Ponsford Cookie Notice
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we may store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.
Our website uses cookies and other similar technologies (referred to together as “cookies” in this policy) to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our website.
We use the following cookies:
Cookies can be first party (set by the website that the user is visiting) or third party (set by a domain other than the one the user is visiting). They can also be session (last for the duration of a session on the website) or persistent (continue once that session has ended).
For more information about how to change your cookie preferences, please see below.
First Party Cookies
The table below explains the first party cookies we use and why.
Name and Type |
Purpose |
Cookie Duration |
ESSENTIAL COOKIES |
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_orig_referrer |
Shopify sets this cookie to be used in connection with shopping cart. |
14 days |
ANALYTICS COOKIES |
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_landing_page |
Shopify installs this cookie to track landing pages. |
14 days |
_y |
This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite. |
1 year |
_s |
This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite. |
30 minutes |
_shopify_y |
This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite. |
1 year |
_shopify_s |
This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite. |
30 minutes |
_shopify_sa_t |
This is a Shopify analytics cookie relating to marketing and referrals. |
30 minutes |
_shopify_sa_p |
This is a Shopify analytics cookie relating to marketing and referrals. |
30 minutes |
Third Party Cookies
Some of the cookies we use are set by third parties. We work with other companies, such as search engine providers, so that we can learn more about our customers, in order to understand performance and engagement, provide a personalised experience and deliver more relevant advertising. The table below further explains the third party cookies that are used on our website and their purposes.
To learn more about how these third parties process personal information, to the extent relevant, follow the links in the table below to the third party privacy notice.
Third Party |
Purpose |
Cookie Duration |
Link to third party privacy notice |
ESSENTIAL COOKIES |
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JSESSIONID |
The JSESSIONID cookie is used by New Relic to store a session identifier so that New Relic can monitor session counts for an application. |
session |
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FUNCTIONALITY COOKIES |
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localization |
Flickr sets this cookie to to track usage of photo galleries embedded from Flickr. |
1 year |
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optimizelyEndUserId |
Optimizely uses this cookie to store a visitor's unique identifier which is a combination of a timestamp and a random number. Different variations of web parts are shown to users that optimizes the website's user experience. |
10 years |
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TawkConnectionTime |
Tawk.to, a live chat functionality, sets this cookie. For improved service, this cookie helps remember users so that previous chats can be linked together. |
session |
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src |
The domain of this cookie is owned by POWr.Inc. This cookie is used by POWr Social Feed. |
1 month |
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ANALYTICS COOKIES |
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_ga |
The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors. |
2 years |
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_gid |
Installed by Google Analytics, _gid cookie stores information on how visitors use a website, while also creating an analytics report of the website's performance. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. |
1 day |
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_gcl_au |
Provided by Google Tag Manager to experiment advertisement efficiency of websites using their services. |
3 months |
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_gat_UA-135216839-2 |
A variation of the _gat cookie set by Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager to allow website owners to track visitor behaviour and measure site performance. The pattern element in the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. |
1 minute |
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ahoy_visit |
This cookie is set by Powr for analytics measurement. |
12 hours |
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ahoy_visitor |
This cookie is set by Powr for analytics measurement. |
2 years |
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PERFORMANCE COOKIES |
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_gat |
This cookie is installed by Google Universal Analytics to restrain request rate and thus limit the collection of data on high traffic sites. |
1 minute |
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__kla_id |
Cookie set to track when someone clicks through a Klaviyo email to a website. |
2 years |
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unique_id |
This cookie is set by Powr.io to preserve user states across page requests. |
session |
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MARKETING COOKIES |
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personalization_id |
Twitter sets this cookie to integrate and share features for social media and also store information about how the user uses the website, for tracking and targeting. |
2 years |
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test_cookie |
The test_cookie is set by doubleclick.net and is used to determine if the user's browser supports cookies. |
15 minutes |
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POWR_PRODUCTION |
This cookie is set by the provider Powr. The cookie is used for pop-up advertisement content on the website. The cookie is set up by the POWr Social Feed. |
session |
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IDE |
Google DoubleClick IDE cookies are used to store information about how the user uses the website to present them with relevant ads and according to the user profile. |
1 year 24 days |
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OTHER COOKIES |
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muc_ads |
2 years |
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twk_idm_key |
session |
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optimizelyDomainTestCookie |
10 years |
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_secure_session_id |
1 day |
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__cflb |
This cookie is used by Cloudflare for load balancing. |
7 days |
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ahoy_unique_17429897 |
12 hours |
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cookietest |
session |
Cookie Preferences
You can control which types of cookie are set by changing your preferences through our cookie banner when you first visit our website or at any time by clicking here[INSERT HYPERLINK TO COOKIE PREFERENCE CENTRE].
Cookies can also be controlled by your web browser settings. Whether our cookies are used will depend on your browser settings, so you are in control. You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser 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 website and you will not receive a personalised service.
To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, please use the following links:
Contact us
Questions, comments and requests regarding this policy should be addressed to sales@ponsford.co.uk or by writing to us at 577-609 London Road, Sheffield S2 4HS.