What are cookies?
Cookies are small data files sent by a website’s server to a web browser, processor memory or hard drive and stored there. They can be used for a range of different purposes, such as customising a website for a particular user, helping a user navigate a website, improving that user’s website experience, and storing that user’s preferences and login information.
Essential and non-essential cookies
Cookies can be classified as either ‘essential’ or ‘non-essential’.
Essential cookies: these are cookies that are either:
Non-essential cookies: these are any cookies that do not fall within the definition of essential cookies, such as cookies used to analyse your behaviour on a website (‘analytical’ cookies) or cookies used to display advertisements to you (‘advertising’ cookies).
Cookies can be classified as either ‘session’ or ‘persistent’, depending on how long they last after they are placed on your browser.
Session cookies: session cookies last for as long as you keep your browser open. They expire when you close your browser.
Persistent cookies: persistent cookies expire at a fixed point in time or if you manually delete them from your browser, whichever occurs first.
Cookies can be classified as ‘first party’ or ‘third party’.
First party cookies: these are cookies placed on your device by our website domain.
Third party cookies: these are cookies placed on your device by third party website domains.
If you require further information about cookies in general, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org
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Name of Cookie |
Essential or non-essential? |
Type of cookie? |
First party or third party cookie? |
Session or persistent? |
Expiry date |
Purpose of cookie |
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CATEGORY_INFO
|
Essential |
Non Analytical |
First Party |
Session |
1 hour |
Stores the category info on the page, that allows to display pages more quickly. |
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CURRENCY
|
Essential |
Non Analytical |
First Party |
Session |
1 hour |
Your preferred currency |
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CUSTOMER
|
Essential |
Non Analytical |
First Party |
Session |
1 hour |
An encrypted version of your customer id with the store. |
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CUSTOMER_AUTH
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Essential |
Non Analytical |
First Party |
Session |
1 hour |
An indicator if you are currently logged into the store. |
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CUSTOMER_INFO
|
Essential |
Non Analytical |
First Party |
Session |
1 hour |
An encrypted version of the customer group you belong to. |
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CUSTOMER_SEGMENT_IDS
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Essential |
Non Analytical |
First Party |
Session |
1 hour |
Stores the Customer Segment ID |
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EXTERNAL_NO_CACHE
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Non Essential |
Non Analytical |
Third party |
Session |
1 hour |
A flag, which indicates whether caching is disabled or not. |
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FRONTEND
|
Essential |
Non Analytical |
Third party |
Session |
2 Year |
You session ID on the server. |
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LAST_CATEGORY
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Essential |
Non Analytical |
First Party |
Session |
30 minutes |
The last category you visited. |
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LAST_PRODUCT
|
Essential |
Non Analytical |
First Party |
Session |
30 minutes |
The most recent product you have viewed. |
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NEWMESSAGE
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Essential |
Non Analytical |
First Party |
Session |
1 hour |
Indicates whether a new message has been received. |
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NO_CACHE
|
Non Essential |
Analytical |
Third Party |
Session |
1 hour |
Indicates whether it is allowed to use cache. |
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PERSISTENT_SHOPPING_CART
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Essential |
Non Analytical |
First Party |
Session |
1 hour |
A link to information about your cart and viewing history if you have asked the site. |
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VIEWED_PRODUCT_IDS
|
Essential |
Non Analytical |
First Party |
Session |
1 hour |
The products that you have recently viewed. |
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USER_ALLOWED_SAVE_COOKIE
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Non Essential |
Non Analytical |
Third Party |
Session |
1 hour |
Indicates whether a customer allowed to use cookies. |
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STORE
|
Essential |
Analytical |
Third Party |
Session |
1 hour |
The store view or language you have selected. |
|
STF
|
Non Essential |
Analytical |
Third Party |
Session |
1 hour |
Information on products you have emailed to friends. |
These are cookies which are strictly necessary for our website to be able to operate or to provide you with a service on our website which you have requested.
Legal basis for processing: we process information about you contained in or obtained from essential cookies in our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).
Legitimate interests: ensuring our site functions properly and providing you with online services you have requested.
We use the following types of non-essential cookies on our website:
These are cookies that are designed for purposes such as enhancing a website’s functionality. These are either not strictly essential for the website or functionality which you have requested to work, or are cookies which serve non-essential purposes in addition to their essential purpose.
How to opt in or out from functional cookies
See the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookies
Processing information about you contained in or obtained from functional cookies
There are a number of different ways in which you can accept or reject some or all cookies. Some of the main methods of doing so are described below.
You are welcome to block the use of some or all of the cookies we use on our website. However, please be aware that doing so may impair our website and its functionality or may even render some or all of it unusable.
You should also be aware that clearing all cookies from your browser will also delete any cookies that are storing your preferences, for example, whether you have accepted cookies on a website or any cookies that are blocking other cookies.
You can find more detailed information about cookies and adjusting your browser settings by visiting www.allaboutcookies.org
Accepting or rejecting cookies
Cookie control tool
You can accept or reject non-essential cookies by using our cookie management tool.
Browser settings
You can accept or reject some or all cookies (for example, blocking all third party cookies) by adjusting your browser settings. If you do not know how to do this, the links below set out information about how to change your browser settings for some of the most commonly used web browsers:
Some browsers, such as Chrome and Firefox, allow you to change your settings to browse in ‘incognito’ mode, limiting the amount of data placed on your machine and automatically deleting any persistent cookies placed on your device when you finish your browsing session. There are also many third party applications which you can add to your browser to block or manage cookies.
Existing cookies
To clear cookies that have previously been placed on your browser, you should select the option to clear your browsing history and ensure that the option to delete or clear cookies is included when you do so.
Google Adsettings
You can manage and opt out of personalisation of advertisements by Google by visiting Google’s ad settings page here https://adssettings.google.com/ and by:
Alternatively, you can install a free browser plugin here: https://support.google.com/ads/answer/7395996
Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on
You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking by installing the browser add-on which is available here: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
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