GDPR Compliance

COOKIES POLICY

www.locksandhardware.ie (our site) is a site operated by Locks & Hardware Limited (we, our, us). We are registered in Ireland under company number 327918. Our registered office is at 13-18 City Quay, Dublin 2. 

Our site uses cookies to distinguish you from other users. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our site and also allows us to improve our site. By continuing to browse the site, you are consenting to our use of cookies.

If you wish to remove cookies placed on your device by our site or stop our site placing further cookies on your device you can do this at any time (learn how to do so below), however such action is likely to mean that our site will not function as intended.

A "cookie" is a piece of information, like a tag, that's stored on your device when you visit a website. The only personal information a cookie can contain is information supplied by the user.  A cookie cannot read data from a user's hard drive or read cookie files created by other websites.  The use of cookies is an industry standard that can be found on most major websites.  We use information obtained from cookies to tailor our services better to our users' needs. Many improvements and updates to our site are based on such data. 

We reserve the right to modify or amend the use of cookies at any time and for any reason.  Any changes will be posted on our site and will take effect as soon as they are posted. Where required we will obtain your consent for any new non-essential cookies before they are placed.

We use the following cookies:

Strictly necessary cookies: Necessary cookies are essential for our website to function properly.  These cookies enable basic operational and security features of the website.

Analytical/performance cookies: These cookies allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors to our site and to see how visitors move around our site when they are using it.  This helps us to improve the way our site 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 site.  This enables us to personalise our content for you and remember your preferences.

Marketing cookies: Marketing cookies are used to provide visitors with relevant advertisements and marketing campaigns. These cookies track visitors across websites and collect information (which may for example include browsing activity information) to provide customised advertisements.

Please note that third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control.  These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.

You can find out more information about the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below.

 

Classification

Cookie

Function

Expiry

More information

 

Necessary 

_landing_page

Tracks landing pages. Supports the functions of a “Content Management system“ to ensure the website works properly.

2 Weeks

https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy

 

 Necessary

_orig_referrer

Tracks landing pages.

2 Weeks

 

 https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy

Necessary

_shopify_m

Used in connection with customer privacy settings.

1 Year

https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy

 

 

 

Necessary 

_shopify_tm

Used in connection with customer privacy settings where applicable to site. No data written to this cookie on this site, currently.

30 Minutes

https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy

 

 

Necessary 

_shopify_tw

Used in connection with customer privacy settings where applicable to site. No data written to this cookie on this site, currently.

2 Weeks

https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy

 

 

 

Necessary 

_shopify_y

Supports the functions of a “Content Management System “ to ensure the website works properly

1 Year

https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy

 

 

 

Necessary 

_tracking_consent

Shopify cookie used to store cookies consent state for the current domain

1 Year

https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy

 

 

Necessary 

_y

Collects data in connection with user interaction with the website.

1 Year

https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy

 

 

 

 

Necessary 

cart

cart_currency

cart_sig

cart_ts

cart_ver

All used in connection with ‘shopping cart’ where applicable to site. There is no option to purchase product functioning on this website, currently.

2 Weeks

https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy

  

 

Necessary 

cookieconsent _preferences_disabled

Supports the websites technical functions

1 Year

https://gdprcdn.b-cdn.net/pages/privacy_policy

Necessary 

cookieconsent_status

Records 'Type of cookies you accept' on consent page.

2 Years

https://gdprcdn.b-cdn.net/pages/privacy_policy

 Necessary 

keep_alive

Used in connection with ‘shopping cart’ where applicable to site. There is no option to purchase product functioning on this website, currently.

2 Weeks

https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy

 

 

Necessary 

localization

Used to track local currency

2 Weeks

https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy

  

Necessary 

master_device_id

Used in connection with merchant login.

2 Years

https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy

 

Necessary 

secure_customer_sig

Used in connection with customer login where applicable to site. There is no login functioning on this website, currently.

1 Year

https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy

 

Analytical / performance cookie

_s

Collects information about the users and their activity in order to optimize the website and make advertisements more relevant.

30 Minutes.

https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy

 

 

Analytical / performance cookie

_shopify_s

Shopify analytics

30 Minutes

https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy

 

Marketing cookie

_shopify_sa_p

Shopify analytics relating to marketing & referrals.

30 Minutes

https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy

 

Marketing cookie

_shopify_sa_t

Shopify analytics relating to marketing & referrals.

30 Minutes

 https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy

 

You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies. The Help function within your browser should tell you how to do this.  For more information about how to change your browser settings please see: www.aboutcookies.org. Doing so however is likely to limit the functionality of our site.