Cookie policy

• What is a cookie?
• Why do you have a cookie policy?
• What if I don't accept cookies?
• Cookie consent preferences
• How do I disable cookies?
• Does British Corner Shop use cookies?
• List of cookies used by British Corner Shop

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small file containing some information, that a website transfers to the cookie folder of the web browser on your computer. When the browser returns to the same website, the information in the cookie can be retrieved by the website and used to recognise the user.

A cookie might typically contain data such as the domain name from which it came, a unique number as an identifier, some data related to its purpose such as your preferences on the website, and the lifetime (expiry) of the cookie.

There are 3 main types of cookies:

1. Session cookies:
   1. The lowest level of cookie, which simply allows a website to identify you as a user and remember you from page to page within the website. These expire as soon as you close your browser, or after a short period of typically 20 minutes of inactivity. This is like storing something in short term memory.
2. Persistent cookies:
   1. What most people are thinking of when they say "Cookie". These are the small text files that are dropped into the cookies folder of your web browser, by a website. They can contain information for the longer term about your preferences on a website for instance.
3. Third party cookies:
   1. These are persistent cookies from any other domain, such as third party services like Google Analytics.

Why do you have a cookie policy?

To comply with the ePrivacy Directive and GDPR requirements.. It's purpose is to make website owners communicate clearly and transparently about how they are using cookies, so that web users are better informed about how their information is being used.

As advertisers and businesses have become cleverer in using technologies to track and target consumers online, there has been a push for a more transparent privacy policy when it comes to cookies.

Our aim is to provide clear information to you about the cookies that we use, so that you can make an informed decision about whether you want to use this website.

What if I don't accept cookies?

The vast majority of websites will use cookies in some shape or form. They are an invaluable part of the programmers toolset, enabling websites to offer advanced features such as shopping baskets, customised content and other common functions.

If you don't accept any cookies then many websites will not perform as they should, and you may not be able to complete orders or use the features of a website.

Consent Preferences

You can customise your cookie preferences on British Corner Shop, by setting your own personal consent preferences here.

The purposes of the categories of consent we request are:

1. Strictly Necessary
   • These cookies are essential to provide you with the services available through our website, and to enable you to use certain features of our website. Without these cookies, we cannot provide you certain services on our website.
2. Analytics & Tracking
   • These cookies are are used to collect information, and to analyse the traffic to our website and how visitors are using our website.
   • For example, these cookies may track things like how long you spend on the website or the pages you visit, which helps us to understand how we can improve our website for you. The information collected through these tracking and analytics cookies do not identify any individual visitor.
3. Targeting & Advertising
   • These cookies are used to show advertising that is likely to be of interest to you, based on your browsing habits.
   • These cookies, served by our content and/or advertising providers may combine information they collected from our website with other information they have independently collected relating to your browser's activties across their network of websites.
   • If you choose to disable these cookies, you will still see adverts but they may not be relevant to you.
4. Personalised Advertising
   • These cookies, again served by our advertising providers, are used to enable us to show advertising that is specifically personalised to just you across certain channels.
   • If you choose to disable these, you won't receive remarketing advertising across Google Ads, Display and Video 360, or Search Ads 360 channels, or receive personalised advertising with Google's advertising products.

How do I disable cookies?

Most browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari etc) provide the option in their settings to disable cookies.

You can also delete cookies, which deletes any existing cookies in your web browser's cookie folder, but unless you disallow them they will reappear next time you visit a website.

The majority of browsers allow you to be selective about disallowing different types of cookies, so you could disallow persistent cookies but allow session cookies for example.

Does British Corner Shop use cookies?

Our policy is to use the absolute minimum number of cookies possible to provide our service effectively.

The British Corner Shop web application itself uses one main session cookie and a handful of persistent cookies, to give you a unique ID when you are using the website and set your delivery country. This allows you to use the website's features and do things like build up a shopping basket. These cookies are strictly necessary for the website to work.

When you close your web browser, or remain inactive on the website for an hour the session cookie is automatically destroyed. If you disable session cookies in your browser, you will not be able to use the website.

British Corner Shop also drops a small number of persistent cookies onto your computer. These are used to remember your shopping basket for 30 days. We also employ some widely used third party tools and services that use persistent cookies.

These external services are:

1. Google Analytics
   1. We use Google Analytics to measure how many visitors we are getting to the website.
2. Meta/Facebook
   1. Social Media marketing platform.
3. Cloudflare
   1. A security layer and content delivery network.
4. MailChimp
   1. An email marketing platform.
5. Bing
   1. Bing search engine re-marketing.

The above services run on the British Corner Shop website, and make use of cookies to achieve their functions. They are non-essential and will not be used if you do not accept our cookie policy.

List of essential cookies used by British Corner Shop

• Cookie type

  Session cookies

  Names / Expiry

  guid, ASPSESSIONID:
  1 hour

  Party

  First Party:
  British Corner Shop

  Purpose

  Session identifiers that enables the website application to identify your browser session. Strictly necessary for the website to work.

• Cookie type

  Persistent cookie

  Cookie name

  bcs-shoppingbasket:
  1 month

  Party

  First Party:
  British Corner Shop

  Purpose

  Stores the contents of your shopping basket, should you return to the website within 30 days.

• Cookie type

  Persistent cookie

  Cookie name

  bcs-countryid:
  1 month

  Party

  First Party:
  British Corner Shop

  Purpose

  Remembers your country id should you return to the website within 30 days. Sets the product range and pricing available.

• Cookie type

  Persistent cookie

  Cookie name

  bcs-countryname:
  1 month

  Party

  First Party:
  British Corner Shop

  Purpose

  Sets your delivery country should you return to the website within 30 days, which sets the available product range and pricing.

• Cookie type

  Persistent cookie

  Cookie name

  bcs-countryzone:
  1 month

  Party

  First Party:
  British Corner Shop

  Purpose

  Stores your shipping zone should you return to the website within 30 days. Sets the shipping cost of your order.

• Cookie type

  Persistent cookie

  Cookie name

  bcs-shoppingbasketcounter:
  1 month

  Party

  First Party:
  British Corner Shop

  Purpose

  Stores the integer number of items in your basket to display when you return to the website within 30 days.

• Cookie type

  Persistent cookie

  Cookie name

  bcs-username-secure:
  1 month

  Party

  First Party:
  British Corner Shop

  Purpose

  Stores a hashed identifier for users to speed up login to the website.

• Cookie type

  Persistent cookie

  Cookie name

  __cf_bm:
  30 minutes

  Party

  Third Party:
  Cloudflare

  Purpose

  Security - This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots.

• Cookie type

  Persistent cookie

  Cookie name

  cf_chl_2:
  1 hour

  Party

  Third Party:
  Cloudflare

  Purpose

  Security - Used by Cloudflare for the execution of Javascript or Captcha challenges.

List of optional cookies used by British Corner Shop

• Cookie type

  Persistent cookie

  Names / Expiry

  _fbp:
  3 months

  Party

  Third Party:
  Meta/Facebook

  Purpose

  Marketing - Used by Meta to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers.

• Cookie type

  Persistent cookie

  Names / Expiry

  _gat:
  1 minute

  Party

  Third Party:
  Google Analytics

  Purpose

  Analytics - 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.

• Cookie type

  Persistent cookie

  Names / Expiry

  _gid:
  1 day

  Party

  Third Party:
  Google Analytics

  Purpose

  Analytics - 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.

• Cookie type

  Persistent cookie

  Names / Expiry

  _ga:
  1 year 1 month

  Party

  Third Party:
  Google Analytics

  Purpose

  Analytics - Associated with Google Universal Analytics. 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.

• Cookie type

  Persistent cookie

  Names / Expiry

  _uetsid:
  1 day

  Party

  Third Party:
  Bing

  Purpose

  Marketing - This cookie is used by Bing to determine what ads should be shown that may be relevant to the end user perusing the site..

• Cookie type

  Persistent cookie

  Names / Expiry

  _uetvid:
  1 year

  Party

  Third Party:
  Bing

  Purpose

  Marketing - Utilised by Microsoft Bing Ads and is a tracking cookie. It allows us to engage with a user that has previously visited our website.

• Cookie type

  Persistent cookie

  Names / Expiry

  MUID:
  1 year

  Party

  Third Party:
  Bing

  Purpose

  Marketing - Widely used by Microsoft as a unique user identifier.