Effective Date: 30th November 2023
Welcome to Fred’s Collectables Shop. This Cookie Policy explains how we use cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our website. It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.
We use cookies for various purposes, including:
Essential Cookies: These cookies are necessary for the proper functioning of our website. They enable you to navigate our site and use its features.
Analytics Cookies: These cookies allow us to analyze how visitors use our website. This helps us improve the website’s functionality and enhance the user experience.
Marketing Cookies: We may use these cookies to deliver personalized advertisements and measure the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns.
Session Cookies: These are temporary cookies that expire when you close your browser.
Persistent Cookies: These cookies remain on your device for a longer period or until you manually delete them.
First-party Cookies: These cookies are set by the website you are visiting.
Third-party Cookies: These cookies are set by a domain other than the one you are visiting.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
Cookies Necessary for the Functioning of the Store:
| Name | Function | Duration |
| _ab | Used in connection with access to admin. | 2y |
| _customer_account_shop_sessions | Used in combination with the _secure_account_session_id cookie to track a user’s session for new customer accounts | 30d |
| _secure_account_session_id | Used to track a user’s session for new customer accounts | 30d |
| _secure_session_id | Used to track a user’s session through the multi-step checkout process and keep their order, payment and shipping details connected. | 24h |
| _shopify_country | For shops where pricing currency/country set from GeoIP, that cookie stores the country we’ve detected. This cookie helps avoid doing GeoIP lookups after the first request. | session |
| _shopify_m | Used for managing customer privacy settings. | 1y |
| _shopify_tm | Used for managing customer privacy settings. | 30min |
| _shopify_tw | Used for managing customer privacy settings. | 2w |
| _storefront_u | Used to facilitate updating customer account information. | 1min |
| _tracking_consent | Used to store a user’s preferences if a merchant has set up privacy rules in the visitor’s region. | 1y |
| _cmp_a | Used for managing customer privacy settings. | 1d |
| c | Used in connection with checkout. | 1y |
| cart | Used in connection with shopping cart. | 2w |
| cart_currency | Set after a checkout is completed to ensure that new carts are in the same currency as the last checkout. | 2w |
| cart_sig | A hash of the contents of a cart. This is used to verify the integrity of the cart and to ensure performance of some cart operations. | 2w |
| cart_ts | Used in connection with checkout. | 2w |
| cart_ver | Used in connection with shopping cart. | 2w |
| checkout | Used in connection with checkout. | 4w |
| checkout_token | Used in connection with checkout. | 1y |
| customer_account_locale | Used in connection with new customer accounts | 1y |
| dynamic_checkout_shown_on_cart | Used in connection with checkout. | 30min |
| hide_shopify_pay_for_checkout | Used in connection with checkout. | session |
| keep_alive | Used in connection with buyer localization. | 2w |
| master_device_id | Used in connection with merchant login. | 2y |
| previous_step | Used in connection with checkout. | 1y |
| discount_code | Used in connection with checkout. | session |
| remember_me | Used in connection with checkout. | 1y |
| secure_customer_sig | Used to identify a user after they sign into a shop as a customer so they do not need to log in again. | 1y |
| shopify_pay | Used in connection with checkout. | 1y |
| shopify_pay_redirect | Used in connection with checkout. | 1 hour, 3w or 1y depending on value |
| shop_pay_accelerated | Used in connection with checkout. | 1y |
| source_name | Used in combination with mobile apps to provide custom checkout behavior, when viewing a store from within a compatible mobile app. | session |
| storefront_digest | Stores a digest of the storefront password, allowing merchants to preview their storefront while it’s password protected. | 2y |
| tracked_start_checkout | Used in connection with checkout. | 1y |
| checkout_session_lookup | Used in connection with checkout. | 3w |
| checkout_prefill | Used in connection with checkout. | 5m |
| checkout_queue_token | Used in connection with checkout. | 1y |
| checkout_queue_checkout_token | Used in connection with checkout. | 1y |
| checkout_worker_session | Used in connection with checkout. | 3d |
| checkout_session_token | Used in connection with checkout. | 3w |
| checkout_session_token_<<token>> | Used in connection with checkout. | 3w |
| cookietest | Used to ensure our systems are working correctly | 1m |
| order | Used in connection with order status page. | 3w |
| identity-state | Used in connection with customer authentication | 24h |
| identity-state-<<token>> | Used in connection with customer authentication | 24h |
| identity_customer_account_number | Used in connection with customer authentication | 12w |
| card_update_verification_id | Used in connection with checkout. | 20m |
| customer_account_new_login | Used in connection with customer authentication | 20m |
| customer_account_preview | Used in connection with customer authentication | 7d |
| customer_payment_method | Used in connection with checkout. | 1h |
| customer_shop_pay_agreement | Used in connection with checkout. | 20m |
| pay_update_intent_id | Used in connection with checkout. | 20m |
| localization | Used in connection with checkout. | 2w |
| profile_preview_token | Used in connection with checkout. | 5m |
| login_with_shop_finalize | Used in connection with customer authentication | 5m |
| preview_theme | Used in connection with the theme editor | session |
| shopify-editor-unconfirmed-settings | Used in connection with the theme editor | 16h |
| wpm-test-cookie | Used to ensure our systems are working correctly. | session |
Reporting and Analytics
| Name | Function | Duration |
| _landing_page | Track landing pages. | 2w |
| _orig_referrer | Track landing pages. | 2w |
| _s | Shopify analytics. | 30min |
| _shopify_d | Shopify analytics. | session |
| _shopify_fs | Shopify analytics. | 30min |
| _shopify_s | Shopify analytics. | 30min |
| _shopify_sa_p | Shopify analytics relating to marketing & referrals. | 30min |
| _shopify_sa_t | Shopify analytics relating to marketing & referrals. | 30min |
| _shopify_y | Shopify analytics. | 1y |
| _y | Shopify analytics. | 1y |
| _shopify_ga | Shopify and Google Analytics. | session |
| customer_auth_provider | Shopify analytics. | session |
| customer_auth_session_created_at | Shopify analytics. | session |
| unique_interaction_id | Shopify analytics. | 10min |
| __utmc | This is one of the four main cookies set by the Google Analytics service which enables website owners to track visitor behaviour and measure site performance. It is not used in most sites but is set to enable interoperability with the older version of Google Analytics code known as Urchin. In this older versions this was used in combination with the __utmb cookie to identify new sessions/visits for returning visitors. When used by Google Analytics this is always a Session cookie which is destroyed when the user closes their browser. Where it is seen as a Persistent cookie it is therefore likely to be a different technology setting the cookie. | Session |
| __utmb | This is one of the four main cookies set by the Google Analytics service which enables website owners to track visitor behaviour and measure site performance. This cookie determines new sessions and visits and expires after 30 minutes. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. Any activity by a user within the 30 minute life span will count as a single visit, even if the user leaves and then returns to the site. A return after 30 minutes will count as a new visit, but a returning visitor. | 30 minutes |
| _ga_GQS5MDHMXB | This cookie is used by Google Analytics to persist session state. | 1 year 1 month |
| __utmz | This is one of the four main cookies set by the Google Analytics service which enables website owners to track visitor behaviour measure of site performance. This cookie identifies the source of traffic to the site – so Google Analytics can tell site owners where visitors came from when arriving on the site. The cookie has a life span of 6 months and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. | 6 months 2 days |
| __utmt | This cookie is set by Google Analytics. According to their documentation it is used to throttle the request rate for the service – limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. It expires after 10 minutes | 10 minutes |
| _ga | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics – which is a significant update to Google’s more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. | 1 year 1 month |
| __utma | This is one of the four main cookies set by the Google Analytics service which enables website owners to track visitor behaviour and measure site performance. This cookie lasts for 2 years by default and distinguishes between users and sessions. It it used to calculate new and returning visitor statistics. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. The lifespan of the cookie can be customised by website owners. | 1 year 1 month |
| _fbp | Used by Meta to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers | 3 months |
Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser settings to decline cookies if you prefer. However, this may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
We may update our Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons.
If you have any questions about our Cookie Policy, please contact us at fred@homepridebaking.co.uk, or, alternatively, write to us at:
Homepride Flour,
Solway Mills,
Silloth,
Cumbria,
CA7 4AJ
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