Cookie Policy

INFORMATION ABOUT OUR USE OF COOKIES  

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.

We 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. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors 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 users are finding what they are looking for easily.
  • Functionality cookies. These 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 cookies 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.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Cookie

Name

Purpose

More information

Google Analytics Tracking Code Cookies 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

_utma

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This cookie keeps track of the number of times a visitor has been to the site pertaining to the cookie, when their first visit was, and when their last visit occurred. Google Analytics uses the information from this cookie to calculate things like Days and Visits to purchase. It expires after 2 years.

https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Google Analytics Tracking Code Cookies

 

 

 

 

 

_utmb 

 

 

 

 

 

 

__utmb takes a timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor enters a site, _utmb expires after 30 minutes and is used in combination with _utmc to provide information on the length of a user’s visit to our website

https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage

 

 

 

 

 

Google Analytics Tracking Code Cookies

 

 

 

 

 

_utmc

 

 

 

 

 

 

_utmc takes a timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor leaves a site. It is used in combination with _utmb to provide information on the length of your visit to our website. It expires when you close your browser

https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage

 

 

 

 

 

 

Google Analytics Tracking Code Cookies

 

 

_utmt

 

 

 

Used to throttle request rates and limit the collection of data on high-traffic sites. _utmt expires after 10 minutes

https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage

 

 

 

Google Analytics Tracking Code Cookies

 

 

 

_utmv

 

 

 

 

Used to store visitor-level custom variable data. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. Expires after 2 years.

https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage

 

 

 

Google Analytics Tracking Code Cookies

 

 

_utmz

 

 

 

This tells us how you reached www.maskateer.com (e.g. from another website or a search engine). Expires after 6 months.

https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage 

 

 

 

ASP.NET

 

 

asp.net_sessionid

 

 

This cookie contains the user session identifier which expires at the end of every session.

https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage

 

 

ASP.NET

 

 

__requestverificationtoken

 

 

Security cookie to prevent forgery via cross-site scripting. Expires at the end of the session

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/web-api/overview/security/preventing-cross-site-request-forgery-csrf-attacks

 

 

nopCommerce

 

 

 

nop.customer

 

 

 

This stores customer authentication information, a list for our ‘compare products’ page. Expires after 1 year

https://www.nopcommerce.com/

 

 

 

nopCommerce

 

 

NopCommerce.RecentlyViewedProducts

 

 

Stores information on recently viewed products. Expires after 3 days.

https://www.nopcommerce.com/

 

 

AddThis social

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

__atuvc

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This cookie is associated with the AddThis social sharing widget which is commonly embedded in websites to enable visitors to share content with a range of networking and sharing platforms. It stores an updated page share count.

http://www.addthis.com/privacy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Checks if cookies are enabled on your device

 

N/A

 

 

Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies]

You block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site. 

Below are links for commonly used browsers:

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en (Chrome);

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences (Firefox);

http://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/cookies/ (Opera);

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-managecookies (Internet Explorer);

https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411 (Safari); and

https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy (Edge)