What Are Cookies?
A small file (known as ‘cookies’) that is downloaded onto your computer when you visit a website. It allows us to recognise and tailor our site to you and it won’t harm your computer.
You will normally see a message on the site before we store a cookie on your computer
Opting Out of Cookies
If you prefer, you can restrict, block or delete cookies by changing your browser settings but that may mean that you won’t be able to add and buy products from our store.
Which Cookies Do We Use?
| Name Domain |
Purpose | Expiration Time |
| _session_id storefront |
Allows Shopify to store information about your session (referrer, landing page, etc..) | Sessional |
| _shopify_visit storefront and checkout.shopify.com |
Used by our internal stats tracker to record the number of visits to the shop | Persistent for 30 minutes from the last visit |
| _shopify_uniq storefront and checkout.shopify.com |
Counts the number of visits to a store by a single customer | Expires midnight (relative to the visitor) of the next day |
| cart storefront |
Stores information about the contents of your cart | Persistent for 2 weeks |
| _secure_session_id storefront |
Stores session information for the checkout process | Sessional |
| storefront_digest storefront |
If the shop has a password, this is used to determine if the current visitor has access | Indefinite |
We also use Google Analytics software to collect information about how you use www.skishack.co.uk. We do this to help make sure the site is meeting the needs of all its users and help with site improvements e.g. improving site search.
Google Analytics uses the following cookies:
| Name Domain |
Purpose | Expiration Time |
| _ga Universal analytics |
Used to help count how many people visit the site and if you’ve visited before | 2 years |
| _gat
Universal analytics |
Used to manage the rate at which page view requests are made | 10 minutes |
| _utma
Google analytics |
Similar to _ga, this tells us how many people have visited the store and for how long | 2 years |
| _utmb
Google analytics |
Used to determine new sessions and calculate the average length of session | 30 minutes |
| _utmc
Google analytics |
Works with _utmc to calculate new sessions and their length | Sessional |
| _utmz
Google analytics |
This tells us how you reached our site so we can improve your journey | 6 months |