Cookies
At Castore, we take your privacy very seriously. We fully appreciate and respect the importance of data privacy and security on the internet.
This website uses cookies and similar technologies for various purposes, including to distinguish you from other users of the website, to remember your preferences, and to help us improve our site and our services.
A “cookie” is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your device, subject to your consent where required by law. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your device. They allow us to recognise your device (but not specifically who is using it) when you return to our site.
You can choose to accept or reject different categories of cookies (except those that are strictly necessary) through our cookie banner and settings. Please note that if you block certain types of cookies, some parts of our site may not function properly.
1. Types of cookies
Cookies can be categorised in several ways. One common distinction is between session cookies and persistent cookies.
Session cookies
- Are temporary cookies.
- Remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the site or close your browser.
- Allow you to move between pages on our site and use essential features (for example, keeping items in your basket as you navigate).
Persistent cookies
- Remain on your device for a longer period – the duration depends on the lifetime of the specific cookie or until you delete it.
- Help us recognise you as a returning visitor when you come back to our website.
- Allow us to remember your preferences and tailor content and experiences accordingly (for example, language, region, or items left in your basket).
2. Categories of cookies we use
Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are essential for the operation of our website. They are usually set in response to actions you take that amount to a request for services, such as:
- Navigating the site and using basic functions.
- Logging into secure areas.
- Using an electronic shopping basket or checkout.
- Managing your privacy preferences.
You cannot switch these cookies off using our cookie settings. You can set your browser to block them, but if you do so, parts of the site may not work properly.
Performance / analytical cookies
These cookies help us understand how visitors use our website by collecting and reporting information anonymously. For example, they allow us to:
- Recognise and count the number of visitors.
- See how visitors move around the site.
- Identify which pages are most popular or where users may encounter errors.
This information helps us improve the way our website works and enhance the user experience.
Functional cookies
These cookies enable the website to provide enhanced functionality and personalisation. For example, they may:
- Remember choices you make (such as language, region, or your login details).
- Save information you have entered into forms so you do not need to retype it if you navigate away and return.
If you do not allow these cookies, some or all of these services may not function properly.
Targeting / advertising cookies
These cookies may be set through our site by us or our advertising partners. They record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited, and the links you have clicked. This information may be used to:
- Show you more relevant adverts on our site or on other sites.
- Limit how often you see a particular advert.
- Measure the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns.
If you do not allow these cookies, you will still see advertising, but it may be less tailored to your interests.
3. Third-party cookies
In addition to our own cookies, we may work with third-party providers that set cookies on our website to enable certain features or to help us with analytics and advertising. For example, these third parties may provide:
- Analytics and measurement services.
- Advertising and remarketing services.
- Social media integration and sharing tools.
These third parties may use their cookies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. Where required by law, we will only use these cookies with your consent.
4. Cookies used on this website
The specific cookies used on our site (including their providers, purposes, and durations) are listed in the cookie table below. This table is generated by our cookie management tool and is kept up to date based on regular scans of our website.
| Name | Description | Category | Provider | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| _orig_referrer | Allows merchant to identify where people are visiting them from. | Necessary | Shopify | 2 weeks |
| _landing_page | Capture the landing page of visitor when they come from other sites. | Necessary | Shopify | 2 weeks |
| _ab | Used to control when the admin bar is shown on the storefront. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 year |
| _secure_session_id | This cookie is generally provided by Shopify and is used to track a user's session through the multi-step checkout process and keep their order, payment, and shipping details connected. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 day |
| cart | Contains information related to the user's cart. | Necessary | Shopify | 2 weeks |
| cart_sig | This cookie is generally provided by Shopify and is used in connection with checkout. It is used to verify the integrity of the cart and to ensure performance of some cart operations. | Necessary | Shopify | 2 weeks |
| cart_ts | This cookie is generally provided by Shopify and is used in connection with checkout. | Necessary | Shopify | 2 weeks |
| cart_ver | This cookie is generally provided by Shopify and is used in connection with the shopping cart. | Necessary | Shopify | 2 weeks |
| cart_currency | Used after a checkout is completed to initialize a new empty cart with the same currency as the one just used. | Necessary | Shopify | 2 weeks |
| checkout_token | Used by checkout to identify the user. | Necessary | Shopify | Session |
| Secure_customer_sig | unknown | Necessary | Not available | Not available |
| storefront_digest | Stores a digest of the storefront password, allowing merchants to preview their storefront while it's password protected. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 year |
| cookieconsent_status | This cookie is associated with the app Consentmo GDPR Compliance and is used for storing the customer's consent. | Necessary | Consentmo | 1 year |
| cookieconsent_preferences_disabled | This cookie is associated with the app Consentmo GDPR Compliance and is used for storing the customer's consent. | Necessary | Consentmo | 1 day |
| _shopify_m | This cookie is generally provided by Shopify and is used for managing customer privacy settings. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 year |
| _shopify_tm | This cookie is generally provided by Shopify and is used for managing customer privacy settings. | Necessary | Shopify | 30 minutes |
| _shopify_tw | This cookie is generally provided by Shopify and is used for managing customer privacy settings. | Necessary | Shopify | 2 weeks |
| _tracking_consent | Used to store a user's preferences if a merchant has set up privacy rules in the visitor's region. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 year |
| tracked_start_checkout | This cookie is generally provided by Shopify and is used in connection with checkout. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 year |
| identity_state | This cookie is generally provided by Shopify and is used in connection with customer authentication. | Necessary | Not available | 1 day |
| identity_customer_account_number | Stores an identifier used to facilitate login across the customer's account and storefront domains. | Necessary | Shopify | 12 weeks |
| _customer_account_shop_sessions | Used in combination with the _secure_account_session_id cookie to track user sessions for new customer accounts. | Necessary | Shopify | 30 days |
| _secure_account_session_id | Used to track user sessions for new customer accounts. | Necessary | Shopify | 30 days |
| _shopify_country | Used for Plus shops where pricing currency/country is set from GeoIP by helping avoid GeoIP lookups after the first request. | Necessary | Shopify | 30 minutes |
| _storefront_u | Used to facilitate updating customer account information. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 minute |
| _cmp_a | Used to manage customer privacy settings. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 day |
| c | unknown | Necessary | Shopify | Not available |
| checkout | Used by checkout to identify the user. | Necessary | Shopify | 21 days |
| customer_account_locale | Used to keep track of a customer account locale when a redirection occurs from checkout or the storefront to customer accounts. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 year |
| dynamic_checkout_shown_on_cart | Used in connection with payments. | Necessary | Shopify | 30 minutes |
| hide_shopify_pay_for_checkout | Set when a buyer dismisses the Shop Pay login modal during checkout, informing display to buyer. | Necessary | Shopify | Session |
| shopify_pay | Used to log in a buyer into Shop Pay when they come back to checkout on the same store. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 year |
| shopify_pay_redirect | Used to accelerate the checkout process when the buyer has a Shop Pay account. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 year |
| shop_pay_accelerated | Indicates if a buyer is eligible for Shop Pay accelerated checkout. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 year |
| keep_alive | Used when international domain redirection is enabled to determine if a request is the first one of a session. | Necessary | Shopify | Session |
| source_name | Used in combination with mobile apps to provide personalized checkout behavior when browsing a compatible mobile app store. | Necessary | Shopify | Session |
| master_device_id | Merchant authentication: Permanent device identifier, public version. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 year |
| previous_step | Used in connection with payments. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 year |
| discount_code | Stores a discount code (received from an online store visit with a URL parameter) in order to the next checkout. | Necessary | Shopify | Session |
| remember_me | Used in connection with payments. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 year |
| checkout_session_lookup | Used in connection with payments. | Necessary | Shopify | 3 weeks |
| checkout_prefill | Used in connection with payments. | Necessary | Shopify | 5 minutes |
| checkout_queue_token | Used in connection with payments. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 year |
| checkout_queue_checkout_token | Used in connection with payments. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 year |
| checkout_worker_session | Used in connection with payments. | Necessary | Shopify | 3 days |
| checkout_session_token | Used in connection with payments. | Necessary | Shopify | 3 weeks |
| cookietest | Use it to make sure our systems are working properly. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 minute |
| order | Used to allow access to the data of the order details page of the buyer. | Necessary | Shopify | 3 weeks |
| identity-state | Stores a hash of the oauth flow state between redirects. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 day |
| card_update_verification_id | Used in connection with payments. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 day |
| customer_account_new_login | It is used in connection with user identification. | Necessary | Shopify | 20 minutes |
| customer_account_preview | It is used in connection with user identification. | Necessary | Shopify | 7 days |
| customer_payment_method | Used in connection with payments. | Necessary | Shopify | 60 minutes |
| customer_shop_pay_agreement | Used in connection with payments. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 minute |
| pay_update_intent_id | Used in connection with payments. | Necessary | Shopify | 20 minutes |
| localization | Used to localize the cart to the correct country. | Necessary | Shopify | 2 weeks |
| profile_preview_token | Used for previewing checkout customizations. | Necessary | Shopify | 5 minutes |
| login_with_shop_finalize | Used to facilitate login with Shop. | Necessary | Shopify | 5 minutes |
| preview_theme | It is used in conjunction with the theme editor. | Necessary | Shopify | Session |
| shopify-editor-unconfirmed-settings | It is used in conjunction with the theme editor. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 day |
| wpm-test-cookie | Use it to make sure our systems are working properly | Necessary | Shopify | Session |
| _s | This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite. | Statistics | Shopify | 30 minutes |
| _shopify_d | unknown | Statistics | Not available | Not available |
| _shopify_fs | This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite. | Statistics | Shopify | 30 minutes |
| _shopify_s | Used to identify a given browser session/shop combination. Duration is 30 minute rolling expiry of last use. | Statistics | Shopify | 30 minutes |
| _shopify_sa_t | This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite relating to marketing and referrals. | Statistics | Shopify | 30 minutes |
| _shopify_sa_p | This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite relating to marketing and referrals. | Statistics | Shopify | 30 minutes |
| _shopify_y | Shopify analytics. | Statistics | Shopify | 1 year |
| _y | This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite. | Statistics | Shopify | 1 year |
| _shopify_evids | unknown | Statistics | Not available | Not available |
| _ga | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics | Statistics | Google Analytics | 2 years |
| _gat | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. | Statistics | Google Analytics | 1 minute |
| __atuvc | unknown | Statistics | Not available | Not available |
| __atuvs | unknown | Statistics | Not available | Not available |
| __utma | unknown | Statistics | Not available | Not available |
| customer_auth_provider | This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite. | Statistics | Not available | Session |
| customer_auth_session_created_at | This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite. | Statistics | Not available | Session |
| _gads | Unbekannt | Marketing | Not available | 1 year |
| IDE | This domain is owned by Doubleclick (Google). The main business activity is: Doubleclick is Googles real time bidding advertising exchange | Marketing | Google DoubleClick | 2 years |
| GPS | This cookie is associated with YouTube which 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. | Marketing | Youtube | Session |
| PREF | This cookie, which may be set by Google or Doubleclick, may be used by advertising partners to build a profile of interests to show relevant ads on other sites. | Marketing | Youtube | 8 months |
| BizoID | This is a Microsoft MSN 1st party cookie to enable user-based content. | Marketing | 1 month | |
| _fbp | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. | Marketing | Meta Platforms, Inc. | 3 months |
| _fbc | unknown | Marketing | Not available | Not available |
| __adroll | This cookie is associated with AdRoll | Marketing | Adroll Group | 1 year |
| __adroll_v4 | This cookie is associated with AdRoll | Marketing | Adroll Group | 1 year |
| __adroll_fpc | This cookie is associated with AdRoll | Marketing | Adroll Group | 1 year |
| __ar_v4 | This cookie is associated with AdRoll | Marketing | Adroll Group | 1 year |
| _gid | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. | Preferences | Google Analytics | 1 day |
| __cfduid | unknown | Preferences | Not available | Not available |
5. Managing your cookie preferences
When you first visit our website, you will see a cookie banner or pop-up that allows you to:
- Accept all cookies;
- Reject non-essential cookies; or
- Manage your preferences by category.
You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking the “Cookie settings” button above or by using the cookie settings link available in the footer or settings area of this website (where provided).
Please note that your cookie preferences are specific to the browser and device you use to access the site. If you visit from another device or browser, or if you clear your cookies, you may need to set your preferences again.
6. Deleting or blocking cookies via your browser
The cookies described above may be either “session cookies”, which are temporary and automatically deleted from your device when you close your browser, or “persistent cookies”, which last until their expiry date or until you or your browser delete them.
You may also refuse or manage cookies by changing the settings on your internet browser. Generally, this can be done by visiting the “Settings” or “Privacy” menu in your browser. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, you can visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
You may also wish to visit www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices to learn more about cookies set on your device by other companies and, where available, opt out of them.
However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including strictly necessary cookies), you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.
7. Changes to this cookie policy
We may change this cookie policy from time to time. If we make changes, we will update the “Last updated” date at the top of this policy and, in some cases, we may provide you with additional notice (such as adding a statement to the homepage or sending you an email).
We encourage you to review this cookie policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and how you can help protect your privacy.