Cookie Policy
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with an enhanced experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.
We use the following cookies:
- Operational cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
- Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
- Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
- Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
If you continue to use our website without changing your settings we assume you consent to the use of cookies. However, you can block cookies at any time by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. Please note, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.
We also use third-party services such as YouTube for video, as well as Facebook ‘like’ buttons and Twitter ‘tweet this’ buttons. These services often store their own cookies.
Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
Operational and Functional cookies
Name |
Function |
Duration |
_ab |
Used in connection with access to admin. |
2y |
_secure_session_id |
Used to track a user's session through the multi-step checkout process and keep their order, payment and shipping details connected. |
24h |
_shopify_country |
For shops where pricing currency/country set from GeoIP, that cookie stores the country we've detected. This cookie helps avoid doing GeoIP lookups after the first request. |
session |
_shopify_m |
Used for managing customer privacy settings. |
1y |
_shopify_tm |
Used for managing customer privacy settings. |
30min |
_shopify_tw |
Used for managing customer privacy settings. |
2w |
_storefront_u |
Used to facilitate updating customer account information. |
1min |
_tracking_consent |
Used to store a user's preferences if a merchant has set up privacy rules in the visitor's region. |
1y |
c |
Used in connection with checkout. |
1y |
cart |
Used in connection with shopping cart. |
2w |
cart_currency |
Set after a checkout is completed to ensure that new carts are in the same currency as the last checkout. |
2w |
cart_sig |
A hash of the contents of a cart. This is used to verify the integrity of the cart and to ensure performance of some cart operations. |
2w |
cart_ts |
Used in connection with checkout. |
2w |
cart_ver |
Used in connection with shopping cart. |
2w |
checkout |
Used in connection with checkout. |
4w |
checkout_token |
Used in connection with checkout. |
1y |
dynamic_checkout_shown_on_cart |
Used in connection with checkout. |
30min |
hide_shopify_pay_for_checkout |
Used in connection with checkout. |
session |
keep_alive |
Used in connection with buyer localization. |
2w |
master_device_id |
Used in connection with merchant login. |
2y |
previous_step |
Used in connection with checkout. |
1y |
remember_me |
Used in connection with checkout. |
1y |
secure_customer_sig |
Used to identify a user after they sign into a shop as a customer so they do not need to log in again. |
20y |
shopify_pay |
Used in connection with checkout. |
1y |
shopify_pay_redirect |
Used in connection with checkout. |
1 hour, 3w or 1y depending on value |
storefront_digest |
Stores a digest of the storefront password, allowing merchants to preview their storefront while it's password protected. |
2y |
tracked_start_checkout |
Used in connection with checkout. |
1y |
checkout_session_lookup |
Used in connection with checkout. |
3w |
checkout_session_token_<<id>> |
Used in connection with checkout. |
3w |
identity_state |
Used in connection with customer authentication |
24h |
identity_state_<<id>> |
Used in connection with customer authentication |
24h |
identity_customer_account_number |
Used in connection with customer authentication |
12w |
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Analytical Cookies (requires consent)
Name |
Function |
Duration |
_landing_page |
Track landing pages. |
2w |
_orig_referrer |
Track landing pages. |
2w |
_s |
Shopify analytics. |
30min |
_shopify_d |
Shopify analytics. |
session |
_shopify_fs |
Shopify analytics. |
30min |
_shopify_s |
Shopify analytics. |
30min |
_shopify_sa_p |
Shopify analytics relating to marketing & referrals. |
30min |
_shopify_sa_t |
Shopify analytics relating to marketing & referrals. |
30min |
_shopify_y |
Shopify analytics. |
1y |
_y |
Shopify analytics. |
1y |
_shopify_evids |
Shopify analytics. |
session |
_shopify_ga |
Shopify and Google Analytics. |
session |
customer_auth_provider |
Shopify analytics. |
session |
customer_auth_session_created_at |
Shopify analytics. |
session |
_ga |
Google Analytics used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. |
2 Years |
_gid |
Cookies set by Google Analytics to distinguish users. |
24 Hours |
_ga_ |
Cookies set by Google Analytics to persist session state. |
2 Years |
Scarab.visitor |
Cookies set by Emarsys, stores the visitor id which will identify the visitor through multiple sessions to give a consistent experience. |
1 Year |
FHRUID |
Assigns a unique ID to a customer, used to analyse user behaviour on site |
1 Year |
FSMTrackingId, LMSID, LMUID |
Legacy Cookies set by Meliora Distribution, a unique identifier of a customer using our old search platform |
1 Year |
BVBRANDID |
Used by bazaarvoice platform to track user behaviour where user reviews are displayed |
1 Year |
Advertising Cookies (requires consent)
Name |
Function |
Duration |
_gcl_au |
Google Adsense tracking to store conversions |
30 Days |
_fbp |
Used by Facebook to track user behaviour for the purposes of serving targeted advertisements. |
1 Year |
_scid |
Snapchat pixel unique ID of the user, similar to how the _ga cookie works with Google Analytics |
1 Year |
Kk_leadtag |
Used by Kelkoo to track user behaviour for the purposes of serving targeted advertisements. |
1 Year |
_tt_enable_cookie |
Used by Tiktok to track cookie consent. |
1 Year |
_ttp |
Used by Tiktok to track user behaviour for the purposes of serving targeted advertisements. |
1 Year |
_tt_sessionId |
Used by Tiktok to track user behaviour for the purposes of serving targeted advertisements. |
24 Hours |