Cookies Policy
www.windowware.co.uk (our site) is a site operated by Window Ware Limited trading as Window Ware (we, our, us). We are registered in England and Wales under company number 14196745. Our registered office is at Telford Way, Cross Park, Bedford, Bedfordshire, MK42 0PQ.
Our site uses cookies to distinguish you from other users. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our site and also allows us to improve our site. By continuing to browse the site, you are consenting to our use of cookies.
If you wish to remove cookies placed on your device by our site or stop our site placing further cookies on your device you can do this at any time (learn how to do so below), however such action is likely to mean that our site will not function as intended.
A "cookie" is a piece of information, like a tag, that's stored on your device when you visit a website. The only personal information a cookie can contain is information supplied by the user. A cookie cannot read data from a user's hard drive or read cookie files created by other websites. The use of cookies is an industry standard that can be found on most major websites. We use information obtained from cookies to tailor our services better to our users' needs. Many improvements and updates to our site are based on such data.
We reserve the right to modify or amend the use of cookies at any time and for any reason. Any changes will be posted on our site and will take effect as soon as they are posted. Where required we will obtain your consent for any new non-essential cookies before they are placed.
We use the following cookies:
Strictly necessary cookies
Necessary cookies are essential for our website to function properly. These cookies enable basic operational and security features of the website.
Analytical/performance cookies
These cookies allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors to our site and to see how visitors move around our site when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our site 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 site. This enables us to personalise our content for you and remember your preferences.
Please note that third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
You can find out more information about the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
Cookie | Function | Category | Expiry | First or Third Party | More Information | Origin |
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PHPSESSID | Used to store and identify a users' unique session in order to manage user sessions on the website.. | Strictly necessary | 1 hour since created / refreshed | First Party | Click here for more privacy information | Adobe Magento |
private_content_version | Appends a random, unique number and time to pages with customer content to prevent them from being cached on the server. | Strictly necessary | 10 years | First Party | Click here for more privacy information | Adobe Magento |
mage-messages | Tracks error messages and other notifications that are shown to the user, such as the cookie consent message, and various error messages. The message is deleted from the cookie after it is shown to the shopper. | Strictly necessary | 1 year | First Party | Click here for more privacy information | Adobe Magento |
mage-cache-sessid | Cleans up of local cache storage. | Strictly necessary | 1 hour | First Party | Click here for more privacy information | Adobe Magento |
form_key | A security measure that appends a random string to all form submissions to protect the data from Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). | Strictly necessary | 1 day | First Party | Click here for more privacy information | Adobe Magento |
mage-cache-storage | Local storage of visitor-specific content that enables ecommerce functions. | Strictly necessary | 1 hour | First Party | Click here for more privacy information | Adobe Magento |
mage-cache-storage-section-invalidation | Forces local storage of specific content sections that should be invalidated. | Strictly necessary | 1 hour | First Party | Click here for more privacy information | Adobe Magento |
product_data_storage | Stores configuration for product data related to Recently Viewed/Compared Products. | Strictly necessary | 1 hour | First Party | Click here for more privacy information | Adobe Magento |
mage-translation-storage | Stores translated content when requested. | Strictly necessary | 1 hour | First Party | Click here for more privacy information | Adobe Magento |
mage-translation-file-version | Tracks the version of translations in local storage. | Strictly necessary | 1 hour | First Party | Click here for more privacy information | Adobe Magento |
recently_viewed_product | Stores product IDs of recently viewed products for easy navigation. | Functional | 1 hour | First Party | Click here for more privacy information | Adobe Magento |
recently_viewed_product_previous | Stores product IDs of recently previously viewed products for easy navigation. | Functional | 1 hour | First Party | Click here for more privacy information | Adobe Magento |
recently_compared_product | Stores product IDs of recently compared products. | Functional | 1 hour | First Party | Click here for more privacy information | Adobe Magento |
recently_compared_product_previous | Stores product IDs of previously compared products for easy navigation. | Functional | 1 hour | First Party | Click here for more privacy information | Adobe Magento |
section_data_ids | Stores customer-specific information related to shopper-initiated actions such as display wish list, checkout information, etc. | Functional | Session | First Party | Click here for more privacy information | Adobe Magento |
__cf_bm | Enables website bot protection.. | Functional | 30 minutes | Third Party | Click here for more privacy information | CloudFlare |
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Detect and resolve problems with the service | Functional | 6 months | Third Party | Click here for more privacy information | YouTube |
YSC | To store and track interaction. | Functional | Session | Third Party | Click here for more privacy information | YouTube |
_ga | 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 analytics reports.. | Analytical | 2 years | First Party | Click here for more privacy information | Google Analytics |
_gid | Used to to store and count pageviews. | Analytical | 1 day | First Party | Click here for more privacy information | Google Analytics |
_gat | Used to to read and filter requests from bots. | Analytical | 1 minute | First Party | Click here for more privacy information | Google Analytics |
vuid | Enables embedded videos to play and collects analytics about viewing. This cookie does not track individuals. | Analytical | 2 years | Third Party | Click here for more privacy information | Vimeo |
Turning Off Cookies
You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies. The Help function within your browser should tell you how to do this. For more information about how to change your browser settings please see: www.aboutcookies.org. Doing so however is likely to limit the functionality of our site.