Cookies Policy
This Cookies Policy sets out the basis on which we, Just Sofas Limited, use cookies and similar technologies on or in relation to our website, just4sofas.co.uk (our website). This Cookies Policy is effective from 25th May 2018.
'Essential' cookies are automatically placed on your computer or device when you access our website or take certain actions on our website. 'Non-essential' cookies and other technologies are only placed on your computer or device if you have consented to us doing so. For information on the difference between essential and non-essential cookies, see the section below entitled About cookies.
For information on how you consent and how you can withdraw your consent to us placing non-essential cookies and other technologies on your computer or device, see the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookies.
About cookies
What are cookies?
Cookies are small data files sent by a website's server to a web browser, processor memory or hard drive and stored there. They can be used for a range of different purposes, such as customising a website for a particular user, helping a user navigate a website, improving that user's website experience, and storing that user's preferences and login information.
Essential and non-essential cookies
Cookies can be classified as either 'essential' or 'non-essential'.
- Essential cookies: these are cookies that are either used solely to carry out or facilitate the transmission of communications over a network or strictly necessary to provide an online service (e.g. our website or a service on our website) which you have requested.
- Non-essential cookies: these are any cookies that do not fall within the definition of essential cookies, such as cookies used to analyse your behaviour on a website ('analytical' cookies) or cookies used to display advertisements to you ('advertising' cookies).
First and third party cookies
Cookies can be classified as 'first party' or 'third party'.
- First party cookies: these are cookies placed on your device by our website domain.
- Third party cookies: these are cookies placed on your device by third party website domains.
Session and persistent cookies
Cookies can be classified as either 'session' or 'persistent', depending on how long they last after they are placed on your browser.
- Session cookies: session cookies last for as long as you keep your browser open. They expire when you close your browser.
- Persistent cookies: persistent cookies expire at a fixed point in time or if you manually delete them from your browser, whichever occurs first.
If you require further information about cookies in general, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org
List of cookies used
We use the following cookies on or in relation to our website:
| Name of Cookie | Essential or Non-essential? | First or Third party? | Session or Persistent? | Expiry Time | Purpose |
| _utm.gif | Non-essential | Third party | Session | End of session | Used by Google Analytics to logs details about the visitor's browser and computer. |
| _utma | Non-essential | First party | Persistent | 2 years | Used by Google Analytics to collect data on the number of times a user has visited the website as well as dates for the first and most recent visit. |
| _utmb | Non-essential | First party | Session | End of session | Used by Google Analytic s to calculate the duration of a website visit. Registers a timestamp with the exact time of when the user accessed the website. |
| _utmc | Non-essential | First party | Session | End of session | Used by Google Analytics to calculate the duration of a website visit. Registers a timestamp with the exact time of when the user leaves the website. |
| _utmt | Non-essential | First party | Session | End of session | Used by Google Analytics to throttle the speed of requests to the server. |
| _utmz | Non-essential | First party | Persistent | 6 months | Used by Google Analytics to collects data on where the user came from, what search engine was used, what link was clicked and what search term was used. |
| ads/user-lists/# | Non-essential | Third party | Session | End of session | Used by Google AdWords. The reason for its use is unclassified. |
| CART | Essential | First party | Persistent | 1 day | Used by our content management system Magento to record the association with your shopping cart. |
| CATEGORY_INFO | Essential | First party | Persistent | 1 day | Used by our content management system Magento to store the category info on the page, that allows to display pages more quickly. |
| COMPARE | Essential | First party | Persistent | 1 day | Used by our content management system Magento to record the items that you have in the Compare Products list. |
| CURRENCY | Essential | First party | Persistent | 1 day | Used by our content management system Magento to store your preferred currency. |
| CUSTOMER | Essential | First party | Persistent | 1 day | Used by our content management system Magento to store an encrypted version of your customer id with the store. |
| CUSTOMER_AUTH | Essential | First party | Persistent | 1 day | Used by our content management system Magento to store an indicator if you are currently logged into the store. |
| CUSTOMER_INFO | Essential | First party | Persistent | 1 day | Used by our content management system Magento to store an encrypted version of the customer group you belong to. |
| CUSTOMER_SEGMENT_IDS | Essential | First party | Persistent | 1 day | Used by our content management system Magento to store the Customer Segment ID. |
| external_no_cache | Non-essential | First party | Session | End of session | Used by our content management system Magento to place a flag, which indicates whether caching is disabled or not. |
| frontend | Essential | First party | Persistent | 1 day | Used by our content management system Magento to store your sesssion ID on the server. |
| GUEST-VIEW | Non-essential | First party | Persistent | 1 day | Used by our content management system Magento to allows guests to edit their orders. |
| IDE | Non-essential | Third party | Persistent | 2 years | Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user's actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser's ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user. |
| LAST_CATEGORY | Non-essential | First party | Persistent | 1 day | Used by our content management system Magento to store the last category you visited. |
| LAST_PRODUCT | Non-essential | First party | Persistent | 1 day | Used by our content management system Magento to store the most recent product you have viewed. |
| NEWMESSAGE | Non-essential | First party | Persistent | 1 day | Used by our content management system Magento to indicate whether a new message has been received. |
| NID | Non-essential | Third party | Persistent | 6 months | Used by Google to register a unique ID that identifies a returning user's device. The ID is used for targeted ads. |
| NO_CACHE | Non-essential | First party | Session | End of session | Used by our content management system Magento to indicate whether it is allowed to use cache. |
| PERSISTENT_SHOPPING_CART | Non-essential | First party | Persistent | 1 year | Used by our content management system Magento to store a link to information about your cart and viewing history if you have asked the site. |
| POLL | Non-essential | First party | Persistent | 1 day | Used by our content management system Magento to store the ID of any polls you have recently voted in. |
| POLLN | Non-essential | First party | Persistent | 1 day | Used by our content management system Magento to store information on what polls you have voted on. |
| r/collect | Non-essential | Third party | Session | End of session | Used by Google Analytics. The reason for its use is unclassified. |
| RECENTLYCOMPARED | Non-essential | First party | Persistent | 1 day | Used by our content management system Magento to store the items that you have recently compared. |
| STF | Non-essential | First party | Persistent | 1 day | Used by our content management system Magento to store information on products you have emailed to friends. |
| STORE | Non-essential | First party | Persistent | 1 day | Used by our content management system Magento to store the store view or language you have selected. |
| test_cookie | Non-essential | Third party | Session | End of session | Used by Google to check if the user's browser supports cookies. |
| USER_ALLOWED_SAVE_COOKIE | Essential | First party | Persistent | 1 day | Used by our content management system Magento to indicate whether a customer allow to use cookies. |
| VIEWED_PRODUCT_IDS | Non-essential | First party | Persistent | 1 day | Used by our content management system Magento to store the products that you have recently viewed. |
| WISHLIST | Non-essential | First party | Persistent | 1 day | Used by our content management system Magento to store an encrypted list of products added to your Wishlist. |
| WISHLIST_CNT | Non-essential | First party | Persistent | 1 day | Used by our content management system Magento to store the number of items in your Wishlist. |
How to accept or reject cookies
There are a number of different ways in which you can accept or reject some or all cookies and similar technologies. Some of the main methods of doing so are described below.
You are welcome to block the use of some or all of the cookies we use on our website. However, please be aware that doing so may impair our website and its functionality or may even render some or all of it unusable.
You should also be aware that clearing all cookies from your browser will also delete any cookies that are storing your preferences, for example, whether you have accepted cookies on a website or any cookies that are blocking other cookies.
You can find more detailed information about cookies and adjusting your browser settings by visiting www.allaboutcookies.org
Accepting or rejecting cookies
Browser settings
You can accept or reject some or all cookies (for example, blocking all third party cookies) by adjusting your browser settings. If you do not know how to do this, the links below set out information about how to change your browser settings for some of the most commonly used web browsers:
- Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en-GB
- Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/delete-browsing-search-download-history-firefox?redirectlocale=en-US&redirectslug=Clear+Recent+History
- Microsoft Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/278835/how-to-delete-cookie-files-in-internet-explorer
- Apple Safari: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH5042?locale=en_US
Some browsers, such as Chrome and Firefox, allow you to change your settings to browse in 'incognito' mode, limiting the amount of data placed on your machine and automatically deleting any persistent cookies placed on your device when you finish your browsing session. There are also many third party applications which you can add to your browser to block or manage cookies.
Existing cookies
To clear cookies that have previously been placed on your browser, you should select the option to clear your browsing history and ensure that the option to delete or clear cookies is included when you do so.
Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on
You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking by installing the browser add-on which is available here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance Tool
You can opt out of Facebook and other companies that participate in the Digital Advertising Alliance in Europe from showing you interest based ads by visiting http://www.youronlinechoices.com, selecting your country, clicking 'Your Ad Choices', then locating Facebook (and any other companies you want to block) and selecting the 'Off' option.
Copyright, credit and logo
This Cookies Policy is based on a template provided by GDPR Privacy Policy. For further information, please visit https://gdprprivacypolicy.org
The copyright in this Cookies Policy is either owned by, or licensed to, us and is protected by copyright laws around the world and copyright protection software. All intellectual property rights in this document are reserved. Where we display the GDPR Privacy Policy logo on our website, this is used to indicate that we have adopted a privacy policy template provided by GDPR Privacy Policy as the basis for this Privacy Policy.
