We use Cookies on this website
For the online shop portion of our website, we need to use cookies for the checkout system. Our content pages and blog keep track of your session on the site for a very short period, so, you can post comments etc. We use Google analytics to see how many people visit us, what they like to look at and various other details to try to help make our website better. Finally we also use cookies for Social sharing, so, browsers can send something they like from our site on Facebook, Twitter or Pinterest etc.
What Are Cookies?
A cookie is a small file that is downloaded onto your computer when you visit a website. It allows us to recognize and tailor our site to you and it won’t harm your computer.
Opting Out of Cookies
If you prefer, you can restrict, block or delete cookies by changing your browser settings but that may mean that you won’t be able to add and buy products from our store.
Details of the Cookies used
Google Analytics
| Cookie name | 1st or 3rd Party? | Expires | Information |
|---|---|---|---|
| __utma | 1st | 730 days | Like most companies we use Google Analytics to try to improve our service and make the website better. |
| __utmb | 1st | Less than 1 day | |
| __utmc | 1st | Date not set | |
| __utmz | 1st | 182 days |
Our Online Shop
| Cookie name | Domain | Purpose | Data Kind | Sessional or Persistent? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| _session_id | storefront | Allows Shopify to store information about your session (referrer, landing page, etc..) | Unique Token | Sessional |
| _shopify_visit | storefront and checkout.shopify.com | Used by our internal stats tracker to record the number of visits to the shop | None | Persistent for 30 minutes from the last visit |
| _shopify_uniq | storefront and checkout.shopify.com | Counts the number of visits to a store by a single customer | None | Expires midnight (relative to the visitor) of the next day |
| cart | storefront | Stores information about the contents of your cart | Unique token | Persistent for 2 weeks |
| _secure_session_id | storefront | Stores session information for the checkout process | Unique token | Sessional |
| Unique to each user | Paypal | Payment transactions | Unique token | Sessional |