Sterna Clothing Cookie Policy
This is the Cookie Policy for using the Sterna Clothing Ltd website and services, accessible from https://www.sterna-clothing.com.
What Are Cookies
As is common practice with most professional websites, this site uses cookies, tiny files downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what data they gather, how we use them, and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored; however, this may downgrade or “break” certain elements of the site’s functionality.
How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for various reasons, detailed below. Unfortunately, in most cases, there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are unsure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service you use.
Disabling Cookies
You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies usually results in also disabling certain functionality and features of this site. Therefore, it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.
The Cookies We Set
We use the following cookies to provide you with the most personalised experience possible.
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Account-related cookies
If you create an account with us, we will use cookies to manage the signup process and general administration. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out; however, in some cases, they may remain afterwards to remember your site preferences when you log out.
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Login-related cookies
We use cookies when you are logged in to remember this fact. These cookies prevent you from having to log in every time you visit a new page. These cookies are typically removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features and areas when logged in.
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Email newsletters-related cookies
This site offers newsletter or email subscription services, and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications that might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.
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Orders processing related cookies
This site offers e-commerce or payment facilities, and some cookies are essential to ensure that your order is remembered between pages so we can process it properly.
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Surveys-related cookies
From time to time, we offer user surveys and questionnaires to provide you with interesting insights, helpful tools, or to understand our user base more accurately. These surveys may use cookies to remember who has already taken part in a survey or provide accurate results after you change pages.
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Forms-related cookies
When you submit data through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms, cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.
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Site preferences cookies
To provide you with a great experience on this site, we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. To remember your preferences, we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page affected by your preferences.
Third-party Cookies
In some exceptional cases, we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties—the following section details which third-party cookies you might encounter on this site.
- This site uses Google Analytics, one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web. It helps us understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track how long you spend on the site and the pages you visit so we can continue producing engaging content.
For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page. - Third-party analytics are used to track and measure the usage of this site so that we can continue to produce engaging content. These cookies may track how long you spend on the site or pages you visit, which helps us understand how we can improve the site for you.
- From time to time, we test new features and make subtle changes to how the site is delivered. When we are still testing new features, these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience on the site whilst ensuring we understand which optimisations our users appreciate the most.
- As we sell products, it's important for us to understand statistics about how many visitors to our site actually make a purchase. As such, this is the kind of data that these cookies will track. It is important to you as it means we can accurately make business predictions to monitor our advertising and product costs to ensure the best possible price.
- The Google AdSense service we use to advertise uses a DoubleClick cookie to serve more relevant ads across the web and limit the number of times a given ad is shown to you.
For more information on Google AdSense, see the official Google AdSense privacy FAQ. - We use adverts to offset the costs of running this site and provide funding for further development. The behavioural advertising cookies used by this site are designed to ensure that we provide you with the most relevant adverts where possible by anonymously tracking your interests and presenting similar things that may be of interest.
- Several partners advertise on our behalf, and affiliate tracking cookies simply allow us to see if our customers have come to the site through one of our partner sites so that we can credit them appropriately and, where applicable, allow our affiliate partners to provide any bonus that they may provide you for making a purchase.
- We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work, the following social media sites, including X, Facebook, WhatsApp, Pinterest, Instagram, Google, TikTok, LinkedIn, and YouTube, will set cookies through our site, which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.
Shopify Merchant Store Front Cookies
This website is powered by Shopify and must use cookies to function properly and provide a seamless experience for our customers.
Cookies Necessary for the Functioning of the Store
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NAME |
FUNCTION |
DURATION |
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_ab |
Used in connection with access to admin. |
2y |
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_customer_account_shop_sessions |
Used in combination with the _secure_account_session_id cookie to track a user's session for new customer accounts |
30d |
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_secure_account_session_id |
Used to track a user's session for new customer accounts |
30d |
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_secure_session_id |
Used to track a user's session through the multi-step checkout process and keep their order, payment and shipping details connected. |
24h |
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_shopify_country |
For shops where pricing currency/country set from GeoIP, that cookie stores the country we've detected. This cookie helps avoid doing GeoIP lookups after the first request. |
session |
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_shopify_m |
Used for managing customer privacy settings. |
1y |
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_shopify_tm |
Used for managing customer privacy settings. |
30min |
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_shopify_tw |
Used for managing customer privacy settings. |
2w |
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_storefront_u |
Used to facilitate updating customer account information. |
1min |
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_tracking_consent |
Used to store a user's preferences if a merchant has set up privacy rules in the visitor's region. |
1y |
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_cmp_a |
Used for managing customer privacy settings. |
1d |
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c |
Used in connection with checkout. |
1y |
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cart |
Used in connection with shopping cart. |
2w |
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cart_currency |
Set after a checkout is completed to ensure that new carts are in the same currency as the last checkout. |
2w |
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cart_sig |
A hash of the contents of a cart. This is used to verify the integrity of the cart and to ensure performance of some cart operations. |
2w |
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cart_ts |
Used in connection with checkout. |
2w |
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cart_ver |
Used in connection with shopping cart. |
2w |
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checkout |
Used in connection with checkout. |
4w |
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checkout_token |
Used in connection with checkout. |
1y |
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customer_account_locale |
Used in connection with new customer accounts |
1y |
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dynamic_checkout_shown_on_cart |
Used in connection with checkout. |
30min |
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hide_shopify_pay_for_checkout |
Used in connection with checkout. |
session |
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keep_alive |
Used in connection with buyer localisation. |
2w |
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master_device_id |
Used in connection with merchant login. |
2y |
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previous_step |
Used in connection with checkout. |
1y |
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discount_code |
Used in connection with checkout. |
session |
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remember_me |
Used in connection with checkout. |
1y |
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secure_customer_sig |
Used to identify a user after they sign into a shop as a customer so they do not need to log in again. |
1y |
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shopify_pay |
Used in connection with checkout. |
1y |
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shopify_pay_redirect |
Used in connection with checkout. |
1 hour, 3w or 1y depending on value |
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shop_pay_accelerated |
Used in connection with checkout. |
1y |
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source_name |
Used in combination with mobile apps to provide custom checkout behavior, when viewing a store from within a compatible mobile app. |
session |
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storefront_digest |
Stores a digest of the storefront password, allowing merchants to preview their storefront while it's password protected. |
2y |
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tracked_start_checkout |
Used in connection with checkout. |
1y |
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checkout_session_lookup |
Used in connection with checkout. |
3w |
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checkout_prefill |
Used in connection with checkout. |
5m |
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checkout_queue_token |
Used in connection with checkout. |
1y |
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checkout_queue_checkout_token |
Used in connection with checkout. |
1y |
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checkout_worker_session |
Used in connection with checkout. |
3d |
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checkout_session_token |
Used in connection with checkout. |
3w |
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checkout_session_token_<<token>> |
Used in connection with checkout. |
3w |
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cookietest |
Used to ensure our systems are working correctly |
1m |
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order |
Used in connection with order status page. |
3w |
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identity-state |
Used in connection with customer authentication |
24h |
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identity-state-<<token>> |
Used in connection with customer authentication |
24h |
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identity_customer_account_number |
Used in connection with customer authentication |
12w |
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card_update_verification_id |
Used in connection with checkout. |
20m |
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customer_account_new_login |
Used in connection with customer authentication |
20m |
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customer_account_preview |
Used in connection with customer authentication |
7d |
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customer_payment_method |
Used in connection with checkout. |
1h |
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customer_shop_pay_agreement |
Used in connection with checkout. |
20m |
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pay_update_intent_id |
Used in connection with checkout. |
20m |
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localization |
Used in connection with checkout. |
2w |
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profile_preview_token |
Used in connection with checkout. |
5m |
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login_with_shop_finalize |
Used in connection with customer authentication |
5m |
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preview_theme |
Used in connection with the theme editor |
session |
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shopify-editor-unconfirmed-settings |
Used in connection with the theme editor |
16h |
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wpm-test-cookie |
Used to ensure our systems are working correctly. |
session |
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_Brochure_session |
Used in connection with browsing through site. |
- |
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checkout |
Used in connection with Pay checkout on shop.app. |
3w |
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signed_in |
Used in connection with Shop login. |
1y |
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user |
Used in connection with Shop login. |
1y |
Reporting and Analytics
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NAME |
DESCRIPTION |
DURATION |
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_landing_page |
Track landing pages. |
2w |
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_orig_referrer |
Track landing pages. |
2w |
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_s |
Shopify analytics. |
30min |
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_shopify_d |
Shopify analytics. |
session |
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_shopify_fs |
Shopify analytics. |
30min |
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_shopify_s |
Shopify analytics. |
30min |
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_shopify_sa_p |
Shopify analytics relating to marketing & referrals. |
30min |
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_shopify_sa_t |
Shopify analytics relating to marketing & referrals. |
30min |
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_shopify_y |
Shopify analytics. |
1y |
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_y |
Shopify analytics. |
1y |
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_shopify_ga |
Shopify and Google Analytics. |
session |
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customer_auth_provider |
Shopify analytics. |
session |
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customer_auth_session_created_at |
Shopify analytics. |
session |
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shop_analytics |
Shopify analytics. |
1y |
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unique_interaction_id |
Shopify analytics. |
10min |
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_shopify_uniq |
Shopify analytics. |
- |
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*_assignment |
Shopify analytics. |
- |
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ab_test_* |
Shopify analytics. |
- |
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cart_sig |
Shopify analytics. |
- |
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ki_r |
Shopify analytics. |
- |
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ki_t |
Shopify analytics. |
- |
Additionally, we use pixels and tags from the following third parties, which may, in turn, place cookies.
Cookies Necessary for the Functioning of the Sites
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THIRD PARTY |
DESCRIPTION |
PRIVACY POLICY |
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Cloudflare |
Shopify uses Cloudflare Network as a Service for edge routing. |
Reporting & Analytics
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THIRD PARTY |
DESCRIPTION |
PRIVACY POLICY |
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Facebook Pixel |
We use Facebook Pixel to help measure how users interact with our websites. |
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Google Analytics |
We use Google Analytics to help measure how users interact with our websites. |
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Google Tag Manager |
We use Google Tag Manager to help manage analytics vendors. |
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LinkedIn Insight Tag |
We use LinkedIn Insight Tag to help measure how users interact with our websites. |
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Pinterest Analytics |
We use Pinterest Analytics to help measure how users interact with our websites. |
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Snapchat |
We use Snapchat to help measure how users interact with our websites. |
Advertising
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THIRD PARTY |
DESCRIPTION |
PRIVACY POLICY |
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Microsoft Advertising |
We use Microsoft Advertising to deliver targeted advertisements to individuals who visit our websites. |
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Facebook Custom Audiences |
We use Facebook Custom Audiences to deliver targeted advertisements to individuals who visit our websites. |
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We use Google Ads to deliver targeted advertisements to individuals who visit our websites. |
Social Media and Content
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THIRD PARTY |
DESCRIPTION |
PRIVACY POLICY |
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Facebook Connect |
We use Facebook Connect to allow visitors to our website to interact with and share content via Facebook’s social media platform. |
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We use Twitter to allow visitors to our website to interact with and share content via Twitter’s social media platform. |
More Information
Hopefully, that has clarified things for you. As was previously mentioned, if there is something that you aren't sure whether you need or not, it's usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it interacts with one of the features you use on our site.
However, if you are still looking for more information, then you can contact us through one of our preferred contact methods:
- Email: hello@sterna-clothing.com
