Cookies

What are cookies?

Cookies are text files that contain small pieces of information. They are stored on your computer, tablet or smartphone, and sent to your browser from our web server. Cookies are used by most websites to gather essential information to provide the user with the best experience.

Cookies ensure websites function as you expect them to: they identify which platform you’re using and display an optimised version of the website for that platform, they save your log in details, if you hold an account with us and they remember your language preferences.

Types of cookies

Our website uses three types of cookies:

Essential to site function cookies

These cookies allow you to browse the site, search for products and add items to the basket. They also remember your preferences, such as your log in details and language preferences. They are essential to ensure our website runs as you would expect.

Site performance cookies

These cookies are used to collect anonymous information about how you use our website. They inform us of any error messages from web pages and allow us to improve our website.

Third-party cookies

These allow us to record the customer experience and to test new services so we can improve the customer journey on the website. This can also include on-page advertising from third-parties, where cookies tailor the advertising to your preferences.

How we use cookies

We use cookies in the following ways:

To gather information which allows us to identify your platform and record sales so we may improve customer experience and identify issues on the site. To ensure you are provided with correct and useful information during your visit to our site. To allow you to add items to the basket and proceed through our checkout. To collect data which allows us to improve our services based on purchases and site usage. For a full list of the types of cookies we use, please contact our Data Protection Officer, on info@everafterflooring.co.uk.

More about cookies

More information on cookies and their uses can be found at www.allaboutcookies.org.

Security

The security of your transactions is extremely important to us. To prevent any details being seen by unauthorised persons, your transactions are protected throughout the payment process. We use a 128 bit SSL encryption to encrypt the information before it is sent to the payments processor.

Our website and emails will at times contain links to and from other websites in our networks, such as partners and affiliates, eg. Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest etc. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note they carry their own privacy policies, and we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. We would recommend reading these policies before submitting any personal data to these websites.

List of Cookies

WordPress Necessary Cookies

WordPress Cookie Name	Duration	Purpose	Logged-in Users Only?
wordpress_{hash}		WordPress uses the login wordpress_{hash} cookie to store authentication details. Its use is limited to the Administration Screen area, /wp-admin/	Yes
wordpress_logged_in_{hash}	Session	Remember User session. WordPress sets the after login wordpress_logged_in_{hash} cookie, which indicates when you’re logged in, and who you are, for most interface use.	Yes
wordpres_test_cookie	Session	Test if cookie can be set. WordPress also sets wordpress_test_cookie cookie to check if the cookies are enabled on the browser to provide appropriate user experience to the users. This cookie is used on the front-end, even if you are not logged in.	No
wp-settings-{user_id}	1 year	Customization cookie. Used to persist a user’s wp-admin configuration. The ID is the user’s ID. This is used to customize the view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface.	Yes
wp-settings-time-{user}	1 year	Time at which wp-settings-{user} was set	Yes
wp-saving-post	1 day	Auto-saving cookie: wp-saving-post is a WordPress cookie created when auto-saving a post in the editor. Used to track if there is saved post exists for a post currently being edited. If exists then let user restore the data.	Yes
wp-postpass_{hash}	10 days	Used to maintain session if a post is password protected	No
wordpress_sec		There is not yet any general information about this cookie based on its name only.	Yes
woocommerce_cart_hash	session	Helps WooCommerce determine when cart contents/data changes.	Yes
woocommerce_items_in_cart	session	Helps WooCommerce determine when cart contents/data changes.	Yes
wp_woocommerce_session_	2 days	Contains a unique code for each customer so that it knows where to find the cart data in the database for each customer.	Yes
woocommerce_recently_viewed	session	Powers the Recent Viewed Products widget.	Yes
store_notice[notice id]	session	Allows customers to dismiss the Store Notice.	Yes

Other cookies

Name	Description	Duration	Type
__utma	Google Analytics sets this cookie to distinguish users and sessions. The cookie is created when the JavaScript library executes and there are no existing __utma cookies. The cookie is updated every tiDuration sent to Google Analytics.	1 yeType4 days	Performance
__utmb	Google Analytics sets this cookie to determine new sessions/visits. __utmb cookie is created when the JavaScript library executes and there are no existing __utma cookies. It is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.	30 minutes	Performance
__utmc	Google Analytics sets this cookie to enable interoperability with urchin.js, an older version of Google Analytics and is used in conjunction with the __utmb cookie to determine new sessions/visits. It is deleted when the user closes the browser.	session	Performance
__utmz	Google Analytics sets this cookie to store the traffic source or campaign by which the visitor reached the site.	6 months	Performance
__utmt	Google Analytics sets this cookie to inhibit the request rate.	10 minutes	Performance
_ga_*	Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views.	1 year 1 month 4 days	Analytics
_ga	Google Analytics sets this cookie to calculate visitor, session and campaign data and track site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognise unique visitors.	1 year 1 month 4 days	Analytics
_gid	Google Analytics sets this cookie to store information on how visitors use a website while also creating an analytics report of the website’s performance. Some of the collected data includes the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously.	1 day	Analytics
_gat_gtag_UA_*	Google Analytics sets this cookie to store a unique user ID.	1 minute	Analytics
_GRECAPTCHA*	Google Recaptcha service sets this cookie to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks.	5 months 27 days	Analytics
tk_or	JetPack plugin sets this referral cookie on sites using WooCommerce, which analyzes referrer behaviour for Jetpack.	1 year 1 month 4 days	Analytics
tk_r3d	JetPack installs this cookie to collect internal metrics for user activity and improve user experience.	3 days	Analytics
tk_lr	etPack plugin sets this referral cookie on sites using WooCommerce, which analyzes referrer behaviour for Jetpack.	1 year	Analytics