What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are stored on the browser or hard drive of your computer or mobile device when you visit a webpage to enable additional features of the website to work and make your experience of browsing the site as user-friendly as possible. Use of cookies is a common practice, most websites use them and most internet browsers automatically accept cookies.
The information below provides further details about the cookies that are currently in use on our website and a description of the purpose of each of these cookies.
Home Hardware uses the following cookies:
Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are essential – without them you might not be able to get the information or service you’ve asked for. They’re needed for things like logging whether you see error messages – so we can make improvements and fix bugs. Technologies that we use (and that use cookies) to make sure the website functions correctly for you include, at the time of writing, are provided by for example Google Analytics and AWS.
| Name | Description | Expiry | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| __CookieConsentV300 | A JavaScript plugin that alerts users of the use of cookies on this website. | 180 days | Strictly necessary |
| _conv_s | Convert AB testing | 0 days | Strictly necessary |
| __cf_bm | The __cf_bm cookie is a cookie necessary to support Cloudflare Bot Management, currently in private beta. As part of our bot management service, this cookie helps manage incoming traffic that matches criteria associated with bots. This is a CloudFoundry cookie | 0 days | Strictly necessary |
| _conv_v | This cookie is the visitor-centric cookie that has a lifetime of max 6 months from the last update time. | 0 days | Strictly necessary |
Performance cookies
These cookies remember choices you’ve made to personalise the site or are used by us to test site content and functionality with different groups of visitors They may remember where you are in the site so you can get tailored information, or changes you’ve made to help you browse, such as increasing the text size Technologies we use for personalisation or testing include Google Analytics and AWS.
| Name | Description | Expiry | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| _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. | 0 days | Performance cookies |
| _ga_xxxxxxxxxx | NAUsed by Google Analytics to identify and track an individual session with your device. | 0 days | Performance cookies |
| _hjIncludedInPageviewSample | This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the data sampling defined by your site's pageview limit. | 0 days | Performance cookies |
| _gaexp | Used to determine a user's inclusion in an experiment and the expiry of experiments a user has been included in. For more information about Google's processing of your personal data, please consult Google's Privacy & Terms site. | 0 days | Performance cookies |
| _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress | This cookie is used by HotJar to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie. | 0 days | Performance cookies |
| _gclxxxx | This cookie is set by Google Analytics and is used to store and track conversions.Google conversion tracking cookie | 0 days | Performance cookies |
| _hjIncludedInSessionSample | This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the data sampling defined by your site's daily session limit. | 0 days | Performance cookies |
| _hjTLDTest | When the Hotjar script executes we try to determine the most generic cookie path we should use, instead of the page hostname. This is done so that cookies can be shared across subdomains (where applicable). To determine this, we try to store the _hjTLDTest cookie for different URL substring alternatives until it fails. After this check, the cookie is removed. | 0 days | Performance cookies |
| _conv_r | This cookie name is used to hold the referral data for the current visitor, including source name, referral medium, and referrer search terms. It is overwritten each time the visitor comes from a new referrer. | 0 days | Performance cookies |
| _hjid | Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set when the customer first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the random user ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID. | 0 days | Performance cookies |
| _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. For more information about Google's processing of your personal data, please consult Google's Privacy & Terms site. | 0 days | Performance cookies |
| _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. For more information about Google's processing of your personal data, please consult Google's Privacy & Terms site. | 0 days | Performance cookies |
Functionality cookies
These cookies are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
| Name | Description | Expiry | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| ajs_anonymous_id | These cookies are generally used for Analytics and help count how many people visit a certain site by tracking if you have visited before. This cookie has a lifespan of 1 year. | 0 days | Functionality cookies |
Targetting cookies
These cookies are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
| Name | Description | Expiry | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| APISID | This DoubleClick cookie is generally set through the site by advertising partners, and used by them to build a profile of the website visitor's interests and show relevant ads on other sites. This cookie works by uniquely identifying your browser and device. | 0 days | Targetting cookies |
| ajs_group_id | These cookies track visitor usage and events within the website. Cookies in this domain have lifespan of 1 year. | 0 days | Targetting cookies |
| anj | This cookie contains data denoting whether a cookie ID is synced with an AppNexus partner. | 0 days | Targetting cookies |
| _gat_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | This cookie is part of Google Analytics and is used to throttle the request rate, limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites.Google Analytics Cookies | 0 days | Targetting cookies |
| ajs_user_id | This cookie helps track visitor usage, events, target marketing, and can also measure application performance and stability. Cookies in this domain have lifespan of 1 year. | 0 days | Targetting cookies |
| _dlt | This cookie is associated with Google's real time bidding advertising exchange. The main purpose of this cookie is targeting. | 0 days | Targetting cookies |
| 1P_JAR | This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. | 0 days | Targetting cookies |
| _fbp | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers | 0 days | Targetting cookies |
| _lfa | This cookie is used by Leadfeeder to track visitor behavior on the website to build visitor profiles for improving site analytics and marketing effectiveness. | 0 days | Targetting cookies |
| aam_uuid | This cookie is associated with the Adobe Audience Manager ID - Data Management Platform (DMP). It is used to assign a unique ID when a user visits a website. | 0 days | Targetting cookies |
| 1P_JAR | This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. | 0 days | Targetting cookies |
| _D9J | This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. | 0 days | Targetting cookies |
| AID | This cookie name is associated with Google Analytics and Google Ads which is used to link your activities on other devices you have previously logged into using your Google account. Based on this, the ads you see on your devices are coordinated and conversion events are measured. | 0 days | Targetting cookies |
| AWSALB | AWS ELB application load balancerUsed to attribute commission to affiliates when you arrive at the website from an affiliate referral link. It is set when you click on one of our links and used to let the advertiser and us know the website from which you came. | 6 days | Targetting cookies |
| AWSALBCORS | This cookie is managed by AWS and is used for load balancing.Used to attribute commission to affiliates when you arrive at the website from an affiliate referral link. It is set when you click on one of our links and used to let the advertiser and us know the website from which you came. | 6 days | Targetting cookies |
| _D9J | This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. | 0 days | Targetting cookies |
What about links to other websites and their cookies?
We often link to other sites to give you extra information or services. Where these are provided by a third party, you may leave our website by clicking through to theirs. In this case, the cookies policy set out on the third party’s website will also apply. As this won’t be controlled by us, you should read their policy to find out what information is being collected and how it’s used.
Controlling your cookies
You can control how you use cookies in your browser. If you wish to restrict or block the cookies which are set by any website, you should do this through the web browser settings for each web browser you use, on each device you use to access the internet. Information on controlling and deleting cookies, including on a wide variety of browsers, is also available at allaboutcookies.org