Cookie Policy
What are cookies and where do we use them?
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.
We use cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website and to enable certain functional elements of the website to operate. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.
The types of cookies we use
We use the following cookies:
- 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 or use a shopping cart.
- 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.
- Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
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Cookie Name |
Purpose |
Where you can find more information |
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PHPSESSID |
To store the logged in user's username and a 128bit encrypted key. This information is required to allow a user to stay logged in to a web site without needing to submit their username and password for each page visited. Without this cookie, a user is unabled to proceed to areas of the web site that require authenticated access. |
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private_content_version |
Appends a random, unique number and time to pages with customer content to prevent them from being cached on the server. |
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persistent_shopping_cart |
Stores the key (ID) of persistent cart to make it possible to restore the cart for an anonymous shopper. |
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form_key |
A security measure that appends a random string to all form submissions to protect the data from Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). |
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store |
Tracks the specific store view / locale selected by the shopper. |
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login_redirect |
Preserves the destination page the customer was navigating to before being directed to log in. |
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mage-messages |
Tracks error messages and other notifications that are shown to the user, such as the cookie consent message, and various error messages, The message is deleted from the cookie after it is shown to the shopper. |
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mage-cache-storage |
Local storage of visitor-specific content that enables e-commerce functions. |
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mage-cache-storage-section-invalidation |
Forces local storage of specific content sections that should be invalidated. |
https://cookiepedia.co.uk/cookies/mage-cache-storage-section-invalidation |
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mage-cache-sessid |
The value of this cookie triggers the clean-up of local cache storage. |
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product_data_storage |
Stores configuration for product data related to Recently Viewed / Compared Products. |
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user_allowed_save_cookie |
Indicates if the shopper allows cookies to be saved. |
N/A |
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mage-translation-storage |
Stores translated content when requested by the shopper. |
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mage-translation-file-version |
Stores the file version of translated content. |
https://docs.magento.com/user-guide/stores/cookie-reference.html |
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section_data_ids |
Stores customer-specific information related to shopper-initiated actions such as display wish list, checkout information, etc. |
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savebag |
this cookie is saved when the user clicks the close button on the save bag modal and it's used to deliver the functionality that the Save Bag option requires |
N/A |
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X-Magento-Vary |
Used to transfer context on the HTTP layer in for Magento. |
https://docs.magento.com/user-guide/stores/cookie-reference.html |
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aw-pq-expand |
Added by the Product Questions module and used for UI enhancements to remember if a question is expanded or not. |
N/A |
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_fbp |
Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. The main purpose of this cookie is: Targeting/Advertising. |
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twk_* |
Used for the live chat plugin |
N/A |
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recently_viewed_product |
Stores product IDs of recently viewed products for easy navigation. |
https://docs.magento.com/user-guide/stores/cookie-reference.html |
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recently_viewed_product_previous |
Stores product IDs of recently previously viewed products for easy navigation. |
https://docs.magento.com/user-guide/stores/cookie-reference.html |
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recently_compared_product |
Stores product IDs of recently compared products. |
https://docs.magento.com/user-guide/stores/cookie-reference.html |
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recently_compared_product_previous |
Stores product IDs of previously compared products for easy navigation. |
https://docs.magento.com/user-guide/stores/cookie-reference.html |
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_ga |
Used to distinguish users. |
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_gid |
Used to distinguish users. |
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_gat |
Used to throttle request rate. |
Cookies used by third parties
Where our website links to external content or social media, such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube or where we use advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services, these third parties may also use cookies over which we have no control.
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