Cookie Policy

This Cookies Policy sets out the basis on which we, Sara Miller Design Ltd (trading as Sara Miller London), use cookies and similar technologies on or in relation to our website, https://www.saramiller.london/(our website). This Cookies Policy is effective from 5th October 2018.

‘Essential’ cookies are automatically placed on your computer or device when you access our website or take certain actions on our website. ‘Non-essential’ cookies and other technologies are only placed on your computer or device if you have consented to us doing so. For information on the difference between essential and non-essential cookies, see the section below entitled About cookies.

For information on how you consent and how you can withdraw your consent to us placing non-essential cookies and other technologies on your computer or device, see the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookies.

Contents

  • About cookies
  • List of cookies used
  • Essential cookies
  • Non-essential cookies
  • How to accept or reject cookies
  • Copyright

About cookies

What are cookies?

Cookies are small data files sent by a website’s server to a web browser, processor memory or hard drive and stored there. They can be used for a range of different purposes, such as customising a website for a particular user, helping a user navigate a website, improving that user’s website experience, and storing that user’s preferences and login information.

Essential and non-essential cookies

Cookies can be classified as either ‘essential’ or ‘non-essential’.

Essential cookies: these are cookies that are either:

  • used solely to carry out or facilitate the transmission of communications over a network; or
  • strictly necessary to provide an online service (e.g. our website or a service on our website) which you have requested.

Non-essential cookies: these are any cookies that do not fall within the definition of essential cookies, such as cookies used to analyse your behaviour on a website (‘analytical’ cookies) or cookies used to display advertisements to you (‘advertising’ cookies).

Session and persistent cookies

Cookies can be classified as either ‘session’ or ‘persistent’, depending on how long they last after they are placed on your browser.

Session cookies: session cookies last for as long as you keep your browser open. They expire when you close your browser.

Persistent cookies: persistent cookies expire at a fixed point in time or if you manually delete them from your browser, whichever occurs first.

First and third party cookies

Cookies can be classified as ‘first party’ or ‘third party’.

First party cookies: these are cookies placed on your device by our website domain.

Third party cookies: these are cookies placed on your device by third party website domains.

If you require further information about cookies in general, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org

List of cookies used

We use the following cookies on or in relation to our website:

Name of Cookie

Essential or Non-essential?

Type of cookie

First or Third party?

Session or Persistent?

Expiry Time

Purpose

PHPSESSID

Essential

User state preservation related

First party

Session

End of browser session

Preserves user session state across page requests. Essential for site operation.

mage-cache-sessid

Essential

User state preservation related

First party

Session

End of browser session

This cookie is used in context with load balancing; this optimizes the response rate between the visitor and the site, by distributing the traffic load on multiple network links or disk drivers.

mage-cache-storage

Essential

User state preservation related

First party

Session

End of browser session

This cookie is used in context with load balancing; this optimizes the response rate between the visitor and the site, by distributing the traffic load on multiple network links or disk drivers.

mage-cache-storage-section-invalidation

Essential

User state preservation related

First party

Session

End of browser session

This cookie is used in context with load balancing; this optimizes the response rate between the visitor and the site, by distributing the traffic load on multiple network links or disk drivers.

popup_ids

Non-essential

Popup functionality related

First party

Persistent

1 year

Cookie used to prevent repeated popups.

popupData

Non-essential

Popup functionality related

First party

Persistent

1 year

Cookie used to prevent repeated popups.

beatSessionId

Non-essential

Functional

First party

Persistent

2 years

Used by the site coding and hosting servers to provide the website functionality. E.g. to identify individual sessions, to remember user’s details and choices, to enable the shopping cart functionality.

beatSessionTs

Non-essential

Functional

First party

Session

End of browser session

Used by the site coding and hosting servers to provide the website functionality. E.g. to identify individual sessions, to remember user’s details and choices, to enable the shopping cart functionality.

Form_key

Non-essential

Functional

First party

Persistent

29 days

Stores randomly generated key used to prevent forged requests.

mage-messages

Non-essential

Functional

First party

Session

End of browser session

Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster.

mage-translation-file-version

Non-essential

Functional

First party

Session

End of browser session

Facilitates translation of content to other languages.

mage-translation-storage

Non-essential

Functional

First party

Session

End of browser session

Facilitates translation of content to other languages.

product_data_storage

Non-essential

Functional

First party

Session

End of browser session

Temporary information of your session. This information is needed to optimize the speed of the website, or used to provide Shopping Basket functionality.

recently_compared_product

Non-essential

Functional

First party

Session

End of browser session

Temporary information of your session. This information is needed to optimize the speed of the website, or used to provide Shopping Basket functionality.

recently_compared_product_previous

Non-essential

Functional

First party

Session

End of browser session

Temporary information of your session. This information is needed to optimize the speed of the website, or used to provide Shopping Basket functionality.

recently_viewed_product

Non-essential

Functional

First party

Session

End of browser session

Temporary information of your session. This information is needed to optimize the speed of the website, or used to provide Shopping Basket functionality.

recently_viewed_product_previous

Non-essential

Functional

First party

Session

End of browser session

Temporary information of your session. This information is needed to optimize the speed of the website, or used to provide Shopping Basket functionality.

section_data_ids

Non-essential

Functional

First party

Session

End of browser session

Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster.

user_allowed_save_cookie

Non-essential

Functional

First party

Persistent

1 month

Indicates whether a customer allowed the use of cookies.

SIDCC

Non-essential

Functional (security)

Third party

Persistent

3 months

Google security cookie used to prevent unauthorised access to the user’s information.

CONSENT

Non-essential

Functional (consent related)

Third party

Persistent

20 years

Google consent setting cookie.

_gat

Non-essential

Functional

First party

Session

End of browser session

Used by Google to throttle the request rate.

_ga

Non-essential

Analytical

First party

Persistent

2 years

To distinguish website visitors.

_gid

Non-Essential

Analytical

First party

Session

End of browser session

Generates statistical data on how a visitor uses the website.

HSID

Non-essential

Analytical

Third party

Persistent

2 years

Used by Google to analyse user behaviour in connection with Google maps and reCAPTCHA on the website.

SAPISID

Non-essential

Analytical

Third party

Persistent

2 years

Used by Google to analyse user behaviour in connection with Google maps and reCAPTCHA on the website.

SID

Non-essential

Analytical

Third party

Persistent

2 years

Used by Google to analyse user behaviour in connection with Google maps and reCAPTCHA on the website.

SSID

Non-essential

Analytical

Third party

Persistent

2 years

Used by Google to analyse user behaviour in connection with Google maps and reCAPTCHA on the website.

APISID

Non-essential

Analytical

Third party

Persistent

2 years

Used by Google to analyse user behaviour in connection with Google maps and reCAPTCHA on the website.

OGPC

Non-essential

Analytical

Third party

Persistent

2 years

These cookies are used by Google to store user preferences and information when viewing pages with Google maps and reCAPTCHA on them.

OTZ

Non-essential

Analytical

Third party

Persistent

6 months

Collects data on where the user came from, what search engine was used, what link was clicked and what search term was used. Used by Google Analytics.

fedops.logger.sessionId

Non-essential

Analytical

Third party

Persistent

2 years

Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.

NID

Non-essential

Advertising

Third party

Persistent

6 months

Registers a unique ID that identifies a returning user’s device. The ID is used for targeted ads.

IDE

Non-essential

Advertising

Third party

Persistent

1 year

Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user’s actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser’s ads with the purpose of measuring the efficiency of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user.

1P_JAR

Non-essential

Advertising

Third party

Persistent

1 month

Google cookie used to gather website statistics, and track conversion rates.

MAGEBIRD_POPUP

Non-essential

Advertising

First party

Persistent

29 days

Stores information about user's activity such as which products user added to cart, cart subtotal, referral url, number of visited pages, etc. This cookie is used for the case if you want to display popup based on user activity. This cookie is not associated with any personally identifiable information

Essential cookies

These are cookies which are strictly necessary for our website to be able to operate or to provide you with a service on our website which you have requested. We use the following essential cookies on our website:

  • a first party session cookie which preserve a user’s state across pages on the website. This cookie is essential for the website to operate, including its basket functionality. This cookie is called PHPSESSID
  • first party session cookies which are used in context with load balancing; this optimizes the response rate between the visitor and the site, by distributing the traffic load on multiple network links or disk drivers. These cookies are called mage-cache-sessid, mage-cache-storage and mage-cache-storage-section-invalidation

Legal basis for processing: we process information about you contained in or obtained from essential cookies in our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).
Legitimate interests:
ensuring our site functions properly and providing you with online services you have requested.

How to opt out of essential cookies

Most browsers allow you to block all cookies, including essential cookies. Please note, however, that if you block all cookies, parts of our website and its functionality may not work or display properly.

You can delete existing cookies from your browser by clearing your browsing data and ensuring that the option to delete cookies is selected.

For more detailed information on how to accept and reject cookies, including guidance for specific browsers, please see the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookies

Non-essential cookies

We use the following types of non-essential cookies on our website:

  • Functional cookies
  • Analytical (or performance) cookies
  • Targeting (or advertising) cookies

Functional cookies

These are cookies that are designed for purposes such as enhancing a website’s functionality. These are either not strictly essential for the website or functionality which you have requested to work, or are cookies which serve non-essential purposes in addition to their essential purpose. We use the following functional cookies on our website:

  • a first party session cookie used to help Google Analytics manage the number of users on our website. This cookie is called _gat
  • a third party persistent cookie used by Google to prevent unauthorised access to a user’s information. This cookie is called SIDCC and expires after 3 months.
  • first party session cookies used to prevent repeated popups. These cookies are called popup_ids and popupData.
  • two first party persistent and session cookies used by the site coding and hosting servers to provide the website functionality. E.g. to identify individual sessions, to remember user’s details and choices, to enable the shopping cart functionality. These cookies are called beatSessionId which expires after 2 years, and beatSessionTs which is a session cookie.
  • a third party persistent cookie used by Google in relation to the user’s consent settings. This cookie is called CONSENT and expires after 20 years.
  • a first party persistent cookie which stores randomly generated key used to prevent forged requests. This cookie is called Form_key and expires after 29 days.
  • three first party session cookies which are used to facilitate the caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster. These cookies are called mage-messages, mage-translation-file-version, section_data_ids and mage-translation-storage
  • five first party session cookies which store temporary information of your session. This information is needed to optimize the speed of the website, or used to provide Shopping Basket functionality. These cookies are called product_data_storage, recently_compared_product, recently_compared_product_previous, recently_viewed_product and recently_viewed_product_previous
  • a first party persistent cookie which indicates whether a customer allowed the use of cookies.. This cookie is called user_allowed_save_cookie and expires after 1 month.

How to opt in or out from functional cookies

See the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookies

Processing information about you contained in or obtained from functional cookies

Legal basis for processing: we process information about you contained in or obtained from functional cookies in our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation). We will only process such personal information if you have consented to us placing cookies on your computer or device.
Legitimate interests: improving your website experience and providing and enhancing the website’s functionality.

Analytical (or performance) cookies

Analytical (or performance) cookies track and gather data about what a user does on a website. These cookies are not essential for our website or its functionality to work. We use the following analytical cookies on our website:

  • Google Analytics cookies to help us understand how you engage and interact with our website, including how you came to our website, which pages you visited, for how long and what you clicked on and your location (based on your IP address). The Google Analytics cookies used on our website are: _ga which are persistent cookie and expires after 2 years, OTZ which are persistent cookies and expire after 6 months and _gid, which is a session cookie. We also use the Google Analytics cookie _gat, which are explained in more detail in the ‘functional cookies’ section above.
  • Google analytical cookies used to measure and track your behaviour in relation to the Google Maps and reCAPTCHA installation on our website. These cookies are persistent cookies which expires after 2 years and are called HSID, SAPISID, APISID, LOGIN_INFO, SID, OGPC and SSID.
  • a third party persistent cookie which registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. This cookie is called fedops.logger.sessionId and expires after 2 years.

More information

Google Analytics cookies are classified as first party cookies as they are set by our website domain, although Google collects and processes information from our use of Google Analytics. To find out more about how Google handles information collected from Google Analytics, see Google Analytics’ privacy policy, which is available here: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245

For information on how Google uses data from cookies it uses, please visit www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/

How to opt in or out from analytical cookies

See the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookies

To opt out of Google Analytics tracking across all websites in general, you can do so here: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Processing information about you contained in or obtained from analytical cookies

Legal basis for processing: we process information about you contained in or obtained from analytical cookies in our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).
Legitimate interests: analysing how individuals use our website to help us improve our website and business. For further information on how we use the information gathered from our use of analytical cookies, including profiling, please see the section entitled Our use of automated decision making and profiling in our privacy policy, which is available here: https://www.saramiller.london/privacy-policy

Targeting (or advertising) cookies

Targeting (or advertising) cookies record information about your visit to and use of our website, for advertising purposes. We use the targeting cookies for the following purposes on our website:

  • a third party persistent cookie used by Google’s AdSense network which registers a unique ID that identifies a returning user’s device which is used to target advertisements to the user. This cookie is called NID and expires after 6 months.
  • a third party Google persistent remarketing cookie to display advertisements to you about our goods and services across the internet, including on other websites you visit. This cookie is called IDE and expires after 1 year.
  • third party persistent cookie used to gather website statistics and track conversion rates. This cookie is called 1P_JAR and expires after 1 month.
  • first party persistent cookie which stores information about user's activity such as which products user added to cart, cart subtotal, referral url, number of visited pages, etc. This cookie is used for the case if you want to display popup based on user activity. This cookie is not associated with any personally identifiable information. This cookie is called MAGEBIRD_POPUP and expires after 29 days.

Google uses cookies to display advertisements to you about our products and services on other websites and locations across the internet based on the fact that you have visited our website. Google may also display other advertisements across the internet to you about third party services using the Google AdSense network, although this is beyond our control. For more information about Google remarketing, click here: https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/2453998?hl=en

For further information on Google’s advertising cookies, please see their cookies policy here: https://policies.google.com/technologies/types

How to opt in or out from advertising cookies

See the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookies

Processing information about you contained in or obtained from analytical cookies

Legal basis for processing: consent (Article 6(1)(a) of the General Data Protection Regulation).
Consent: you give your consent to the purposes for which we process your information using advertising cookies by accepting the use of such cookies via our cookie control tool. For further information on how we use the information gathered from our use of advertising cookies, including profiling and automated decision-making please see the section entitled Our use of automated decision making and profiling in our privacy policy, which is available here: https://www.saramiller.london/privacy-policy

How to accept or reject cookies

There are a number of different ways in which you can accept or reject some or all cookies and similar technologies. Some of the main methods of doing so are described below.

You are welcome to block the use of some or all of the cookies we use on our website. However, please be aware that doing so may impair our website and its functionality or may even render some or all of it unusable.

You should also be aware that clearing all cookies from your browser will also delete any cookies that are storing your preferences, for example, whether you have accepted cookies on a website or any cookies that are blocking other cookies.

You can find more detailed information about cookies and adjusting your browser settings by visiting www.allaboutcookies.org

Accepting or rejecting cookies

Cookie control tool

You can accept or reject non-essential cookies by using our cookie management tool.

Browser settings

You can accept or reject some or all cookies (for example, blocking all third party cookies) by adjusting your browser settings. If you do not know how to do this, the links below set out information about how to change your browser settings for some of the most commonly used web browsers:

Some browsers, such as Chrome and Firefox, allow you to change your settings to browse in ‘incognito’ mode, limiting the amount of data placed on your machine and automatically deleting any persistent cookies placed on your device when you finish your browsing session. There are also many third-party applications which you can add to your browser to block or manage cookies.

Existing cookies

To clear cookies that have previously been placed on your browser, you should select the option to clear your browsing history and ensure that the option to delete or clear cookies is included when you do so.

Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on

You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking by installing the browser add-on which is available here: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Google Adsettings

You can manage and opt out of personalisation of advertisements by Google by visiting Google’s ad settings page herehttps://adssettings.google.com/andby:

  • unticking the button entitled ‘Also use Google Account activity and information to personalize ads on these websites and apps and store that data in your Google Account’; and
  • switching the ‘Ads Personalisation’ setting off (i.e. by ensuring the switch at the top of the page is set to the left/grey and not the right/blue).

Alternatively, you can install a free browser plugin here: https://support.google.com/ads/answer/7395996

Copyright

The copyright in this Cookies Policy is either owned by, or licensed to, us and is protected by copyright laws around the world and copyright protection software. All intellectual property rights in this document are reserved.