Our Cookie Policy
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 or performance cookies. These 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 for this purpose.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use (from our latest audit in April 2021) and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
|
Cookie Type |
Cookie Name |
Description |
Host |
More information |
|
Strictly necessary |
fwcookies_agreement_0 |
Stores the user’s cookie consent state. |
Cookiebot |
Persistant: 1 year |
|
Strictly necessary |
mage-cache-storage |
Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster. |
https://pureearth.store/ |
Per session |
|
Strictly necessary |
mage-cache-sessid |
Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster.
|
https://pureearth.store/ |
Per session |
|
Strictly necessary |
mage-cache-storage-section-invalidation |
Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster. |
https://pureearth.store/ |
Per session |
|
Strictly necessary |
mage-banners-cache-storage |
Facilitates translation of content to other languages. |
https://pureearth.store/ |
Per session |
|
Strictly necessary |
mage-messages |
Logs error messages and other notifications that are displayed to the user. |
https://pureearth.store/ |
Persistant: 1 year |
|
Strictly necessary |
mage-translation-storage |
Facilitates translation of content to other languages. |
https://pureearth.store/ |
Per session |
|
Strictly necessary |
mage-translation-file-version |
Facilitates translation of content to other languages. |
https://pureearth.store/ |
Per session |
|
Strictly necessary |
mage-translation-storage |
Facilitates translation of content to other languages. |
https://pureearth.store/ |
Per session |
|
Strictly necessary |
X-Magento-Vary |
Facilitates caching on the server to make pages load faster when using Varnish static content caching. |
https://pureearth.store/ |
Per session |
|
Strictly necessary |
phpsessid |
Preserves user state accross page requests. Used for maintaining a logged-in status for a user between pages. |
https://pureearth.store/ |
Persistent, 2 weeks |
|
Strictly necessary |
form_key |
Used by Magento as a security measure that appends a random string to all form submissions to protect the data from Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). |
https://pureearth.store/ |
Per session |
|
Strictly necessary |
private_content_version |
Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster. |
https://pureearth.store/ |
Per session |
|
Strictly necessary |
section_data_ids |
Stores customer-specific information related to shopper-initiated actions such as dislpay wishlist, checkout information, etc. |
https://pureearth.store/ |
Per session |
|
Strictly necessary |
store |
Stores the specific locale and language the user is browsing. |
https://pureearth.store/ |
Per session |
|
Strictly necessary |
store_check |
used to identify which local and language the user is browsing. |
https://pureearth.store/ |
Persistent, 3 days |
|
Strictly necessary |
recently_viewed_product |
Stores product IDs of recently viewed products for easy navigation. |
https://pureearth.store/ |
Per session |
|
Strictly necessary |
recently_viewed_product_previous |
Stores product ids of recently viewed products. |
https://pureearth.store/ |
Per session |
|
Strictly necessary |
recently_compared_product |
Stores product ids of recently viewed products. |
https://pureearth.store/ |
Per session |
|
Strictly necessary |
recently_compared_product_previous |
Stores product ids of recently viewed products. |
https://pureearth.store/ |
Per session |
|
Strictly necessary |
product_data_storage |
Stores product data related to recently viewed products. |
https://pureearth.store/ |
Per session |
|
Analytical or performance cookies |
_ga |
Used to distinguish users and generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. |
Google Analytics |
Persistant, 2 years |
|
Analytical or performance cookies |
_gat |
Used to throttle request rate, limiting the collection of data in high traffic periods. |
Google Analytics |
Persistant, 1 day |
|
Analytical or performance cookies |
_gid |
Used to distinguish users and generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. |
Google Analytics |
Persistant, 1 day |
|
Analytical or performance cookies |
__utma |
Used distinguish users and sessions. It collects data such as the number of times a visitor has visited the site, and when the first and last visit occurred. It is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. |
Google Analytics |
Persistant, 2 years |
|
Analytical or performance cookies |
__utmb |
Used to determine new sessions/visits. It stores a timestamp of the exact moment a visitor enters our website. It is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. |
Google Analytics |
Persistant, 30 minutes |
|
Analytical or performance cookies |
__utmc |
Used to store a timestamp of the exact moment a visitor leaves our website. |
Google Analytics |
Per session |
|
Analytical or performance cookies |
__utmt |
Used to record the type of request, such as an event, transaction, item, or custom variable. |
Google Analytics |
Persistant, 10 minutes |
|
Analytical or performance cookies |
__utmz |
Used to track where the visitor came from, which search engine was used, links clicked and keywords entered, and also the visitor's geographic location. It is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. |
Google Analytics |
Persistant, 6 months |
|
Analytical or performance cookies |
_dc_gtm_UA-{########-#} |
Used to control load the Google Analytics script tag. We use Google Tag Manager for managing and deploying code on our website. |
Google Tag Manager |
Persistant, 2 years |
|
Analytical or performance cookies |
gtm.login |
Used by to record whether the user has logged in. |
Google Tag Manager |
Per session |
|
Analytical or performance cookies |
hotjarId |
Used when a customer first lands on a page containing the relevant script to create an anonymous user ID to record user sessions for the purpose of indentifying technical faults. |
HotJar |
Per session |
|
Analytical or performance cookies |
_hjid |
Used when a customer first lands on a page containing the relevant script. It is used to anonymously identify the same user ensuring behaviour in subsequent visits is attributed to the same user ID. |
HotJar |
Persistant, 1 year |
|
Analytical or performance cookies |
_hjTLDTest |
Used to determine the most generic cookie path, rather than using the page hostname. |
HotJar |
Per session |
|
Analytical or performance cookies |
_hjFirstSeen |
This is set to identify a new user’s first session. It stores a true/false value, indicating whether this was the first time Hotjar saw this user. It is used by recording filters to identify new user sessions. |
HotJar |
Persistant, 30 minutes |
|
Analytical or performance cookies |
_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress |
This cookie is used to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie. |
HotJar |
Per session |
|
Analytical or performance cookies
|
_hjIncludedInPageviewSample |
This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the data sampling defined by your site's pageview limit. |
HotJar |
Persistant, 30 minutes |
|
Functionality cookies |
__zlcmid |
Used by Live Chat to store a visitor's ID for the widget's authentication. |
Zendesk |
Persistant: 1 year |
|
Functionality cookies
|
__zlcprivacy
|
Used by Live Chat to store a visitor's decision on CookieLaw Javascript API. |
Zendesk |
Persistant: 1 year |
Please note that the following third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These named third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. These third party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies or targeting cookies:
- Social media, advertising and analytics partners.
You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. Each web browser is different so check the ‘help’ menu of your preferred browser to learn how to change your preferences. 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 website. You should also be aware that any preferences will be lost and ironically, this includes where you have opted out from Cookies, as this requires an opt-out cookie to be set.
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