Shopping sites need to maintain a unique connection between your computer
and the Internet Server where the shopping site is hosted. This
unique connection called a "session" consumes valuable resources. When
the Server believes the connection has been dropped by your computer
or not established for some period of time it "times out the session"
freeing up resources for other users of the shopping site. This may happen
for one of three reasons.
This site uses non-persistent cookies to maintain
a session between you and the shopping facility. non-persistent
cookies remember what you have in your shopping basket and do not write
data
to your computer's hard drive, they are "non-invasive" and
only reside in your computers memory whilst you are connected to the
shopping site.
NB: Persistent Cookies write small data files to your computers hard
drive and are NOT used on this site.