Cookies and online privacy
In common with most websites, The Wine Shed uses “cookies”. Cookies are small snippets of text that are stored on your computer. When you request a page from our website, the cookies are sent to our web server, and when we send a page back to you our server may add to or change these cookies. Without cookies, we would not be able to know that you are the same person from page to page.
We use cookies for a variety of reasons, such as remembering the contents of your basket. We also use analytics software, which allows us to track and measure patterns of behaviour so that we can improve our website. In the table below we list details of all the software we use for this purpose.
| Cookie | Type | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| comment_author_[hash] | persistent | 1 year | Remembers the the value entered into the comment form's name field to repopulate the field |
| comment_author_email_[hash] | persistent | 1 year | Remembers the the value entered into the comment form's email field to repopulate the field |
| comment_author_url_[hash] | persistent | 1 year | Remembers the the value entered into the comment form's URL field to repopulate the field |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-non-necessary | persistent | 1 year | Used to determine if non-necessary cookies are allowed |
| store_notice[notice id] | session | session | Allows customers to dismiss the Store Notice. |
| tk_ai | session | session | Stores a randomly-generated anonymous ID. This is only used within the dashboard area and is used for usage tracking, if enabled. |
| viewed_cookie_policy | persistent | 1 year | Used to see if the cookie policy has been accepted |
| woocommerce_cart_hash | session | session | Helps WooCommerce determine when cart contents/data changes |
| woocommerce_dismissed_suggestions__[context] | persistent | 1 month | Count of suggestion dismissals, if enabled. |
| woocommerce_items_in_cart | session | session | Helps WooCommerce determine when cart contents/data changes. |
| woocommerce_recently_viewed | session | session | Powers the Recent Viewed Products widget. |
| woocommerce_snooze_suggestions__[suggestion] | persistent | 2 days | Allows dashboard users to dismiss Marketplace suggestions, if enabled. |
| wordpress_[hash] | session | session | Used to store authentication details |
| wordpress_logged_in_[hash] | session | session | Indicates when the user is logged in |
| wordpress_test_cookie | session | session | Used by WordPress to check if cookies are enabled |
| wp_woocommerce_session_ | persistent | 2 days | Contains a unique code for each customer so that it knows where to find the cart data in the database for each customer. |
| wp-settings-[UID] | persistent | 1 year | Used to customise the admin & front-end interface |
| wp-settings-{time}-[UID] | persistent | 1 year | Used to customise the admin & front-end interface |
Additionally, we have partnerships with some carefully chosen third party services which involve including some code on our website, for example so that we can measure the effectiveness of our marketing activities, enable you to share content with your friends or login via a social media account. In some cases these partners may also store and retrieve their own cookies on your computer. Cookies set by websites other than thewine-shed.com are known as “third party cookies”.
In accordance with the Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications 2003 and General Data Protection Regulation 2018 (GDPR), and to be as open and transparent as possible, we have provided more information on the cookies in use on our website here. These details may change over time as we continue to develop our website.
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