Cookie Policy

INFORMATION ABOUT OUR USE OF COOKIES

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. 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 our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services. 
  • Analytical/performance cookies.
    • They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, 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 our website. 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 our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties like Google in order to personalise your advertising and provide you with a better experience.

Below is a list of cookies with more information that our website may drop:

Cookie Name

Purpose 

More information

_ga

Google Analytics: Used to distinguish users

For all of the cookies Google uses:https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage

And for Google's Privacy Terms and Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US

_gid

Google Analytics: Used to distinguish users

__utma

Google Analytics: Used to distinguish users and sessions.

__utmt

Google Analytics: Used to throttle request rate.

__utmb

Google Analytics: Used to determine new sessions/visits

__utmc

Google Analytics: Set for interoperability with urchin.js

__utmz

Google Analytics: Stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached our site

__utmv

Google Analytics: Used to store visitor-level custom variable data.

RECENTLY_VIEWED_PRODUCTS

Platform: To ensure your experience of products on the website is relevant. This is a persistent cookie.

https://support.bigcommerce.com/s/question/0D51B00005DWYUJSA5/gdpr-cookies-compliance-what-are-big-commerce-cookies-used-for-unclassified-cookie-descriptions-needed?language=en_US

SHOP_SESSION_TOKEN

Platform: Used to identify you if you return to our website. This cookie expires after 7 days.

STORE_VISITOR

Platform: Logs whether you visited the store today. This cookie lasts 24 hours.

Shopper-Pref

Platform: Your shopping preferences. This cookie expires after 7 days.

XSRF-TOKEN

Platform: A token used to ensure correct authentication for the website.

athena_short_visit_id

Platform: A Platform neccesary cookie which expires after 30 minutes.

fornax_anonymousId

Platform: A Platform neccesary cookie which expires after 35 days.

landing_site

Platform: A Platform neccesary cookie which expires after 24 hours.

bc_consent

Consent: Used to store your cookie consent choices which expires after 35 days.

tracking-preferences

Consent: Used to store your cookie consent choices which expires after 35 days.

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 and we cannot accept any liability for the third party’s compliance with its legal obligations. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies:

Advertising cookies can be de-activated by visiting the consumer page to manage the use of these types of cookies.

You 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 our site.