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Cookies Policy

What are cookies?

 

Cookies are small text files a website might put on your computer or mobile device when you first visit the site or a particular page. The cookie helps the website to recognise your device the next time you visit.

 


Cookies can:

 

• Help us to remember your preferences
• Analyse how well our website is performing
• Contain personal information so you don’t need to enter it twice (for instance, when you tick the ‘Remember Me’ box)

 


What sort of cookies does lightbulbs-direct.com use?

 

This website uses cookies. We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners who may combine it with other information that you’ve provided to them or that they’ve collected from your use of their services.

 

• Cookies are small text files that can be used by websites to make a user's experience more efficient.
• The law states that we can store cookies on your device if they are strictly necessary for the operation of this site.
• For all other types of cookies we need your permission.
• This site uses different types of cookies. Some cookies are placed by third party services that appear on our pages.

 

Your consent applies to the following domains: www.lightbulbs-direct.com

 


Essential

 

Essential for the site and any requested services to work, but do not perform any additional or secondary function.

 

NameProviderPurposeExpiryType
__tld__ BigCommerce Used to track visitors on multiple websites, in order to present relevant advertisement based on the visitor's preferences. Session HTTP
_fbp Facebook Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. 3 months HTTP
ajs%3Acookies BigCommerce Collects data on visitors. This information is used to assign visitors into segments, making website advertisement more efficient. 1 year HTTP
ajs%3Atest BigCommerce Collects data on visitors. This information is used to assign visitors into segments, making website advertisement more efficient. 1 year HTTP
ajs_anonymous_id BigCommerce This cookie is used to identify a specific visitor - this information is used to identify the number of specific visitors on a website. 1 year HTTP
ajs_group_id BigCommerce This cookie is used to assign specific visitors into segments, this segmentation is based on visitor behavior on the website - the segmentation can be used to target larger groups. 1 year HTTP
ajs_user_id BigCommerce This cookie is used to collect data on the visitor's behavior on the website - this information can be used to assign the visitor to a visitor segment, based on common preferences. 1 year HTTP
bc_consent lightbulbs-direct.com Used to determine if the shopper has consented to tracking when the consent manager is enabled. 2 years HTTP
cart-quantity BigCommerce Used to keep track of product quantity in cart Persistent HTML Local Storage
fornax_anonymousId lightbulbs-direct.com Registers statistical data on users' behaviour on the website. Used for internal analytics by the website operator. 2 years HTTP
SHOP_SESSION_TOKEN lightbulbs-direct.com Necessary for the shopping cart functionality on the web site. 6 days HTTP
Shopper-Pref lightbulbs-direct.com User preferences. 6 days HTTP
STORE_VISITOR lightbulbs-direct.com Sets a ID for the visitor. This serves to count the number of specific visitors on the website. 1 day HTTP
test_cookie lightbulbs-direct.com Used to check if the user's browser supports cookies. 1 day HTTP
tracking-preferences lightbulbs-direct.com Used to store shopper tracking preferences when consent manager is enabled. To help determine what type of Scripts (Essential, etc) will load. 2 years HTTP
XSRF-TOKEN lightbulbs-direct.com Ensures visitor browsing-security by preventing cross-site request forgery. This cookie is essential for the security of the website and visitor. Session HTTP

Analytics

 

Provide statistical information on site usage, e.g., web analytics so we can improve this website over time.

 

NameProviderPurposeExpiryType
_ga lightbulbs-direct.com Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. 2 years HTTP
_ga_# lightbulbs-direct.com Used by Google Analytics to collect data on the number of times a user has visited the website as well as dates for the first and most recent visit. 2 years HTTP
_gali Google This cookie is associated with Google Analytics. This cookie is used to collect information about how visitors use our site. 30 seconds HTTP
_gat Google This cookie is associated with Google Analytics. It is used to throttle the request rate – limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. 1 minute HTTP
_gid Google Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. 1 day HTTP

Functional

 

Enables enhanced functionality, such as videos and live chat. If you do not allow these, then some or all of these functions may not work properly.

 

NameProviderPurposeExpiryType
         

Targeting; Advertising

 

Used to create profiles or personalize content to enhance your shopping experience.

 

NameProviderPurposeExpiryType
  dotdigital.com Tracks and identifies a respondent as they answer the survey and records when the survey is complete. Session HTTP
_gcl_au Google Tag Manager Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services. 3 months HTTP
_uetsid lightbulbs-direct.com 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 they are shown the same advertisement. 1 day HTML Local Storage
_uetsid lightbulbs-direct.com Used to track visitors on multiple websites, in order to present relevant advertisement based on the visitor's preferences. Persistent HTML Local Storage
_uetsid_exp lightbulbs-direct.com Contains the expiry-date for the cookie with corresponding name. Persistent HTML Local Storage
_uetvid lightbulbs-direct.com Used to track visitors on multiple websites, in order to present relevant advertisement based on the visitor's preferences. 1 year HTTP
_uetvid lightbulbs-direct.com Used to track visitors on multiple websites, in order to present relevant advertisement based on the visitor's preferences. Persistent HTML Local Storage
_uetvid_exp lightbulbs-direct.com Contains the expiry-date for the cookie with corresponding name. Persistent HTML Local Storage
5H2J-71N-Dismissed dotdigital.com Tracks and identifies a respondent as they answer the survey and records when the survey is complete. 1 day HTTP
ads/ga-audiences google.com Used by Google AdWords to re-engage visitors that are likely to convert to customers based on the visitor's online behaviour across websites. Session Pixel
dmSessionID dotdigital.com Tracks and identifies a visitor as an Engagement Cloud contact whilst they browse a site’s pages. This data can then be used for better segmenting and targeting of contacts 1 day HTTP
LP-82158F604453E2185H2J1F0380E8B464D8EA dotdigital.com Tracks and identifies a respondent as they answer the survey and records when the survey is complete. 30 days HTTP
MUID bing.com Used widely by Microsoft as a unique user ID. The cookie enables user tracking by synchronising the ID across many Microsoft domains. 1 year HTTP
pagead/1p-user-list/# google.com Tracks if the user has shown interest in specific products or events across multiple websites and detects how the user navigates between sites. This is used for measurement of advertisement efforts and facilitates payment of referral-fees between websites. Session Pixel
pagevisist r1.trackedweb.net Registers statistical data on users' behaviour on the website. Used for internal analytics by the website operator. Session Pixel
recordID dotdigital.com Tracks and identifies a visitor as an Engagement Cloud contact whilst they browse a site’s pages. This data can then be used for better segmenting and targeting of contacts 1 year HTTP
respondentid5H2J-71N dotdigital.com Tracks and identifies a respondent as they answer the survey and records when the survey is complete. 30 days HTTP
respondentid5H2J-71N dotdigital.com Tracks and identifies a respondent as they answer the survey and records when the survey is complete. Session HTTP
respondentid5H2J-71Ncount dotdigital.com A counter to stop users filling in the same form in a second time and overwriting any previous submissions. Session HTTP
Survey-Started-e96f02ba1f4d4b9d5eye5ecb24afb152fb73 dotdigital.com Tracks and identifies a respondent as they answer the survey and records when the survey is complete. 1 day HTTP

Unclassified

 

Unclassified cookies are cookies that we are in the process of classifying, together with the providers of individual cookies.

 

NameProviderPurposeExpiryType