CPAPstore.eu Cookie Policy

What are Cookies?

A cookie is a small piece of data that our website asks your browser to store on your computer or mobile device. Generally, it contains certain information that is not personally identifiable to you but is used to improve and personalize your web experience. For example, a cookie can include the date and time of visits to the website, the pages viewed, the time spent on the website and the sites visited just before and just after it.

Types of Cookies

Based on length, there are Session Cookies and Persistent Cookies. Session cookies are deleted from your computer when you close your browser, whereas persistent cookies remain stored on your computer until deleted, or until they expire. Session cookies are used to remember your browsing selection or provide you with secure access to some of the services on the website, e.g. access to the User Area. Persistent cookies are used to recognize you as a repeat visitor to the Website and adapt their content in line with your preferences.

Based on ownership, there are In-house Cookies and Third-party Cookies. In-house cookies are set and managed directly by us, while third-party cookies are set and managed by websites other than ours.

Based on purpose, there are Technical Cookies, Analytical Cookies or Advertising Cookies. Technical cookies are used to provide you with access to services that you have requested. We use cookies to make advertising more engaging to users and more valuable to publishers and advertisers. Some common applications of cookies are to select advertising based on what’s relevant to a user (behavioral advertising), to improve reporting on campaign performance and to avoid showing ads the user has already seen.

How we use Cookies

Our website uses cookies to facilitate your use of the website, distinguish you from other users, offer you a better user experience and identify problems to improve our website. Should you give your consent, we will use cookies that enable us to gather more information on your preferences and tailor our website to your individual interests.

We also use cookies to help us understand how you use our website and to make advertising more engaging to our users and more valuable to publishers and advertisers.

If you interact with the content of our Website, third-party cookies may also be installed (for example, by clicking on social media buttons or viewing videos housed on other sites). They are established by a domain different than our website and are subject to the relevant websites’ policies. We cannot access the data stored in cookies of other websites when you browse these other websites.

Your Consent

When you first visit our website, browsing and remaining on our website will imply that you agree to our use of cookies as explained in this Cookies Policy.

You can decide to withdraw your consent at any time by deleting the cookies on your computer (or mobile device) using the settings and configuration of your Internet browser.

Disabling and Blocking Cookies

Our system will automatically create cookies when you visit our website. Cookies are not necessary for the use of our Website, so you can block or disable them by configuring your browser to allow you to block the installation of some or all cookies. Almost all browsers allow you to be alerted to the presence of cookies or block them automatically.

If you block cookies, you can continue to use our website, although some services may be limited and you may not experience the full functionality of our website.

For more information on deleting, disabling or blocking cookies, please visit http://www.aboutcookies.org

Changes to the Cookies Policy

We will notify you of any changes to the Cookies Policy by posting them on the Legal section on our Website, and they will be applicable from the date we publish them. We reserve the right to amend, update or adapt this Cookies Policy to reflect any changes in legislation or in the interpretation by the relevant data protection agency.

What Type of cookies we use

We use 6 groups of cookies: Google Analytics cookies, Woocommerce cookies, Pop-up Cookie Consent Cookie, Twitter cookie, Facebook and Google maps cookies.

Woocommerce Cookies

To keep track of cart data, WooCommerce makes use of 3 cookies:

• woocommerce_cart_hash
• woocommerce_items_in_cart
• wp_woocommerce_session_

The first two cookies contain information about the cart as a whole and help WooCommerce know when the cart data changes. The final cookie (wp_woocommerce_session_) contains a unique code for each customer so that it knows where to find the cart data in the database for each customer. No personal information is stored within these cookies.

Google Analytics Cookies and Microsoft Charity

The 4 Google Analytics and Charity cookies provide us with data about visitor usage patterns on our site. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around the site when they’re using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example by making sure users are finding what they need easily. The visitor remains anonymous.

Pop-up Cookie Consent Cookie

The cookie consent plugin to record that you accept the fact that the site uses cookies.

Twitter Cookie, Google+, Instagram and Facebook

This cookie is set for the browser to remember the guest id to display the latest news from our twitter, Facebook and instagram accounts.

Google Maps Cookies

The embedded Google Map on our site sets 3 cookies known as NID, PREF and khcookie. These cookies allow Google Maps to remember which browser you are using and what preferences you have set when you view maps.

The table below explains the cookies we use and why.

COOKIE SET BY COOKIE NAME PURPOSE EXPIRES 

 Google Analytics _utma

_utmb

_utmc

_utmz

These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site.

The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. 2 years, 30mins, when you close your browser, 6months respectively woocommerce woocommerce_items_in_cart, PHPSESSID_

These cookies are used by the online shop to allow it to function correctly. both expire when you close your browser cookie consent Wordpress plugin catAccCookies Cookie consent plugin to record that you accept the fact that the site uses cookies.

This cookie is used to stop the Cookie notification displaying each time a new session is opened. 1 month  Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and G+ guest_id This cookie is set for the browser to remember the guest id to display the latest news from our twitter account. 2 years  

Google Maps nid pref khcookie These cookies allow Google Maps to remember which browser you are using and what preferences you have set when you view maps. 6 months, 2 years, when you close your browser, respectively.

Cookies List

Cookie key	Domain	Cookie type	Expiration	Description
_abck	.list-manage.com	Third-party	1 year	This cookie is used to analyze traffic to determine if it is automated traffic generated by IT systems or a human user
_ga_2PQQZ72GSK	.cpapstore.eu	First-party	1 year 1 month	This cookie is used by Google Analytics to persist session state.
_ga	.cpapstore.eu	First-party	1 year 1 month	This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics – which is a significant update to Google’s more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports.
ak_bmsc	.us8.list-manage.com	Third-party	2 hours	Used by Akamai to optimize site performance and security
_uetsid	.cpapstore.eu	First-party	1 day	This cookie is used by Bing to determine what ads should be shown that may be relevant to the end user perusing the site.
_fbp	.cpapstore.eu	First-party	3 months	Used by Meta to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers
MR	.c.bing.com	Third-party	7 days	This is a Microsoft MSN 1st party cookie which we use to measure the use of the website for internal analytics.
SM	.c.clarity.ms	Third-party	Session	This is a Microsoft MSN 1st party cookie which we use to measure the use of the website for internal analytics.
MUID	.clarity.ms	Third-party	1 year	This cookie is widely used my Microsoft as a unique user identifier. It can be set by embedded microsoft scripts. Widely believed to sync across many different Microsoft domains, allowing user tracking.
_uetvid	.cpapstore.eu	First-party	1 year	This is a cookie utilised by Microsoft Bing Ads and is a tracking cookie. It allows us to engage with a user that has previously visited our website.
MUID	.bing.com	Third-party	1 year	This cookie is widely used my Microsoft as a unique user identifier. It can be set by embedded microsoft scripts. Widely believed to sync across many different Microsoft domains, allowing user tracking.
IDE	.doubleclick.net	Third-party	1 year	This cookie is set by Doubleclick and carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website.
test_cookie	.doubleclick.net	Third-party	15 minutes	This cookie is set by DoubleClick (which is owned by Google) to determine if the website visitor’s browser supports cookies.
SRM_B	.c.bing.com	Third-party	1 year	This is a Microsoft MSN 1st party cookie that ensures the proper functioning of this website.
ANONCHK	.c.clarity.ms	Third-party	10 minutes	This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website.
_gcl_au	.cpapstore.eu	First-party	3 months	Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services
CLID	www.clarity.ms	Third-party	1 year	This cookie is usually set by Dstillery to enable sharing media content to social media. It may also gather information on website visitors when they use social media to share website content from the page visited.
MR	.c.clarity.ms	Third-party	7 days	This is a Microsoft MSN 1st party cookie which we use to measure the use of the website for internal analytics.
bm_sz	.list-manage.com	Third-party	4 hours	A functionality Cookie placed by Mailchimp to manage and control list
mailchimp_landing_site	www.cpapstore.eu	First-party	28 days	A functionality Cookie placed by Mailchimp to manage and control list
_clck	.cpapstore.eu	First-party	1 year
_clsk	.cpapstore.eu	First-party	1 day