Cookie policy

What are Cookies?

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

Overall, cookies help Menkind to provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

 

Types of Cookies

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not then work. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.

Performance Cookies

These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources, so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies, we will not know when you have visited our site.

Functionality Cookies

These cookies enable the website to provide enhanced functionality and personalisation. They may be set by us or by third-party providers whose services we have added to our pages. If you do not allow these cookies then some or all of these services may not function properly.

Targeting Cookies

These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. They do not store directly personal information, but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising.

 

Opting out of cookies

•    There are a number of options available so that you do not have to store any cookies at all.
•    You can set your browser so that it will not accept and store any cookies.
•    You can allow only certain trusted sites to store cookies on your computer.

It is worth bearing in mind that if you decide to delete all of your cookies, then you will likely have to re-enter all of your usernames and passwords on all of the sites that you visit, which will take you longer when shopping.  The Menkind website, though, will operate to your preference setting and you can choose to shop with or without cookies.

The Information Commissioner’s Office http://www.ico.gov.uk provides further useful and practical information on cookies and their use.

 

How Google uses information from websites or apps that use their services

Many websites and apps use Google services to improve their content and keep it free. When integrated, the sites and apps share information with Google. For more information please see Google’s EU User Consent Policy via the following link:

https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites

 

Cookie List

Please find a comprehensive list below of the cookies we use on our site:

Strictly Necessary Cookies

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.  

mage-cache-storage

This cookie is used to facilitate content caching on the browser to make pages load faster.

OptanonAlertBoxClosed

This cookie is set by websites using certain versions of the cookie law compliance solution from OneTrust. It is set after visitors have seen a cookie information notice and in some cases only when they actively close the notice down. It enables the website not to show the message more than once to a user. The cookie has a one year lifespan and contains no personal information.

_dc_gtm_UA-xxxxxxxx

This cookie is associated with sites using Google Tag Manager to load other scripts and code into a page. Where it is used it may be regarded as Strictly Necessary as without it, other scripts may not function correctly. The end of the name is a unique number which is also an identifier for an associated Google Analytics account.

RT

The roundtrip (RT) Boomerang cookie is used by Akamai to measure page load time and/or other timers associated with the page.

__cfduid

Cookie associated with sites using CloudFlare, used to speed up page load times. According to CloudFlare it is used to override any security restrictions based on the IP address the visitor is coming from. It does not contain any user identification information.

mage-cache-sessid

These cookies help assist with caching, ensuring the latest source of data is available for you as a user without having to wait for the server.

JSESSIONID

This domain is controlled by New Relic, which provides a platform for monitoring the performance of web and mobile applications.

PHPSESSID

PHP session cookie associated with embedded content from this domain.

eupubconsent

This cookie is used by the IAB Europe Transparency & Consent Framework to store the user's consent to the data collection Purposes. The cookie holds an encrypted consent string that vendors participating in the framework can read and determine the user's consent.

ku1-vid

This cookie is used for the payment method Klarna to function.

__cfduid

This domain is owned by Cloudflare, a USA based company providing technology to improve web page loading speeds for high traffic websites.

mage-banners-cache-storage

Stores banner content locally to improve performance.

mage-translation-file-version

Magento 2 cookie that keeps track of the translation file

__cfduid

Used to override any security restrictions based on the IP address the visitor is coming from. It does not contain any user identification information.

_x_w

Website analytics cookie for visitor information and source.

OptanonConsent

This cookie is set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust. It stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. This enables site owners to prevent cookies in each category from being set in the users browser, when consent is not given. The cookie has a normal lifespan of one year, so that returning visitors to the site will have their preferences remembered. It contains no information that can identify the site visitor.

__cfduid

Cookie associated with sites using CloudFlare, used to speed up page load times. According to CloudFlare it is used to override any security restrictions based on the IP address the visitor is coming from. It does not contain any user identification information.

ku1-sid

This cookie is used for the payment method Klarna to function. ku1-vid contains a visitor identifier for the communication with Klarna.

ku3-vid

This cookie is used for the payment method Klarna to function. ku1-vid contains a visitor identifier for the communication with Klarna.

 

Functional Cookies

section_data_ids

This cookie is used to facilitate content caching on the browser to make pages load faster.

recently_compared_product_previous

Stores product IDs of previously compared products for easy navigation.

nostojs

Identifies browsers between their visits to the site

2c.dc

To identify browsers between their visits to the site. Each browser is given a unique random identifier created by Nosto. Information about the browser's behavior on the site is then stored into Nosto's service as a customer profile under this identifier. The purpose and usage of this cookie is very similar to how web analytics tools, such as Google Analytics, work

mage-cache-storage-section-invalidation

This cookie is used to facilitate content caching on the browser to make pages load faster.

recently_viewed_product

This cookie stores recent viewed product, enabling it to be updated without sending additional requests to the server.  Speeding up the use of the website and enhancing your experience.

recently_compared_product

This cookie stores compared product, enabling it to be updated without sending additional requests to the server.  Speeding up the use of the website and enhancing your experience.

product_data_storage

This cookie stores product information, enabling it to be updated without sending additional requests to the server.  Speeding up the use of the website and enhancing your experience.

VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE

This cookie is used as a unique identifier to track viewing of videos

nostorecotrace

Web site personalisation and product recommendation engine

_helpkit_session

Customer Service portal (freshdesk) internal cookie

recently_viewed_product_previous

Stores product IDs of recently previously viewed products for easy navigation.

nostoskipcache

Used to display personalised content based on user journey

nostopreview

Nosto debug toolbar cookie, which are only written when the debugger is activated to review and debug Nosto on the site.

nostodev

Nosto debug toolbar cookie, which are only written when the debugger is activated to review and debug Nosto on the site.

mage-translation-storage

This cookie is used to facilitate content caching on the browser to make pages load faster.

2c.cId

To identify browsers between their visits to the site. Each browser is given a unique random identifier created by Nosto. Information about the browser's behavior on the site is then stored into Nosto's service as a customer profile under this identifier.

form_key

This cookie is used to facilitate content caching on the browser to make pages load faster.

 

Performance Cookies

_ga_F4ZT4G0D2H

Used to distinguish users by Google Analytics – third-party analytics cookies: google analytics for statistical purposes. Type of data processed: IP addresses. To maximize the privacy of users / visitors, we use the “masking IP” feature, which imposes on the system the darkening of the last 8 digits of the IP address of the user / visitor before any type of processing is performed, making in fact the analyzed Purpose: to collect information, in aggregate form, on the number of users and on how they visit our site, to process statistics.

 AKA_A2

This cookie is generally provided by Akamai and is used for the Advanced Acceleration feature, which enables DNS Prefetch and HTTP2 Push.

_gaexp

Used to determine a user's inclusion in an experiment and the expiry of experiments a user has been included in.

_ga

This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is 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. By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners.

_gclxxxx

Google conversion tracking cookie

_uetvid

This is a cookie utilised by Microsoft Bing Ads and is a tracking cookie. It allows us to engage with a user that has previously visited our website.

_gid

This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This appears to be a new cookie and as of Spring 2017 no information is available from Google. It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited.

_gat_UA-745022-1

This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. It appears to be a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites.

 

Targeting Cookies

CONSENT

YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites.

recordID

Tracks and identifies a visitor as an Engagement Cloud contact whilst they browse a site’s pages. This data can then be used for better segmenting and targeting of contacts.

dmSessionID

This cookie name is associated with services from UK email marketing company DotMailer. Their software placed on a website enables the owners to track when email campaign recipients land on the target website, which enables monitoring of the effectiveness of a campaign. This cookie is a short lived session identifier.

MUID

This domain is owned by Mircosoft - it is the site for the search engine Bing.

YSC

YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites.

_fbp

Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers

_uetsid

This cookie is used by Bing to determine what ads should be shown that may be relevant to the end user perusing the site.

dmSessionID

Tracking of clicks from email campaign

test_cookie

This domain is owned by Doubleclick (Google). The main business activity is: Doubleclick is Googles real time bidding advertising exchange

_uetsid

This cookie is used by Bing to determine what ads should be shown that may be relevant to the end user perusing the site.

fr

Contains browser and user unique ID combination, used for targeted advertising.

recordID

This cookie name is associated with services from UK email marketing company DotMailer. Their software placed on a website enables the owners to track when email campaign recipients land on the target website, which enables monitoring of the effectiveness of a campaign. This cookie is a unique user identifier, enabling persistent linking of behaviour on the site to a particular user and email campaign response.