What are Cookies?

Welcome to Handy Tags Cookie Policy page. We understand the importance of your privacy and strive to make your experience on our website as transparent and secure as possible. This page serves to explain what cookies are, how we use them, and what their purposes are.

What are Cookies?

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

How we use cookies

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us. You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

How do I change my cookie settings?

Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:

To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer's website. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Cookies We Use

Below, you'll find a comprehensive list of the cookies we deploy, their names, and the specific functions they serve on our website. By continuing to browse our site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies as described in our privacy policy.

Category: Necessary / System Cookies

Necessary system cookies enable core functionality such as security, network management, and accessibility. You may disable these by changing your browser settings, but this may affect how the website functions.

Publisher	Name	Purpose
Handy Tags	PHPSESSID	To store the logged in user's username and a 128bit encrypted key. This information is required to allow a user to stay logged in to a web site without needing to submit their username and password for each page visited. Without this cookie, a user is unable to proceed to areas of the web site that require authenticated access.
Handy Tags	private_content_version	Appends a random, unique number and time to pages with customer content to prevent them from being cached on the server.
Handy Tags	persistent_shopping_cart	Stores the key (ID) of persistent cart to make it possible to restore the cart for an anonymous shopper.
Handy Tags	form_key	A security measure that appends a random string to all form submissions to protect the data from Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF).
Handy Tags	store	Tracks the specific store view / locale selected by the shopper.
Handy Tags	login_redirect	Preserves the destination page the customer was navigating to before being directed to log in.
Handy Tags	mage-messages	Tracks error messages and other notifications that are shown to the user, such as the cookie consent message, and various error messages. The message is deleted from the cookie after it is shown to the shopper.
Handy Tags	mage-cache-storage	Local storage of visitor-specific content that enables e-commerce functions.
Handy Tags	mage-cache-storage-section-invalidation	Forces local storage of specific content sections that should be invalidated.
Handy Tags	mage-cache-sessid	The value of this cookie triggers the cleanup of local cache storage.
Handy Tags	product_data_storage	Stores configuration for product data related to Recently Viewed / Compared Products.
Handy Tags	user_allowed_save_cookie	Indicates if the shopper allows cookies to be saved.
Handy Tags	mage-translation-storage	Stores translated content when requested by the shopper.
Handy Tags	MAGE-CACHE-TIMEOUT	Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster.
Handy Tags	SECTION-DATA-IDS	Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster.
Handy Tags	X-MAGENTO-VARY	Facilitates caching of content on the server to make pages load faster.
Handy Tags	mage-translation-file-version	Stores the file version of translated content.
Handy Tags	extait_allowed_categories	Stores category IDs which a user allows using.
Handy Tags	extait_allowed_cookies	Stores cookie names which a user allows using.

Statistics / Tracking Cookies

Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.

Publisher	Name	Purpose
Google Analytics	_ga / _gali / _gat / _gid / collect	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 a way that does not directly identify anyone, including the number of visitors to the website and blog, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited. Read Google's overview of privacy and safeguarding data.
YouTube	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.
Handy Tags	product_data_storage / recently_compared_product_previous / recently_viewed_product / recently_viewed_product_previous	Determines which products the user has viewed, allowing the website to promote related products, or used for optimizing specific visitors' navigation on the website.

Marketing Cookies

Marketing cookies are used to track and collect visitors actions on the website. Cookies store user data and behaviour information, which allows advertising services to target more audience groups. Also, a more customised user experience can be provided according to collected information.

Publisher	Name	Purpose
Handy Tags	section_data_ids	Stores customer-specific information related to shopper-initiated actions such as display wish list, checkout information, etc.
Handy Tags	recently_viewed_product	Stores product IDs of recently viewed products for easy navigation.
Handy Tags	recently_viewed_product_previous	Stores product IDs of previously viewed products for easy navigation.
Handy Tags	recently_compared_product	Stores product IDs of recently compared products.
Handy Tags	recently_compared_product_previous	Stores product IDs of previously compared products for easy navigation.
Microsoft	_uetsid / _uetvid	First-party cookie used by Microsoft Bing Ads and is a tracking cookie. It allows us to engage with a user that has previously visited our website.
LinkedIn	li_sugr	Third-party LinkedIn Insight Tag for Browser Identifier, with validity of 90 days.
Google	IDE	Third-party cookie that is used by Google's DoubleClick. It is used to serve targeted advertisements that are relevant to the user across the web. Targeted advertisements may be displayed to users based on previous visits to a website. This cookie measures the conversion rate of ads presented to the user.