Cookie Policy

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good 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:

Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. These essential cookies are always enabled because our website won’t work properly without them. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or pay for products when you buy from our website services. You can switch off these cookies in your browser settings but you may then not be able to access all or parts of our website.
Analytical or performance cookies. These 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.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.

We use the following cookies:

Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. These essential cookies are always enabled because our website won’t work properly without them. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or pay for products when you buy from our website services. You can switch off these cookies in your browser settings but you may then not be able to access all or parts of our website.
Analytical or performance cookies. These 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.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Cookie Name	Purpose	Retention
_ab	Used to control when the admin bar is shown on the storefront.	1 year
_abv	Persist the collapsed state of the admin bar.	1 year
_checkout_queue_token	Used when there is a queue during the checkout process.	1 year
_identity_session	Merchant authentication: Main session cookie for Identity authentication. This is the underlying Rails session cookie. It contains the SID.	2 years
_master_udr	Permanent device identifier.	Session
_merchant_essential	Contains essential information for the correct functionality of merchant surfaces such as the admin area.	1 year
_pay_session	The Rails session cookie for Shopify Pay.	Session
_shopify_country	Used for Plus shops where pricing currency/country is set from GeoIP by helping avoid GeoIP lookups after the first request.	30 minutes
_shopify_essential	Contains essential information for the correct functionality of a store such as session and checkout information and anti-tampering data.	1 year
_shopify_essential_	Contains an opaque token that is used to identify a device for all essential purposes.	1 year
_shopify_test	Used to check cookie capabilities on the client.	1 minute
_storefront_u	Facilitates updating customer account information.	1 minute
_tracking_consent	Used to store a user's preferences if a merchant has set up privacy rules in the visitor's region.	1 year
auth_state_<<id>>	Stores authentication state before redirecting customers to third party for authentication.	25 minutes
cart	Stores information related to the user's cart.	2 weeks
cart_currency	Used after a checkout is completed to initialize a new empty cart with the same currency as the one just used.	2 weeks
checkout	Used by checkout to identify the user.	21 days
checkout_token	Used by checkout to identify the user.	Session
customer_account_locale	Used to keep track of a customer account locale when a redirection occurs from checkout or the storefront to customer accounts.	1 year
discount_code	Stores a discount code (received from an online store visit with a URL parameter) in order to the next checkout.	Session
hide_shopify_pay_for_checkout	Set when a buyer dismisses the Shop Pay login modal during checkout, informing display to buyer.	Session
identity_customer_account_number	Stores an identifier used to facilitate login across the customer's account and storefront domains.	12 weeks
identity-state	OAuth flow hash between redirects.	1 day
in_checkout_profile_preview	Used to determine if a merchant is in a checkout profile preview session.	Session
keep_alive	Used when international domain redirection is enabled to determine if a request is the first one of a session.	Session
localization	Used to localize the cart to the correct country.	2 weeks
login_with_shop_finalize	Used to facilitate login with Shop.	5 minutes
master_device_id	Merchant authentication: Permanent device identifier, public version.	1 year
order	Used to allow access to the data of the order details page of the buyer.	3 weeks
profile_preview_token	Used for previewing checkout customizations.	5 minutes
shop_pay_accelerated	Indicates if a buyer is eligible for Shop Pay accelerated checkout.	1 year
shopify_pay	Used to log in a buyer into Shop Pay when they come back to checkout on the same store.	1 year
shopify_pay_redirect	Used to accelerate the checkout process when the buyer has a Shop Pay account.	1 year
skip_shop_pay	Disables Shop Pay as a payment method for a checkout.	1 year
storefront_digest	Stores a digest of the storefront password, allowing merchants to preview their storefront while it's password protected.	1 year
theme	Used to determine the theme of the storefront.	1 week
user	Used in connection with Shop login.	1 year
user_cross_site	Used in connection with Shop login.	1 year
_landing_page	Capture the landing page of visitor when they come from other sites.	2 weeks
_merchant_analytics	Contains analytics data for the merchant session.	1 year
_orig_referrer	Allows merchant to identify where people are visiting them from.	2 weeks
_shopify_analytics	Contains analytics data for buyer surfaces such as the storefront or checkout.	1 year
_shopify_ga	Contains Google Analytics parameters that enable cross-domain analytics measurement to work.	Session
_shopify_s	Used to identify a given browser session/shop combination. Duration is 30 minute rolling expiry of last use.	30 minutes
_shopify_y	Shopify analytics.	1 year
shop_analytics	Contains the required buyer information for analytics in Shop.	1 year
_shopify_marketing	Contains marketing data for buyer surfaces such as the storefront or checkout.	1 year
shopify_override_user_locale	Used as a mechanism to set User locale in admin.	1 year
_ga	Enables us to distinguish each website user from the other	2 years
_ga_<container-id>	Used for session state	2 years
_gid	Distinguishes users across sessions	1 day
_gat	Throttles request rate	1 minute
_gcl_au	Stores ad click information for conversion tracking	90 days
IDE (DoubleClick)	Used for targeting and ad personalisation	13 months
Test_cookie	Checks if the user’s browser supports cookies	15 minutes
_fbp	Identifies browsers for delivering personalised ads – also used by Instagram via Facebook integration	90 days
_pin_unauth	Used for tracking conversions without login	1 year
-pinterest_sess	Maintains log in session and analytics.	1 year

Third parties

Please note that the following third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These named third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. These third party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies or targeting cookies:

Facebook

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