COOKIES
In order to offer the best possible service to users, TUSTING also monitors the patterns of usage of pages on our site. This enables us to identify the most popular offers and articles and to optimize our performance. This data is non-personal and may include unique URLs visited within the Site, browser type and IP address. Most non-personal data is collected via cookies or other analysis technologies.
Cookies are tiny text files stored on your computer when you visit certain web pages. At TUSTING we use cookies to keep track of what you have in your basket, so to order products on our site, you need to have cookies enabled. Most web browsers have cookies enabled by default and each browser is different, so check the ‘Help’ menu of your particular browser (or your mobile phone’s handset manual) to learn how to change your cookie preferences. Please rest assured that cookies can’t harm your computer, and we don’t store personally identifiable information such as names or credit card details in the cookies we create.
General
Cookie Name | Cookie Description |
cart | The association with your shopping cart. |
catefory_info | Stores the category info on the page, that allows to display pages more quickly. |
compare | The items that you have in the Compare Products list. |
currency | Your preferred currency |
customer | An encrypted version of your customer id with the store. |
customer_auth | An indicator if you are currently logged into the store. |
customer_info | An encrypted version of the customer group you belong to. |
customer_segment_id | Stores the Customer Segment ID |
external_no_cache | A flag, which indicates whether caching is disabled or not. |
frontend | You sesssion ID on the server. |
guest-view | Allows guests to edit their orders. |
last_category | The last category you visited. |
last_product | The most recent product you have viewed. |
newmessage | Indicates whether a new message has been received. |
no_cache | Indicates whether it is allowed to use cache. |
persistant_shopping_cart | A link to information about your cart and viewing history if you have asked the site. |
poll | The ID of any polls you have recently voted in. |
polln | Information on what polls you have voted on. |
recentlycompared | The items that you have recently compared. |
stf | Information on products you have emailed to friends. |
store | The store view or language you have selected. |
user_allowed_save_cookie | Indicates whether a customer allowed to use cookies. |
viewed_product_ids | The products that you have recently viewed. |
wishlist | An encrypted list of products added to your Wishlist. |
wishlist_cnt | The number of items in your Wishlist. |
wp_set_auth_cookie | This function sets the cookie on the blog |
wp_clear_auth_cookie | This function will delete the cookie from the client browser. This happens when the user clicks on the Logout link in the Administration interface. |
auth_redirect | This function also utilizes the cookies. Checks whether the cookie is present on the client browser. If it is not, the user is sent to the wp-login.php login screen. After logging in, the user is sent back to the page he or she attempted to access. |
comment_author | This function also utilizes the cookies. When a visitor posts a comment, a visitor won’t need to re-type all their name again when they want to leave another comment. |
comment_author_email | This function also utilizes the cookies. When a visitor posts a comment, a visitor won’t need to re-type all their email address again when they want to leave another comment. |
comment_author_url | This function also utilizes the cookies. When a visitor posts a comment, a visitor won’t need to re-type all their url again when they want to leave another comment. |
Twitter (3rd Party)
Cookie name | Expires after | Description of cookie |
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guest_id | 24 months | Identifiers of the Twitter account or guest. |
k | 1 week | This is used for user IP tracking within Twitter to determine whether a user is logged in or logged out. |
pid | 24 months | Used by the Tweet button for Twitter |
Facebook (3rd Party)
Cookie name | Expires after | Description of cookie |
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datr | 24 months | This identifies the web browser being used to connect to Facebook independent of the logged in visitor. This cookie plays a key role in Facebook’s security and site integrity features |
c_user | 30 days | This contains the user ID of the currently logged in visitor. The lifetime of this cookie is dependent on the status of the “keep me logged in” checkbox. If the checkbox is set, the cookie expires after 30 days of inactivity, otherwise the cookie is a session cookie and will therefore be cleared when the browser exits |
lu | 24 months | This is used to manage how the login page is presented to the visitor. The lifetime is the same as c_user |
xs | 30 days | This contains the session number, a session secret and an optional “secure” flag (if visitor has enabled secure browsing feature). The lifetime is the same as c_user |
locale | 7 days | This contains the display locale of the last logged in visitor on this browser. This is set after the visitor logs out |
Google+ (3rd Party)
Cookie name | Expires after | Description of cookie |
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NID | 6 months | A unique identifier used by Google applications to store user preference information. |
HSID | 10 years | A unique identifier used by Google applications to store user preference information. |
SSID | 10 years | A unique identifier used by Google applications to store user preference information. |
APISID | 10 years | A unique identifier used by Google applications to store user preference information. |
SAPISID | 10 years | A unique identifier used by Google applications to store user preference information. |
SID | 10 years | A unique identifier used by Google applications to store user preference information. |
BEAT | 1 day | A persistent cookie that is used to track Google+ (+1) status |
ULS | End of session | A session cookie used to track Google+ (+1) status |
Google Analytics (Third party)
Cookie name | Expires after | Description of cookie |
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_utma | 2 years | This keeps track of the number of times a visitor has been to the site, when their first visit was, and when their last visit occurred |
_utmb | 30 minutes | A timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor enters the site |
_utmc | End of session | A timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor leaves the site – having waited 30 minutes for another pageview to happen, and if it doesn’t, it expires |
_utmz | 6 months | This keeps track of where the visitor came from, what search engine was used, what link was clicked on, what keywords used, and where in the world the site was accessed from |
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