Cookie Policy

COOKIE POLICY for ERAProtect.com

Last updated March 2023

INTRODUCTION

ERA Home Security (“we” or “us” or “our”) may use cookies, web beacons, tracking pixels, and other tracking technologies when you visit our website ERA Protect, including any other media form, media channel, mobile website, or mobile application related or connected thereto (collectively, the “Site”) to help customize the Site and improve your experience.

We reserve the right to make changes to this Cookie Policy at any time and for any reason. We will alert you about any changes by updating the “Last Updated” date of this Cookie Policy. Any changes or modifications will be effective immediately upon posting the updated Cookie Policy on the Site, and you waive the right to receive specific notice of each such change or modification.

You are encouraged to periodically review this Cookie Policy to stay informed of updates. You will be deemed to have been made aware of, will be subject to, and will be deemed to have accepted the changes in any revised Cookie Policy by your continued use of the Site after the date such revised Cookie Policy is posted.

USE OF COOKIES

A “cookie” is a string of information which assigns you a unique identifier that we store on your computer. Your browser then provides that unique identifier to use each time you submit a query to the Site. We use cookies on the Site to, among other things, keep track of services you have used, record registration information, record your user preferences, keep you logged into the Site, facilitate purchase procedures, and track the pages you visit. Cookies help us understand how the Site is being used and improve your user experience.

TYPES OF COOKIES

The following types of cookies may be used when you visit the Site:

Advertising Cookies

Advertising cookies are placed on your computer by advertisers and ad servers in order to display advertisements that are most likely to be of interest to you. These cookies allow advertisers and ad servers to gather information about your visits to the Site and other websites, alternate the ads sent to a specific computer, and track how often an ad has been viewed and by whom. These cookies are linked to a computer and do not gather any personal information about you.

Analytics Cookies

Analytics cookies monitor how users reached the Site, and how they interact with and move around once on the Site. These cookies let us know what features on the Site are working the best and what features on the Site can be improved.

Our Cookies

Our cookies are “first-party cookies”, and can be either permanent or temporary. These are necessary cookies, without which the Site won't work properly or be able to provide certain features and functionalities. Some of these may be manually disabled in your browser, but may affect the functionality of the Site.

Personalisation Cookies

Personalisation cookies are used to recognise repeat visitors to the Site. We use these cookies to record your browsing history, the pages you have visited, and your settings and preferences each time you visit the Site.

Security Cookies

Security cookies help identify and prevent security risks. We use these cookies to authenticate users and protect user data from unauthorised parties.

Site Management Cookies

Site management cookies are used to maintain your identity or session on the Site so that you are not logged off unexpectedly, and any information you enter is retained from page to page. These cookies cannot be turned off individually, but you can disable all cookies in your browser.

Third-Party Cookies

Third-party cookies may be place on your computer when you visit the Site by companies that run certain services we offer. These cookies allow the third parties to gather and track certain information about you. These cookies can be manually disabled in your browser.

Cookies witnessed on eraprotect.com

We have listed details of cookies set by services we use to better understand the use of our website. We use this data to continuously improve our service we offer:

                                                        Essential Cookies

 

Name

Description

Duration

Category

_ab

This cookie is generally provided by Shopify and is used in connection with access to the admin view of an online store platform.

 

At least one Session

Essential

_orig_referrer

This cookie is generally provided by Shopify and is used to track landing pages.

At least one Session

Essential

_secure_session_id

This cookie is generally provided by Shopify and is used to track a user's session through the multi-step checkout process and keep their order, payment and shipping details connected.

 

At least one Session

Essential

cart_sig

This cookie is generally provided by Shopify and is used in connection with checkout. It is used to verify the integrity of the cart and to ensure performance of some cart operations.

 

At least one Session

Essential

cart_ts

This cookie is generally provided by Shopify and is used in connection with checkout.

At least one Session

Essential

checkout_token

This cookie is generally provided by Shopify and is used in connection with a checkout service.

At least one Session

Essential

storefront_digest

This cookie is generally provided by Shopify and it stores a digest of the storefront password, allowing merchants to preview their storefront while it's password protected.

At least one Session

Essential

cookieconsent_status

This cookie is associated with the app GDPR/CCPA + Cookie Management and is used for storing the customer's consent.

At least one Session

Essential

cookieconsent_preferences_disabled

This cookie is associated with the app GDPR/CCPA + Cookie Management and is used for storing the customer's consent.

 

Essential

tracked_start_checkout

This cookie is generally provided by Shopify and is used in connection with checkout.

At least one Session

Essential

 

                                         Reporting and Analytics Cookies

 

 

Name

Description

Duration

Category

_shopify_fs

This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite.

At least one session

Reporting and Analytics

_shopify_s

This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite.

At least one session

Reporting and Analytics

_shopify_sa_t

This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite concerning marketing and referrals.

30 minutes

Reporting and Analytics

_shopify_y

This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite.

1 year

Reporting and Analytics

_y

This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite.

At least one session

Reporting and Analytics

_ga

This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics

2 years

Reporting and Analytics

_gat

This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics

1 minute

Reporting and Analytics

__atuvc

This cookie is associated with the AddThis social sharing widget This widget is commonly embedded in websites to enable visitors to share content with a range of networking and sharing platforms. It stores an updated page share count.

 

 

13 months

Reporting and Analytics

__atuvc

This cookie is associated with the AddThis social sharing widget This widget is commonly embedded in websites to enable visitors to share content with a range of networking and sharing platforms. It stores an updated page share count.

 

 

13 months

Reporting and Analytics

__utma

This cookie is what’s called a “persistent” cookie, as in, it never expires. This cookie keeps track of the number of times a visitor has been to the site pertaining to the cookie, when their first visit was, and when their last visit occurred. Google Analytics uses the information from this cookie to calculate things like Days and Visits to purchase.

Persistant

Reporting and Analytics

_s

This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite.

 

Reporting and Analytics

 

                                         Marketing And Retargeting Cookies

 

 

Name

Description

 

Category

IDE

This domain is owned by Doubleclick (Google). The main business activity is: Doubleclick is Googles real time bidding advertising exchange

 

Marketing And Retargeting

GPS

This cookie is associated with YouTube which collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites.

 

 

Session

Marketing and Retargeting

PREF

This cookie, which may be set by Google or Doubleclick, may be used by advertising partners to build a profile of interests to show relevant ads on other sites.

 

8 Months

Marketing and Retargeting

BizoID

This is a Microsoft MSN 1st party cookie to enable user-based content.

 

Marketing and Retargeting

_fbp

Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers.

3 Months

Marketing and Retargeting

__adroll

This cookie is associated with AdRoll

At least one session

Marketing and Retargeting

__adroll_v4

This cookie is associated with AdRoll

At least one session

Marketing and Retargeting

__adroll_fpc

This cookie is associated with AdRoll

At least one session

Marketing and Retargeting

__ar_v4

This cookie is associated with AdRoll

Persistent

Marketing and Retargeting

_gads

This period shows the length of the period at which a service can store and/or read certain data from your computer by using a cookie, a pixel, an API, cookieless tracking, or other resources.

 

13 Months

Marketing and Retargeting

_fbc

To store last visit. This shows the length of the period at which a service can store and/or read certain data from your computer by using a cookie, a pixel, an API, cookieless tracking, or other resources.

 

2 Years

Marketing and Retargeting

 

                                                Functional Cookies

 

 

Name

Description

Duration

Category

_gid

This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics

1 day

Functional

__atuvs

__atuvs: This cookie is associated with the AddThis social sharing widget which is commonly embedded in websites to enable visitors to share content with a range of networking and sharing platforms. This is believed to be a new cookie from AddThis which is not yet documented, but has been categorised on the assumption it serves a similar purpose to other cookies set by the service.

 

 

 

1 year

Functional

__cfduid

This shows the length of the period at which a service can store and/or read certain data from your computer by using a cookie, a pixel, an API, cookieless tracking, or other resources.

 

30 days

Functional

Secure_customer_sig

This period shows the length of the period at which a service can store and/or read certain data from your computer by using a cookie, a pixel, an API, cookieless tracking, or other resources.

 

At least one session

Functional

_shopify_uniq

This period shows the length of the period at which a service can store and/or read certain data from your computer by using a cookie, a pixel, an API, cookieless tracking, or other resources.

 

At least one session

Functional

 

                                                   

List of cookies without description
These cookies are yet to have a description. Once a description is available these will be updated accordingly.

 

 

Name

Description

Duration

Category

Identity_State

N/A

 

Essential

identity_customer_account_number

N/A

 

Essential

Cart

N/A

 

Essential

Secret

N/A

 

Essential

_shopify_visit

N/A

 

Reporting and Analytics

customer_auth_provider

N/A

 

Reporting and Analytics

customer_auth_session_created_at

N/A

 

Reporting and Analytics

Collect

N/A

 

Marketing and Retargeting

 

 

 

CONTROL OF COOKIES

Most browsers are set to accept cookies by default. However, you can remove or reject cookies in your browser’s settings. Please be aware that such action could affect the availability and functionality of the Site.

For more information on how to control cookies, check your browser or device’s settings for how you can control or reject cookies.

OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES

In addition to cookies, we may use web beacons, pixel tags, and other tracking technologies on the Site to help customize the Site and improve your experience. A “web beacon” or “pixel tag” is tiny object or image embedded in a web page or email. They are used to track the number of users who have visited particular pages and viewed emails, and acquire other statistical data. They collect only a limited set of data, such as a cookie number, time and date of page or email view, and a description of the page or email on which they reside. Web beacons and pixel tags cannot be declined. However, you can limit their use by controlling the cookies that interact with them.

PRIVACY POLICY

For more information about how we use information collected by cookies and other tracking technologies, please refer to our Privacy Policy posted on the Site. This Cookie Policy is part of and is incorporated into our Privacy Policy. By using the Site, you agree to be bound by this Cookie Policy and our Privacy Policy.

CONTACT US

If you have questions or comments about this Cookie Policy, please contact us at:

ERA Home Security
Valiant Way,
Wolverhampton,
West Midlands
WV9 5GB.