About Cookies
What Are Cookies?
The internet without cookies is like wine without grapes. You can get by without them, but then you end up with some horrifically sweet wine made out of oak leaves that you have bought from a man with a beard from the back of a knackered old Toyota pick up truck!
A cookie is a small file that is downloaded onto your computer when you visit a website. It allows us to recognise and tailor our site to you and it won’t harm your computer. You can find details of the cookies we use at the bottom of this page.
Opting Out of Cookies
If you prefer, you can restrict, block or delete cookies by changing your browser settings but that may mean that you won’t be able to add and buy products from our store. You can use your web browser to:
- delete all cookies
- block all cookies
- allow all cookies
- block third-party cookies
- clear all cookies when you close the browser
- open a 'private browsing' session
- install add-ons and plug-ins to extend browser functionality
Where to find information about controlling cookies
- Internet Explorer http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835
- Chrome https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en-GB
- Firefox http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Clear%20Recent%20History
- Safari http://support.apple.com/kb/PH5042
- Opera http://www.opera.com/browser/tutorials/security/privacy/
More information about cookies can be found here.
Which Cookies Do We Use?
| Name Domain | Purpose | Data Kind | Sessional or Persistent? |
|---|---|---|---|
| _session_id storefront |
Allows Shopify to store information about your session (referrer, landing page, etc..) | Unique Token | Sessional |
| _shopify_visit storefront and checkout.shopify.com |
Used by our internal stats tracker to record the number of visits to the shop | None | Persistent for 30 minutes from the last visit |
| _shopify_uniq storefront and checkout.shopify.com |
Counts the number of visits to a store by a single customer | None | Expires midnight (relative to the visitor) of the next day |
| cart storefront |
Stores information about the contents of your cart | Unique token | Persistent for 2 weeks |
| _secure_session_id storefront |
Stores session information for the checkout process | Unique token | Sessional |
| storefront_digest storefront |
If the shop has a password, this is used to determine if the current visitor has access | Unique token | Indefinite |
| PREF | Google Analytics Tracking who visits the store and from where | Persistent for a very short period |
