Cookie Policy
During your visit to certain parts of this site we may collect information (by automated means), such as when you visited and the pages you looked at. By collecting this information, we learn how to best tailor our website to you and make future improvements. We collect this information in a couple of ways such as “cookies” and “internet tags”.
Cookies
This Website may place and access certain Cookies on your computer. Stokes Tea & Coffee uses Cookies to improve your experience of using the Website and to improve our range of products and/or services.
Typically they are used to
- store information about your preferences, and allow us to customise our site according to your likes
- recognise you when you return to our site.
Stokes Tea & Coffee has carefully chosen these Cookies and has taken steps to ensure that your privacy is protected and respected at all times.
- All Cookies used by this Website are used in accordance with current UK and EU Cookie Law.
- Where possible, before the Website places any Cookies on your computer, you will be presented with notice of cookies use via our information bar at the bottom of the website. By allowing the placing of Cookies you are enabling Stokes Tea & Coffee to provide the best possible experience and service to you. You may, if you wish, deny consent to the placing of Cookies; however certain features of the Website may not function fully or as intended.
- Certain features of the Website depend upon Cookies to function. UK and EU Cookie Law deems these Cookies to be “strictly necessary”. Your consent will not be sought to place these Cookies. You may still block these cookies by changing your internet browser’s settings as detailed below.
- This Website uses analytics services provided by Google. Website analytics refers to a set of tools used to collect and analyse usage statistics, enabling us to better understand how users use the Website. This, in turn, enables us to improve the Website and the products and/or services offered through it. You do not have to allow us to use these Cookies, as detailed below, however whilst our use of them does not pose any risk to your privacy or your safe use of the Website it does enable us to continually improve our business.
- The analytics services used by this Website use Cookies to gather the required information. Certain of these Cookies may be placed immediately when you decide to visit the Website and it may not be possible to obtain your prior consent. You may remove these Cookies and prevent future use of them by following the steps set out below.
The analytics services used by this Website use the following Cookies:
| Cookie | Description | Duration | Type |
| keep_alive | Shopify uses this in connection with customer localisation. | 1 hour | Other |
| secure_customer_sig | Shopify sets this cookie to be used in connection with customer login. | 1 year | Necessary |
| localization | Flickr sets this cookie to to track usage of photo galleries embedded from Flickr. | 1 year | Functional |
| cart_currency | Shopify sets this cookie to remember the user’s country of origin and populate the correct transaction currency. | 14 days | Necessary |
| _cmp_a | Shopify uses this for managing customer privacy settings. | 1 day | Other |
| _tracking_consent | Shopify uses this to store a user's preferences. | 1 year | Other |
| _shopify_y | This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite. | 1 year | Analytics |
| _shopify_s | This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite. | 1 hour | Analytics |
| _orig_referrer | Shopify sets this cookie to be used in connection with shopping cart. | 14 days | Necessary |
| _landing_page | Shopify installs this cookie to track landing pages. | 14 days | Analytics |
| __cf_bm | Cloudflare set the cookie to support Cloudflare Bot Management. | 1 hour | Functional |
| CLID | Microsoft Clarity set this cookie to store information about how visitors interact with the website. The cookie helps to provide an analysis report. The data collection includes the number of visitors, where they visit the website, and the pages visited. | 1 year | Analytics |
| _ga_* | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views. | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Analytics |
| _ga | Google Analytics sets this cookie to calculate visitor, session and campaign data and track site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognise unique visitors. | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Analytics |
| _shopify_sa_t | Shopify sets this cookie for marketing & referrals. | 1 hour | Analytics |
| _shopify_sa_p | Shopify sets this cookie for marketing & referrals. | 1 hour | Analytics |
| _clck | Microsoft Clarity sets this cookie to retain the browser's Clarity User ID and settings exclusive to that website. This guarantees that actions taken during subsequent visits to the same website will be linked to the same user ID. | 1 year | Analytics |
| baMet_visit | No description | 1 hour | Other |
| baMet_baEvs | No description | 1 minute | Other |
| _hjSessionUser_* | Hotjar sets this cookie to ensure data from subsequent visits to the same site is attributed to the same user ID, which persists in the Hotjar User ID, which is unique to that site. | 1 year | Analytics |
| _hjSession_* | Hotjar sets this cookie to ensure data from subsequent visits to the same site is attributed to the same user ID, which persists in the Hotjar User ID, which is unique to that site. | 1 hour | Analytics |
| _gid | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store information on how visitors use a website while also creating an analytics report of the website's performance. Some of the collected data includes the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. | 1 day | Analytics |
| _gat | Google Universal Analytics sets this cookie to restrain request rate and thus limit data collection on high-traffic sites. | 1 minute | Performance |
| _gcl_au | Google Tag Manager sets the cookie to experiment advertisement efficiency of websites using their services. | 3 months | Analytics |
| _ga_* | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views. | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Analytics |
| _clsk | Microsoft Clarity sets this cookie to store and consolidate a user's pageviews into a single session recording. | 1 day | Analytics |
| _fbp | Facebook sets this cookie to display advertisements when either on Facebook or on a digital platform powered by Facebook advertising after visiting the website. | 3 months | Analytics |
| shopify_pay_redirect | Shopify sets this cookie to enable secure online payment and checkout. | 1 hour | Necessary |
| __kla_id | Klaviyo sets this cookie to collect information on the visitor’s behavior. This information is used for internal analytics and to optimise the website. It also registers if the visitor has subscribed to a news letter. | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Analytics |
| test_cookie | doubleclick.net sets this cookie to determine if the user's browser supports cookies. | 15 minutes | Advertisement |
| SM | Microsoft Clarity cookie set this cookie for synchronizing the MUID across Microsoft domains. | session | Analytics |
| MUID | Bing sets this cookie to recognise unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites. This cookie is used for advertising, site analytics, and other operations. | 1 year 24 days | Advertisement |
| MUID | Bing sets this cookie to recognise unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites. This cookie is used for advertising, site analytics, and other operations. | 1 year 24 days | Advertisement |
| MR | This cookie, set by Bing, is used to collect user information for analytics purposes. | 7 days | Analytics |
| SRM_B | Used by Microsoft Advertising as a unique ID for visitors. | 1 year 24 days | Performance |
| MR | This cookie, set by Bing, is used to collect user information for analytics purposes. | 7 days | Analytics |
| ANONCHK | The ANONCHK cookie, set by Bing, is used to store a user's session ID and verify ads' clicks on the Bing search engine. The cookie helps in reporting and personalization as well. | 10 minutes | Advertisement |
| bugsnag-anonymous-id | BugSnag/Juicer sets this cookie for bug reporting and other analytical purposes. | never | Analytics |
| key | No description available. | never | Other |
| _pay_session | Shopify sets this cookie to enable secure checkout and payment function on the website. | session | Necessary |
Internet Tags
Some pages on this website may contain internet tagging. These allow some trusted third party tools to obtain limited information about you such as the IP address of the device you’re using, the browser and the time, etc. This information helps us understand who our customers are and improve future experiences on the website.
Analytics
We use third party “analytics” on our website, such as Google Analytics. Administered by these third parties (usually through cookies) they help us understand how our website is used. The data that is collected is disclosed to the third party (for example IP addresses), who then process and evaluate that information and help us understand how our website is used.
Disabling and Deleting Cookies
You can choose to enable or disable Cookies in your internet browser. Most internet browsers also enable you to choose whether you wish to disable all cookies or only third party cookies. By default, most internet browsers accept Cookies but this can be changed. For further details, please consult the help menu in your internet browser or visit www.aboutcookies.org
You can choose to delete Cookies at any time however you may lose any information that enables you to access the Website more quickly and efficiently including, but not limited to, personalisation settings.
It is recommended that you ensure that your internet browser is up to date and that you consult the help and guidance provided by the developer of your internet browser if you are unsure about adjusting your privacy settings.
You can contact us at any time to discuss our Cookies further here. For full information on privacy at Stokes Tea & Coffee and how careful we are with your data visit stokescoffee.com/privacy.