Note
This Cookies Guidance should be read alongside, and in addition to, the Privacy Policy.
What types of cookies does City Lit use?
We use different types of cookies for different things, such as:
- to give you a better, more personalised experience
- remember the preferences you set while using our website
- to understand how our websites are used
Here are the different kinds of cookie we use:
- Essential cookies
- These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the website. Without them services you have asked for cannot be provided.
Some examples of how we use these cookies are:- Signing into the website.
- Remembering previous actions such as text entered into a registration form when navigating back to a page in the same session.
- Functional cookies
- These help us make your experience on our website easier. They enable basic functions such as “remember me” buttons and anything that remembers the particular settings chosen by you. The information these cookies collect may be anonymised and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites. Switching off these cookies will mean that areas of our website can’t work properly.
- Analytics cookies
- These help us understand how people are using our websites. For instance which pages people go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how a website works.
Some examples of how we use these cookies are:- To collect information about which web pages visitors go to most often so we can improve the online experience.
- Error management to make sure that the website is working properly.
What cookies does City Lit use?
Below is a list of the cookies used by City Lit and a brief summary of their primary purposes.
Note
None of the cookies used on the website contain personally identifiable information.
Essential Cookies
| Cookie Name | Purpose | Cookie Provider |
|---|---|---|
| PHPSESSID | To store the logged in user's username and a 128bit encrypted key. This information is required to allow a user to stay logged in to a web site without needing to submit their username and password for each page visited. Without this cookie, a user is unable to proceed to areas of the web site that require authenticated access. | Magento |
| private_content_version | Appends a random, unique number and time to pages with customer content to prevent them from being cached on the server. | Magento |
| persistent_shopping_cart | Stores the key (ID) of persistent cart to make it possible to restore the cart for an anonymous shopper. | Magento |
| form_key | A security measure that appends a random string to all form submissions to protect the data from Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). | Magento |
| store | Tracks the specific store view / locale selected by the shopper. | Magento |
| login_redirect | Preserves the destination page the customer was navigating to before being directed to log in. | Magento |
| mage-messages | 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. | Magento |
| mage-cache-storage | Local storage of visitor-specific content that enables e-commerce functions. | Magento |
| mage-cache-storage-section-invalidation | Forces local storage of specific content sections that should be invalidated. | Magento |
| mage-cache-sessid | The value of this cookie triggers the cleanup of local cache storage. | Magento |
| product_data_storage | Stores configuration for product data related to Recently Viewed / Compared Products. | Magento |
| user_allowed_save_cookie | Indicates if the shopper allows cookies to be saved. | Magento |
| mage-translation-storage | Stores translated content when requested by the shopper. | Magento |
| section_data_ids | Stores customer-specific information related to shopper-initiated actions such as display wish list, checkout information, etc. | Magento |
| Mention-Me Ltd | Third party service provider who will place functional cookies if students interact with refer-a-friend programme. Processing student email addresses and certain order data for the purposes of: enrolling students onto our refer-a friend programme, monitoring the programme and safeguarding against gaming or fraudulent use of the programme, communicating with students in connection with operation of the programme and delivery of rewards and reporting to City Lit on the performance of the programme. For more information, please visit https://mention-me.com/help/privacy_policy_s#cookies | Mention Me |
Marketing cookies
| Cookie Name | Purpose | Cookie Provider |
|---|---|---|
| recently_compared_product_previous | Stores product IDs of previously compared products for easy navigation. | Magento |
| recently_viewed_product | Stores product IDs of recently viewed products for easy navigation. | Magento |
| recently_viewed_product_previous | Stores product IDs of recently previously viewed products for easy navigation. | Magento |
| recently_compared_product | Stores product IDs of recently compared products. | Magento |
Analytics cookies
| Cookie Name | Purpose | Cookie Provider |
|---|---|---|
| _ga | Used to distinguish users. | Google Analytics |