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Cookies

What are cookies?

Cookies are small data files containing small amounts of information which are placed onto your device when you browse our website. They are used to improve your experience by remembering when your computer or device accesses this website. This helps to make the interaction between you and our website faster, easier and more personalised. They can also help to ensure that adverts you see online are more relevant to you and your interests. Cookies are essential for the running of our website but also enable us to offer you personalised content and the best possible experience overall.
A cookie will usually contain the domain of the website that has set it (e.g. WackySox.com), the "lifetime" of the cookie (how long it will be stored for), and the cookie's value which is often a randomly generated unique string of letters and/or numbers. 

You can view the cookies on your computer, remove all or some cookies and set rules on when to allow and not allow cookies using your web's browser settings. 

The cookies we use are listed below.


Cookie name


Purpose


www.wackysox.com Cookies


Used to distinguish if a user has accepted the cookie policy


www.wackysox.com Currency


An identifier of the currency prices are displayed in


www.wackysox.com wacky_socks_session


A session identifier cookie that expires once the browser is closed. This is a unique ID and it holds information such as cart items and account login status.


www.wackysox.com XSRF-TOKEN


This is used in the prevention of Cross-site request forgery (also known as XSRF or CSRF) attacks


.wackysox.com _ga


Google Analytics cookie 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 and analytics reports. Expiration time 2 years.


.wackysox.com _gat_UA-196166516-1


Google Analytics Cookie used to throttke request rage. Expiration time 1 minute.


.wackysox.com _gid


Google Analytics cookie used to store and update a unique value for each page visited. Expiration time 24 hours.