What is a cookie?
A cookie is a piece of information in the form of a very small text file that is placed on an internet user's hard drive. It is generated by a web page server, which is basically the computer that operates a web site. The information the cookie contains is set by the server and it can be used by that server whenever the user visits the site. A cookie can be thought of as an internet user's identification card, which tell a web site when the user has returned. Cookies can help a website to arrange content to match your preferred interests more quickly. Most major websites use cookies. Cookies cannot be used by themselves to identify you.
What do you use cookies for?
The main use of cookies on our website is to track your shopping session and update your shopping cart - it holds no personal data and expires when you close your browser. The other cookies that we use are provided by Google and help collect statistics about how many visitors see our site, how often they return, what pages they look at and how long they stay on our site.
Cookies that we use:
ZenCart Shopping Software:
zenid - Zen Cart issues the zenid cookie to track your session. It expires when you close your browser.
Google Analytics:
__utma - Determines the unique visitor and visit count and it expires after 2 years.
__utmb - Tracks the customer variable set in our Google Analytics code to record the time you enter our website. It expires when you leave our website.
__utmc - Works with _utmb to work out the length of your visit on our website. Records the time you leave the site and expires 30 minutes after you leave our website.
__utmz - Records where you came from (on the Web), the search engine used to find our website, what links were clicked on, what keywords were used and where you were when you accessed the website. It expires after 6 months.