Our Use of Cookies and Analytics 

We may use cookies, pixel tags, web beacons and other similar tracking technologies (“tracking technologies”) to automatically collect information through our website. Tracking technologies are small data files placed on your computer, tablet, mobile phone, or other devices that record certain pieces of information when you visit our website. We may use these tracking technologies to help identify irregular behavior, prevent fraudulent activity and improve security, as well as making it possible for you to save your preferences and help us understand how you interact with our website.
  
We also allow third parties to use tracking technologies on our website for analytics and advertising. They assist in helping display advertisements, tailor advertisements to your interests and to assist in determining if you require assistance or are having problems navigating on our website. Some of these third parties use the tracking technologies to collect information about how you interact with other website in order to provide advertising that is tailored to your interests and which may appear on our website 

We use strictly necessary cookies to save user preferences (e.g., to save you re-entering your password). We use non-essential (non-strictly necessary) cookies to (i) deliver targeted advertising on the basis of your browsing behavior; (ii) understand your interactions with our websites to help us improve it; and (iii) personalize our websites content based on your browsing behavior. We only use non-essential cookies where we have your consent (see below).

Cookies may be first party or third party, meaning they are operated by us (first party) or by another party (third party). Please note that interactions with the third party cookies on our websites are governed by the privacy and cookie policies of the third party as set out below. For more information on our partners/third parties who use cookies on our websites, please consult the below table. 

You may set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie. Many web browsers also allow you to block cookies. You can disable cookies from your computer system by following the instructions on your browser or at www.youradchoices.com.

We use Google Analytics to evaluate the use of our website. Google Analytics uses cookies and other identifiers to collect information, such as how often users visit a Site, what pages they visit when they do so, and what other websites they visited prior to visiting our websites. For information about Google’s privacy practices, please refer to the Google Privacy Policy.

The table below explains the cookies we use and why.

Cookie

Name

Purpose

More information

Google Analytics

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These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the website, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited.

Overview of privacy at Google

Magento

FORM_KEY Stores randomly generated key used to prevent forged requests.

Magento

PHPSESSID Your session ID on the server.

Magento

GUEST-VIEW Allows guests to view and edit their orders.

Magento

PERSISTENT_SHOPPING_CART A link to information about your cart and viewing history, if you have asked for this.

Magento

STF Information on products you have emailed to friends.

Magento

STORE The store view or language you have selected.

Magento

USER_ALLOWED_SAVE_COOKIE Indicates whether a customer allowed to use cookies.

Magento

MAGE-CACHE-SESSID Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster.

Magento

MAGE-CACHE-STORAGE Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster.

Magento

MAGE-CACHE-STORAGE-SECTION-INVALIDATION Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster.

Magento

MAGE-CACHE-TIMEOUT Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster.

Magento

SECTION-DATA-IDS Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster.

Magento

PRIVATE_CONTENT_VERSION Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster.

Magento

X-MAGENTO-VARY Facilitates caching of content on the server to make pages load faster.

Magento

MAGE-TRANSLATION-FILE-VERSION Facilitates translation of content to other languages.

Magento

MAGE-TRANSLATION-STORAGE Facilitates translation of content to other languages.

Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.