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Privacy Policy
What are Cookies?
Cookies are small files that websites place on your hard drive or browser to enable additional features of the website to work. Use of cookies is common practice and many websites use them and most internet browsers automatically accept cookies.
We are providing this information to you as part of our policy to comply with recent changes to the law relating to the use of cookies and other information storage technology operating on websites.
Use of Cookies by The Skirting Board Shop
We use cookies on the The Skirting Board Shop website to collect information about how visitors use the website and to collect standard analytics to gather data to enhance the performance of our website. This is important to us as we want to improve the visitor journey when you browse our website and ensure that it is as user friendly as possible.
However, our cookies do not gather any personally identifying information such as a person's name or e-mail address and any information gathered by the use of cookies is compiled on an aggregate and anonymous basis.
The table below provides further details about the cookies which are currently in use on our website and a description of the purpose of each of these cookies.
| Cookie Name | Cookie Provider | Expires After | Description of Cookie |
|---|---|---|---|
| frontend_cid | .theskirtingboardshop.co.uk | 5 minutes | You sesssion ID on the server. Information required by core website |
| frontend | .theskirtingboardshop.co.uk | 5 minutes | You sesssion ID on the server. Information required by core website |
| PHPSESSID | www.theskirtingboardshop.co.uk | End of session | A basic session cookie which makes the site work properly. It saves a session identifier randomly generated to keep track of your session as you move from one page to the next in order to remember selections or preferences made during the visit. For example, this cookie makes the shopping basket work. |
| __zlcmid, __zlcprivacy | ZopIM | 1 year | This cookie controls our live chat feature. The first cookie stores a Zopim Live Chat ID to identify the user during different page views and allows continues chat. The second cookie stores the enable/disable preference and will remove the first cookie. |
| __cfduid | Zopim | 1 year | This Zopim/Cloudflare managed __cfduid cookie is used to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address and apply security settings on a per-client basis. |
| __cfduid | Feefo | 1 year | This Feefo/Cloudflare managed __cfduid cookie is used to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address and apply security settings on a per-client basis. |
| _gid | Google Analytics | 24 hrs | This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. More information on the cookies set by Google Analytics and how to opt out are on the Google Analytics website |
| _ga | Google Analytics | 2 years | This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. More information on the cookies set by Google Analytics and how to opt out are on the Google Analytics website |
| __utma | Google Analytics | 2 years | This keeps track of the number of times a visitor has been to the site, when their first visit was, and when their last visit occurred. More information on the cookies set by Google Analytics and how to opt out are on the Google Analytics website |
| __utmb | Google Analytics | 30 minutes | A timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor enters the site. More information on the cookies set by Google Analytics and how to opt out are on the Google Analytics website |
| __utmc | Google Analytics | End of session | A timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor leaves the site - having waited 30 minutes for another pageview to happen, and if it doesn’t, it expires. More information on the cookies set by Google Analytics and how to opt out are on the Google Analytics website |
| __utmt | Google Analytics | 6 months | This keeps track of where the visitor came from, what search engine you used, what link you clicked on, what keyword you used, and where they were in the world when you accessed a website. More information on the cookies set by Google Analytics and how to opt out are on the Google Analytics website |
| __utmz | Google Analytics | End of session | This keeps track of where the visitor came from, what search engine was used, what link was clicked on, what keywords used, and where in the world the site was accessed from. More information on the cookies set by Google Analytics and how to opt out are on the Google Analytics website |
How can you disable Cookies?
If you want to, you can disable cookies from your browser and delete all cookies that are stored on your computer. You can do this as often you want to.
To find out how to do this for your particular browser you can go to "help" on your browser's menu or you can visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/index.html.
What happens if I do disable Cookies?
You need to be aware that if you choose to disable cookies from your browser it may prevent you from taking full advantage of the The Skirting Board Shop website, as some or all of the areas of the website may fail to work for you.
You will see from the table above that certain of the cookies which we use on our website are considered to be strictly necessary for the operation of certain aspects of the website. Therefore, please be aware that if these cookies are disabled we may be unable to provide certain services which you have requested.