Cookie Policy
Cookie Policy
This cookie policy will give you information about:
EKO and third-party service providers use cookies, pixel tags, web beacons, clear GIFs, or similar technologies to track the actions of website users and email recipients across non-affiliate websites over time, in order to personalize your experience on the site by presenting advertisements that are more relevant to you. For example, we use third party service providers, to present products and offers tailored to the preferences and interests demonstrated by your online activity over time. If you would like opt-out of receiving personalized ads from third party advertisers and ad networks who follow the Digital Advertising Alliance’s Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising, you may visit the opt-out page on the DAA website. You understand that this opt-out mechanism is maintained by a third party, not EKO. EKO is not responsible for, nor does it control these mechanisms of the third parties who choose to participate in opt-out programs.
1. Cookies
“Cookies” are small files which enable us to store individual information related to your computer or other device used to access our website. Cookies help us, for example, to determine the frequency of use and the number of people visiting our website and to make our services as comfortable and efficient as possible for you.
Classes of Cookies
There are two types of cookies: session cookies, and persistent cookies.
- Session cookies make it easier for you to navigate the websites. They expire and disappear from your device when you close your browser.
- Persistent cookies remain longer and help in understanding how you use the websites and enhancing your user experience. They stay on your device even after you close your device’s browser or end your session. Persistent cookies may remain on your hard drive for an extended period of time.
Sources of Cookies
Cookies also come from different sources – EKO (these would be “first party cookies” because EKO places the cookies itself), and other third parties (these are “third party cookies” because they are not placed by EKO).
- First party cookies are set by the website you are visiting, and they can only be read by that site.
- Third party cookies are not set by the owner of the website you are visiting, but by a different organization. For example, advertisers and other third parties may use their own cookies when you click on an advertisement or link on our website, or we might engage a third-party analytics company that will set their own cookie to perform this service.
Third Party Cookies and Website Analytics
We use third party services including Google Analytics to analyze website activity. When you visit the websites, Google Analytics automatically collects information from you through the use of Google’s analytics IDs, and Google provides some of this information to us. An analytics ID is a specific string of numbers and letters (often called a “character string”) that is assigned to your computer or device but does not name you. The analytics ID allows Google to track usage data of the websites, such as date and time of visit, duration of visit, website traffic patterns, “clickstreams,” other similar information about your use of the websites, the type of web browser used, the operating system/platform you are using, your IP address, the websites that referred or linked you to our website, and your CPU speed. Google Analytics does not share the analytics ID assigned to your computer or device that you use to access and use the websites. Google Analytics provides information about the use of our websites to us in aggregate form (i.e., data about many website users combined and not just about you). Some of this data might include the regional location of website users, but again, this data will be in aggregate (and not individual) form. We rely on this aggregate data to inform us how users are using the websites and to help us improve the websites.
Social Media Widget Cookies
Some pages of our websites include social media features, such as the Facebook “Like” button, and widgets, such as the “Share This” button or interactive mini-programs that run on our websites. These features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on the websites, and may set a cookie to enable the features to function properly. Social media features and widgets are either hosted by a third-party or hosted directly on the websites. See the section in the Privacy Policy describing how we share personal information, for more details about your interactions with these features on our websites.
2. Types of Cookies
The different types of cookies can be categorized as follows:
Essential Cookies
There are certain cookies that we have to include in order for certain web pages to function. For this reason, they do not require your consent. In particular:
- Strictly Necessary cookies are cookies that are required for the operation of our website, such as to ensure security. Other necessary cookies allow us to provide features or services that you expressly request. These cookies do not require your consent and cannot be switched off (although in some cases you can change your requests). You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of our website may not work if you block these types of cookies.
- Functional cookies are used to provide certain functionalities to you by recording your choices and settings regarding our products and services, maintaining your preferences over time and recognizing you when you return to our website so that we can offer you a better experience. We will only store and access functional cookies on your device if you consent to such storage and access. If you do not consent to these types of cookies, we will not be able to provide certain functionalities to you.
Non-Essential Cookies
We use performance and analytics cookies (defined below) only for internal research on how we can improve our website for our users. These cookies simply assess how you interact with our website as an anonymous user (meaning the data gathered does not identify you personally). We do not share this data with any third parties or use it for any other purpose. The anonymized statistics may be shared with contractors working on communication projects under a contract with EKO Commercial. However, you are free to refuse these types of cookies, either via the cookie banner you see when you first visit the site, by visiting the cookie preference page, or by clicking on the Cookie Preferences widget at the bottom of your screen.
On the other hand, targeting and advertising cookies are used by us and third parties to deliver advertising and conduct profiling to enhance your experience and to target advertising to your interests and activities.
- Performance cookies are used to improve the performance of our website and to enhance your experience. Google Analytics automatically collects certain usage and performance data from our website users. The information these cookies collect is aggregated and anonymous information.
- Analytics cookies allow us to analyze website usage and understand how visitors use it. These cookies recognize and collect information about the number of visitors, the pages they view, how long they view pages and how they move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that visitors are easily finding what they are looking for. If you do not consent to these types of cookies, we will not be able to improve our website based on information from your visit.
- Targeting and advertising cookies track browsing habits and are used to deliver targeted (interest-based) advertising. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an ad and to measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organizations, such as advertisers.
3. Cookies We Use
We use the following cookies on our websites in connection with some of the functionalities described above.
Necessary Cookies
| Name | Description | Provider | Duration | Party |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| cookieconsent_status | This cookie is associated with the app Consentmo GDPR Compliance and is used for storing the customer’s consent. | Consentmo | 1 year | 1st Party |
| cookieconsent_preferences_disabled | This cookie is associated with the app Consentmo GDPR Compliance and is used for storing the customer’s consent. | Consentmo | 1 day | 1st Party |
| _ab | Used to control when the admin bar is shown on the storefront. | Shopify | 1 year | 1st Party |
| _abv | Persist the collapsed state of the admin bar. | Shopify | 1 year | 1st Party |
| _checkout_queue_token | Used when there is a queue during the checkout process. | Shopify | 1 year | 1st Party |
| _identity_session | Merchant authentication: Main session cookie for Identity authentication. This is the underlying Rails session cookie. It contains the SID. | Shopify | 2 years | 1st Party |
| _master_udr | Permanent device identifier. | Shopify | Session | 1st Party |
| _merchant_essential | Contains essential information for the correct functionality of merchant surfaces such as the admin area. | Shopify | 1 year | 1st Party |
| _pay_session | The Rails session cookie for Shopify Pay | Shopify | Session | 1st Party |
| _shopify_country | Used for Plus shops where pricing currency/country is set from GeoIP by helping avoid GeoIP lookups after the first request. | Shopify | 30 minutes | 1st Party |
| _shopify_essential | Contains essential information for the correct functionality of a store such as session and checkout information and anti-tampering data. | Shopify | 1 year | 1st Party |
| _shopify_essential_ | Contains an opaque token that is used to identify a device for all essential purposes. | Shopify | 1 year | 1st Party |
| _shopify_test | Used to check cookie capabilities on the client. | Shopify | 1 minute | 1st Party |
| _storefront_u | Used to facilitate updating customer account information. | Shopify | 1 minute | 1st Party |
| _tracking_consent | Used to store a user’s preferences if a merchant has set up privacy rules in the visitor’s region. | Shopify | 1 year | 1st Party |
| auth_state_* | Stores authentication state before redirecting customers to third party for authentication. | Shopify | 25 minutes | 1st Party |
| cart | Contains information related to the user’s cart. | Shopify | 2 weeks | 1st Party |
| cart_currency | Used after a checkout is completed to initialize a new empty cart with the same currency as the one just used. | Shopify | 2 weeks | 1st Party |
| checkout | Used by checkout to identify the user. | Shopify | 21 days | 1st Party |
| checkout_token | Used by checkout to identify the user. | Shopify | Session | 1st Party |
| customer_account_locale | Used to keep track of a customer account locale when a redirection occurs from checkout or the storefront to customer accounts. | Shopify | 1 year | 1st Party |
| discount_code | Stores a discount code (received from an online store visit with a URL parameter) in order to the next checkout. | Shopify | Session | 1st Party |
| hide_shopify_pay_for_checkout | Set when a buyer dismisses the Shop Pay login modal during checkout informing display to buyer. | Shopify | Session | 1st Party |
| identity-state | Stores a hash of the oauth flow state between redirects. | Shopify | 1 day | 1st Party |
| identity_customer_account_number | Stores an identifier used to facilitate login across the customer’s account and storefront domains. | Shopify | 12 weeks | 1st Party |
| in_checkout_profile_preview | Used to determine if a merchant is in a checkout profile preview session. | Shopify | Session | 1st Party |
| keep_alive | Used when international domain redirection is enabled to determine if a request is the first one of a session. | Shopify | Session | 1st Party |
| localization | Used to localize the cart to the correct country. | Shopify | 2 weeks | 1st Party |
| login_with_shop_finalize | Used to facilitate login with Shop. | Shopify | 5 minutes | 1st Party |
| master_device_id | Merchant authentication: Permanent device identifier public version. | Shopify | 1 year | 1st Party |
| order | Used to allow access to the data of the order details page of the buyer. | Shopify | 3 weeks | 1st Party |
| profile_preview_token | Used for previewing checkout customizations. | Shopify | 5 minutes | 1st Party |
| shop_pay_accelerated | Indicates if a buyer is eligible for Shop Pay accelerated checkout. | Shopify | 1 year | 1st Party |
| shopify_pay | Used to log in a buyer into Shop Pay when they come back to checkout on the same store. | Shopify | 1 year | 1st Party |
| shopify_pay_redirect | Used to accelerate the checkout process when the buyer has a Shop Pay account. | Shopify | 1 year | 1st Party |
| skip_shop_pay | Disables Shop Pay as a payment method for a checkout. | Shopify | 1 year | 1st Party |
| storefront_digest | Stores a digest of the storefront password allowing merchants to preview their storefront while it’s password protected. | Shopify | 1 year | 1st Party |
| theme | Used to determine the theme of the storefront. | Shopify | 1 week | 1st Party |
| user | Used in connection with Shop login. | Shopify | 1 year | 1st Party |
| user_cross_site | Used in connection with Shop login. | Shopify | 1 year | 1st Party |
| shopify_recently_viewed | Tracks recently viewed products for the storefront. | Shopify | 2 weeks | 1st Party |
| _shop_app_essential | Contains essential information for the correct functionality of Shop.app. | Shopify | 1 year | 1st Party |
Statistics Cookies
| Name | Description | Provider | Duration | Party |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| _landing_page | Capture the landing page of visitor when they come from other sites. | Shopify | 2 weeks | 1st Party |
| _merchant_analytics | Contains analytics data for the merchant session. | Shopify | 1 year | 1st Party |
| _orig_referrer | Allows merchant to identify where people are visiting them from. | Shopify | 2 weeks | 1st Party |
| _shopify_analytics | Contains analytics data for buyer surfaces such as the storefront or checkout. | Shopify | 1 year | 1st Party |
| _shopify_ga | Contains Google Analytics parameters that enable cross-domain analytics measurement to work. | Shopify | Session | 1st Party |
| _shopify_s | Used to identify a given browser session/shop combination. Duration is 30 minute rolling expiry of last use. | Shopify | 30 minutes | 1st Party |
| _shopify_y | Shopify analytics. | Shopify | 1 year | 1st Party |
| shop_analytics | Contains the required buyer information for analytics in Shop. | Shopify | 1 year | 1st Party |
Marketing Cookies
| Name | Description | Provider | Duration | Party |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| _shopify_marketing | Contains marketing data for buyer surfaces such as the storefront or checkout. | Shopify | 1 year | 1st Party |
Preferences Cookies
| Name | Description | Provider | Duration | Party |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| shopify_override_user_locale | Used as a mechanism to set User locale in admin. | Shopify | 1 year | 1st Party |
4. Managing Cookies and Withdrawing Consent
We will obtain your opt-in consent to the use of the non-essential cookies and other tracking technologies on this website when you first access the website and if we introduce any new cookies to the website, unless they are essential cookies, in which case your consent is not required. When you visit this website, a pop up will appear to inform you about our use of cookies. You can then consent by clicking on “Accept”, or you may refuse cookies (except necessary cookies) by clicking on “Deny”. You may alternatively click on the link to the cookie manager to visit our Consent Management Platform and decide the categories of cookies that you wish to accept, and the cookies you wish to reject.
You may withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future.
If you deny cookies, we will not set those cookies on your device, except essential cookies and a cookie to remember that you don’t want any cookies set when you visit this website.
If you have not rejected cookies but would like to do so (withdraw your consent) for the future, you can delete the cookies in your website browser and the cookies window including the link to the cookie manager appears again.
Cookies and Browser Settings
You can disable cookies by changing your website browser settings to reject cookies. How to do this will depend on the browser you use. Rejecting cookies will prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, as well as (depending on the sophistication of your browser software) allow you to decide on acceptance of each new cookie in a variety of ways. You can also delete all cookies that are already on your device. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit this website. Modern browsers should allow you to change your cookie settings, typically by going to the “options” or “preferences” menu of your browser. Use the “Help” option in your browser for more details.
- Cookie settings in Internet Explorer
- Cookie settings in Microsoft Edge
- Cookie settings in Firefox
- Cookie settings in Chrome
- Cookie settings in Safari web and iOS
Blocking all cookies (including necessary cookies) will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites, including ours. If you block necessary cookies, you may not be able to use all the features on this website. You can also delete cookies already stored on your computer. However, deleting cookies might have a negative impact on the usability of many websites, including ours.
To find out more about cookies, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
For more information about how we collect, use, and protect your personal data, please see our Privacy Policy.