Cookie Statement

Cookies Our websites Dogstrust.ie, Dogstrustshop.ie and Learnwithdogstrust.ie use cookies (small files that are written to your computer by websites and other online services). Some of these cookies are essential for the purposes and functioning of the site. Others are used by third party services to provide analytics or social media sharing capabilities on the site. This will result in data being shared with third parties.

Our Cookies:

1 yearHotjar cookie that is set once a visitor completes a survey using the On-site Survey widget. It is used to ensure that the same survey does not reappear if it has already been filled in.When the Hotjar script executes we try to determine the most generic cookie path we should use, instead of the page hostname. This is done so that cookies can be shared across subdomains (where applicable). To determine this, we try to store the _hjTLDTest cookie for different URL substring alternatives until it fails. After this check, the cookie is removed.SessionUser Attributes sent through the Hotjar Identify API are cached for the duration of the session in order to know when an attribute has changed and needs to be updated.30 minutes30 minutes

Site/cookie owner	Name	Lifespan of cookie	Purpose	Notes
dogstrust.ie Google/	__cfduid	1 year	Set by the Cloudflare service. It is used to improve site speed and performance and does not record any personal information.	Performance cookies
	__utma	2 years	Google Analytics: Used to distinguish users and sessions. Updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.	Advertising/Targeting Cookies information about your use of website, including your IP address, may be transmitted to Google and stored on servers in the United States.
	__utmz	6 months	Google Analytics: Stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached our site. Updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.	Advertising/Targeting Cookies information about your use of website, including your IP address, may be transmitted to Google and stored on servers in the United States.
	_ga	2 years	Google analytics - Distinguishes between users	Performance cookies information about your use of website, including your IP address, may be transmitted to Google and stored on servers in the United States.
	_gat	Session only – 1 minute	Google analytics Used to throttle request rate	Performance cookies information about your use of website, including your IP address, may be transmitted to Google and stored on servers in the United States.
	_gid	1 day	Google analytics Distinguishes between users	Performance cookies
	_vwo_uuid_v2	1 year and 1 month	cookie ensures a visitor always sees the same version of a page and is used to track behaviour to measure the performance of different page versions	Performance cookie cookie name is associated with the product Visual Website Optimiser
www.dogstrust.ie	SERVERID	Session only	Used to manage users’ sessions and balance website load to ensure that website performance is optimal.	Functional Cookie
	_hjIncludedInSample	Session only	web analytics functionality It uniquely identifies a visitor during a single browser session and indicates they are included in an audience sample.	Performance cookie
Doubleclick.net Set by Google	DSID	2 weeks	Advert coordination across devices	Advertising/Targeting Cookies
	id	12+ years	OPT OUT	Use restricted by Google since May 2018
Facebook.com	act	Session only	Enables the Facebook ‘like’ button and ‘follow us on facebook’	Functional Cookie
	c_user	3 months	Contains the user id of Facebook - Enables the Facebook ‘like’ button and ‘follow us on facebook’	Functional Cookie
	datr	2 years	A Facebook cookie that monitors your Facebook account for suspicious behaviour such as failed login attempts or attempts to create spam accounts. Enables the Facebook ‘like’ button and ‘follow us on facebook’	Functional Cookie
	fr	3 months	Facebook Pixel tracking cookie – track and monitior the success of adverts used on facebook including recording device used for access and action on website. Used to create retargeting adverts and custom audiences for adverts on facebook and for our website	Advertising/Targeting Cookies
	locale	1 week	A Facebook cookie that identifies user’s language and country	Functional Cookie
	pl	3 months	cookies are used by Facebook to support social sharing and the integration of Facebook services.	Advertising/Targeting Cookies
	presence	Session only	cookies are used by Facebook to support social sharing and the integration of Facebook services.	Advertising/Targeting Cookies
	sb	3 months	cookies are used by Facebook to support social sharing and the integration of Facebook services.	Advertising/Targeting Cookies
	spin	1 day + 1 hour	unknown
	wd	1 week	cookies are used by Facebook to support social sharing and the integration of Facebook services.	Advertising/Targeting Cookies
	xs	3 months	Creates unique ID for each visit.	Advertising/Targeting Cookies
	-----	Session only	unknown
	-----	Session only	unknown
Google.com	1P_JAR	1 month	Google uses these cookies, based on recent searches and interactions, to customise ads on Google websites.	Advertising/Targeting Cookies
	APISID	2 years
	CONSENT	20 years	Used by Google for cookie consent settings	Functional Cookie
	HSID	2 years	user’s Google account ID and most recent sign-in time
	NID	6 months	Preferences e.g. language, region, customise ads	Functional Cookie Advertising/Targeting Cookies
	OGP	2 months	This cookie enables the functionality of Google Maps	Functional Cookie
	OGPC	2 months	This cookie enables the functionality of Google Maps	Functional Cookie
	SAPISID	2 years	cookie works by uniquely identifying your browser and device. generally set by advertising partners, and used by them to build a profile of the website visitor's interests and show relevant ads on other sites	Advertising/Targeting Cookies Third Party
	SID	2 years	user’s Google account ID and most recent sign-in time, customise ads	Advertising/Targeting Cookies
	SIDCC	3 months	cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website.	Advertising/Targeting Cookies
	SSID	3 months	cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website.	Advertising/Targeting Cookies
Turn.com Marketing and Data Management Platform provider	fc	6 months	The main purpose of cookies Targeting/Advertising	Advertising/Targeting Cookies
	pds	6 months	The main purpose of cookies Targeting/Advertising	Advertising/Targeting Cookies
	pxs	6 months	The main purpose of cookies Targeting/Advertising	Advertising/Targeting Cookies
	rds	6 months	The main purpose of cookies Targeting/Advertising	Advertising/Targeting Cookies
	rrs	6 months	The main purpose of cookies Targeting/Advertising	Advertising/Targeting Cookies
	rv	6 months	The main purpose of cookies Targeting/Advertising	Advertising/Targeting Cookies
	uid	6 months	Cookie provides a uniquely assigned, machine-generated user ID and gathers data about activity on the website. This data may be sent to a 3rd party for analysis and reporting.	Advertising/Targeting Cookies
Wisepops.com	__cfduid	1 year	Cookie associated with sites using CloudFlare, used to speed up page load times. According to CloudFlare it is used to override any security restrictions based on the IP address the visitor is coming from. It does not contain any user identification information.	Performance cookies
Dogstrustshop.ie	Google Analytics cookies (_ga, _gat, _gid)	Up to 2 years	Cookies written by Google analytics to track site visits and other metrics	Performance cookies
Learnwithdogstrust.ie	Google Analytics cookies (_ga, _gat, _gid)	Up to 2 years	Cookies written by Google analytics to track site visits and other metrics	Performance cookies
	GetClicky	1 year	Website statistics metrics	Advertising/Targeting Cookies
Hotjar.com	_hjClosedSurveyInvites	1 year	Hotjar cookie that is set once a visitor interacts with an External Link Survey invitation modal. It is used to ensure that the same invite does not reappear if it has already been shown.	Performance cookies
	_hjDonePolls	1 year	Hotjar cookie that is set once a visitor completes a survey using the On-site Survey widget. It is used to ensure that the same survey does not reappear if it has already been filled in.
	_hjMinimizedPolls	1 year	Hotjar cookie that is set once a visitor minimizes an On-site Survey widget. It is used to ensure that the widget stays minimized when the visitor navigates through your site.
	_hjShownFeedbackMessage	1 year	Hotjar cookie that is set when a visitor minimizes or completes Incoming Feedback. This is done so that the Incoming Feedback will load as minimized immediately if the visitor navigates to another page where it is set to show.
	_hjid	1 year	Hotjar cookie that is set when the customer first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the Hotjar User ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID.
	_hjRecordingLastActivity	Session	This should be found in Session storage (as opposed to cookies). This gets updated when a visitor recording starts and when data is sent through the WebSocket (the visitor performs an action that Hotjar records).
	_hjTLDTest	Session	When the Hotjar script executes we try to determine the most generic cookie path we should use, instead of the page hostname. This is done so that cookies can be shared across subdomains (where applicable). To determine this, we try to store the _hjTLDTest cookie for different URL substring alternatives until it fails. After this check, the cookie is removed.
	hjUserAttributesHash	Session	User Attributes sent through the Hotjar Identify API are cached for the duration of the session in order to know when an attribute has changed and needs to be updated.
	hjLocalStorageTest	Under 100ms	This cookie is used to check if the Hotjar Tracking Script can use local storage. If it can, a value of 1 is set in this cookie. The data stored in_hjLocalStorageTest has no expiration time, but it is deleted almost immediately after it is created.
	hjIncludedInPageviewSample	30 minutes	This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the data sampling defined by your site's pageview limit.
	hjIncludedInSessionSample	30 minutes	This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the data sampling defined by your site's daily session limit.
	_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress	30 minutes	This cookie is used to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie.
	_hjFirstSeen	Session	This is set to identify a new user’s first session. It stores a true/false value, indicating whether this was the first time Hotjar saw this user. It is used by Recording filters to identify new user sessions.
	hjViewportId	Session	This stores information about the user viewport such as size and dimensions.
	_hjRecordingEnabled	Session	This is added when a Recording starts and is read when the recording module is initialized to see if the user is already in a recording in a particular session.

Shopify cookies:
We use Shopify to host our online shop. These are the cookies that they use for visitors to our online shop:

Cookies Necessary for the Functioning of the Store

Name	Function	Duration
_ab	Used in connection with access to admin.	2y
_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
_secure_account_session_id	Used to track a user's session for new customer accounts	30d
_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
_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
_shopify_m	Used for managing customer privacy settings.	1y
_shopify_tm	Used for managing customer privacy settings.	30min
_shopify_tw	Used for managing customer privacy settings.	2w
_storefront_u	Used to facilitate updating customer account information.	1min
_tracking_consent	Used to store a user's preferences if a merchant has set up privacy rules in the visitor's region.	1y
_cmp_a	Used for managing customer privacy settings.	1d
c	Used in connection with checkout.	1y
cart	Used in connection with shopping cart.	2w
cart_currency	Set after a checkout is completed to ensure that new carts are in the same currency as the last checkout.	2w
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
cart_ts	Used in connection with checkout.	2w
cart_ver	Used in connection with shopping cart.	2w
checkout	Used in connection with checkout.	4w
customer_account_locale	Used in connection with new customer accounts	1y
dynamic_checkout_shown_on_cart	Used in connection with checkout.	30min
hide_shopify_pay_for_checkout	Used in connection with checkout.	session
keep_alive	Used in connection with buyer localization.	2w
master_device_id	Used in connection with merchant login.	2y
previous_step	Used in connection with checkout.	1y
discount_code	Used in connection with checkout.	session
remember_me	Used in connection with checkout.	1y
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
shopify_pay	Used in connection with checkout.	1y
shopify_pay_redirect	Used in connection with checkout.	1 hour, 3w or 1y depending on value
shop_pay_accelerated	Used in connection with checkout.	1y
source_name	Used in combination with mobile apps to provide custom checkout behavior, when viewing a store from within a compatible mobile app.	session
storefront_digest	Stores a digest of the storefront password, allowing merchants to preview their storefront while it's password protected.	2y
tracked_start_checkout	Used in connection with checkout.	1y
checkout_session_lookup	Used in connection with checkout.	3w
checkout_prefill	Used in connection with checkout.	5m
checkout_queue_token	Used in connection with checkout.	1y
checkout_queue_checkout_token	Used in connection with checkout.	1y
checkout_session_token	Used in connection with checkout.	3w
checkout_session_token_<<token>>	Used in connection with checkout.	3w
order	Used in connection with order status page.	3w
identity-state	Used in connection with customer authentication	24h
identity-state-<<token>>	Used in connection with customer authentication	24h
identity_customer_account_number	Used in connection with customer authentication	12w
card_update_verification_id	Used in connection with checkout.	20m
customer_account_new_login	Used in connection with customer authentication	20m
customer_account_preview	Used in connection with customer authentication	7d
customer_payment_method	Used in connection with checkout.	1h
customer_shop_pay_agreement	Used in connection with checkout.	20m
pay_update_intent_id	Used in connection with checkout.	20m
localization	Used in connection with checkout.	2w
profile_preview_token	Used in connection with checkout.	5m
login_with_shop_finalize	Used in connection with customer authentication	5m
preview_theme	Used in connection with the theme editor	session
shopify-editor-unconfirmed-settings	Used in connection with the theme editor	16h
wpm-test-cookie	Used to ensure our systems are working correctly.	session

Reporting and Analytics

Name	Function	Duration
_landing_page	Track landing pages.	2w
_orig_referrer	Track landing pages.	2w
_s	Shopify analytics.	30min
_shopify_d	Shopify analytics.	session
_shopify_fs	Shopify analytics.	30min
_shopify_s	Shopify analytics.	30min
_shopify_sa_p	Shopify analytics relating to marketing & referrals.	30min
_shopify_sa_t	Shopify analytics relating to marketing & referrals.	30min
_shopify_y	Shopify analytics.	1y
_y	Shopify analytics.	1y
_shopify_ga	Shopify and Google Analytics.	session
customer_auth_provider	Shopify analytics.	session
customer_auth_session_created_at	Shopify analytics.	session
unique_interaction_id	Shopify analytics.	10min

Shopify's websites

When visitors load Shopify’s websites, they generally place the following Shopify cookies:

Cookies Necessary for the Functioning of the Sites

Name	Function	Duration
_Brochure_session	Used in connection with browsing through site.	-
checkout	Used in connection with Pay checkout on shop.app.	3w
signed_in	Used in connection with Shop login.	1y
user	Used in connection with Shop login.	1y

Reporting and Analytics

Name	Function
_landing_page	Tracks landing pages.
_orig_referrer	Tracks landing pages.
_s	Shopify analytics.
_session_id	Shopify analytics.
_shopify_s	Shopify analytics.
_shopify_sa_t	Shopify analytics relating to marketing & referrals.
_shopify_uniq	Shopify analytics.
_shopify_y	Shopify analytics.
_y	Shopify analytics.
*_assignment	Shopify analytics.
ab_test_*	Shopify analytics.
cart_sig	Shopify analytics.
ki_r	Shopify analytics.
ki_t	Shopify analytics.

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