Cookie policy

A cookie is a small text file that a website asks your browser to store. Similar technologies include local storage and session storage, which work in much the same way. They are used to remember things between pages, for example which filters you have applied in the gun room, and in some cases to count visitors.

Under the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations we may only set cookies that are strictly necessary for the website to work without asking you first. Anything else, including analytics and advertising, requires your consent.

Strictly necessary only. As currently built, this website does not set advertising cookies and does not share data with advertising networks. Your gun room filters are carried in the web address itself rather than in a cookie, which is why you can bookmark or share a filtered list of stock.

Where a cookie or local storage entry is used, it is limited to keeping the site working: remembering that you have dismissed a notice, holding a form part-completed while you are filling it in, and security tokens used when a form is submitted. These expire either when you close the browser or within a short period afterwards.

Embedded map. The map on the visit us page is served by OpenStreetMap. Loading it means your browser contacts openstreetmap.org, which will see your IP address and may set its own cookies under its own policy. If you would rather not load it, the full address and written directions are given in text on the same page.

We may add basic analytics so we can see which guns and pages people look at and whether the site works on their phone. If and when we do, this page will be updated first, the provider will be named, the cookie names and lifetimes will be listed here, and a consent banner will ask you before any analytics cookie is set. Refusing analytics will not affect anything you can do on the site.

Every mainstream browser lets you block or delete cookies from its settings, usually under Privacy. You can also browse in a private or incognito window, which discards everything when you close it. Blocking strictly necessary cookies may stop forms on this website from submitting correctly.

Guidance for each browser is published by its maker, and the Information Commissioner's Office also publishes plain-English advice at ico.org.uk.

If we add or remove a cookie, this page is the first thing we will update, and the date at the top will change. Anything requiring consent will not be set until you have given it.