Cookies
What are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are downloaded on to your computer or mobile device when you visit our website. They enable the website to remember your actions and preferences, such as login, shopping cart items, font size and other preferences so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.
Cookies can be “persistent” or “session” cookies. We use both to enable our website to function as expected.
Cookies also allow us to monitor traffic, such as which of our web pages are the most popular, which we can then use use to improve our products and services.
Disabling Cookies
If you would like to restrict the use of cookies you can control this via your Internet browser.
(Please note that if you disable cookies our website will not function as expected).
An example of how to allow or block cookies by default on the Google Chrome browser is shown below.
- On your computer, open Chrome.
- At the top right, click More Settings.
- At the bottom, click Advanced.
- Under “Privacy and security,” click Content settings.
- Click Cookies.
- Turn Allow sites to save and read cookie data on or off.
For other browsers, please access their help function. (usually by pressing F1)
Cookies we collect
The table below lists the cookies we collect and what information they store.
COOKIE NAME | COOKIE DESCRIPTION |
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CART | The association with your shopping cart. |
CATEGORY_INFO | Stores the category info on the page, that allows to display pages more quickly. |
COMPARE | The items that you have in the Compare Products list. |
CURRENCY | Your preferred currency |
CUSTOMER | An encrypted version of your customer id with the store. |
CUSTOMER_AUTH | An indicator if you are currently logged into the store. |
CUSTOMER_INFO | An encrypted version of the customer group you belong to. |
CUSTOMER_SEGMENT_IDS | Stores the Customer Segment ID |
EXTERNAL_NO_CACHE | A flag, which indicates whether caching is disabled or not. |
FRONTEND | You sesssion ID on the server. |
GUEST-VIEW | Allows guests to edit their orders. |
LAST_CATEGORY | The last category you visited. |
LAST_PRODUCT | The most recent product you have viewed. |
NEWMESSAGE | Indicates whether a new message has been received. |
NO_CACHE | Indicates whether it is allowed to use cache. |
PERSISTENT_SHOPPING_CART | A link to information about your cart and viewing history if you have asked the site. |
POLL | The ID of any polls you have recently voted in. |
POLLN | Information on what polls you have voted on. |
RECENTLYCOMPARED | The items that you have recently compared. |
STF | Information on products you have emailed to friends. |
STORE | The store view or language you have selected. |
USER_ALLOWED_SAVE_COOKIE | Indicates whether a customer allowed to use cookies. |
VIEWED_PRODUCT_IDS | The products that you have recently viewed. |
WISHLIST | An encrypted list of products added to your Wishlist. |
WISHLIST_CNT | The number of items in your Wishlist. |