Thank you for your interest in this Cookie Policy! At Little Seeds, we take the protection of your Personal Data very seriously.
This Cookie Policy applies to www.little-seeds.co.uk and in accordance with the UK`s Data Protection Act (“DPA”) and Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (“PECR”). As well as the EU`s Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive (“PECD”) and the General Data Protection Act (“GDPR”), we inform you about the use of cookies on our website, which cookies we are using and how you can manage your consent to store cookies.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small files that are stored on your device when you visit a website. If you then return to the same website, the website recognises the cookie and remembers your device, the choices you have made, and acts in accordance with the specific objective a cookie has. As such cookies have a name and value and one or more defined characteristics, which are returned to the website as "user-related" information. So, thanks to cookies, a website knows who you are and offers you your usual default settings.
Origins and Lifespans of Cookies
There are however classes of cookies, namely first-party cookies which are placed directly by the website. As well as third-party cookies which are created by a partner website or server. And since it would not be very beneficial if all cookies would save the same information for the same period of time, each cookie stores different data and has a lifespan (that can vary from a few minutes to a few years). In this sense, we know understand that cookies are automatically placed in the cookie folder, effectively the "brain" of your browser, that each can have a different origin, holds different information, and can have a different lifespan depending on its objective. Because of that there are several types of cookies.
Types of Cookies
The least privacy invasive type of cookies are Essential or Necessary cookies. These cookies are essential or necessary to ensure that a website works properly and is secure so that you can navigate a website and use its features. Without these cookies, certain features of a website would not function, and thus you would not be able to use certain services.
There are also Functional cookies or sometimes called convenience cookies. These cookies allow a website to remember the options a user has made (including user ID`s stored, consents given, or languages selected) and other personalisation options you have selected when browsing.
Further there are also Analysis and performance cookies, which are used to monitor and improve the function and service of a website. Those can track down problems when using a website, facilitate online surveys, record visitor numbers, and provide analytics metrics.
Lastly, advertising cookies or targeting cookies. They are used to deliver customised advertising to the user. This can be very convenient, but also very annoying.
The cookies we use
According to the DPA, PECR and PECD, GDPR, the use of functional, analysis and performance or advertising cookies require your consent and thus the legal basis for the use of personal data in relation to cookies, the use of cookies would then be your consent as well as our legitimate interest.
Below you can find the cookies we use listed in accordance with their Name, Description, Lifespan, and Type. Please keep in mind that this list may be updated from time to time.
- secure_customer_sig
- Shopify sets this cookie to be used in connection with customer login.
- 1 year
- Necessary
- localisation
- Flickr sets this cookie to track usage of photo galleries embedded from Flickr.
- 1 year
- Functional
- cart_currency
- Shopify sets this cookie to remember the user’s country of origin and populate the correct transaction currency.
- 14 days
- Necessary
- _orig_referrer
- Shopify sets this cookie to be used in connection with shopping cart.
- 14 days
- Necessary
- _landing_page
- Shopify installs this cookie to track landing pages.
- 14 days
- Analytics
- _y
- This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite.
- 1 year
- Analytics
- _s
- This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite.
- 30 minutes
- Analytics
- _shopify_y
- This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite.
- 1 year
- Analytics
- _shopify_s
- This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite.
- 30 minutes
- Analytics
- shopify_pay_redirect
- Shopify sets this cookie to enable secure online payment and checkout.
- 1 hour
- Necessary
- _ga_Y1WHPHEH9H
- This cookie is installed by Google Analytics.
- 2 years
- Analytics
- _ga
- The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognise unique visitors.
- 2 years
- Analytics
- _shopify_sa_t
- This is a Shopify analytics cookie relating to marketing and referrals.
- 30 minutes
- Analytics
- _shopify_sa_p
- This is a Shopify analytics cookie relating to marketing and referrals.
- 30 minutes
- Analytics
- _gid
- Installed by Google Analytics, _gid cookie stores information on how visitors use a website, while also creating an analytics report of the website's performance. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously.
- 1 day
- Analytics
- _gat
- This cookie is installed by Google Universal Analytics to restrain request rate and thus limit the collection of data on high traffic sites.
- 1 minute
- Performance
- _gcl_au
- Provided by Google Tag Manager to experiment advertisement efficiency of websites using their services.
- 3 months
- Analytics
- _fbp
- This cookie is set by Facebook to display advertisements when either on Facebook or on a digital website powered by Facebook advertising, after visiting the website.
- 3 months
- Advertisement
- __kla_id
- Cookie set to track when someone clicks through a Klaviyo email to a website.
- 2 years
- Performance
- _pay_session
- Shopify sets this cookie to enable secure checkout and payment function on the website.
- session
- Necessary
Google Remarketing (Google Ads)
As a further tracking technology, we have integrated Google Remarketing services on our website. Google Remarketing is a function of Google Ads that enables a company to display advertisements to Internet users who have previously visited the company's website. The integration of Google Remarketing thus allows a company to create user-related advertising and consequently to display interest-relevant advertisements to the Internet user.
The purpose of Google Remarketing is to display interest-relevant advertising. Google Remarketing enables us to display advertisements via the Google advertising network or to have them displayed on other Internet pages that are tailored to the individual needs and interests of Internet users.
You have the option to object to interest-based advertising by Google. To do this, the data subject must call up the link www.google.com/settings/ads from any of the internet browsers he or she uses and make the desired settings there.
How can you delete cookies?
How and whether you want to use cookies is up to you. Regardless of which service or website the cookies come from, you always have the option to delete, only partially allow or disable cookies. To do so follow the link to your browser Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Flash cookies, Microsoft Internet Explorer/ Edge, Opera, Safari.
Does this policy change?
We may from time to time update our Cookie Policy, to reflect a change in the law, in our business practices or the cookies we use.
Who should I contact for more information?
If you have any questions or comments about our Cookie Policy or wish to exercise your rights, please contact us using the following contact details:
Little Seeds
Unit 30-31, Gosport Business Centre,
Aerodrome Road, Gosport,
Hampshire PO13 0FQ, UK
E-Mail: [email protected]
This Cookie Policy was last updated on Wednesday, 09 November 2022
