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.
Depending on their function and intended purpose, cookies can be assigned to the following categories:
- Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
- 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. This information is used 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:
Cookies Necessary for the Functioning of the Store
Cookie Name |
Purpose |
Duration |
_ab |
Used in connection with access to admin. |
2y |
_customer_account_shop_sessions |
Used in combination with the _secure_account_session_id cookie to track a user's session for new customer accounts |
30d |
_secure_account_session_id |
Used to track a user's session for new customer accounts |
30d |
_secure_session_id |
Used in connection with navigation through a storefront. |
24h |
_shopify_country |
Used in connection with checkout. |
session |
_shopify_m |
Used for managing customer privacy settings. |
1y |
_shopify_tm |
Used for managing customer privacy settings. |
30min |
_shopify_tw |
Used for managing customer privacy settings. |
2w |
_storefront_u |
Used to facilitate updating customer account information. |
1min |
_tracking_consent |
Tracking preferences. |
1y |
_cmp_a |
Used for managing customer privacy settings. |
1d |
c |
Used in connection with checkout. |
1y |
cart |
Used in connection with shopping cart. |
2w |
cart_currency |
Used in connection with shopping cart. |
2w |
cart_sig |
Used in connection with checkout. |
2w |
cart_ts |
Used in connection with checkout. |
2w |
cart_ver |
Used in connection with shopping cart. |
2w |
checkout |
Used in connection with checkout. |
4w |
checkout_token |
Used in connection with checkout. |
1y |
dynamic_checkout_shown_on_cart |
Used in connection with checkout. |
30min |
hide_shopify_pay_for_checkout |
Used in connection with checkout. |
session |
keep_alive |
Used in connection with buyer localization. |
2w |
master_device_id |
Used in connection with merchant login. |
2y |
previous_step |
Used in connection with checkout. |
1y |
remember_me |
Used in connection with checkout. |
1y |
secure_customer_sig |
Used in connection with customer login. |
20y |
shopify_pay |
Used in connection with checkout. |
1y |
shopify_pay_redirect |
Used in connection with checkout. |
30 minutes, 3w or 1y depending on value |
shop_pay_accelerated |
Used in connection with checkout. |
1y |
source_name |
Used in combination with mobile apps to provide custom checkout behavior, when viewing a store from within a compatible mobile app. |
session |
storefront_digest |
Used in connection with customer login. |
2y |
tracked_start_checkout |
Used in connection with checkout. |
1y |
checkout_session_lookup |
Used in connection with checkout. |
3w |
checkout_prefill |
Used in connection with checkout. |
5m |
checkout_queue_token |
Used in connection with checkout. |
1y |
checkout_queue_checkout_token |
Used in connection with checkout. |
1y |
checkout_worker_session |
Used in connection with checkout. |
3d |
checkout_session_token |
Used in connection with checkout. |
3w |
checkout_session_token_<<token>> |
Used in connection with checkout. |
3w |
cookietest |
Used to ensure our systems are working correctly |
1m |
order |
Used in connection with order status page. |
3w |
identity-state |
Used in connection with customer authentication |
24h |
identity-state-<<token>> |
Used in connection with customer authentication |
24h |
identity_customer_account_number |
Used in connection with customer authentication |
12w |
card_update_verification_id |
Used in connection with checkout. |
20m |
customer_account_new_login |
Used in connection with customer authentication |
20m |
customer_account_preview |
Used in connection with customer authentication |
7d |
customer_payment_method |
Used in connection with checkout. |
1h |
customer_shop_pay_agreement |
Used in connection with checkout. |
20m |
pay_update_intent_id |
Used in connection with checkout. |
20m |
localization |
Used in connection with checkout. |
2w |
profile_preview_token |
Used in connection with checkout. |
5m |
login_with_shop_finalize |
Used in connection with customer authentication |
5m |
preview_theme |
Used in connection with the theme editor |
session |
shopify-editor-unconfirmed-settings |
Used in connection with the theme editor |
16h |
wpm-test-cookie |
Used to ensure our systems are working correctly. |
session |
Reporting and Analytics
Cookie Name |
Purpose |
Duration |
_landing_page |
Track landing pages. |
2w |
_orig_referrer |
Track landing pages. |
2w |
_s |
Shopify analytics. |
30min |
_shopify_d |
Shopify analytics. |
session |
_shopify_fs |
Shopify analytics. |
30min |
_shopify_s |
Shopify analytics. |
30min |
_shopify_sa_p |
Shopify analytics relating to marketing & referrals. |
30min |
_shopify_sa_t |
Shopify analytics relating to marketing & referrals. |
30min |
_shopify_y |
Shopify analytics. |
1y |
_y |
Shopify analytics. |
1y |
_shopify_ga |
Shopify and Google Analytics. |
session |
customer_auth_provider |
Shopify analytics. |
session |
customer_auth_session_created_at |
Shopify analytics. |
session |
unique_interaction_id |
Shopify analytics. |
10min |
The length of time that a cookie remains on your computer or mobile device depends on whether it is a “persistent” or “session” cookie. Session cookies last until you stop browsing and persistent cookies last until they expire or are deleted. Most of the cookies we use are persistent and will expire between 30 minutes and two years from the date they are downloaded to your device.
Please note that the following third parties may also use cookies on our website, over which we have no control. These third party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies or targeting cookies:
- Customily
- Instfeed
- JudgeMe
- Paypal
These third parties will have their own privacy and cookie policies which are subject to change. Please check the third party websites for more information about their cookies and how to manage them.
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