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Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy explains how Handy Tags, a brand of Handy Brand UK Ltd (“we”, “us”, “our”), uses cookies and similar technologies on our website www.handytags.co.uk. It should be read together with our Privacy Policy, which explains how we collect, use and protect your personal data.
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s or device’s hard drive or browser. 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 cookies and similar technologies to:
- Enable the core functionality of our Shopify-powered online store (e.g. basket, checkout, security).
- Remember your choices (such as consent settings, language or region).
- Understand how visitors use our site so that we can improve performance and usability.
- Support our marketing and advertising activities, including measuring campaign effectiveness.
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 settings to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website and some parts of the site may not function correctly.
How do I change my cookie settings?
When you first visit our website, you will see a cookie banner that allows you to accept all cookies or manage your preferences. You can update your choices at any time by revisiting your browser settings and clearing or adjusting cookies.
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 opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, you can visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Cookies we use
Below is an overview of the cookies used on our Shopify-powered Handy Tags website. Some cookies are set directly by us, and others are set by third-party providers (such as Shopify, Google or Microsoft) to deliver services on our behalf.
Cookies are grouped into the following categories:
- Necessary / System cookies – required for the site and checkout to function securely.
- Statistics / Tracking cookies – help us understand how visitors use the site.
- Marketing cookies – used to deliver and measure advertising and remarketing.
Category: Necessary / System Cookies
Necessary system cookies enable core functionality such as security, network management, shopping basket and checkout. You may disable these by changing your browser settings, but this may affect how the website functions.
| Publisher | Name | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Shopify | _shopify_essential / _shopify_essential_ / _shopify_test | First-party cookies that contain essential information for the correct functionality of the store and checkout (for example, session and anti-tampering data), and to test whether the browser supports cookies. |
| Shopify | _tracking_consent | Stores your cookie consent preferences when privacy rules are configured for your region, so that the site remembers which categories of cookies you have allowed or rejected. |
| Shopify | cart / cart_currency / discount_code / keep_alive / localization | Used to remember the contents of your shopping basket, the currency used, any discount code received via URL, to handle session requests correctly and to localise the storefront and cart to the correct country or region. |
| Shopify | login_with_shop_finalize / shopify_pay / storefront_digest | Support secure customer login and express checkout through Shop Pay and, where applicable, allow authorised access to password-protected storefronts. |
| Shopify | _identity_session / _master_udr / _merchant_essential / _secure_admin_session_id / _secure_admin_session_id_csrf | Essential cookies used by the Shopify platform to manage secure sessions for merchant and administrative areas, device identification and security. These may be set when authorised personnel access the admin surfaces of the store. |
| Cloudflare | _cf_bm / cf_ob_info / cf_use_ob | Third-party security cookies used by Cloudflare to distinguish between human and bot traffic, track the request path through the Cloudflare network for troubleshooting and, in some cases, serve cached versions of pages if origin servers are unavailable. |
| Google Tag Manager | _dc_gtm_UA-* | Used by Google Tag Manager to control the loading of Google Analytics and other tags on the site. |
Category: Statistics / Tracking Cookies
Statistics cookies help website owners understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information in an anonymous or pseudonymous form.
| Publisher | Name | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Shopify | _shopify_analytics / _shopify_s / _shopify_y / _landing_page / _orig_referrer / _merchant_analytics / shop_analytics | First-party analytics cookies set via the Shopify platform. They collect information about how visitors interact with our storefront and checkout (such as pages visited, session duration, referrers and interactions) so that we can measure performance and improve our store. These cookies do not directly identify individual visitors. |
| Google Analytics | _ga / _gali / _gat / _gid / collect | Used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in a way that does not directly identify anyone, including the number of visitors, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited. For more details, see Google’s documentation on privacy and safeguarding data. |
| YouTube | PREF / VSC / VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE / remote_sid | We may embed videos from our official YouTube channel using YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode. These cookies may be set once you click on the YouTube video player to remember your preferences and to estimate bandwidth and viewer statistics. YouTube states that it does not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode. |
Category: Marketing Cookies
Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third-party advertisers.
| Publisher | Name | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Shopify | _shopify_marketing | First-party cookie that contains marketing data for buyer surfaces such as the storefront or checkout, used to help build marketing audiences and deliver relevant campaigns based on how visitors interact with the store. |
| Google / Google Analytics | _gcl_au | First-party cookie used by Google to understand user interaction with the website and to measure conversion data for Google Ads and related services. |
| Google Ads | ads/ga-audiences | Pixel cookie used by Google Ads to re-engage visitors who are likely to convert to customers based on their online behaviour across websites. |
| Google (DoubleClick) | IDE | Third-party cookie used by Google’s DoubleClick to register and report the website user’s actions after viewing or clicking on an advert, to measure the effectiveness of advertising and to present targeted adverts to the user. |
| Microsoft | MR | Third-party analytics cookie used to pass user action information to the Bing advertising network, typically stored for up to 180 days. |
| Microsoft | MUID | Third-party cookie used widely by Microsoft as a unique user ID. This cookie enables tracking by synchronising the ID across many Microsoft domains for advertising and analytics purposes. |
| Microsoft (Bing Ads) | _uetsid / _uetvid | First-party cookies used by Microsoft Bing Ads to store and track visits across websites so that we can engage with visitors who have previously interacted with our site (remarketing). |
| li_sugr | Third-party cookie set by the LinkedIn Insight Tag to store a browser identifier. It is used for LinkedIn analytics and advertising (for example, to measure campaign performance and deliver relevant LinkedIn ads). |
Changes to this Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in the cookies we use, our services, legal requirements or technical reasons. When we do so, we will update the “Last updated” date at the top of this page. We encourage you to review this Cookie Policy periodically to stay informed about how we use cookies.
Your continued use of our website after any changes to this Cookie Policy will constitute your acceptance of those changes.