Cookie Policy

Last updated: October 27, 2026

This Cookie Policy explains which cookies and similar technologies https://ekocommercial.com (operated by EKO North America, "EKO Commercial", "we") uses, what they do, and how you control them. It should be read with our Privacy Policy.

Table of Contents

  1. What cookies are
  2. How we ask for your consent
  3. The cookies we use
  4. Cookies set during checkout
  5. Managing cookies in your browser
  6. Changes and contact

1. What cookies are

Cookies are small text files that a website stores on your computer or phone. Some last only for your visit ("session" cookies); others stay until they expire or you delete them ("persistent" cookies). "First-party" cookies are set by ekocommercial.com; "third-party" cookies are set by another company whose service is embedded in a page. We also use similar technologies such as browser local storage for the same purposes; where we say "cookies" below we include these.

With your consent, we use Google's advertising tags (Google Ads and Google Merchant Center), which Shopify's Google & YouTube app adds to the website; their cookies are listed in section 3 below. We do not use session-recording tools, chat widgets, social-media "like" buttons or device fingerprinting on this website.

2. How we ask for your consent

  • When you first visit, a banner from our consent tool, Consentmo, offers Accept, Reject and Preferences. Until you choose, only essential cookies are set.
  • Accept turns on the Statistics and Marketing cookies listed below. Reject keeps them off. Preferences lets you choose by category (Statistics, Marketing, Preferences — Statistics and Marketing are in use today). If you switch on only one of Statistics or Marketing, Google's tags still load for that category; for the category you left off they set none of its cookies and send Google only signals marked as not consented for it (for example, that a page was viewed), which Google may use for aggregate measurement.
  • You can change your mind at any time: click Cookie preferences in the website footer to reopen the panel.
  • If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal (an Opt-Out Preference Signal), we treat it as a Reject for that browser and as an opt-out of sale/sharing: Statistics and Marketing cookies are not set. See our Privacy Policy, section 5, for how the signal is linked to your browser or account.
  • Your choice is stored in the cookieconsent_status cookie for one year; if you clear your cookies, the banner will ask again.

3. The cookies we use

Last scanned: October 15, 2026 (Omnialta measurement).

Essential cookies (always on; no consent needed)

These are required for the website, the cart, your account, your consent choice and security to work. Some are set only when you use the related feature (for example logging in, or entering a store password).

Name Purpose Provider Duration Party
_shopify_essential Session, cart and anti-tampering information needed to run the store Shopify 1 year 1st
_shop_app_essential Needed for Shop / Shop Pay functions in the store Shopify 1 year 3rd (.shop.app, operated by Shopify)
_shopify_test Checks whether your browser accepts cookies Shopify Session 1st
_shopify_country Stores the country detected from your connection so prices show in the right currency without repeating the lookup Shopify Session 1st
keep_alive Used in connection with buyer localization (keeps your country/language setting) Shopify Session 1st
localization Keeps the country/region setting for the cart Shopify 1 year (measured; Shopify lists a shorter value) 1st
cart Remembers the contents of your cart Shopify Up to 13 weeks (measured; Shopify lists 2 weeks) 1st
cart_currency Starts a new cart in the same currency after a checkout Shopify 2 weeks 1st
shopify_recently_viewed Stores recently viewed products for easy access Shopify 1 day 1st
_tracking_consent Stores your tracking-consent choice for Shopify's Customer Privacy API Shopify 2 years 1st
_cmp_a Used for managing customer privacy settings Shopify 1 day 1st
secure_customer_sig Used in connection with customer login Shopify 1 year 1st
storefront_digest Used in connection with customer login (set after you enter a store password) Shopify 1 year 1st
_storefront_u Used to facilitate updating customer account information Shopify 1 minute 1st
customer_account_locale Remembers the language of your customer account Shopify 1 minute 1st
identity-state Used in connection with customer authentication Shopify 24 hours 1st
identity_customer_account_number Used in connection with customer authentication Shopify 12 minutes 1st
auth_state_* Stores your sign-in state before redirecting you to Shop to authenticate Shopify 25 minutes 1st
login_with_shop_finalize Completes a "Log in with Shop" sign-in Shopify 5 minutes 1st
user Used in connection with Shop login Shopify (Shop) 1 year 3rd (shop.app, operated by Shopify)
user_cross_site Used in connection with Shop login Shopify (Shop) 1 year 3rd (shop.app, operated by Shopify)
order Allows access to your order-status page after a purchase Shopify 3 minutes 1st
cookieconsent_status Stores your Accept / Reject choice Consentmo 1 year 1st
cookieconsent_preferences_disabled Stores which cookie categories you turned off Consentmo 1 year (measured; Consentmo lists 1 day) 1st
gdprCache Caches your consent settings so the banner does not re-ask on every page (browser local storage, not a cookie) Consentmo Until you clear site data 1st
csmConsentIdentifier Random identifier that links your consent record to this browser (browser local storage) Consentmo Until you clear site data 1st
consentHeader Stores the consent header sent with your preferences (browser local storage) Consentmo Until you clear site data 1st
csmADACountryDetection Determines your country for Consentmo's accessibility features Consentmo 1 year 1st
__cf_bm Bot protection for the hCaptcha challenge on the Your Privacy Choices opt-out form; only set when you open that page; holds no personal information Cloudflare (for hCaptcha) 30 minutes 3rd (.hcaptcha.com)

Checkout and Shop Pay cookies (essential)

Checkout runs on Shopify's secure checkout pages on this domain. These cookies keep your checkout session and, if you use it, Shop Pay working; they are essential to completing a purchase.

Name Purpose Provider Duration Party
checkout Identifies your checkout session Shopify 21 days 1st
checkout_token Used in connection with checkout Shopify 14 days 1st
_checkout_queue_token Used when there is a queue during the checkout process Shopify 1 year 1st
discount_code Remembers a discount code applied to your checkout Shopify Session 1st
shopify_pay Used in connection with checkout (Shop Pay) Shopify 1 year 1st
shopify_pay_redirect Used in connection with checkout (Shop Pay) Shopify 30 minutes 1st
shop_pay_accelerated Used in connection with checkout (Shop Pay accelerated checkout) Shopify 1 minute 1st
skip_shop_pay Disables Shop Pay as a payment method for a checkout Shopify 1 year 1st
hide_shopify_pay_for_checkout Used in connection with checkout (hides the Shop Pay option) Shopify Session 1st
_pay_session Session cookie for Shop Pay Shopify (Shop Pay) Session 3rd (pay.shopify.com, operated by Shopify)

Statistics cookies (set only after you choose Accept or switch on Statistics under Preferences)

Name Purpose Provider Duration Party
_ga Google Analytics: a random ID that tells one browser from another so page views can be counted per visitor Google LLC 2 years 1st
_ga_* (_ga_ followed by a Google tag ID; one cookie per tag) Google Analytics 4 and the Google Merchant Center tag: keep session state for our Google Analytics property and for measuring visits from our Google Shopping listings Google LLC 2 years 1st
_shopify_s Shopify analytics: identifies a browser session Shopify 30 minutes 1st
_shopify_y Shopify analytics: identifies a returning browser Shopify 1 year 1st
_shopify_analytics Shopify analytics data for buyer-facing pages Shopify 1 year 1st
_landing_page Shopify analytics: records the page you landed on Shopify 14 days 1st
_orig_referrer Shopify analytics: records the site that referred you Shopify 2 years 1st
shop_analytics Shopify analytics Shopify 30 minutes 1st

Google Analytics sets these cookies only after Accept (or Statistics under Preferences), and it is not loaded at all after Reject or when a Global Privacy Control signal is present. Google's description of these cookies is at https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies. Shopify's own analytics cookies are set first-party by Shopify and are governed by the banner's Statistics category through Shopify's Customer Privacy API where it applies; Shopify classifies them as analytics.

Marketing and Preferences cookies

Marketing cookies are set only after you choose Accept or switch on Marketing under Preferences. They are not set after Reject or when a Global Privacy Control signal is present. If you chose Accept and later opt out on our Your Privacy Choices page, our contact-form tag is switched off; Google's other advertising tags may still read or set these cookies, but switch to Google's restricted data processing, in which Google acts only as our service provider and does not use your data to personalize ads. Google's advertising tags (Google Ads tag AW-18504863165 and the Google Merchant Center tag, added by Shopify's Google & YouTube app, plus a Google Ads tag we add through Shopify's Customer events to record contact-form submissions) use them to tell us which visits, quote requests and purchases came from our Google ads and Shopping listings, and we may also use them to show EKO Commercial ads on Google to people who have visited this website ("remarketing"). Under some US state privacy laws this may be a "sale" or "sharing" of personal information; see our Privacy Policy, section 4. Shopify classifies _shopify_marketing as a marketing cookie and governs it through its Customer Privacy API. No Preferences cookies are in use today. If we add any, we will list them here and they will stay off until you accept them in the banner.

Name Purpose Provider Duration Party
_gcl_au Google Ads conversion linker: a random ID that lets Google Ads link visits and purchases on this website to clicks on our ads Google LLC 90 days 1st
_gcl_aw (and related _gcl_* cookies) Google Ads: stores the details of a Google ad click. Set only when you arrive by clicking one of our Google ads (not seen in our scan, which did not use an ad click) Google LLC 90 days 1st
_gcl_ls Google Ads conversion linker: keeps the same ad-click and conversion information in browser local storage (not a cookie) Google LLC Until you clear site data 1st
_shopify_marketing Shopify marketing data for buyer-facing pages (Shopify's own marketing category) Shopify 1 year 1st

When these tags send data to Google, Google may also read or set its own cookies on its domains (for example google.com and doubleclick.net) if your browser allows third-party cookies; Google describes them at https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies. You can control the ads Google shows you at https://myadcenter.google.com.

Cookies set by embedded payment buttons

Name Purpose Provider Duration Party
NID Set on google.com by the Google Pay button embedded in the cart and buy buttons. Google says it stores preferences and helps protect against abuse. It is necessary for the payment button to work. Google LLC 6 months 3rd (.google.com)

The PayPal and Shop Pay buttons load in frames from paypal.com and shopify.com; they did not set cookies on this website in our tests, but their own privacy policies apply once you click them.

Shopify's storefront scripts may also write short-lived entries to your browser's local storage (for example _shs_state, signInWithShop:*, __shopify_agent_context_events, wpm-ri-*) for the same essential and analytics purposes as the cookies above; they are covered by the same categories and consent choices.

4. Cookies set during checkout

Checkout runs on Shopify's secure checkout pages. Shopify sets additional first-party cookies there (for example checkout, checkout_token, _tracking_consent, shopify_pay*, order) to keep your checkout session, remember your consent choice and, if you use it, log you into Shop Pay. Shopify documents them at https://www.shopify.com/legal/cookies. These cookies are essential to completing a purchase.

5. Managing cookies in your browser

You can also block or delete cookies in your browser. Blocking essential cookies will stop the cart and checkout from working.

General information about cookies: https://www.allaboutcookies.org.

6. Changes and contact

We re-scan the website for cookies before each release and update this page when the list changes; the date at the top shows the latest version. Questions: support@ekonorthamerica.com, (866) 987-2980, or our contact form.