Cookies Information
WHAT ARE COOKIES?
Cookies are tiny text files which are stored on your computer when you visit certain websites. At Absolute Pearls, our website uses cookies to keep track of what you have in your basket, to remember you when you return to our website, and to provide us with anonymous site usage statistics.
To order products on the absolutepearls.co.uk website, you need to have cookies enabled (see the section on Managing cookies). If you don't wish to enable cookies, you'll still be able to browse the site and use it for research purposes, but if you want to place an order you will need to contact us to arrange this for you.
Please note that cookies can't harm your computer. We don't store personally identifiable information such as credit card details in cookies we create.
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OUR COOKIES POLICY
To make full use of the online shopping features on the absolutepearls.co.uk website, your computer, tablet or mobile phone will need to accept cookies, as we can only provide you with online shopping features by using them.
Our cookies do NOT store any sensitive date such as your name, address or payment card details: they simply allow our website to recognise you and provide us with anonymous website usage statistics.
MANAGING COOKIES
If you'd prefer to restrict, block or delete cookies provided to your computer by the absolutepearls.co.uk website, you can choose to not accept cookies or change your web browser's settings to do this. Each browser is different, so check the 'Help' menu of your particular browser (or your mobile phone's handset manual) to learn how to change your web browser's cookie settings.
Here's a list of the cookies we use, and what we use them for:
| Cookie | Domain | Description | Duration | Type |
| PHPSESSID | absolutepearls.co.uk | This cookie is native to PHP applications. The cookie stores and identifies a user's unique session ID to manage user sessions on the website. The cookie is a session cookie and will be deleted when all the browser windows are closed. | session | Necessary |
| __shopwired_visit | absolutepearls.co.uk | Records a visit to the website. | 30 days | Performance |
| __shopwired_visitor | absolutepearls.co.uk | Tracks a visitor as they navigate the website's pages. | 30 days | Performance |
| basket | absolutepearls.co.uk | This is used by the ShopWired basket system and contains the basket token. | 30 days | Necessary |
| login_token | absolutepearls.co.uk | This is used by the "remember me" feature for customer accounts and contains the login token. | 7 days | Functional |
| rated_questions | absolutepearls.co.uk | This is used by the questions & answers system and contains question IDs. | 1 year | Functional |
| wishlist | absolutepearls.co.uk | This is used by the wishlist system and contains product IDs. | 400 days | Functional |
| recently_viewed_products | absolutepearls.co.uk | This stores the IDs of recently viewed products. | 30 days | Functional |
| _ga_* | absolutepearls.co.uk | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views. | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Performance |
| _ga | absolutepearls.co.uk | Google Analytics sets this cookie to calculate visitor, session and campaign data and track site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognise unique visitors. | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Performance |
| _gcl_au | absolutepearls.co.uk | Google Tag Manager sets the cookie to experiment advertisement efficiency of websites using their services. | 3 months | Performance |
| _uetsid | absolutepearls.co.uk | Bing Ads sets this cookie to engage with a user that has previously visited the website. | 1 day | Performance |
| _uetvid | absolutepearls.co.uk | Bing Ads sets this cookie to engage with a user that has previously visited the website. | 1 year 24 days | Performance |
| MUID | bing.com | Bing sets this cookie to recognise unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites. This cookie is used for advertising, site analytics, and other operations. | 1 year 24 days | Performance |
| LANG | paypal.com | PayPal sets this cookie to set user's preferred language. | 9 hours | Functional |
| x-pp-s | paypal.com | PayPal sets this cookie to process payments on the site. | session | Functional |
| tsrce | paypal.com | PayPal sets this cookie to enable the PayPal payment service on the website. | 3 days | Functional |
| nsid | paypal.com | PayPal sets this cookie to enable the PayPal payment service on the website. | session | Functional |
| l7_az | paypal.com | This cookie is necessary for the PayPal login function on the website. | 30 minutes | Performance |
| ts | paypal.com | PayPal sets this cookie to enable secure transactions through PayPal. | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Necessary |
| ts_c | paypal.com | PayPal sets this cookie to make safe payments through PayPal. | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Necessary |
| enforce_policy | paypal.com | PayPal sets this cookie for secure transactions. | 1 year | Necessary |
This Cookies Information policy statement is subject to change at any time, without notice. We encourage all customers to review the Absolute Pearls Cookies Information regularly to remain informed of their rights and our responsibilities.