Cookie Policy
Cookies
Are a type of short term memory for the web. They are stored within your browser and enable a site to 'remember' little bits of information between pages or visits as you go through the site its collects this information automatically.
Cookies are widely used to make your web experience more personal, this is seen as a positive thing to most people, a normal web practice. However some cookies are very sophisticated, they are able to collect data across many websites, creating what has been termed 'behavioral profiles' of people. You have probably noticed in web browsers or your Hotmail or Gmail accounts there is targeted advertising shown to you, unless you pay to have it removed you would have noticed it.
This advertising within your accounts occurs due to you cruising around the net, your own behavioral profile can then be used to decide what content or adverts to show you. This use of cookies for targeting in particular is what the law was designed to highlight. By requiring websites to inform and obtain consent from visitors it aims to give web users more control over their online privacy.
Below is a list of what cookies we collect and briefly how we use some of the information learnt from those cookies.
As a generalized rule; System Cookies, enable us to keep track of your movement from one page to another within our site, this is done so that you do not get asked for the same information twice. Our shopping basket uses system cookies to remember your selections so that when you proceed to the checkout we know what you have selected, if we did not use them your shopping basket would be empty, that would be an issue, you would leave and not come back to our site ever again.
There is heaps of different cookie types, another big one is the old Analytic Cookie, these particular cookies enable us to recognize and count the number of visitors to our website and watch how you navigated our site from entering our site to leaving it. These particular cookies help us to improve the way our website works, with this type of insight information we can see what site users view and in this particular instance these cookies enabled us to make a smother site navigation path for our site users to find what they want to view quickly and easily plus more importantly cookie information collection for myself the site owner, tells me what products did or did not get viewed and for how long the product,s had been looked at so i know what to advertise or to drop as it may be termed a seasonal product an is only purchased or looked at as that season comes around.
Brief examples are, christmas cards, swimming apparel, etc.
With that all said; We’ve listed those cookies we use on our site here so you can choose if you want to opt-out of cookies or not.
_session_id, unique token, sessional, Allows Shopify to store information about your session (referrer, landing page, etc).
_shopify_visit, no data held, Persistent for 30 minutes from the last visit, Used by our website provider’s internal stats tracker to record the number of visits
_shopify_uniq, no data held, expires midnight (relative to the visitor) of the next day, Counts the number of visits to a store by a single customer.
cart, unique token, persistent for 2 weeks, Stores information about the contents of your cart.
_secure_session_id, unique token, sessional
storefront_digest, unique token, indefinite If the shop has a password, this is used to determine if the current visitor has access.
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