3 - What are Cookies and where are they used on the Christmas Concepts website?
When you use the Christmas Concepts website shopping cart system, your computer will automatically be issued with a cookie. Cookies are text files that identify your computer to our web server. Cookies themselves do not identify the individual user (you), just the computer used.
Cookies themselves only record the products you have selected to buy and are only valid for a specific period of time (in the case of our shopping cart, the period is 7 days). Users have the opportunity to set their computers to accept all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any time. The last of these, of course, means that certain personalised services cannot then be provided to that user.
Cookies are only utilised by our site in the following circumstances:
When you add, amend or remove products to and from our Shopping Cart facility
You sign in, or out using the Account Login facility, where available
If you arrive at this site via a third party (i.e. affiliate) site, in which case we note the site you originated from (note that nothing personally identifiable is stored along with this, other than the pure lead source)
Cookies are not used or set by the Christmas Concepts site without good reason. Each of the cookies listed below are critical to enabling site functionality. You can still browse our site anonymously, until such time as you request one of the previously mentioned facilities.
A summary table follows explaining about each cookie this site uses...
Cookie Name Purpose
CSHOPShoppingCart Manages shopping basket item selections.
CSHOPLogin Linked to the user account login (where a user account login is in use).
LeadSrc Provides us with the source (i.e. an affiliate) site that you came through to arrive at our site. This allows us to track how site visitors arrived at our site (note that no personally identifiable details are ever stored, only the lead source).
CS_EU_COOKIE_LAW_CONSENT Used to record your consent/agreement to understanding that cookies are used on this site. We must adhere to what is known as the EU Cookie Law. This involves us providing details as to what cookies this site uses (our cookie policy) and what each cookie is used for. We provide these details here in this section of our Privacy Policy that you are reading now. In addition, we also provide a clear alert when you arrive at our site, which contains links to allow you to consent / agree to your understanding that this site uses cookies and a link to the section of our Privacy Policy you are reading now relating to our use of cookies.
You block cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be to access all or parts of our site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies as soon you visit our site.