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Consumer Website Cookie Policy
Please read this cookie policy carefully before using this website.
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a piece of data that a website will store on your computer or mobile device. The majority of websites on the World Wide Web use cookies to make their websites easier to use. Cookies are safe and can't harm your computer. A cookie is very small and will not take up much space on your computer or mobile device. You are in control of the cookies that are stored and you can delete or block these cookies at any time. Blocking or deleting certain cookies may stop parts of a website from working properly.
What cookies do we currently use?
We currently use a few cookies to make our site more efficient and useful for our customers. Some of these cookies are set by Sizzix and some are set by third parties such as YouTube or Facebook.
We currently 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 a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
- Analytical/performance cookies. They 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 look for easily.
- Functionality cookies. These are used to recognize when you return to our website. This enables us to personalize our content for you, 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 out website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purpose for which we use them in the table below:
Cookies set automatically
| Name | Set by | Expires | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ellison3_session | sizzix.com | 30 days | This cookie is essential and allows products to be placed into a basket, amongst other essential processes. |
| _utma, _utmb, _utmc, _utmz | sizzix.com | 2 years, 30 mins, Session end, 1 day | These cookies collect anonymous analytic information about a user's website visit. For more information on these cookies please see: https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies?hl=en-US |
| cookie_law_uk | sizzix.com | 30 days | This cookie remembers whether you have seen the popup explaining the use of cookies. |
| JSESSIONID | beacon-1.newrelic.com | 5 mins | This cookie allows us to see how quickly or slowly site pages load. |
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| FORM_KEY | Stores randomly generated key used to prevent forged requests. |
| PHPSESSID | Your session ID on the server. |
| GUEST-VIEW | Allows guests to view and edit their orders. |
| PERSISTENT_SHOPPING_CART | A link to information about your cart and viewing history, if you have asked for this. |
| STF | Information on products you have emailed to friends. |
| STORE | The store view or language you have selected. |
| USER_ALLOWED_SAVE_COOKIE | Indicates whether a customer allowed to use cookies. |
| MAGE-CACHE-SESSID | Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster. |
| MAGE-CACHE-STORAGE | Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster. |
| MAGE-CACHE-STORAGE-SECTION-INVALIDATION | Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster. |
| MAGE-CACHE-TIMEOUT | Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster. |
| SECTION-DATA-IDS | Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster. |
| PRIVATE_CONTENT_VERSION | Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster. |
| X-MAGENTO-VARY | Facilitates caching of content on the server to make pages load faster. |
| MAGE-TRANSLATION-FILE-VERSION | Facilitates translation of content to other languages. |
| MAGE-TRANSLATION-STORAGE | Facilitates translation of content to other languages. |
| AUTOCOMPLETE | Speeds up searching. |
| AUTOCOMPLETE-RECENT | Speeds up searching. |
| AUTOCOMPLETE-PROVIDER | Speeds up searching. |
| _CONV_R, _CONR_S, _CONV_V, _GA, _GAT, BT2, DI2, LOC, SSC, SSH, SSHS, UID, UM, UPS, UVC, VC | Add-this cookies that track device types on the site, power social sharing and provide targeting data for advertising. |
Add-this cookies
We believe that delivering targeted and relevant advertising enhances your Internet experience. We collect non-personally identifiable information from many of the websites in which AddThis is enabled, and use that information to deliver targeted advertising and personalized content on those websites as well as other websites you may visit.
If you prefer that we do not collect non-personally identifiable information about your website visits for the purpose of delivering targeted advertising, you can easily opt out of interest based advertising facilitated by the AddThis tools at any time using the AddThis opt out.
When you opt out, we will place an opt-out cookie on your computer. The opt-out cookie tells us not to use your information for delivering relevant online advertisements. Please note that if you delete, block, or otherwise restrict cookies, or if you use a different computer or Internet browser, you will need to renew your opt-out choice.
Cookies set by YouTube
We embed YouTube videos into our site using YouTube enhanced privacy mode. This means that YouTube won't set cookies before you press play. You can learn more about the Google Privacy Policy and Youtube Terms of Services by clicking on respective links. Cookies set after pressing play are as follows:
| Name | Set by | Expires | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| PREF, VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE, Use_hitbox | youtube.com | Almost 10 years, 8 months, After session | These cookies allow YouTube to track usage of its services and store user preferences |
Cookies set by Pinterest or Facebook
We use social media sharing buttons on product pages and throughout the site. We currently use Pinterest and Facebook and each company sets cookies when a social sharing button is pressed. These cookies are set from domains outside of our control but we have included the cookie information below for your convenience:
| Name | Set by | Expires | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| _pinterest_sess | pinterest.com | 42 years and 5 months | This cookie is used to keep you logged in as well as utilise certain features of the Pinterest service. For more information please see: http://pinterest.com/about/privacy/ |
| csrftoken | pinterest.com | 1 year | Protects Pinterest from malicious data. For more information please see: http://pinterest.com/about/privacy/ |
| _utma, _utmb, _utmc, _utmz, _utmv | pinterest.com | 2 years, 30 mins, After session, 1 day | These cookies collect anonymous analytic information about a user's website visit. For more information on these cookies please see: https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies?hl=en-US |
| datr, locale, lsd, reg_fb_gate, reg_fb_ref, wd | facebook.com | 1 mins, 7 days, After session, After session, After session, After session | Please see Facebook's cookie policy for more detail: https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/ |
Additional cookies may be set once you log into each service.
Blocking and deleting cookies
You block cookies by activating the setting in your browse that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, 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 method to block or delete cookies depends on which browser you are using. We have included external links to instructions for the most popular browsers, please see below:
Microsoft Internet Explorer 9
Delete - https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/278835/how-to-delete-cookie-files-in-internet-explorer
Privacy Policy - https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-gb/privacystatement#maincookiessimilartechnologiesmodule
Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 or 7
Block - http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows-vista/Block-or-allow-cookies
Delete - https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/278835/how-to-delete-cookie-files-in-internet-explorer
Privacy Policy - https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-gb/privacystatement#maincookiessimilartechnologiesmodule
Microsoft Explorer 10
Block or Delete - https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
Privacy Policy - https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-gb/privacystatement#maincookiessimilartechnologiesmodule
Microsoft Explorer 11
Block or Delete - https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
Privacy Policy - https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/ie11-win7-privacy-statement
Google Chrome
Block or Delete - http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en-GB&answer=95647
Mozilla Firefox
Block – http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Blocking%20cookies
Delete - http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Deleting%20cookies
Microsoft Edge
Delete or Block - https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/4468242/microsoft-edge-browsing-data-and-privacy-microsoft-privacy
Privacy Policy - https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-gb/privacystatement#maincookiessimilartechnologiesmodule
Safari
Delete or Block (Mac) - https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac
Delete or Block (iPhone, iPad or iPod) - https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201265
Privacy Policy - https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/en-ww/
If you are using a browser that isn’t listed above please see: http://www.aboutcookies.org/Default.aspx?page=1