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

 

 

 

 

 

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