What are Cookies?
Like many other websites, listers.co.uk uses cookies to improve your user experience by enabling the website to ‘remember’ you.
Cookies are small text files - containing nothing more than letters and numbers - which are downloaded by your web browser. We use a number of cookies on listers.co.uk - to improve your experience on the website. Some are strictly necessary to enable the website to function, some allow us to provide enhanced functionality and some allow us to improve the performance of our website.
Sometimes, to support the content on our website, we embed videos, tweets, and other content from websites such as Twitter and Facebook. When you visit a page containing this content, you may be presented with cookies from these websites.
By using the listers.co.uk website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. If you wish to block any of the cookies from our website, we recommend that you set your browser to disable cookies for the listers.co.uk domain, using the instructions on the ‘How to control cookies’ page of the independent About Cookies website.
Strictly Necessary Cookies
Some of the cookies we use on listers.co.uk are strictly necessary in order for us to enable you to use the website, for us to let you move around the website and in order for you to use the features. Without these cookies, the website may not work as intended, and we would not be able to provide you with certain services, such as used car searching.
Strictly necessary cookies set on listers.co.uk include:
| Cookie Name |
Purpose |
| AlteonP | This cookie is set by our load balancing hardware, and allows us to evenly balance the number of users across the web servers we use. |
| ASP.NET_SessionID | This cookie allows us to identify you between page loads, like which vehicle you were looking at when you requested a test drive. This cookie expires and is destroyed when you leave the website. |
| .ASPANONYMOUS | This cookie contains an anonymous identifier that allows our web server software to identify customers who are not logged in. |
These cookies expire when you leave the website and have no identity information in them.
Performance Cookies
We use some cookies for internal purposes to help us provide you with a better user experience. Information supplied by these cookies helps us to understand how our customers use our website, which pages are visited most often, if you get error messages on those pages, how we present our information and data to you, and allow us to test different design ideas for some pages.
All of the information these cookies collect is aggregated and anonymous - it is only ever used to improve the way our website works. The majority of this functionality is provided by Google Analytics, which set various cookies containing __utm in their name.
Google Analytics is a free service, provided by Google, and uses multiple cookies. More information on the cookies that are set through our use of Google Analytics can be found on Google’s “Cookies & Google Analytics” page.
If you wish to block the cookies that are set via Google Analytics, you can either use the opt-out browser add-on supplied by Google or you can set your browser to reject all or certain cookies. For more information on how to do this, see the ‘How to control cookies’ page of the About Cookies website.
Blocking cookies set by Google Analytics will provide no reduced service to you, but it will mean that we will not be able to capture detailed information about the experience of our users online, nor will we be able to track the level of service our website is providing to users.
Functionality Cookies
Some of the cookies we set via our website record information about the vehicles you have viewed or the way in which you prefer your search results to be ordered and displayed. These cookies remember choices you have made in order to improve your experience, so you don’t have to re-set them every time you visit.
Functionality cookies set on listers.co.uk include:
| Cookie Name |
Purpose |
| DisplayOrder | Stores your preference for the order in which you prefer to have your search results displayed in. |
| DisplayType | Stores your preference for the type of search results you prefer to see, for example image view or list view. |
| PageSize | Stores your preference for the number of search results you prefer to see per page. |
| VehicleHistory | Stores the ID numbers of the vehicles you have viewed and added to your favourites to enable you to compare vehicles. |
These cookies expire one year after they are created and have no identity information in them.
Blocking these cookies will mean that you will not be able to use the favourite vehicles or comparison features of the website, nor will you be able to re-order the search results, which is likely to provide a reduced level of functionality and service on our website.