SHOPMERIT.COM - OUR COOKIE POLICY
COOKIE POLICY
1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 This is the
Cookie Policy referred to in the Terms of Use.
1.2 Terms
defined in this privacy policy shall have the meanings given to
them in the Terms of Use.
2. INFORMATION ABOUT
OUR USE OF COOKIES
2.1 The website uses
cookies to distinguish you from other users of the website. This helps us to
provide you with a good experience when you browse the website and also allows
us to improve the website. By continuing to browse the Site, you are agreeing
to our use of cookies.
2.2 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.
3. REGISTRATION
AND LOG IN
3.1 When you sign up to the website, we track your progress with
a cookie to confirm the steps you’ve taken. We also use cookies to give you
access to your profile as a registered user.
4. CONTROLLING
COOKIES
4.1 To enable or disable cookies, follow the instructions
provided by your browser (usually located within the 'Help' tab).
4.2 If you want to find out more about how
cookies are used, please visit www. https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/online/cookies/ and www.allaboutcookies.org.
5. USE OF COOKIES BY US
5.1
We use the following cookies:
(a) Strictly
necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of the
website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure
areas of the website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
(b) 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.
(c) Functionality
cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to the
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).
(d) Targeting cookies. These
cookies record your visit to the website, the pages you have visited and the
links you have followed. We will use this information to make the 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 and the purposes for
which we use them in the table below:
1. Category
|
Cookie Duration
|
Purpose
|
Examples
|
Essential Cookies
|
12 months
|
These cookies are required for the
operation and smooth running of our site, they enable us to ensure you have
no issues navigating or completing an order. For example, we use New Relic to
capture page load times as well as request response time to ensure that we
are delivering a high quality of service
|
Google Analytics
|
Functional Cookies
|
12 months
|
These cookies help us to tailor your
experience on our site, this may be based around previous sessions activity,
this may include recommended products, delivery methods, sizes, landing
pages.
|
Google Optimise
HotJar
|
Performance Cookies
|
12 months
|
These cookies let us know where you
have visited our site from, for example Google, Bing or an affiliate site.
We use these cookies for internal
insights which allow us to see where our customers coming from to visit our
sites.
We use these cookies to determine if
you arrived at our site by clicking on an advertising link, and allows us to
reward some external websites for directing visitors to us.
We use these cookies to help us reach
you with relevant paid advertising via Google and Bing based on previous
activity on our site.
We use the information collected by
these cookies to help us determine where our ads will be most effective
online.
|
Google Adwords & Remarketing
AWIN
BING
Facebook
Click to view a list of Google Cookies
|
Targeting Cookies
|
12 months
|
These cookies allow us to serve you personalised
ads via third party networks for example our partner Criteo creates
personalised advertisements through “Criteo Dynamic Retargeting” and “Criteo
Sponsored Products".
Google Display network helps us to serve personalised ads based upon previous
visits to our websites.
|
Google Display Network
Criteo Remarketing Cookie
|
For a full list of all cookies please refer to the below list.
Name
|
Cookie Type
|
AWIN
|
Targeting
|
BING
|
Targeting
|
ClickNetwork
|
Targeting
|
ClickTale
|
Targeting
|
Criteo
|
Targeting
|
Facebook
|
Social Media
|
Google Adwords Remarketing
|
Targeting
|
Google Adwords Conversion
|
Performance
|
Google Analytics
|
Essential
|
Google Floodlight
|
Essential
|
Google Optimise
|
Performance
|
Google Trusted Stores
|
Performance
|
HotJar
|
Performance
|
Monetate
|
Essential
|
Rakuten
|
Performance
|
MailChimp
|
Functional
|
Twitter
|
Social
|
Yahoo
|
Targeting
|
Please note that third parties (including, for example,
advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic
analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These
cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
You 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 essential cookies) you
may not be able to access all or parts of the website.
Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after 60
days.