Cookie Policy
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small amount of information that’s downloaded to your computer or device when you visit certain websites. We use a number of different cookies on the Shopify website, including strictly necessary, performance, advertising, and social media or content cookies. Cookies make your browsing experience better by allowing the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login and region selection). This means you don’t have to re-enter this information each time you return to the site or browse from one page to another. Cookies also provide information on how people use the website, for instance whether it’s their first time visiting or if they are a frequent visitor. Read more about cookies (and other similar tracking technologies) and how we use the data collected through these technologies, in our Privacy Policy.
What cookies do Shopify use and why?
Some cookies are necessary to allow you to browse our Shopify website, use its features, and access secure areas. The use of these cookies is essential for the website to work.
For example, Shopify use user-input cookies for the duration of a session to keep track of your input when filling in forms that span several pages.
They also use functional cookies to remember choices you’ve made or information you’ve provided, such as your username, language, or the region you are in. This allows us to tailor your website experience specifically to your preferences. For example, authentication cookies are functional cookies that are used for the duration of a session (or persistent, if you agree to the “remember me” function) to allow users to authenticate themselves on subsequent visits or to gain access to authorized content across pages. The functional cookies we use in our Shopify website include:
- 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 the security of the service.
- 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).
- 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 requests appropriately.
- User interface customization persistent cookies are used to store a user’s preference regarding a service across web pages.
Shopify is dedicated to optimizing user experience and they use many tools to help them improve our website and our commerce platform. To this end, they use reporting and analytics cookies to collect information about how you use our storefront, and how often. The performance cookies they use include:
- First party analytics cookies - these cookies are used to estimate the number of unique visitors, to improve our 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. They are used to learn how websites are performing and make relevant improvements to improve your browsing experience.
- Third party analytics cookies - Google Analytics and other third-party analytics providers listed below are used to help measure how users interact with website content. These cookies “remember” what 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 to opt out of Google Analytics, see below.
Finally, social media 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.
Shopify platforms use the following cookies which are necessary for the functioning of the store:
| Name | Description | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| _identity_session | Merchant authentication: Main session cookie for Identity authentication. This is the underlying Rails session cookie. It contains the SID. | 2y |
| _master_udr | Permanent device identifier. | session |
| _merchant_essential | Contains essential information for the correct functionality of merchant surfaces such as the admin area. | 1y |
| _secure_admin_session_id | Used to store session id in core for auth Legacy Admin | 12w |
| _secure_admin_session_id_csrf | Used to store session id in core for auth Legacy Admin | 12w |
| _shopify_essential | Contains essential information for the correct functionality of a store such as session and checkout information and anti-tampering data. | 1y |
| _shopify_essential_ | Contains an opaque token that is used to identify a device for all essential purposes. | 1y |
| _shopify_test | Used to check cookie capabilities on the client. | 1min |
| _tracking_consent | Used to store a user's preferences if a merchant has set up privacy rules in the visitor's region. | 1y |
| cart | Contains information related to the user's cart. | 2w |
| cart_currency | Used after a checkout is completed to initialize a new empty cart with the same currency as the one just used. | 2w |
| discount_code | Stores a discount code (received from an online store visit with a URL parameter) in order to the next checkout. | session |
| localization | Used to localize the cart to the correct country. | 2w |
| login_with_shop_finalize | Used to facilitate login with Shop. | 5min |
| shopify_pay | Used to log in a buyer into Shop Pay when they come back to checkout on the same store. | 1y |
| storefront_digest | Stores a digest of the storefront password, allowing merchants to preview their storefront while it's password protected. | 1y |
Reporting and Analytics
| Name | Description | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| _landing_page | Capture the landing page of visitor when they come from other sites. | 2w |
| _merchant_analytics | Contains analytics data for the merchant session. | 1y |
| _orig_referrer | Allows merchant to identify where people are visiting them from. | 2w |
| _shopify_analytics | Contains analytics data for buyer surfaces such as the storefront or checkout. | 1y |
| _shopify_s | Used to identify a given browser session/shop combination. Duration is 30 minute rolling expiry of last use. | 30min |
| _shopify_y | Shopify analytics. | 1y |
| shop_analytics | Contains the required buyer information for analytics in Shop. | 1y |
Marketing
| Name | Description | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| _shopify_marketing | Contains marketing data for buyer surfaces such as the storefront or checkout. | 1y |
User preferences
| Name | Description | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| shopify_override_user_locale | Used as a mechanism to set User locale in admin. | 1y |
At Bare Cards we also use Shop.app, which uses the following Shopify cookies necessary for the functioning of the site:
| Name | Description | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| _shop_app_essential | Contains essential information for the correct functionality of Shop.app. | 1y |
| privacy_signal | Remembers a user's privacy choices about cookies and online tracking, especially for marketing and advertising, based on user's regional privacy laws. | 1y |
Reporting and Analytics
| Name | Description | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| _shop_app_analytics | Contains analytics data for Shop.app. | 1y |
How long will cookies remain on my computer or mobile device?
The length of time that a cookie remains on your computer or mobile device depends on whether it is a “persistent” or “session” cookie. Session cookies last until you stop browsing and persistent cookies last until they expire or are deleted. Most of the cookies we use are persistent and will expire between 30 minutes and two years from the date they are downloaded to your device. See the section below on how to control cookies for more information on removing them before they expire.
How to control cookies?
You can control and manage cookies in various ways. Please keep in mind that removing or blocking cookies can negatively impact your user experience and parts of our website may no longer be fully accessible.
Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can choose whether or not to accept cookies through your browser controls, often found in your browser’s “Tools” or “Preferences” menu. For more information on how to modify your browser settings or how to block, manage or filter cookies can be found in your browser’s help file or through such sites as: www.allaboutcookies.org.
When using the Bare Cards website you can mange your preferences by clicking 'Accept', 'Reject' or 'Preferences' on our Cookie Banner when you enter the website.