Last Updated: March 22, 2023
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Introduction
To make our Site work properly and to provide relevant products and services to you, we place small data files called cookies on your device. This Cookie Policy provides you with information about cookies and how you can control them.
A cookie is a small text file that is transferred to your computer or mobile device when you visit a website or app. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website or mobile application on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognizes that cookie, to develop a record of the user’s online activity.
Why Do We Use Cookies?
Cookies hold information to personalize and enhance your experience and to gather statistical data from our Site, such as which pages are visited, the Internet provider's domain name and the addresses of the website you visited immediately before coming to and immediately after leaving the Site.
Cookies allow us to better serve you and enhance our business by revealing which portions of the Site are the most popular. We may also allow our affiliates, service providers, and advertisers to serve cookies from the Site to allow them to assist us in various activities such analysis and research on the effectiveness of the Site, content, and advertising.
Cookies Used on This Site
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are necessary for the Site to function. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing purposes and do not remember where you have been on the internet. This category of cookies cannot be disabled but may be blocked through your web browser settings. The table below provides more information about these cookies.
| Cookie Name | Source | Cookie Type | Expiration | Description | How To Block |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| XSRF-TOKEN | Vedder Holsters | First-party | Session | This cookie is written to help with site security in preventing Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks. |
Through your browser Settings.
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| _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress | script.hotjar.com | First-party | 30 minutes | The cookie is set so Hotjar can track the beginning of the user's journey for a total session count. It does not contain any identifiable information. | |
| __cfruid | vedderholsters.zendesk.com | Third-party | Session | This cookie is a part of the services provided by Cloudflare - Including load-balancing, deliverance of web site content and serving DNS connection for website operators. | |
| __cf_bm | .vimeo.com | Third-party | 30 minute(s) | This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website. | |
| _hjFirstSeen | script.hotjar.com | First-party | 30 minutes | The cookie is set so Hotjar can track the beginning of the user's journey for a total session count. It does not contain any identifiable information. | |
| _hjIncludedInSessionSample | script.hotjar.com | First-party | 2 minutes | This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the data sampling defined by your site's daily session limit | |
| AWSALBCORS | widget-mediator.zopim.com | Third-party | 7 days | For continued stickiness support with CORS use cases after the Chromium update, we are creating additional stickiness cookies for each of these duration-based stickiness features named AWSALBCORS (ALB). | |
| _vis_opt_s | visualwebsiteoptimizer.com | First-party | 3 months 10 days | This cookie name is associated with the product Visual Website Optimiser, by USA based Wingify. The tool helps site owners measure the performance of different versions of web pages. This cookie distinguishes between new and returning visitors. | |
| SHOP_SESSION_TOKEN | Vedder Holsters | First-party | 7 days | This cookie is used by online shops to record whether users have placed items in their shopping cart. | |
| __zlcmid | Vedder Holsters | First-party | 1 year | Live chat widget sets the cookies to store the Zopim Live Chat ID used to identify a device across visits. |
Analytics Cookies
These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our Site. They help us to know which pages are the most and lease popular and see how visitors move around the Site. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you visited the Site and will not be able to monitor its performance.
| Cookie Name | Source | Cookie Type | Expiration | Description | How To Block |
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| _gid | Google Analytics | First-party | 1 day | This cookie is set by Google Analytics. It stores and update a unique value for each page visited and is used to count and track pageviews. |
Through your browser Settings.
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| _ga_{ID} | Google Analytics | First-party | 2 years | This cookie is used by Google Analytics to persist session state. | |
| _gat | Google Analytics | First-party | 1 minute | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics, according to documentation it is used to throttle the request rate - limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. | |
| _vwo_uuid | visualwebsiteoptimizer.com | First-party | 10 years | Used by Visual Website Optimizer to ensure that the same user interface variant is displayed for each visit, if the user is participating in a design experiment. | |
| _ga | Google Analytics | First-party | 2 years | 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. | |
| _vwo_uuid_{vID} | visualwebsiteoptimizer.com | First-party | 1 year | Used by Visual Website Optimizer to ensure that the same user interface variant is displayed for each visit, if the user is participating in a design experiment. | |
| _vis_opt_test_cookie | visualwebsiteoptimizer.com | First-party | Session | Used to check if the user's browser supports cookies. | |
| athena_short_visit_id | Vedder Holsters | First-party | 30 minutes | Used for analytics tracking. | |
| athena_short_visit_id | Vedder Holsters | First-party | 30 minutes | Used for analytics tracking. | |
| _vwo_sn | Vedder Holsters | First-party | 30 minutes | Collects statistics on the visitor's visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been read. | |
| _vwo_ds | Vedder Holsters | First-party | 2 months | Collects data on the user's visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been loaded with the purpose of generating reports for optimising the website content. | |
| fornax_anonymousId | Vedder Holsters | First-party | 2 years | Used to track analytics of movement throughout site. | |
| _hjSessionUser_{USERID} | Vedder Holsters | First-party | 1 year | Stores session information to ensure data from subsequent visits to the same site are attributed to the same user ID | |
| _hjSession_{ID} | Vedder Holsters | First-party | 30 minutes | Stores session information for current session. | |
| __kla_id | Klaviyo | First-party | 2 years | Tracks when someone clicks through a Klaviyo email to your website |
We use Google Analytics. To view an overview of the privacy of your Google Analytics cookies please visit:
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245.
You may install a Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on by going to:
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB.
Preference Cookies
Preference cookies enable the Site to remember information that changes the way the Site behaves or looks, like your preferred language or the region that you are in.
| Cookie Name | Source | Cookie Type | Expiration | Description | How To Block |
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| _vis_opt_exp_{CAMPAIGNID}_goal_{GOALID} | Vedder Holsters | First-party | 3 months 10 days | This cookie name is associated with the product Visual Website Optimiser, by USA based Wingify. The tool helps site owners measure the performance of different versions of web pages. This cookie ensures a visitor always sees the same version of a page and is used to track behaviour to measure the performance of different page versions. |
Through your browser Settings.
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| STORE_VISITOR | Vedder Holsters | First-party | 1 day | Sets a ID for the visitor. This serves to count the number of specific visitors on the website. | |
| Shopper-Pref | Vedder Holsters | First-party | 7 days | Saves the visitor's currency preferences. | |
| return3035Visitor | visualwebsiteoptimizer.com | First-party | Session | VWO Uses this to track return visitors and display the correct data if they were part of a design experiment. | |
| lastVisitedCategory | Vedder Holsters | First-party | Session | Used by Vedder Holsters to track movement through the site for back/forward controls. |
Marketing Cookies
We also use a marketing database management program that deploys a cookie when a user interacts with a marketing communication, such as a marketing email or a marketing-based landing page on our website. This cookie collects personal information such as your name, which pages you visit on our website, your history arriving at our website, your purchases from us, and the like. Collected information is used to evaluate the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns or to provide better targeting for marketing. The following table provides more information about this cookie.
| Cookie Name | Source | Cookie Type | Expiration | Description | How To Block |
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| _vis_opt_exp_{CAMPAIGNID}_goal_{GOALID} | Vedder Holsters | First-party | 3 months 10 days | This cookie name is associated with the product Visual Website Optimiser, by USA based Wingify. The tool helps site owners measure the performance of different versions of web pages. This cookie ensures a visitor always sees the same version of a page and is used to track behaviour to measure the performance of different page versions. |
Through your browser Settings.
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| _privy_{ID} | Vedder Holsters | First-party | 1 year | Assigns a unique ID to a customer for Privy marketing | |
| privy_suppress_2556796 | Vedder Holsters | First-party | 7 days | Unclassified | |
| _vis_opt_exp_{{CAMPAIGNID}_combi | Vedder Holsters | First-party | 3 months 10 days | This cookie is created when a visitor is chosen for a particular variation for a test. This cookie makes sure that visitors see the same variation when they revisit the page in the future. Here the Control has a value of 1, Variation #1 has a value of 2, Variation #2 has a value of 3, and so on |
Third Party Website Cookies
Third party cookies are cookies set by someone other than Vedder Holsters for purposes such as collecting information on user behavior, demographics, or personalized marketing. When using our Site, you may encounter embedded content, such as YouTube videos, or you may be directed to other websites to participate in surveys or to make a payment. These third-party websites and embedded content may use their own cookies. We do not have control over the placement of cookies by third party websites, even if you are directed to them from our Site.
How to Control and Delete Cookies
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Using Your Browser
Many of the cookies used on our Site and through emails can be enabled or disabled through your browser. To disable cookies through your browser, follow the instructions located within either the “Help,” “Tools” or “Edit” menus in your browser. Please note that disabling a cookie or category of cookies does not delete any existing cookies from your browser unless manually completed through your browser function.
Cookies that Have Been Set in the Past
Collection of your data from our analytics cookies can be deleted. If cookies are deleted, the information collected prior to the preference change may still be used, however, we will stop using the disabled cookie to collect any further information. For our marketing cookie, when a user opts out of tracking, a new cookie is placed to prevent users from being tracked.
Questions?
For more information, feel free to contact us at contact@vedderholsters.com.