Cookie Policy
COOKIE POLICY – www.tinyscenic.com
Please read this Cookie Policy carefully as it contains important information on who we are and how we use cookies on our website. This Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy https://www.tinyscenic.com/policies/privacy-policy which sets out how and why we collect, store, use and share personal information generally, as well as your rights in relation to your personal information and details of how to contact us and supervisory authorities if you have a complaint.
Who we are
This website is operated by Jo Strange, trading as Tiny Scenic. Tiny Scenic is an e-commerce business selling jewellery, art and homewares. For more information, see our About page: https://www.tinyscenic.com/pages/about
Our website
This Cookie Policy relates to your use of our website, www.tinyscenic.com
Throughout our website we may link to other websites owned and operated by certain trusted third parties to make additional products and services available to you. These other third party websites may also use cookies or similar technologies in accordance with their own separate polices. For privacy information relating to these other third party websites, please consult their policies as appropriate.
Cookies
A cookie is a small text file which is placed onto your device (for example, your computer, smartphone or other electronic device) when you use our website. We use cookies on our website. These help us recognise you and your device and store some information about your preferences or past actions.
For example, we may monitor how many times you visit the website, which pages you go to, traffic data, location data and the originating domain name of your internet service provider. This information helps us to build a profile of our users. Some of this data will be aggregated or statistical, which means that we will not be able to identify you individually.
We may use the following cookies:
• Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
• Analytical / performance cookies. These are cookies that allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors to our website and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that visitors are finding what they are looking for easily.
• Functionality cookies. These are cookies that are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
• Targeting cookies. These are cookies that record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
For further information on our use of cookies, including a detailed list of your information which we and others may collect through cookies, please see below.
For further information on cookies generally, including how to control and manage them, visit the guidance on cookies published by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, or www.allaboutcookies.org
Consent to use cookies and changing settings
We will ask for your permission (“Consent”) to place cookies or other similar technologies on your device, except where they are essential for us to provide you with a service that you have requested. You can withdraw any consent to the use of cookies or manage any other cookie preferences.
Our use of cookies
The tables below provide more information about the cookies we use and why:
Cookies necessary for the functioning of the store
Name |
Description |
Duration |
_ab |
Used to control when the admin bar is shown on the storefront. |
1y |
_abv |
Persist the collapsed state of the admin bar. |
1y |
_checkout_queue_token |
Used when there is a queue during the checkout process. |
1y |
_cmp_a |
Used for managing customer privacy settings. |
1d |
_identity_session |
Contains the identity session identifier of the user. |
2y |
_master_udr |
Permanent device identifier. |
session |
_pay_session |
The Rails session cookie for Shopify Pay |
session |
_secure_account_session_id |
Used to track a customer's session for new customer accounts. |
30d |
_session_id |
Used for providing reporting and analytics. |
2y |
_shopify_country |
Used for Plus shops where pricing currency/country is set from GeoIP by helping avoid GeoIP lookups after the first request. |
30min |
_shopify_essential |
Contains essential information for the correct functionality of a store such as session and checkout information and anti-tampering data. |
1y |
_storefront_u |
Used to facilitate updating customer account information. |
1min |
_tracking_consent |
Used to store a user's preferences if a merchant has set up privacy rules in the visitor's region. |
1y |
auth_state_<<id>> |
Stores authentication state before redirecting customers to third party for authentication. |
25min |
card_update_verification_id |
Used to support verification when a buyer is redirected back to Shopify after completing 3D Secure during checkout. |
20min |
cart |
Contains information related to the user's cart. |
2w |
cart_currency |
Used after a checkout is completed to initialize a new empty cart with the same currency as the one just used. |
2w |
cart_sig |
A hash of the contents of a cart. This is used to verify the integrity of the cart and to ensure performance of some cart operations. |
2w |
cart_ts |
Used in connection with checkout. |
2w |
checkout |
Used in connection with checkout. |
21d |
checkout_prefill |
Encrypts and stores URL parameters containing PII which are used in cart permalink URLs. |
5min |
checkout_session_lookup |
Used in connection with checkout. |
3w |
checkout_session_token_<<id>> |
Used when a checkout session is established on the server. |
3w |
checkout_token |
Captures the landing page of the visitor when they come from other sites. |
session |
customer_account_locale |
Used to keep track of a customer account locale when a redirection occurs from checkout or the storefront to customer accounts. |
1y |
customer_payment_method |
Stores what payment method is being updated for subscriptions. |
1h |
customer_shop_pay_agreement |
Used to help verify a new Shop Pay payment instrument. |
20min |
device_fp_id |
Device fingerprint identifier to help prevent fraud. |
session |
device_id |
Session device identifier to help prevent fraud. |
session |
discount_code |
Stores a discount code (received from an online store visit with a URL parameter) in order to the next checkout. |
session |
dynamic_checkout_shown_on_cart |
Adjusts checkout experience for buyers that proceed with regular checkout versus dynamic checkout. |
30min |
hide_shopify_pay_for_checkout |
Set when a buyer dismisses the Shop Pay login modal during checkout, informing display to buyer. |
session |
identity-state |
Stores state before redirecting customers to identity authentication. |
1d |
identity-state-<<id>> |
Stores state before redirecting customers to identity authentication. |
1d |
identity_customer_account_number |
Stores an identifier used to facilitate login across the customer's account and storefront domains. |
12w |
keep_alive |
Used when international domain redirection is enabled to determine if a request is the first one of a session. |
session |
locale_bar_accepted |
Preserves if the modal from the geolocation app was accepted. |
session |
locale_bar_dismissed |
Preserves if the modal from the geolocation app was dismissed. |
1d |
localization |
Used to localize the cart to the correct country. |
2w |
logged_in |
Identity logged-in hint. |
12w |
login_with_shop_finalize |
Used to facilitate login with Shop. |
5min |
master_device_id |
Permanent device identifier. |
1y |
order |
Used to allow access to the data of the order details page of the buyer. |
3w |
pay_update_intent_id |
Stores an ID of a Shop Pay billing agreement update intent, required for a callback after verifying a new Shop Pay payment instrument. |
20min |
preview_theme |
Used to indicate whether the theme is being previewed. |
session |
previous_checkout_token |
Used to prefill checkout with the details from the previous checkout. |
1y |
previous_step |
Used in connection with checkout. |
1y |
profile_preview_token |
Used for previewing checkout extensibility. |
5min |
receive-cookie-deprecation |
A cookie specified by Google to identify certain Chrome browsers affected by the third-party cookie deprecation. More information about this cookie can be found here. |
session |
remember_me |
Used to prefill checkout with the details from the previous checkout. |
1y |
secure_customer_sig |
Used to identify a user after they sign into a shop as a customer so they do not need to log in again. |
1y |
shop_pay_accelerated |
Indicates if a buyer is eligible for Shop Pay accelerated checkout. |
1y |
shopify-editor-unconfirmed-settings |
Stores changes merchant does in the editor to update the preview. |
16h |
shopify_pay |
Used to log in a buyer into Shop Pay when they come back to checkout on the same store. |
1y |
shopify_pay_redirect |
Used to accelerate the checkout process when the buyer has a Shop Pay account. |
1y |
storefront_digest |
Stores a digest of the storefront password, allowing merchants to preview their storefront while it's password protected. |
1y |
tracked_start_checkout |
Used in connection with checkout. |
1y |
user |
Used in connection with Shop login. |
1y |
user_cross_site |
Used in connection with Shop login. |
1y |
wpm-domain-test |
Used to test Shopify's Web Pixel Manager with the domain to make sure everything is working correctly. |
session |
Additional Cookies: Analytical / Performance cookies, functionality, Targeting
Name |
Description |
Duration |
_landing_page |
Capture the landing page of visitor when they come from other sites. |
2w |
_orig_referrer |
Allows merchant to identify where people are visiting them from. |
2w |
_shopify_ga |
Contains Google Analytics parameters that enable cross-domain analytics measurement to work. |
session |
_shopify_s |
Used to identify a given browser session/shop combination. Duration is 30 minute rolling expiry of last use. |
30min |
_shopify_sa_p |
Capture the landing page of visitor when they come from other sites to support marketing analytics. |
30min |
_shopify_sa_t |
Capture the landing page of visitor when they come from other sites to support marketing analytics. |
30min |
_shopify_y |
Shopify analytics. |
1y |
checkout_one_experiment |
Used when a checkout is eligible to Checkout One and has been assigned to an experiment (control group or test group). |
session |
shop_analytics |
Contains the required buyer information for analytics in Shop. |
1y |
unique_interaction_id |
Used for checkout metrics. |
10min |
How to turn off all cookies and consequences of doing so
If you do not want to accept any cookies, you may be able to change your browser settings so that cookies (including those which are essential to the services requested) are not accepted. If you do this, please be aware that you may lose some of the functionality of our website.
For further information about cookies and how to disable them please go to the guidance on cookies published by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, or www.allaboutcookies.org
How to contact us
Please contact us if you have any questions about this Cookie Policy or the information we hold about you.
If you wish to contact us, please send an email to jo[@]tinyscenic.com or contact us via the Contact page on our website https://www.tinyscenic.com/pages/contact-us.
Changes to this Policy
This Policy was published in Oct 2022 and last updated 22 Jan 2025. We may change this Policy from time to time, when we do we will inform you via our website.
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