be used to identify youas an individual to anyone else.

How to control and manage cookies

If you wish to restrict or block the cookies which are set by Karnac Boooks, or indeed any other website, you can do this through your web browser settings. The Help function within your particular browser should tell you how to manage cookies.

Alternatively, you can visit www.aboutcookies.org, which contains comprehensive information on how to manage cookies on a wide variety of browsers. You will also find details on how to delete cookies from your computer, as well as extra general information about cookies. For information on how to manage cookies on the browser of your mobile device you will need to refer to your mobile handset manual.

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