A cookie is a small piece of text sent to your browser by a website you visit. It helps the site remember information about your visit, which can make it easier to visit the site again and make the site more useful to you. For example, we use cookies to remember your preferred language and currency.
1. Functional
Cookies used for functionality allow users to interact with a service or site to access features that are fundamental to that service. Things considered fundamental to the service include preferences like the user’s choice of language, currency, and maintaining information relating to a user’s session, such as the content of a shopping cart.
2. Analytics
Cookies used for analytics help collect data that allows services to understand how users interact with a particular service. These insights allow services both to improve content and to build better features that improve the user’s experience.
For example we use Google Analytics to understand how people engage with our services and to see statistics without personally identifying individual visitors. ‘_ga’ is the main cookie used by Google Analytics. ‘_ga’ enables a service to distinguish one user from another and lasts for 2 years. It’s used by any site that implements Google Analytics, including Google services.
3. Advertising
We use Googles services for advertising. These cookies are used by us only to know if a Google ad generated a conversion or not.
Some cookies are used to measure ad and campaign performance and conversion rates for Google ads on a site you visit. For example, cookies that start with ‘_gcl_’ come from Google Analytics and are primarily used to help advertisers determine how many times users who click on their ads end up taking an action on their site, such as making a purchase. Cookies used for measuring conversion rates aren’t used to personalize ads. ‘_gcl_’ cookies last for 90 days.
| Cookie name | Type | Lifetime | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| language | functional | unlimited | Remembers selected display language. |
| currency | functional | unlimited | Remembers selected currency used to display prices and to make transactions. |
| cookie_consent | functional | 1 year | Remembers the fact that user agreed to our Cookie Policy message and stop showing this message. |
| promo_band_dismissed | functional | 1 month | Remembers the fact that user dismissed our promotional message and stop showing this message. |
| token | functional | 1 month | Remembers user logged in on current browser to avoid asking for credentials for each order |
| _ga | analytics | 2 years | Used to distinguish users. More can be read on Google Analytics Cookie Usage. |
| _ga_<container-id> | analytics | 2 years | Used to persist session state. More can be read on Google Analytics Cookie Usage. |