Cookies
More information about cookies
What are cookies?
What cookies do we use and why?
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User-centric security cookies to detect authentication abuses for a limited persistent duration, like repeated failed login attempts. These cookies are set for the specific task of increasing thesecurity of the service.
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Multimedia content player session cookies (flash cookies) are used for the duration of a session to store technical data needed to play back video or audio content (e.g. image quality, network link speed, and buffering parameters).
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Load balancing session cookies are used for the duration of the session to identify the same server in the pool in order for the load balancer to redirect user requests appropriately.
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User interface customization persistent cookies are used to store a user’s preference regarding a service across web pages.
Shopify is dedicated to user experience and we use many tools to help us improve our website and our commerce platform. To this end, we use reporting and analytics cookies to collect information about how you use our website or our merchants’ storefronts, and how often. These cookies only gather information for statistical purposes and only use pseudonymous cookie identifiers that do not directly identify you. The performance cookies we use include:
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First party analytics cookies - We use these cookies to estimate the number of unique visitors, to improve our websites and our merchants’ websites, and to detect the most searched for words in search engines that lead to a webpage. These cookies are not used to target you with online marketing. We use these cookies to learn how our websites and our merchants’ websites are performing and make relevant improvements to improve your browsing experience.
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Third party analytics cookies - We also use Google Analytics and other third-party analytics providers listed below to help measure how users interact with our website content. These cookies “remember” what our users have done on previous pages and how they’ve interacted with the website. For more information on Google Analytics, visit Google’s information page. For instructions on how opt out of Google Analytics, see below.
Advertising cookies are used on our website to tailor marketing to you and your interests and provide you with a more personalized service in the future. These cookies remember that you visited our website and we may share this information with third-parties, such as advertisers. Although these cookies can track your device’s visits to our website and other sites, they typically cannot personally identify you. Without these cookies, the advertisements that you see may be less relevant and interesting to you. Read more about how companies use cookies to conduct targeted or retargeted advertising here. We do not set advertising cookies through our merchants’ storefronts ourselves, though merchants may choose to do so independently.
Finally, Social and Content cookies are placed by many social media plugins (for example the Facebook ’like’ button), and other tools meant to provide or improve the content on a website (for example services that allow the playing of video files, or that create comments sections). We integrate these modules into our platform to improve the experience of browsing and interacting with our websites. Please note that some of these third party services place cookies that are also used for things like behavioural advertising, analytics, and/or market research.
Merchant storefronts
When merchants use our platform to power their online stores, we place the following cookies for visitors of their stores:
Cookies Necessary for the Functioning of the Store:
Name |
Function |
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_ab | Used in connection with access to admin. |
_orig_referrer | Used in connection with shopping cart. |
_secure_session_id | Used in connection with navigation through a storefront. |
Cart | Used in connection with shopping cart. |
cart_sig | Used in connection with checkout. |
cart_ts | Used in connection with checkout. |
checkout_token | Used in connection with checkout. |
Secret | Used in connection with checkout. |
Secure_customer_sig | Used in connection with customer login. |
storefront_digest | Used in connection with customer login. |
Reporting and Analytics
Name |
Function |
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_landing_page | Track landing pages. |
_orig_referrer | Track landing pages. |
_s | Shopify analytics. |
_shopify_fs | Shopify analytics. |
_shopify_s | Shopify analytics. |
_shopify_sa_p | Shopify analytics relating to marketing & referrals. |
_shopify_sa_t | Shopify analytics relating to marketing & referrals. |
_shopify_uniq | Shopify analytics. |
_shopify_visit | Shopify analytics. |
_shopify_y | Shopify analytics. |
_y | Shopify analytics. |
tracked_start_checkout | Shopify analytics relating to checkout. |
Shopify’s websites
When visitors load Shopify’s websites, we generally place the following Shopify cookies:
Cookies Necessary for the Functioning of the Sites
Name |
Function |
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_Brochure_session | Used in connection with browsing through site. |
Reporting and Analytics
Name |
Function |
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_landing_page | Tracks landing pages. |
_orig_referrer | Tracks landing pages. |
_s | Shopify analytics. |
_shopify_fs | Shopify analytics. |
_shopify_s | Shopify analytics. |
_shopify_sa_t | Shopify analytics relating to marketing & referrals. |
_shopify_uniq | Shopify analytics. |
_shopify_y | Shopify analytics. |
_y | Shopify analytics. |
ab_test_* | Shopify analytics. |
cart_sig | Shopify analytics. |
ki_r | Shopify analytics. |
ki_t | Shopify analytics. |
Additionally, we use pixels and tags from the following third parties, which may in turn place cookies:
- Google Search, Analytics, and Ads