Cookie policy
As you may already know, cookies are small text files downloaded to your computer when you visit a website. This website, like almost every other, uses cookies to give you a better online experience.
We’ve changed the way our website works so that we can keep up to date with recent developments in the law relating to cookies. This means that we need your consent to use cookies when you are browsing our site. To help you understand the types of cookies we use (or those which may be used by third parties on our site), we have categorised the cookies in relation to their functionality. These four categories are;-
- Strictly Necessary Cookies
- Performance Cookies
- Functionality Cookies
- Targeting Cookies
A detailed description for each of the different cookies is set out below.
Consent
By continuing to browse the site you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
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The cookies used on this website have been categorised based on the ICC UK Cookie guide. A list of all the cookies used on this website by category is set out below.
Strictly Necessary Cookies
Strictly Necessary cookies are essential to let you move around the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas, shopping baskets and online billing. These cookies allow our website to provide services at your request.
These cookies don’t gather any information that could be used for marketing to you or remember your preferences/ID, other than for your current session.
Strictly necessary cookies are used to:
- Identify you as being logged on to this website.
- Remember previous actions when navigating between different pages on this website.
- Remember things like service selections you have made which allow us to provide you with the services you have requested.
- Identify you as being logged in to and members sections within our website
Accepting these cookies is a condition of using the website.
Cookies we consider to be Strictly Necessary:
Performance Cookies
Performance cookies collect information about how you use our website e.g. which pages you visit most often, and if you experience any error messages. They also allow us to update our website to improve performance and tailor it to your preferences.
These cookies don’t collect any information that could identify you all the information collected is anonymous. They will not be used to target adverts to you on other websites.
Performance cookies are used to:
- Provide statistics on how this website is used (including selections that you have made and goods and services that you have viewed, during your use of this website).
- Gather non-user specific data about the usage on this website and provide statistics about how this website is used.
- Provide and track the effectiveness of videos embedded in this website.
- Test different designs on our website.
Where our performance cookies are managed by third parties, we don’t allow them to use the cookies for any purpose other than those listed above.
Cookies provided below;
| Name | Description | Category | Provider | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| cookieconsent_status | This cookie is associated with the app Consentmo GDPR Compliance and is used for storing the customer's consent. | Necessary | Consentmo | 1 year |
| cookieconsent_preferences_disabled | This cookie is associated with the app Consentmo GDPR Compliance and is used for storing the customer's consent. | Necessary | Consentmo | 1 day |
| _ab | Used to control when the admin bar is shown on the storefront. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 year |
| _abv | Persist the collapsed state of the admin bar. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 year |
| _checkout_queue_token | Used when there is a queue during the checkout process. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 year |
| _identity_session | Merchant authentication: Main session cookie for Identity authentication. This is the underlying Rails session cookie. It contains the SID. | Necessary | Shopify | 2 years |
| _master_udr | Permanent device identifier. | Necessary | Shopify | Session |
| _merchant_essential | Contains essential information for the correct functionality of merchant surfaces such as the admin area. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 year |
| _pay_session | The Rails session cookie for Shopify Pay | Necessary | Shopify | Session |
| _shopify_country | Used for Plus shops where pricing currency/country is set from GeoIP by helping avoid GeoIP lookups after the first request. | Necessary | Shopify | 30 minutes |
| _shopify_essential | Contains essential information for the correct functionality of a store such as session and checkout information and anti-tampering data. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 year |
| _shopify_essential_ | Contains an opaque token that is used to identify a device for all essential purposes. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 year |
| _shopify_test | Used to check cookie capabilities on the client. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 minute |
| _storefront_u | Used to facilitate updating customer account information. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 minute |
| _tracking_consent | Used to store a user's preferences if a merchant has set up privacy rules in the visitor's region. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 year |
| auth_state_* | Stores authentication state before redirecting customers to third party for authentication. | Necessary | Shopify | 25 minutes |
| cart | Contains information related to the user's cart. | Necessary | Shopify | 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. | Necessary | Shopify | 2 weeks |
| checkout | Used by checkout to identify the user. | Necessary | Shopify | 21 days |
| checkout_token | Used by checkout to identify the user. | Necessary | Shopify | 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. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 year |
| discount_code | Stores a discount code (received from an online store visit with a URL parameter) in order to the next checkout. | Necessary | Shopify | Session |
| hide_shopify_pay_for_checkout | Set when a buyer dismisses the Shop Pay login modal during checkout, informing display to buyer. | Necessary | Shopify | Session |
| identity-state | Stores a hash of the oauth flow state between redirects. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 day |
| identity_customer_account_number | Stores an identifier used to facilitate login across the customer's account and storefront domains. | Necessary | Shopify | 12 weeks |
| in_checkout_profile_preview | Used to determine if a merchant is in a checkout profile preview session. | Necessary | Shopify | Session |
| keep_alive | Used when international domain redirection is enabled to determine if a request is the first one of a session. | Necessary | Shopify | Session |
| localization | Used to localize the cart to the correct country. | Necessary | Shopify | 2 weeks |
| login_with_shop_finalize | Used to facilitate login with Shop. | Necessary | Shopify | 5 minutes |
| master_device_id | Merchant authentication: Permanent device identifier, public version. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 year |
| order | Used to allow access to the data of the order details page of the buyer. | Necessary | Shopify | 3 weeks |
| profile_preview_token | Used for previewing checkout customizations. | Necessary | Shopify | 5 minutes |
| shop_pay_accelerated | Indicates if a buyer is eligible for Shop Pay accelerated checkout. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 year |
| shopify_pay | Used to log in a buyer into Shop Pay when they come back to checkout on the same store. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 year |
| shopify_pay_redirect | Used to accelerate the checkout process when the buyer has a Shop Pay account. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 year |
| skip_shop_pay | Disables Shop Pay as a payment method for a checkout. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 year |
| storefront_digest | Stores a digest of the storefront password, allowing merchants to preview their storefront while it's password protected. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 year |
| theme | Used to determine the theme of the storefront. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 weeks |
| user | Used in connection with Shop login. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 year |
| user_cross_site | Used in connection with Shop login. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 year |
| _landing_page | Capture the landing page of visitor when they come from other sites. | Statistics | Shopify | 2 weeks |
| _merchant_analytics | Contains analytics data for the merchant session. | Statistics | Shopify | 1 year |
| _orig_referrer | Allows merchant to identify where people are visiting them from. | Statistics | Shopify | 2 weeks |
| _shopify_analytics | Contains analytics data for buyer surfaces such as the storefront or checkout. | Statistics | Shopify | 1 year |
| _shopify_ga | Contains Google Analytics parameters that enable cross-domain analytics measurement to work. | Statistics | Shopify | Session |
| _shopify_s | Used to identify a given browser session/shop combination. Duration is 30 minute rolling expiry of last use. | Statistics | Shopify | 30 minutes |
| _shopify_y | Shopify analytics. | Statistics | Shopify | 1 year |
| shop_analytics | Contains the required buyer information for analytics in Shop. | Statistics | Shopify | 1 year |
| _ga | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics | Statistics | Google Analytics | 2 years |
| _ga_B85DFBHMVJ | ID used to identify users | Statistics | Google Analytics | 2 years |
| _ga_ER1YJS1ZJX | ID used to identify users | Statistics | Google Analytics | 2 years |
| _shopify_marketing | Contains marketing data for buyer surfaces such as the storefront or checkout. | Marketing | Shopify | 1 year |
| _fbp | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. | Marketing | Meta Platforms, Inc. | 3 months |
| _gcl_au | Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services. | Marketing | 3 months | |
| _ttp | Tracking cookie used by TikTok to identify a visitor | Marketing | TikTok | 389 days |
| shopify_override_user_locale | Used as a mechanism to set User locale in admin. | Preferences | Shopify | 1 year |
| cf_clearance | Whether a CAPTCHA or Javascript challenge has been solved. | Preferences | Cloudflare | Session |