Cookies

General information on Cookies

The majority of websites you visit will use some form of cookies in order to track you and improve your user experience. This might be for the duration of your visit (by using what’s called a ‘session cookie’) or for repeat visits (by using a ‘persistent cookie’). Cookies are little bits of code that are placed on your computer. If you want to know more about cookies, or how to control or delete them, then we recommend you visit http://www.aboutcookies.org for detailed guidance.

WHAT COOKIES DOES THIS SITE USE?

The information below describes the cookies we use on the Lords Builders Merchants website and what we use them for. Currently, we operate an ‘implied consent’ policy which means that we assume you are happy with this usage. If that is not the case, then you should either not use this site, or you should delete our cookies having visited the site, or you should browse the site using your browser’s anonymous usage setting (called “Incognito” in Chrome, “InPrivate” for Internet Explorer, "Private Browsing" in Firefox and Safari etc.)

SESSION COOKIES

We use session cookies to remember you as you navigate around our website. These we deem strictly necessary to the working of the website. If these are disabled then the website may not function correctly. An example of one of our session cookie names is CMSSESSID5de35546.

For more information on session cookies and what they are used for, please click here.

GOOGLE ANALYTICS

We use Google Analytics to understand how the site is being used (eg. What pages visitors go to most often) in order to improve the user experience. User data is aggregated and completely anonymous. An example of this cookie name are __utma, __utmc, __utmv, __utmz

To read Google’s position on privacy with regards its Google Analytics service. please click here.

LIST OF COOKIES WE COLLECT

The table below lists the cookies we collect and what information they store.

Cookie name Cookie Description Requirement
mage-cache-sessid The value of this cookie triggers the cleanup of local cache storage. When the cookie is removed by the backend application local storage is cleaned up Required
mage-cache-storage Local storage of visitor-specific content that enables ecommerce functions Required
mage-cache-storage-section-invalidation Forces local storage of specific content sections that should be invalidated Required
mage-messages Tracks error messages and other notifications that are shown to the user, such as the cookie consent message, and various error messages. The message is deleted from the cookie after it is shown to the shopper Required
form_key A security measure that appends a random string to all form submissions to protect the data from Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Required
product_data_storage Stores configuration for product data related to Recently Viewed / Compared Products Required
recently_compared_product Stores product IDs of recently compared products for faster browsing Required
recently_compared_product_previous Stores product IDs of previously compared products for easy navigation Required
recently_viewed_product Stores product IDs of recently viewed products for easy navigation Required
recently_viewed_product_previous Stores product IDs of recently previously viewed products for easy navigation Required
X-Magento-Vary Used by server performance boosting technologies Required
PHPSESSID Used to link cookies generated in a session Required
_GRECAPTCHA Spam protection for blocking automated bots Required
__stripe_sid Fraud protection Required
__stripe_mid Fraud protection Required
__atuvc Used by AddThis sharing widget to allow visitors to share content. Disabling this cookie will prevent this widget from loading Optional
__atuvs Used by AddThis sharing widget to allow visitors to share content. Disabling this cookie will prevent this widget from loading Optional
loc Used by AddThis sharing widget to cacluate where interactions are coming from. Disabling this cookie will prevent this widget from loading Optional
uvc Used by AddThis sharing widget to recognise visitors across websites. Disabling this cookie will prevent this widget from loading Optional
user_allowed_save_cookie Stores user's cookie consent, if given Optional
zync-uuid Allows third party advertisers to target the visitor with relevant advertisements Optional
sd-session-id Rezync uses this information to measure the efficiency of advertisement on websites Optional
_fbp Facebook site anayltics Optional
_ga Google Ads visitor distinguisher Optional
_gid Google Ads visitor distinguisher Optional
_gat Used to throttle request rates to Google Analytics Optional
_gcl_au Google conversion tracking Optional
_pin_unauth Pinterest Tag for non-logged in users to group actions across pages Optional
_uetsid This contains the Bing Advertisement session ID for a unique session on the site Optional
_uetvid Bing Advertisement assigns this unique, anonymized visitor ID, representing a unique visitor. UET stores this data in a first-party cookie Optional
btIdentify Used by Disqus to identify users when making comments and authenticating Optional
_bti Used by Disqus to identify users when making comments and authenticating Optional
_bts Used by Disqus to identify users when making comments and authenticating Optional

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