COOKIE POLICY
This cookie policy was last updated on: 06/06/2025
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 and allows us to improve our site.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. It allows us to recognise your computer (but not specifically who is using it) upon entering our site, even if you are not logged into the site. When you visit our site, you can surf anonymously and access important information without revealing your identity by changing your browser settings. However, in order to provide better service, we may use cookies to track your visit. If you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.
THE TWO MAIN TYPES OF COOKIES
Session cookies:
- Are temporary cookies.
- Remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the site.
- Allow you to carry information across pages of our site and avoid having to re-enter information.
- Allow you to access stored information within the registration process.
- Allow you to apply discounts depending on where and how you entered the site.
- Cannot be read by a website other than the one that sent the cookie.
Persistent cookies:
- Remain in the cookie file of your browser for much longer – the length of time will depend on the lifetime of the specific cookie.
- Allow you to maintain a shopping basket – i.e. if you leave the site and come back later, items saved in your basket will still be there.
- Help us to recognise you as a unique visitor (by using an ID number) when you return to our website.
- Allow us to tailor content to match your preferences. This also prevents you from having to Log In on every visit.
- Cannot be read by a website other than the one that sent the cookie.
WHY WE USE THE FOLLOWING COOKIES
- Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use an electronic basket or make use of e-billing services.
- Analytical/Performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
- Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you (including by saving information which you may have populated into a form, without submitting), greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
- Targeting Cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
THIRD PARTY COOKIES WE USE
We work with some third-party suppliers to enable features on our website or to improve our online advertising.
These suppliers may set cookies on our website and these include:
| Necessary | ||||
| Name | Description | Category | Provider | Duration |
| _orig_referrer | This cookie is generally provided by Shopify and is used to track landing pages. | Necessary | Shopify | 2 weeks |
| _landing_page | This cookie is generally provided by Shopify and is used to track landing pages. | Necessary | Shopify | 2 weeks |
| _ab | This cookie is generally provided by Shopify and is used in connection with access to the admin view of an online store platform. | Necessary | Shopify | 2 weeks |
| _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 | This cookie is generally provided by Shopify and is used in connection with a shopping 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 | This cookie is generally provided by Shopify and it is set after a checkout is completed to ensure that new carts are in the same currency as the last checkout. | Necessary | Shopify | 2 weeks |
| checkout_token | This cookie is generally provided by Shopify and is used in connection with a checkout service. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 year |
| Secure_customer_sig | There is no information about this cookie yet. | Necessary | unknown | |
| storefront_digest | This cookie is generally provided by Shopify and it stores a digest of the storefront password, allowing merchants to preview their storefront while it's password protected. | Necessary | Shopify | 2 years |
| 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 | This cookie is generally provided by Shopify and is 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 | Shopify | 1 day |
| identity_customer_account_number | This cookie is generally provided by Shopify and is used in connection with customer authentication. | 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 | 30 days | |
| _secure_account_session_id | Used to track user sessions for new customer accounts. | Necessary | 30 days | |
| _shopify_country | For stores where the currency/price page is determined by GeoIP, this cookie stores the page we found. This cookie helps to avoid GeoIP verification after the first application. | Necessary | session | |
| _storefront_u | Used to facilitate updating customer account information. | Necessary | 1 minute | |
| _cmp_a | Used to manage customer privacy settings. | Necessary | 1 day | |
| c | There is no information about this cookie yet. | Necessary | unknown | |
| checkout | Used in connection with payments. | Necessary | 4 weeks | |
| customer_account_locale | Used in connection with new customer accounts. | Necessary | 1 year | |
| dynamic_checkout_shown_on_cart | Used in connection with payments. | Necessary | 30 minutes | |
| hide_shopify_pay_for_checkout | Used in connection with payments. | Necessary | session | |
| shopify_pay | Used in connection with payments. | Necessary | 1 year | |
| shopify_pay_redirect | Used in connection with payments. | Necessary | 60 minutes | |
| shop_pay_accelerated | Used in connection with payments. | Necessary | 1 year | |
| keep_alive | Used in conjunction with buyer localization. | Necessary | 2 weeks | |
| source_name | Used in combination with mobile apps to provide personalized checkout behavior when browsing a compatible mobile app store. | Necessary | session | |
| master_device_id | Used in conjunction with merchant login. | Necessary | 2 years | |
| previous_step | Used in connection with payments. | Necessary | 1 year | |
| discount_code | Used in connection with payments. | Necessary | session | |
| remember_me | Used in connection with payments. | Necessary | 1 year | |
| checkout_session_lookup | Used in connection with payments. | Necessary | 3 weeks | |
| checkout_prefill | Used in connection with payments. | Necessary | 5 minutes | |
| checkout_queue_token | Used in connection with payments. | Necessary | 1 year | |
| checkout_queue_checkout_token | Used in connection with payments. | Necessary | 1 year | |
| checkout_worker_session | Used in connection with payments. | Necessary | 3 days | |
| checkout_session_token | Used in connection with payments. | Necessary | 3 weeks | |
| cookietest | Use it to make sure our systems are working properly. | Necessary | 1 minute | |
| order | Used in conjunction with the order status page. | Necessary | 3 weeks | |
| identity-state | It is used in connection with user identification. | Necessary | 1 day | |
| card_update_verification_id | Used in connection with payments. | Necessary | 1 day | |
| customer_account_new_login | It is used in connection with user identification. | Necessary | 20 minutes | |
| customer_account_preview | It is used in connection with user identification. | Necessary | 7 days | |
| customer_payment_method | Used in connection with payments. | Necessary | 60 minutes | |
| customer_shop_pay_agreement | Used in connection with payments. | Necessary | 1 minute | |
| pay_update_intent_id | Used in connection with payments. | Necessary | 20 minutes | |
| localization | Used in connection with payments. | Necessary | 2 weeks | |
| profile_preview_token | Used in connection with payments. | Necessary | 5 minutes | |
| login_with_shop_finalize | It is used in connection with user identification. | Necessary | 5 minutes | |
| preview_theme | It is used in conjunction with the theme editor. | Necessary | session | |
| shopify-editor-unconfirmed-settings | It is used in conjunction with the theme editor. | Necessary | 1 day | |
| wpm-test-cookie | Use it to make sure our systems are working properly | Necessary | session | |
| secure_customer_sig | Used in connection with customer login. | Necessary | Shopify | 2 years |
| Statistics | ||||
| Name | Description | Category | Provider | Duration |
| _s | This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite. | Statistics | 30 minutes | |
| _shopify_d | There is no information about this cookie yet. | Statistics | Shopify | unknown |
| _shopify_fs | This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite. | Statistics | Shopify | 30 minutes |
| _shopify_s | This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite. | Statistics | Shopify | 30 minutes |
| _shopify_sa_t | This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite concerning marketing and referrals. | Statistics | Shopify | 30 minutes |
| _shopify_sa_p | This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite concerning marketing and referrals. | Statistics | Shopify | 30 minutes |
| _shopify_y | This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite. | Statistics | Shopify | 1 year |
| _y | This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite. | Statistics | Shopify | 1 year |
| _shopify_evids | There is no information about this cookie yet. | Statistics | Shopify | unknown |
| _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 | There is no information about this cookie yet. | Statistics | unknown | |
| __atuvs | There is no information about this cookie yet. | Statistics | unknown | |
| __atuvc | There is no information about this cookie yet. | Statistics | unknown | |
| __utma | There is no information about this cookie yet. | Statistics | unknown | |
| customer_auth_provider | This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite. | Statistics | Shopify | session |
| customer_auth_session_created_at | This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite. | Statistics | Shopify | session |
| _sp_ses.098b | Used to identify if the user is in an active session on a site or if this is a new session for a user (i.e. cookie doesn’t exist or has expired). | Statistics | Snowplow | 30 minutes |
| _sp_id.098b | Stores user information that is created when a user first visits a site and updated on subsequent visits. It is used to identify users and track the users activity across a domain. This cookie stores a unique identifier for each user, a unique identifier for the users current session, the number of visits a user has made to the site, the timestamp of the users first visit, the timestamp of their previous visit and the timestamp of their current visit. | Statistics | Snowplow | 2 years |
| _ga_MQYS02871P | ID used to identify users | Statistics | Google Analytics | 2 years |
| _ga_M71EWFHD8X | ID used to identify users | Statistics | Google Analytics | 2 years |
| _s | This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite. | Statistics | 30 minutes |
| Marketing | ||||
| Name | Description | Category | Provider | Duration |
| _gads | There is no information about this cookie yet. | Marketing | unknown | |
| 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 | There is no information about this cookie yet. | Marketing | Meta Platforms, Inc. | unknown |
| __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 |
| g | This domain is associated with the delivery of advertising material or scripts for advertising content. It is a service used by advertising agencies to optimize their online ad campaigns. | Marketing | CreativeCDN | 364 days |
| ar_debug | Store and track conversions | Marketing | DoubleClick/Google Marketing | Persistent |
| uuid2 | This cookie contains a unique randomly-generated value that enables the Platform to distinguish browsers and devices. | Marketing | Xandr | 90 days |
| udmts | This cookie is used to place digital advertising from their Marketing partners on their Publishers' websites via ad placements | Marketing | Underdog Media | 89 days |
| dt | This cookie is set by AddThis to allow website visitors to share content on various social networks. | Marketing | Underdog Media | 1 year |
| rtbh | This cookie is used to place digital advertising from their Marketing partners on their Publishers' websites via ad placements | Marketing | Underdog Media | 1 year |
| _gcl_au | Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services. | Marketing | 3 months | |
| MUID | Identifies unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites. These cookies are used for advertising, site analytics, and other operational purposes. | Marketing | Bing / Microsoft | 1 year |
| CMID | Collects visitor data related to the user's visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been loaded, with the purpose of displaying targeted ads. | Marketing | Casale Media | 1 day |
| CMPS | Collects visitor data related to the user's visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been loaded, with the purpose of displaying targeted ads | Marketing | Casale Media | 1 day |
| CMPRO | Collects data on visitor behaviour from multiple websites, in order to present more relevant advertisement - This also allows the website to limit the number of times that the visitor is shown the same advertisement. | Marketing | Casale Media | 1 day |
| _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. | Marketing | Bing / Microsoft | 30 minutes |
| _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. | Marketing | Bing / Microsoft | 16 days |
| pid | This cookie is used by Xplosion/emetriq. Used to analyze the behavior of visitors to the website and derive preferences. These allow for interest-based advertising on third party websites. | Marketing | Emetric | 1 year |
| TestIfCookieP | Technical cookie used to test if persistent cookies are accepted | Marketing | Smartadserver | 13 months |
| csync | Optimises ad display based on the user's movement combined and various advertiser bids for displaying user ads. | Marketing | Smartadserver | 1 day |
| __kla_id | When Klaviyo’s JavaScript is enabled, the __kla_id cookie can track and identify site visitors through an auto-generated ID. This cookie can temporarily hold personally identifiable information. Once a visitor is identified, the cookie can pass their data into Klaviyo. | Marketing | Klaviyo | 2 years |
| UID | Collects information of the user and his/her movement, such as timestamp for visits, most recently loaded pages and IP address. The data is used by the marketing research network, Scorecard Research, to analyse traffic patterns and carry out surveys to help their clients better understand the customer's preferences. | Marketing | ComScore | 2 years |
| uid-bp-41500 | The uid cookie is used by FreeWheel to generate statistics to show how many people may have seen a particular ad. Whereas the other cookies recognize returning users for the purpose of presenting users with relevant advertisements. | Marketing | FreeWheel | 2 months |
| i | Registers user data, such as IP address, geographical location, websites visited and on which advertisements the user has clicked, with the aim of optimizing the display of advertisements based on user relocation on websites that use the same advertising network. | Marketing | openx.net | 1 year |
| Preferences | ||||
| Name | Description | Category | Provider | Duration |
| _gid | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. | Preferences | Google Analytics | 1 day |
| __cfduid | There is no information about this cookie yet. | Preferences | unknown | |
| unidays-oauth-token | Unidays access token | Preferences | Unidays | 2 weeks |
| __cf_bm | Cloudflare's bot products identify and mitigate automated traffic to protect your site from bad bots. Cloudflare places the __cf_bm cookie on End User devices that access Customer sites that are protected by Bot Management or Bot Fight Mode. The __cf_bm cookie is necessary for the proper functioning of these bot solutions. | Preferences | Cloudflare | session |
DELETING OR BLOCKING COOKIES
The cookies described above may be either “session cookies”, which means they are temporary and are automatically deleted from your computer or device when you close your browser, or they may be “persistent cookies”, which last until their expiry date or until you or your browser delete them. By law, we are required to ask your permission before storing non-essential cookies on your computer. If you choose to block or delete cookies or similar technologies used on our website, it may prevent the website from functioning properly or at all.
You may refuse to accept cookies by altering the settings on your internet browser. Generally, this can be done by visiting the “Settings” 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, visit www.allaboutcookies.org. You may also wish to visit http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices to learn more about the cookies on your device set by other companies and opt out of them if you wish. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including strictly necessary cookies) you may not be to access all or parts of our site.
CHANGES TO COOKIES POLICY
We may change this cookie policy from time to time. If we make changes, we will notify you by revising the 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 of the website or sending you an email with the update. Please check this cookie policy regularly to stay informed about our information practices and the ways you can help protect your privacy.
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