Cookie Policy
Updated: 17th November 2021
Our Policy
- This Cookies Policy (Cookies Policy) explains what cookies are and how we and third parties we partner with to bring you services use them when you visit our website, www.thebiascut.com, (the BC Website).
- We may update the Cookies Policy at any time we consider appropriate. The amended Cookies Policy will become effective once posted on the BC Website.
- Expressions used in this Cookies Policy have the meaning given them in our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Headings used in the Cookies Policy are only to assist you in finding your way around it.
Use of Cookies
- The BC Website/Shopify/third- parties we use to provide services use cookies and similar technologies. A cookie is a small information file sent to your computer, mobile phone or other device when you visit a website. The website will recognise your device when you visit it again and make the service we provide more useful to you. You can find more about cookies at http://www.allaboutcookies.org
- Cookies can be “persistent” or “session” cookies. Both types are used with the BC Website. There is a list of cookies used with the BC Website in the Schedule of Cookies at the end of the Cookies Policy. Some collect personal information about you and some obtain non-personally identifiable information about your general use of the internet. They fall into the following categories:
Category 1: strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are needed to enable the website to provide services you require, like moving around it and using its features, such as e-billing and shopping baskets. They also authenticate who you are.
Category 2: performance cookies
These cookies collect aggregated information about how people use the website and its features. They do not collect information identifying an individual. They are used to improve the website’s service and understand users’ requirements.
Category 3: functionality cookies
These cookies enable the website to remember choices you make (such as the size or product line you order, commenting on the BC Blog) and so provide more enhanced features tailored to your requirements. The information they gather may be anonymised to help us/Shopify improve the operation of the website.
Category 4: targeting cookies or advertising cookies
These cookies collect information on your website browsing and are used to make advertisements more relevant to you, limit the number of times you see an advertisement and measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign.
- Examples of cookies used on the BC Website include:
- session_id, unique token, sessional : allows Shopify to store information about your session (referrer, landing page, etc).
- shopify_visit, no data held, persistent for 30 minutes from the last visit, Used by our website provider’s internal stats tracker to record the number of visits
- shopify_uniq, no data held, expires midnight (relative to the visitor) of the next day ; counts the number of visits to a store by a single customer.
- cart, unique token, persistent for 2 weeks; stores information about the contents of your cart.
- secure_session_id, unique token, sessional
- storefront_digest, unique token, indefinite; if the shop has a password, this is used to determine if the current visitor has access.
- PREF, persistent for a very short period; set by Google and tracks who visits the store and from where.
- If you are referred by a third-party website to the BC Website or click on a hyperlink on the BC Website which takes you to a third-party website or use a payment gateway to make a purchase, that third-party website or application may use cookies and you should refer to its privacy and cookies policy.
- We cannot control some of the cookies stored on your computer by third parties we work with to provide on-line services to you and you should manage these directly with the third parties. Further details and links to their privacy policies are in the Schedule to the Privacy Policy.
Removing Cookies and Consent
- If you want to delete any cookies already on your computer the help and support section of your Internet browser has information to help you. Please note that you may not be able to use certain features of the BC Website if you delete cookies or disable future ones.
- If you want to contact us about this Cookies Policy please email us at us at contact@thebiascut.com or write to The Bias Cut Limited, 22 Belmont Hill, London, SE13 5BD
Schedule of Cookies
| Cookie | Domain | Type | Description | Duration |
| pixel | .yotpo.com | Advertisement | This cookie is used to present the visitor with relevant content and advertisement. | 1 year |
| _fbp | .thebiascut.com | Advertisement | This cookie is set by Facebook to display advertisements when either on Facebook or on a digital platform powered by Facebook advertising, after visiting the website. | 3 months |
| fr | .facebook.com | Advertisement | Facebook sets this cookie to show relevant advertisements to users by tracking user behaviour across the web, on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin. | 3 months |
| _landing_page | .thebiascut.com | Analytics | Shopify installs this cookie to track landing pages. | session |
| _y | .thebiascut.com | Analytics | This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite. | session |
| _s | .thebiascut.com | Analytics | This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite. | session |
| _shopify_y | .thebiascut.com | Analytics | This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite. | session |
| _shopify_s | .thebiascut.com | Analytics | This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite. | session |
| _shopify_sa_t | .thebiascut.com | Analytics | This is a Shopify analytics cookie relating to marketing and referrals. | session |
| _shopify_sa_p | .thebiascut.com | Analytics | This is a Shopify analytics cookie relating to marketing and referrals. | session |
| cart_ts | www.thebiascut.com | Analytics | Shopify sets this cookie which is used in connection with checkout. | 14 days |
| _ga | .thebiascut.com | Analytics | The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors. | 2 years |
| _gid | .thebiascut.com | Analytics | Installed by Google Analytics, _gid cookie stores information on how visitors use a website, while also creating an analytics report of the website's performance. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. | 1 day |
| _lo_uid | .thebiascut.com | Analytics | This cookie is set by the provider Lucky Orange. This cookie shows the unique identifier for the visitor. | 2 years |
| _lorid | .thebiascut.com | Analytics | This cookie is set by the provider Lucky Orange. This cookie is used to identify the ID of the visitors current recording. | 10 minutes |
| _lo_v | .thebiascut.com | Analytics | This cookie is set by the provider Lucky Orange. This cookie is used to show the total number of visitor's visits. | 1 year |
| __lotl | .thebiascut.com | Analytics | This cookie is set by the provider Lucky Orange. This cookie is used to identify the traffic source URL of the visitor's orginal referrer, if there is any. | 5 months 27 days |
| localization | www.thebiascut.com | Functional | Flickr sets this cookie to to track usage of photo galleries embedded from Flickr. | 14 days |
| __cf_bm | .afterpay.com | Functional | This cookie, set by Cloudflare, is used to support Cloudflare Bot Management. | 30 minutes |
| _pinterest_sess | .pinterest.com | Functional | This cookie is set by Pinterest that collects statistical details to track the use of its services. | 1 year |
| _auth | .pinterest.com | Functional | This cookie is set by Pinterest that collects statistical details to track the use of its services. | 1 year |
| _pinterest_referrer | .pinterest.com | Functional | This cookie is set by Pinterest to track the use of its services. | past |
| _routing_id | .pinterest.com | Functional | This cookie is set by Pinterest that collects statistical details to track the use of its services. | session |
| secure_customer_sig | www.thebiascut.com | Necessary | Shopify sets this cookie to be used in connection with customer login. | 1 year |
| cart_currency | www.thebiascut.com | Necessary | Shopify sets this cookie to remember the user’s country of origin and populate the correct transaction currency. | 14 days |
| _orig_referrer | .thebiascut.com | Necessary | Shopify sets this cookie to be used in connection with shopping cart. | session |
| shopify_pay_redirect | www.thebiascut.com | Necessary | Shopify sets this cookie to enable secure online payment and checkout. | 1 hour |
| cart_sig | www.thebiascut.com | Necessary | Shopify sets this cookie to be used in connection with store checkout. | 14 days |
| trustedsite_visit | www.thebiascut.com | Necessary | This cookie is set by the provider McAfee for website security. This cookie is used for storing the number of visits. | 1 day |
| AWSALBCORS | www.trustedsite.com | Necessary | This cookie is managed by Amazon Web Services and is used for load balancing. | 7 days |
| trustedsite_visit | thebiascut.com | Necessary | This cookie is set by the provider McAfee for website security. This cookie is used for storing the number of visits. | never |
| _pay_session | shop.app | Necessary | Shopify sets this cookie to enable secure checkout and payment function on the website. | session |
| connect.sid | app-smartbadge.herokuapp.com | Necessary | This cookie is used for authentication and for secure log-in. It registers the log-in information. | session |
| csrftoken | .pinterest.com | Necessary | This cookie is associated with Django web development platform for python. Used to help protect the website against Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks | 1 year |
| _tracking_consent | .thebiascut.com | Unclassified | No description available. | 1 year |
| _shopify_tm | .thebiascut.com | Unclassified | No description available. | 30 minutes |
| _shopify_tw | .thebiascut.com | Unclassified | No description available. | 14 days |
| _shopify_m | .thebiascut.com | Unclassified | No description available. | 1 year |
| ku1-sid | .thebiascut.com | Unclassified | No description available. | session |
| ku1-vid | .thebiascut.com | Unclassified | No description available. | 1 year 5 months 8 days |
| _iCartUserCountry | www.thebiascut.com | Unclassified | No description | 1 day |
| _sp_id.de80 | www.thebiascut.com | Unclassified | No description | 2 years |
| _sp_ses.de80 | www.thebiascut.com | Unclassified | No description | 30 minutes |
| _shopify_d | .thebiascut.com | Unclassified | No description available. | session |
| _shopify_evids | .thebiascut.com | Unclassified | No description | session |
| _shopify_evids | www.thebiascut.com | Unclassified | No description | session |
| cart | www.thebiascut.com | Unclassified | This cookie is used in connection with the shopping cart. | 14 days |
| cart_ver | www.thebiascut.com | Unclassified | No description available. | 14 days |
| epb_previous_pathname | www.thebiascut.com | Unclassified | No description | session |
| swym-session-id | .www.thebiascut.com | Unclassified | This cookie is used for seperating the users from each other. It expires when the session ends. | 30 minutes |
| swym-pid | .www.thebiascut.com | Unclassified | No description available. | 1 year |
| trustedsite_tm_float_seen | www.thebiascut.com | Unclassified | No description available. | 5 minutes |
| swym-o_s | .www.thebiascut.com | Unclassified | No description available. | 30 minutes |
| swym-swymRegid | .www.thebiascut.com | Unclassified | No description available. | 1 year |
| swym-email | .www.thebiascut.com | Unclassified | No description available. | 1 year |
| locale_bar_accepted | www.thebiascut.com | Unclassified | No description | session |
| _pandectes_gdpr | www.thebiascut.com | Unclassified | No description | 1 year |
| snize-recommendation | www.thebiascut.com | Unclassified | No description available. | session |
| swym-cu_ct | .www.thebiascut.com | Unclassified | No description available. | 1 year |
| _pinterest_ct_ua | .ct.pinterest.com | Unclassified | No description available. | 1 year |
| _pin_unauth | .thebiascut.com | Unclassified | No description available. | 1 year |
| AWSALB | .trustedsite.com | Unclassified | AWSALB is a cookie generated by the Application load balancer in the Amazon Web Services. It works slightly different from AWSELB. | 7 days |
| _gat | .thebiascut.com | Performance | This cookie is installed by Google Universal Analytics to restrain request rate and thus limit the collection of data on high traffic sites. | 1 minute |
| __kla_id | www.thebiascut.com | Performance | This cookie is set by the provider Klsviyo. This cookie is used to collect information on the visitor's behaviour. This information is used for internal analytics and is used to optimize the website. It also register if the visitor has subscribed to news letter. | 2 years |