Cookie Policy
WHO WE ARE AND HOW TO CONTACT US
https://shop.saracens.com/ is a website operated by J.Carter Sporting Club Ltd, trading as Castore Sportswear. J. Carter Sporting Club Ltd is a limited company registered in England with company number 09670915, and VAT number GB 220 5568 30 (referred to as "Castore", "we", "us" or "our" in this privacy policy). Our registered office is 1 Central Street, Manchester, M2 5WR.
To contact us, please contact us here.
ABOUT THIS COOKIE POLICY
We take your privacy very seriously. We fully appreciate and respect the importance of data privacy and security on the internet.
Our Site uses cookies and similar technologies for various purposes, including to distinguish you from other users and allows us to improve our Site.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we 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 and allow us to recognise your computer (but not specifically who is using it) upon entering our Site, even if you are not logged into our Site. When you visit our Site, you can surf anonymously and access important information without revealing your identity by changing your browser settings.
However, in order to provide better service, we may use cookies to track your visit. 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 Site.
THE TWO MAIN TYPES OF COOKIES
Session cookies:
- Are temporary cookies.
- Remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the site.
- Allow you to carry information across pages of our site and avoid having to re-enter information.
- Allow you to access stored information within the registration process.
- Allow you to apply discounts depending on where and how you entered the site.
- Cannot be read by a website other than the one that sent the cookie.
Persistent cookies:
- Remain in the cookie file of your browser for much longer – the length of time will depend on the lifetime of the specific cookie.
- Allow you to maintain a shopping basket – i.e. if you leave the site and come back later, items saved in your basket will still be there.
- Help us to recognise you as a unique visitor (by using an ID number) when you return to our website.
- Allow us to tailor content to match your preferences. This also prevents you from having to Log In on every visit.
- Cannot be read by a website other than the one that sent the cookie.
WHY WE USE THE FOLLOWING COOKIES
- Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use an electronic basket or make use of e-billing services.
- Analytical/Performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
- Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you (including by saving information which you may have populated into a form, without submitting), greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
- Targeting Cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
THIRD PARTY COOKIES WE USE
We work with some third-party suppliers to enable features on our website or to improve our online advertising. These suppliers may set cookies on our website.
These include:
| Name | Description | Category | Provider | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| cookieconsent_status | This cookie is associated with the app Consentmo GDPR Compliance and is used for storing the customer's consent. | Necessary | Consentmo | 1 year |
| cookieconsent_preferences_disabled | This cookie is associated with the app Consentmo GDPR Compliance and is used for storing the customer's consent. | Necessary | Consentmo | 1 day |
| _ab | Used to control when the admin bar is shown on the storefront. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 year |
| _abv | Persist the collapsed state of the admin bar. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 year |
| _checkout_queue_token | Used when there is a queue during the checkout process. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 year |
| _identity_session | Merchant authentication: Main session cookie for Identity authentication. This is the underlying Rails session cookie. It contains the SID. | Necessary | Shopify | 2 years |
| _master_udr | Permanent device identifier. | Necessary | Shopify | Session |
| _merchant_essential | Contains essential information for the correct functionality of merchant surfaces such as the admin area. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 year |
| _pay_session | The Rails session cookie for Shopify Pay | Necessary | Shopify | Session |
| _shopify_country | Used for Plus shops where pricing currency/country is set from GeoIP by helping avoid GeoIP lookups after the first request. | Necessary | Shopify | 30 minutes |
| _shopify_essential | Contains essential information for the correct functionality of a store such as session and checkout information and anti-tampering data. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 year |
| _shopify_essential_ | Contains an opaque token that is used to identify a device for all essential purposes. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 year |
| _shopify_test | Used to check cookie capabilities on the client. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 minute |
| _storefront_u | Used to facilitate updating customer account information. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 minute |
| _tracking_consent | Used to store a user's preferences if a merchant has set up privacy rules in the visitor's region. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 year |
| auth_state_* | Stores authentication state before redirecting customers to third party for authentication. | Necessary | Shopify | 25 minutes |
| cart | Contains information related to the user's cart. | Necessary | Shopify | 2 weeks |
| cart_currency | Used after a checkout is completed to initialize a new empty cart with the same currency as the one just used. | Necessary | Shopify | 2 weeks |
| checkout | Used by checkout to identify the user. | Necessary | Shopify | 21 days |
| checkout_token | Used by checkout to identify the user. | Necessary | Shopify | Session |
| customer_account_locale | Used to keep track of a customer account locale when a redirection occurs from checkout or the storefront to customer accounts. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 year |
| discount_code | Stores a discount code (received from an online store visit with a URL parameter) in order to the next checkout. | Necessary | Shopify | Session |
| hide_shopify_pay_for_checkout | Set when a buyer dismisses the Shop Pay login modal during checkout, informing display to buyer. | Necessary | Shopify | Session |
| identity-state | Stores a hash of the oauth flow state between redirects. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 day |
| identity_customer_account_number | Stores an identifier used to facilitate login across the customer's account and storefront domains. | Necessary | Shopify | 12 weeks |
| in_checkout_profile_preview | Used to determine if a merchant is in a checkout profile preview session. | Necessary | Shopify | Session |
| keep_alive | Used when international domain redirection is enabled to determine if a request is the first one of a session. | Necessary | Shopify | Session |
| localization | Used to localize the cart to the correct country. | Necessary | Shopify | 2 weeks |
| login_with_shop_finalize | Used to facilitate login with Shop. | Necessary | Shopify | 5 minutes |
| master_device_id | Merchant authentication: Permanent device identifier, public version. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 year |
| order | Used to allow access to the data of the order details page of the buyer. | Necessary | Shopify | 3 weeks |
| profile_preview_token | Used for previewing checkout customizations. | Necessary | Shopify | 5 minutes |
| shop_pay_accelerated | Indicates if a buyer is eligible for Shop Pay accelerated checkout. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 year |
| shopify_pay | Used to log in a buyer into Shop Pay when they come back to checkout on the same store. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 year |
| shopify_pay_redirect | Used to accelerate the checkout process when the buyer has a Shop Pay account. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 year |
| skip_shop_pay | Disables Shop Pay as a payment method for a checkout. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 year |
| storefront_digest | Stores a digest of the storefront password, allowing merchants to preview their storefront while it's password protected. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 year |
| theme | Used to determine the theme of the storefront. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 weeks |
| user | Used in connection with Shop login. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 year |
| user_cross_site | Used in connection with Shop login. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 year |
| _landing_page | Capture the landing page of visitor when they come from other sites. | Statistics | Shopify | 2 weeks |
| _merchant_analytics | Contains analytics data for the merchant session. | Statistics | Shopify | 1 year |
| _orig_referrer | Allows merchant to identify where people are visiting them from. | Statistics | Shopify | 2 weeks |
| _shopify_analytics | Contains analytics data for buyer surfaces such as the storefront or checkout. | Statistics | Shopify | 1 year |
| _shopify_ga | Contains Google Analytics parameters that enable cross-domain analytics measurement to work. | Statistics | Shopify | Session |
| _shopify_s | Used to identify a given browser session/shop combination. Duration is 30 minute rolling expiry of last use. | Statistics | Shopify | 30 minutes |
| _shopify_y | Shopify analytics. | Statistics | Shopify | 1 year |
| shop_analytics | Contains the required buyer information for analytics in Shop. | Statistics | Shopify | 1 year |
| _shopify_marketing | Contains marketing data for buyer surfaces such as the storefront or checkout. | Marketing | Shopify | 1 year |
| shopify_override_user_locale | Used as a mechanism to set User locale in admin. | Preferences | Shopify | 1 year |
DELETING OR BLOCKING COOKIES
The cookies described above may be either “session cookies”, which means they are temporary and are automatically deleted from your computer or device when you close your browser, or they may be “persistent cookies”, which last until their expiry date or until you or your browser delete them. By law, we are required to ask your permission before storing non-essential cookies on your computer. If you choose to block or delete cookies or similar technologies used on our website, it may prevent the website from functioning properly or at all.
You may refuse to accept cookies by altering the settings on your internet browser. Generally, this can be done by visiting the “Settings” menu in your browser. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org. You may also wish to visit http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices to learn more about the cookies on your device set by other companies and opt out of them if you wish. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including strictly necessary cookies) you may not be to access all or parts of our site.
CHANGES TO COOKIES POLICY
We may change this cookie policy from time to time. If we make changes, we will notify you by revising the date at the top of this policy, and in some cases, we may provide you with additional notice such as adding a statement to the homepage of the website or sending you an email with the update. Please check this cookie policy regularly to stay informed about our information practices and the ways you can help protect your privacy.
CONTACT US
If you have any questions about this Cookies Policy and practices of this site, you can contact us here.