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 website. By continuing to browse the website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
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 device’s hard drive.
We may use the following cookies on this website:
- 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 or use a shopping cart. These cookies expire after a browser session is closed.
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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. These cookies expire after a browser session is closed. The analytical/performance cookies we may use include:
- First party analytics cookies. We use these cookies to estimate the number of unique visitors to improve our website and to detect the most searched for words in search engines that lead to a webpage. These cookies are not used to target you with online marketing. We use these cookies to learn how our website is performing and make relevant improvements to improve your browsing experience.
- Third party analytics cookies. We use Google Analytics to help measure how users interact with our website content. These cookies “remember” what our users have done on previous pages and how they’ve interacted with the website. Please see https://policies.google.com/privacy for more information about Google Analytics.
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Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of currency). These cookies are stored on your device in between browser sessions which allows this information to be remembered. The functional cookies we may use include:
- User-centric security cookies detect authentication abuses for a limited persistent duration, like repeated failed login attempts. These cookies are set for the specific task of increasing the security of the service.
- Multimedia content player session cookies (flash cookies) are used for the duration of a session to store technical data needed to play back video or audio content (e.g. image quality, network link speed, and buffering parameters).
- Load balancing session cookies are used for the duration of the session to identify the same server in the pool in order for the load balancer to redirect user requests appropriately.
- User interface customisation persistent cookies are used to store a user’s preference regarding a service across web pages.
- 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. These cookies are stored on your device in between browser sessions which allows this information to be remembered.
In addition, Social and Content cookies are placed by many social media plugins (for example the Facebook ’like’ button), and other tools meant to provide or improve the content on a website. We integrate these modules into our platform to improve the experience of browsing and interacting with our websites. Please note that some of these third party services place cookies that are also used for things like behavioural advertising, analytics, and/or market research.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below.
Name |
Purpose |
_gat |
Google Analytics |
_s |
Session |
_shopify_s |
Shopify analytics |
_shopify_visit |
Shopify analytics |
_shopify_ctd |
Shopify analytics |
_orig_referrer |
Track landing pages |
_landing_page |
Track landing pages |
cart |
Used in connection with shopping cart |
cart_sig |
Used in connection with checkout |
__utmz |
Analytics |
gs_last_searches |
Stores search history |
currency |
Currency preference |
_shopify_y |
Shopify analytics |
_y |
Shopify analytics |
_abv |
Analytics |
_ab |
Used in connection with access to admin |
storefront_digest |
Used in connection with customer login |
_shopify_uniq |
Shopify analytics |
secure_customer_sig |
Used in connection with customer login |
_secure_session_id |
Used in connection with navigation through a storefront |
Evotech Performance also stores the following Google Analytics cookies. All information is always collected anonymously.
Name |
Purpose |
_ga |
Google Analytics |
_gat |
Google Analytics |
_gid |
Google Analytics |
__utma |
Google Analytics |
__utmb |
Google Analytics |
__utmc |
Google Analytics |
__utmt |
Google Analytics |
__utmz |
Google Analytics |
Please note that third parties (including providers of external services like web traffic analysis services, for example) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are set by a website other than the one being visited by you. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting 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 strictly necessary cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.
For more information about how to change your browser settings, and about cookies in general, you can visit www.allaboutcookies.org