Cookies
Our site www.thedormenfoodcompany.com uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our site. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our site and also allows us to improve our site. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
What are Cookies?
A cookie is a piece of information, like a tag, that's stored on your computer, tablet or phone when you visit a website. It can help identify your device – like your PC or mobile phone – whenever you visit that website. They are used by most major websites including. To make the best use of our website, on whichever device you use, you'll need to make sure your web browser is set to accept cookies. Cookies are anonymous, they use a randomly generated number to identify themselves and contain no information that could personally identify you.
Opting out of Cookies
If you prefer, you can restrict, block or delete cookies by changing your browser settings but that may mean that you won’t be able to add and buy products from our store.
How cookies are used on www.thedormenfoodcompany.com
We use cookies and some other data stored on your device to:
- give you a better online experience
- allow you to set personal preferences
- protect your security
- measure and improve our service
Measuring website usage (Google Analytics)
We use Google Analytics software to collect information about how you use our site. We do this to help make sure the site is meeting the needs of its users and to help us make improvements.
Google Analytics stores information about:
- the pages you visit on www.thedormenfoodcompany.com and how long you spend on each page
- how you got to the site
- what you click on while you’re visiting the site
We don’t collect or store your personal information (eg your name or address) so this information can’t be used to identify who you are.
We don’t allow Google to use or share our analytics data.
Google Analytics sets the following cookies:
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| _utma | Determines the number of unique visitors to the site | 2 years |
| _utmb | This works with _utmc to calculate the average length of time you spend on our site | 30 minutes |
| _utmc | This works with _utmb to calculate when you close your browser | when you close your browser |
| _utmz | This provides information about how you reached the site (eg from another website or a search engine) | 6 months |
| ga_nextpage_params | This stores data to be sent to Google on the next page you request | when you close your browser |
| GDS_successEvents and GDS_analyticsTokens | These help us identify how you use www.thedormenfoodcompany.com so we can make the site better | 4 months |
Shopify
We’ve created the www.thedormenfoodcompany.com website using the Shopify Ecommerce Platform. Shopify sets cookies when you visit our site that help with information such remembering what you’ve put in your shopping cart or which page you’ve started your www.thedormenfoodcompany.com experience from.
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| _session_id | [storefront] Allows Shopify to store information about your session (referrer, landing page, etc..) | Sessional |
| _shopify_visit | [storefront and checkout.shopify.com] Used by our internal stats tracker to record the number of visits to the shop | Persistent for 30 minutes from the last visit |
| _shopify_uniq | [storefront and checkout.shopify.com] Counts the number of visits to a store by a single customer | Expires midnight (relative to the visitor) of the next day cart |
| cart | [storefront] Stores information about the contents of your cart | Persistent for 2 weeks |
| _secure_session_id | [storefront] Stores session information for the checkout process | Sessional |
| storefront_digest | [storefront] If the shop has a password, this is used to determine if the current visitor has access | Indefinate |