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 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).
- Third Party Cookies. These are placed by third parties that provide services to us and/or to you. Third party Cookies may be used by advertising services to tailor advertising to you on our website or on third party websites which you visit. They may also be used by third parties providing analytics services to us (in the same way as analytical or performance cookies described above).
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
| Type | Cookie name | Default expiration time | Description |
| Strictly Necessary | secure_customer_sig | 1 year | Shopify sets this cookie to be used in connection with customer login. |
| Strictly Necessary | cart_currency | 14 days | Shopify sets this cookie to remember the user’s country of origin and populate the correct transaction currency. |
| Strictly Necessary | _orig_referrer | 14 days | Shopify sets this cookie to be used in connection with shopping cart. |
| Strictly Necessary | shopify_pay_redirect | 1 hour | Shopify sets this cookie to enable secure online payment and checkout. |
| Strictly Necessary | _abck | 1 year | This cookie is used to detect and defend when a client attempt to replay a cookie.This cookie manages the interaction with online bots and takes the appropriate actions. |
| Strictly Necessary | ak_bmsc | 2 hours | This cookie is used by Akamai to optimize site security by distinguishing between humans and bots |
| Strictly Necessary | bm_sz | 4 hours | This cookie is set by the provider Akamai Bot Manager. This cookie is used to manage the interaction with the online bots. It also helps in fraud preventions |
| Strictly Necessary | _pay_session | session | Shopify sets this cookie to enable secure checkout and payment function on the website. |
| Strictly Necessary | localization | 1 year | Flickr sets this cookie to to track usage of photo galleries embedded from Flickr. |
| Analytics | _shg_session_id | 30 minutes | This cookie is used for tracking the individual sessions on the website which helps in creating the statistical data from multiple visits. It also helps in creating the leads for marketing purposes. |
| Analytics | _shg_user_id | 5 years | This cookie is used for collecting visitor behaviour on multiple website inorder serve them with relevant advertisement. It helps in limiting the repetition of the same advertisment to the visitor. |
| Analytics | _ga | 2 years | The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors. |
| Analytics | _gid | 24 hours | Installed by Google Analytics, _gid cookie stores information on how visitors use a website, while also creating an analytics report of the website's performance. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. |
| Analytics | _gat | 1 minute | This cookie is installed by Google Universal Analytics to restrain request rate and thus limit the collection of data on high traffic sites. |
| Analytics | AMP_TOKEN | 30 seconds to 1 year | Contains a token that can be used to retrieve a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. Other possible values indicate opt-out, inflight request or an error retrieving a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. |
| Analytics | _gac_<property-id> | 90 days | Contains campaign related information for the user. If you have linked your Google Analytics and Google Ads accounts, Google Ads website conversion tags will read this cookie unless you opt-out. Learn more. |
| Analytics | __utma | 2 years from set/update | Used to distinguish users and sessions. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utma cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. |
| Analytics | __utmt | 10 minutes | Used to throttle request rate. |
| Analytics | __utmb | 30 mins from set/update | Used to determine new sessions/visits. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utmb cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. |
| Analytics | __utmc | End of browser session | Not used in ga.js. Set for interoperability with urchin.js. Historically, this cookie operated in conjunction with the __utmb cookie to determine whether the user was in a new session/visit. |
| Analytics | __utmz | 6 months from set/update | Stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached your site. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. |
| Analytics | __utmv | 2 years from set/update | Used to store visitor-level custom variable data. This cookie is created when a developer uses the _setCustomVar method with a visitor level custom variable. This cookie was also used for the deprecated _setVar method. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. |
| Analytics | __utmx | 18 months | Used to determine a user's inclusion in an experiment. |
| Analytics | __utmxx | 18 months | Used to determine the expiry of experiments a user has been included in. |
| Analytics | _gaexp | Depends on the length of the experiment, but typically 90 days. | Used to determine a user's inclusion in an experiment and the expiry of experiments a user has been included in. |
| Analytics | _opt_awcid | 24 hours | Used for campaigns mapped to Google Ads Customer IDs. |
| Analytics | _opt_awmid | 24 hours | Used for campaigns mapped to Google Ads Campaign IDs. |
| Analytics | _opt_awgid | 24 hours | Used for campaigns mapped to Google Ads Ad Group IDs |
| Analytics | _opt_awkid | 24 hours | Used for campaigns mapped to Google Ads Criterion IDs |
| Analytics | _opt_utmc | 24 hours | Stores the last utm_campaign query parameter. |
| Analytics | _opt_expid | 10 seconds | This cookie is created when running a redirect experiment. It stores the experiment ID, the variant ID and the referrer to the page that's being redirected. |
| Analytics | _landing_page | 14 days | Shopify installs this cookie to track landing pages. |
| Analytics | _y | 1 year | This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite. |
| Analytics | _s | 30 minutes | This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite. |
| Analytics | _shopify_y | 1 year | This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite. |
| Analytics | _shopify_s | 30 minutes | This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite. |
| Analytics | _shopify_sa_t | 30 minutes | This is a Shopify analytics cookie relating to marketing and referrals. |
| Analytics | _shopify_sa_p | 30 minutes | This is a Shopify analytics cookie relating to marketing and referrals. |
| Analytics | _ga_LKMHDL24JT | 2 years | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. |
| Analytics | _hjFirstSeen | 30 minutes | Hotjar sets this cookie to identify a new user’s first session. It stores a true/false value, indicating whether it was the first time Hotjar saw this user. |
| Analytics | _hjIncludedInSessionSample | 2 minutes | Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's daily session limit. |
| Analytics | _hjIncludedInPageviewSample | 2 minutes | Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's pageview limit. |
| Analytics | _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress | 30 minutes | Hotjar sets this cookie to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie. |
| Analytics | _fw_crm_v | 1 year | Collects in formation on u ser preferen ces an d/or in teraction w ith w eb-campaign con ten t - Th is is u sed on CRM-campaign -platform u sed by w ebsite ow n ers for promotin g even ts or produ cts. |
| Analytics | _hjSessionUser_1960091 | 1 year | Collects statistics on th e visitor's visits to th e w ebsite, su ch as th e n umber of visits, average time spen t on th e w ebsite an d w h at pages h ave been read. |
| Analytics | _hjSession_1960091 | 30 minutes | Collects statistics on th e visitor's visits to th e w ebsite, su ch as th e n umber of visits, average time spen t on th e w ebsite an d w h at pages h ave been read. |
| Analytics | _pandectes_gdpr | 1 year | Determin es w h eth er th e u ser h as accepted th e cookie con sen t box. |
| Advertisement | _fbp | 3 months | This cookie is set by Facebook to display advertisements when either on Facebook or on a digital platform powered by Facebook advertising, after visiting the website. |
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:
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.
Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after as per the time frame specified in table above.
Third party advertising cookie:
To deactivate the use of Facebook’s advertising cookie, you may visit their consumer page to manage the use of this type of cookie.