Cookie Policy
USE OF COOKIES
The Sites use cookies to distinguish you from other users of the Sites. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse the Sites and also allows us to improve the Sites.
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 the following cookies:
Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of the Sites. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of the Sites and use a shopping basket.
Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around the Sites when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way the Sites work, 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 the Sites. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to the Sites, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make the Sites 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:
The following cookies are used by our Site. These cookies are required by functionality that is explicitly requested by the customer such as cookies to remember your log-in details, your preferences (e.g. currency choices) and what you've added into the shopping basket. If these are disabled then some of the website functionality will be lost.
Requested Functionality Cookies
guest-view: Stores the Order ID that guest shoppers use to retrieve their order status.
login_redirect: Preserves the destination page the customer was navigating to before being directed to log in.
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.
mage-translation-storage: Stores translated content when requested by the shopper.
product_data_storage: Stores configuration for product data related to Recently Viewed / Compared Products.
recently_compared_product: Stores product IDs of recently compared products.
recently_compared_product_previous: Stores product IDs of previously compared products for easy navigation.
recently_viewed_product: Stores product IDs of recently viewed products for easy navigation.
recently_viewed_product_previous: Stores product IDs of recently previously viewed products for easy navigation.
Stf: Records the time messages are sent by the SendFriend (Email a Friend) module.
X-Magento_Vary: Configuration setting that improves performance when using Varnish static content caching.
Customization Session Cookies
amz_auth_err: (Used by Amazon Pay) Value "1' indicates an authorization error.
amz_auth_logout: (Used by Amazon Pay) Value "1" indicates that the user should be logged out.
form_key: A security measure that appends a random string to all form submissions to protect the data from Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF).
mage-cache-sessid: The value of this cookie triggers the cleanup of local cache storage. When the cookie is removed by the backend application, the Admin cleans up local storage, and sets the cookie value to "true."
mage-cache-storage: Local storage of visitor-specific content that enables ecommerce functions.
mage-cache-storage-section-invalidation: Forces local storage of specific content sections that should be invalidated.
persistent_shopping_cart: Stores the key (ID) of persistent cart to make it possible to restore the cart for an anonymous shopper.
private_content_version: Appends a random, unique number and time to pages with customer content to prevent them from being cached on the server.
section_data_ids: Stores customer-specific information related to shopper-initiated actions such as display wish list, checkout information, etc.
store: Tracks the specific store view / locale selected by the shopper.
Google Analytics Cookies
__utma: Distinguishes shoppers and sessions .This cookie is created when the JavaScript library executes and there is no existing __utma cookie. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.
__utmt: Used to throttle request rate.
__utmb: Determines new sessions/visits. This cookie is created when the JavaScript library executes and there is no existing __utmb cookie. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.
_utmz: Saves the traffic source or campaign that explains how the shopper reached your site. The cookie is created when the JavaScript library executes, and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.
__utmv: Stores visitor-level custom variable data. This cookie is created when a developer uses the _setCustomVar method with a visitor-level custom variable. This cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.
ADDITIONAL THIRD PARTY COOKIES
Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. We suggest you check the third-party websites for more information about their cookies and how to manage them.
MANAGING COOKIES
You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of the Sites.
If you're not sure of the type and version of web browser you use to access the Internet:
For PCs: click on 'Help' at the top of your browser window and select the 'About' option
For Macs: with the browser window open, click on the Apple menu and select the 'About' option
If you're not sure of the type and version of web browser you use to access the Internet:
For PCs: click on 'Help' at the top of your browser window and select the 'About' option
For Macs: with the browser window open, click on the Apple menu and select the 'About' option.
To learn more about cookies and how to manage them (including blocking them) visit aboutcookies.org (opens in a separate window). Please note that we are not responsible for the content of external websites.
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