Privacy & Cookie Policy
Cookie Policy
In a similar way to many other websites, we use cookies to understand more about your visit and help us to enhance your experience. Cookies are small text files that are stored within your internet browser by the websites that you visit, they are used by nearly all websites and do not harm your system.
Cookies are used for various aspects of functionality such as keeping track of the items in your shopping bag, learning more about how you arrived at our website and to store your preferences so you don’t have to enter them each time you visit.
Cookie Types
These are only stored on your computer during your web session and are automatically deleted when you close your browser – they usually store an anonymous session ID allowing you to browse a website without having to log in to each page but they do not collect any personal data from your computer;
A persistent cookie is stored as a file on your computer and it remains there when you close your web browser. The cookie can be read by the website that created it when you visit that website again. We use persistent cookies for Google Analytics.
Cookie Categories
These cookies are essential to enable you to use the website effectively, such as when buying a product and / or service. Without these cookies, the services available to you on our website cannot be provided. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you have been on the internet.
These cookies enable us to monitor and improve the performance of our website. For example, they allow us to count visits, identify traffic sources and see which parts of the site are most popular.
These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make and provide enhanced features. For instance, we may be able to provide you with news or updates relevant to the services you use. They may also be used to provide services you have requested such as viewing a video or commenting on a blog. The information these cookies collect is usually anonymised.
These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests.
First party cookies are cookies set by our website. Third party cookies are cookies on our website that are set by a website other than our website, such as where we have adverts on our website or use Facebook pixels so that we can show you relevant content from us when you are on Facebook.
Cookie Types
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them below:
mage-messages - This cookie is essential for our site and allows us to track error messages.
recently viewed product - Speed up your searches.
section data ids - Allows you to use our site in a way that makes your browsing experience more convenient.
_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress - Estimate our audience size and usage pattern.
recently_compared_product - Store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise our site and to provide you with offers that are targeted to your individual interests.
__cf_bm - Estimate our audience size and usage pattern.
_hjFirstSeen - Estimate our audience size and usage pattern.
recently_compared_product_previous - Speed up your searches.
mage-cache-sessid - Speed up your searches.
recently_viewed_product_previous - Speed up your searches.
product_data_storage - Speed up your searches.
PHPSESSID - Allows you to use our site in a way that makes your browsing experience more convenient.
private_content_version - Allows you to use our site in a way that makes your browsing experience more convenient.
__kla_id - Estimate our audience size and usage pattern.
_ga_JKJZVET458 - Estimate our audience size and usage pattern.
SM - Estimate our audience size and usage pattern.
IDE - Store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise our site and to provide you with offers that are targeted to your individual interests.
MUID - Estimate our audience size and usage pattern.
_gcl_au - Recognises you when you return to our site.
MR - Store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise our site and to provide you with offers that are targeted to your individual interests.
_uetsid - Estimate our audience size and usage pattern.
_uetvid - Estimate our audience size and usage pattern.
SRM_B - Store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise our site and to provide you with offers that are targeted to your individual interests.
test_cookie - Recognises you when you return to our site.
_fbp - Allows you to use our site in a way that makes your browsing experience more convenient.
CLID - Store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise our site and to provide you with offers that are targeted to your individual interests.
ANONCHK - Store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise our site and to provide you with offers that are targeted to your individual interests.
mage-cache-storage - Store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise our site and to provide you with offers that are targeted to your individual interests.
form_key - Allows you to use our site in a way that makes your browsing experience more convenient.
mage-cache-storage-section-invalidation - Allows you to use our site in a way that makes your browsing experience more convenient.
form_key - Allows you to use our site in a way that makes your browsing experience more convenient.
wp_ga4_customerGroup - Allows you to use our site in a way that makes your browsing experience more convenient.
_clsk - Store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise our site and to provide you with offers that are targeted to your individual interests.
GlobalE_Welcome_Data - Store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise our site and to provide you with offers that are targeted to your individual interests.
GlobalE_Full_Redirect - Allows you to use our site in a way that makes your browsing experience more convenient.
_clck - Allows you to use our site in a way that makes your browsing experience more convenient.
GlobalE_SupportThirdPartyCookies - Recognises you when you return to our site
GlobalE_Data - Allows you to use our site in a way that makes your browsing experience more convenient.
_hjsession_1916310 - Allows you to use our site in a way that makes your browsing experience more convenient.
GlobalE_Data - Allows you to use our site in a way that makes your browsing experience more convenient.
GlobalE_Gem_Data - Allows you to use our site in a way that makes your browsing experience more convenient.
_hjSessionUser_1916310 - Allows you to use our site in a way that makes your browsing experience more convenient.
_hjIncludedInSessionSample_1916310 - Allows you to use our site in a way that makes your browsing experience more convenient.
GlobalE_CT_Data - Allows you to use our site in a way that makes your browsing experience more convenient.
_ga, _gali, _gat, _gid - These
cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the website and blog, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited.
_zjc* - This cookie is set by a third-party web application firewall from Dyn to help maintain the security and performance of our website. Some traffic may receive a challenge to check if it is genuine and if it is, a cookie is set so the user isn’t challenged again.
ASP.NET_SessionId - This cookie is essential for the breach notification form – the form that public electronic communications service providers use to notify the ICO of a security breach – to operate. It is set only for those people using the form. This cookie is deleted when you close your browser.
PREF*, VSC*, VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE*, remote_sid* - We embed videos from our official YouTube channel using YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode. This mode may set cookies on your computer once you click on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode.
Read more at YouTube’s embedding
videos information page.
PREF - * Expires after eight months
VSC - * expires at the end of your session
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE - *expires after eight months
remote_sid - * expires at the end of your session
You can alter your cookie preferences at any time by changing your browser setting. Please refresh your page to ensure that the new settings have taken effect.
You can also control your cookie settings through your web browser settings.
You can opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, by going to http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Cookies expire between 30 minutes and 1 year and 1 month
depending on their functionality and purpose.
If you have any questions about the cookies that we use, feel
free to email us at customerservice@merrythought.co.uk
