Cookies and How we Use Them
Our Site Cookie Policy
Spillshop.co.uk is totally committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected while using our web site, we also want to be completely open and clear about what information we use.
What is a Cookie and How We Use Them
A cookie is a small file which we ask permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive, you can choose to accept or decline cookies.
Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer.
A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
Many cookies have an expiry date which can be as soon as you leave the web site, others retain data for a future visit to the site eg name and address for faster checkout completion.
You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies.
If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly.
Cookies allow web sites to respond to you as an individual remembering your likes and dislikes and by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not.
Cookies our store uses
| Cookie Name | Cookie Description |
|---|---|
| Cart | The association with your shopping cart. |
| Category_Info | Stores the category info on the page, that allows to display pages more quickly. |
| Compare | The items that you have in the Compare Products list. |
| Currency | Your preferred currency |
| Customer | An encrypted version of your customer id with the store. |
| Customer_Auth | An indicator if you are currently logged into the store. |
| Customer_Info | An encrypted version of the customer group you belong to. |
| Customer_Segment_Ids | Stores the Customer Segment ID |
| External_No_Cache | A flag, which indicates whether caching is disabled or not. |
| Frontend | You sesssion ID on the server. |
| Guest-View | Allows guests to edit their orders. |
| Last_Category | The last category you visited. |
| Last_Product | The most recent product you have viewed. |
| Newmessage | Indicates whether a new message has been received. |
| No_Cache | Indicates whether it is allowed to use cache. |
| Persistent_Shopping_Cart | A link to information about your cart and viewing history if you have asked the site. |
| Poll | The ID of any polls you have recently voted in. |
| Polln | Information on what polls you have voted on. |
| Recentlycompared | The items that you have recently compared. |
| Stf | Information on products you have emailed to friends. |
| Store | The store view or language you have selected. |
| User_Allowed_Save_Cookie | Indicates whether a customer allowed to use cookies. |
| Viewed_Product_Ids | The products that you have recently viewed. |
| Wishlist | An encrypted list of products added to your Wishlist. |
| Wishlist_Cnt | The number of items in your Wishlist. |
Other cookies our store uses
Google Analytics is used by the vast majority of web sites to provide information to the site owner.
Google uses cookies to anonymously track website metrics for the purposes of providing benchmarking inforamtion.
The anonymous data from cookies provides us with visitor arrival , departure and usage patterns that helps us understand and improve the web site.
| Cookie Name | Cookie Description |
|---|---|
| _utma | A persistent cookie – it remains on a computer, unless it expires or the cookie cache is cleared. It tracks users visits, first visit and last visit. |
| __utmb & __utmc | These cookies work in tandem to calculate visit length. Google __utmb cookie demarks the exact arrival time, then Google __utmc registers the precise exit time of the user. It is a session cookie, and expires at the end of the session, e.g. when the user leaves the page. |
| __utmz | Cookie __utmz monitors |
| __utmv | Google __utmv Cookie lasts “forever”. It is a persistant cookie. It is used for segmentation, data experimentation and |