Cookie Policy
What are cookies?
Cookies are simply small text files that websites place on your computer when you visit them. These are widely used and either help a website to work, be more efficient or provide information to the owner of a website about visits it gets.
To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
How you can change your cookie settings
There are a number of ways in which you can change your cookie settings or preferences.
You can change your cookie preferences in your browser - each browser allows you to do this in a different way, so please see the links below for various browsers to find out more for each:
If you have any questions regarding cookies on this website, get in touch with us at robyn@vtech-smt.co.uk.
A table of the cookies used on this website is set out below.
| Name | Domain | Description | Expiry |
| recently_compared_product_previous | vtech-smt.co.uk | Stores product IDs of previously compared products for easy navigation. | 3 hours |
| mage-cache-storage | vtech-smt.co.uk | Local storage of visitor-specific content that enables e-commerce functions. | 3 weeks |
| product_data_storage | vtech-smt.co.uk | Stores configuration for product data related to Recently Viewed / Compared Products. | 3 hours |
| recently_viewed_product | vtech-smt.co.uk | Stores product IDs of recently viewed products for easy navigation. | 3 hours |
| recently_compared_product | vtech-smt.co.uk | Stores product IDs of recently compared products. | 3 hours |
| mage-cache-sessid | vtech-smt.co.uk | The value of this cookie triggers the cleanup of local cache storage. When the cookie is removed by the backend application, the Admin cleans up local storage, and sets the cookie value to true. | 3 hours |
| recently_viewed_product_previous | vtech-smt.co.uk | Stores product IDs of recently previously viewed products for easy navigation. | 3 hours |
| searchReport-log | vtech-smt.co.uk | Magento - used to collect log information about searching | 1 year |
| mage-cache-storage-section-invalidation | vtech-smt.co.uk | Forces local storage of specific content sections that should be invalidated. | 3 hours |
| PHPSESSID |
vtech-smt.co.uk | Used for managing user session on the website. | Session |
| mage-messages |
vtech-smt.co.uk | 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. | 1 day |
| private_content_version |
vtech-smt.co.uk |
Appends a random, unique number and time to pages with customer content to prevent them from being cached on the server. It is set in multiple places: in PHP, in JavaScript as a cookie, and in JavaScript to local storage. |
10 years |
|
__stripe_mid, __stripe_sid |
vtech-smt.co.uk |
Set by Stripe. These cookies enable Stripe’s secure payment system and set a session identifier. https://stripe.com/cookies-policy/legal |
1 year |
| form_key
|
vtech-smt.co.uk |
A security measure that appends a random string to all form submissions to protect the data from Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). |
2 weeks |
| section_data_ids |
vtech-smt.co.uk |
Stores customer-specific information related to shopper-initiated actions such as display wish list, checkout information, etc. |
Session |