Cookies – What They Are & How We Use Them


Cookies are small text files that our website and sometimes emails place in your computer to ensure that your experience of our offerings is as effective as possible. They remember any options you have chosen for example and your password or particular interests. They also enable us to track visitors’ usage of our site so that we can continuously improve it. There’s nothing mysterious about them and they do not collect personal data. Like pretty much all website owners we have always operated cookies and visitors have had the benefit of using them. EU regulations now require us to inform you of what they are and give you the option to prohibit them if you wish.
We are using the word ‘cookies‘ here to include things like ‘web beacons’ and ‘Flash cookies’ which serve similar functions. ‘Your computer’ includes anything connected to the internet including laptops, office machines, tablets, mobile phones and so on.

Now, or in the future, we may use cookies in the following categories:
 

Essential Cookies

Essential cookies help to make a website usable by enabling basic functions such as page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. Without these cookies, the website cannot function properly.

Name Description Declared as
_ab Used in connection with access to admin. Essential
_secure_session_id Used in connection with navigation through a storefront. Essential
__cfduid The _cfduid cookie helps Cloudflare detect malicious visitors to our Customers’ websites and minimizes blocking legitimate users. Essential
Cart Used in connection with shopping cart. Essential
cart Used in connection with shopping cart. Essential
cart_sig Used in connection with checkout. Essential
cart_ts Used in connection with checkout. Essential
cart_ver Used in connection with shopping cart. Essential
checkout_token Used in connection with checkout. Essential
Secret Used in connection with checkout. Essential
secure_customer_sig Used in connection with customer login. Essential
storefront_digest Used in connection with customer login. Essential
_shopify_u Used to facilitate updating customer account information. Essential
XSRF-TOKEN Used in connection with GDPR legal Cookie. Essential
gdpr_legal_cookie_session Used in connection with GDPR legal Cookie. Essential
_bc_c_set Used in connection with GDPR legal Cookie. Essential
_tracking_consent For Shopify User Consent Tracking. Essential
_shopify_m Used for managing customer privacy settings. Essential
_shopify_tm Used for managing customer privacy settings. Essential
_shopify_tw Used for managing customer privacy settings. Essential
_storefront_u Used to facilitate updating customer account information. Essential
cart_currency Used in connection with cart and checkout. Essential

Statistical and Marketing Cookies

Statistical cookies help shop owners understand how customers interact with websites by anonymously collecting and reporting information. Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across Web pages. The goal is to serve advertisements that are relevant and appealing to the individual user and are therefore more valuable to third-party advertisers.

Name Description Declared as
_orig_referrer Used in connection with shopping cart. Marketing & Analytics
_landing_page Track landing pages. Marketing & Analytics
_s Shopify analytics. Marketing & Analytics
_shopify_d Shopify analytics. Marketing & Analytics
_shopify_fs Shopify analytics. Marketing & Analytics
_shopify_s Shopify analytics. Marketing & Analytics
_shopify_y Shopify analytics. Marketing & Analytics
_y Shopify analytics. Marketing & Analytics
_shopify_sa_p Shopify analytics relating to marketing & referrals. Marketing & Analytics
_shopify_sa_t Shopify analytics relating to marketing & referrals. Marketing & Analytics
_shopify_uniq Shopify analytics. Marketing & Analytics
_shopify_visit Shopify analytics. Marketing & Analytics
tracked_start_checkout Shopify analytics relating to checkout. Marketing & Analytics
ki_r Shopify analytics. Marketing & Analytics
ki_t Shopify analytics. Marketing & Analytics
ab_test_* Shopify analytics. Marketing & Analytics