Cookies Consent Policy
Cookies Consent Policy
Last updated: September 19, 2026
1. What are cookies
Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device (computer, tablet, or mobile) when you visit a website. They help the website remember your preferences and understand how you interact with the site. Cookies can be "session" cookies (deleted when you close your browser) or "persistent" cookies (remain until they expire or you delete them). They can be set by the website you visit ("first-party cookies") or by third-party services operating on that website ("third-party cookies").
2. How we use cookies
MinDrick Store uses cookies and similar technologies on this website for the following purposes:
- Strictly necessary: To enable core website functionality such as shopping cart, checkout, account login, and security features. These cookies cannot be disabled.
- Functional: To remember your preferences such as language, currency, and region settings so we can provide a personalized experience.
- Analytics & performance: To understand how visitors interact with our website, which pages are visited most, and to identify areas for improvement. This helps us optimize the website experience.
- Marketing & advertising: To deliver advertisements more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. These cookies may be set by our advertising partners and third-party services.
We only activate non-essential cookies after you have given your consent through our cookie banner. You can change your preferences at any time by clicking the cookie settings icon on our website.
3. Cookies we use
The tables below list the cookies declared for this website in our cookie consent tool (Avada Cookie Consent), grouped by category. Durations are shown as declared by the provider. Some strictly necessary entries relate to Shopify's merchant and administration systems and apply to store staff rather than to shoppers.
Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are needed for the shop, cart, checkout, customer accounts, security and your privacy choices to work. They cannot be switched off.
| Cookie | Provider | Duration | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
_Brochure_session |
Shopify | Not specified | Used in connection with browsing through site. |
__Host-_identity_session_same_site |
Shopify | session | Merchant authentication: Identity session cookie. |
_ab |
Shopify | 2y | Used in connection with access to admin. |
_cmp_a |
Shopify | 1d | Used for managing customer privacy settings. |
_customer_account_shop_sessions |
Shopify | 30d | Used in combination with the _secure_account_session_id cookie to track a user's session for new customer accounts |
_identity_session |
Shopify | 2y | Merchant authentication: Main session cookie for Identity authentication. This is the underlying Rails session cookie. It contains the SID. |
_master_udr |
Shopify | session | Permanent device identifier. |
_merchant_essential |
Shopify | 1y | Contains essential information for the correct functionality of merchant surfaces such as the admin area. |
_secure_account_session_id |
Shopify | 30d | Used to track a user's session for new customer accounts |
_secure_admin_session_id |
Shopify | 12w | Used to store session id in core for auth Legacy Admin |
_secure_admin_session_id_csrf |
Shopify | 12w | Used to store session id in core for auth Legacy Admin |
_secure_session_id |
Shopify | 24h | Used to track a user's session through the multi-step checkout process and keep their order, payment and shipping details connected. |
_shop_app_essential |
Shopify | 1y | Contains essential information for the correct functionality of Shop.app. |
_shopify_country |
Shopify | session | For shops where pricing currency/country set from GeoIP, that cookie stores the country we've detected. This cookie helps avoid doing GeoIP lookups after the first request. |
_shopify_essential |
Shopify | 1y | Contains essential information for the correct functionality of a store such as session and checkout information and anti-tampering data. |
_shopify_essential_ |
Shopify | 1y | Contains an opaque token that is used to identify a device for all essential purposes. |
_shopify_m |
Shopify | 1y | Used for managing customer privacy settings. |
_shopify_test |
Shopify | 1min | Used to check cookie capabilities on the client. |
_shopify_tm |
Shopify | 30min | Used for managing customer privacy settings. |
_shopify_tw |
Shopify | 2w | Used for managing customer privacy settings. |
_storefront_u |
Shopify | 1min | Used to facilitate updating customer account information. |
_tracking_consent |
Shopify | 1y | Used to store a user's preferences if a merchant has set up privacy rules in the visitor's region. |
avada_cookie_consent |
Avada | Not specified | No description declared |
c |
Shopify | 1y | Used in connection with checkout. |
card_update_verification_id |
Shopify | 20m | Used in connection with checkout. |
cart |
Shopify | 2w | Contains information related to the user's cart. |
cart_currency |
Shopify | 2w | Set after a checkout is completed to ensure that new carts are in the same currency as the last checkout. |
cart_sig |
Shopify | 2w | A hash of the contents of a cart. This is used to verify the integrity of the cart and to ensure performance of some cart operations. |
cart_ts |
Shopify | 2w | Used in connection with checkout. |
cart_ver |
Shopify | 2w | Used in connection with shopping cart. |
checkout |
Shopify | 4w | Used in connection with checkout. |
checkout_continuity_service |
Affirm | 1y | Helps detect fraud and provides continuity between each of your checkout attempts with Affirm. This data is necessary for Affirm to improve your experience by understanding where you and other customers are experiencing friction as you use our product. |
checkout_prefill |
Shopify | 5m | Used in connection with checkout. |
checkout_queue_checkout_token |
Shopify | 1y | Used in connection with checkout. |
checkout_queue_token |
Shopify | 1y | Used in connection with checkout. |
checkout_session_lookup |
Shopify | 3w | Used in connection with checkout. |
checkout_session_token |
Shopify | 3w | Used in connection with checkout. |
checkout_session_token_<<token>> |
Shopify | 3w | Used in connection with checkout. |
checkout_token |
Shopify | 1y | Used in connection with checkout. |
checkout_worker_session |
Shopify | 3d | Used in connection with checkout. |
cookietest |
Shopify | 1m | Used to ensure our systems are working correctly |
customer_account_locale |
Shopify | 1y | Used in connection with new customer accounts |
customer_account_new_login |
Shopify | 20m | Used in connection with customer authentication |
customer_account_preview |
Shopify | 7d | Used in connection with customer authentication |
customer_payment_method |
Shopify | 1h | Used in connection with checkout. |
customer_shop_pay_agreement |
Shopify | 20m | Used in connection with checkout. |
discount_code |
Shopify | session | Stores a discount code (received from an online store visit with a URL parameter) in order to the next checkout. |
dynamic_checkout_shown_on_cart |
Shopify | 30min | Used in connection with checkout. |
gdpr_accepted |
Oberlo | Not specified | Used in connection with GDPR acceptance. |
hide_shopify_pay_for_checkout |
Shopify | session | Used in connection with checkout. |
identity-state |
Shopify | 24h | Used in connection with customer authentication |
identity-state-<<token>> |
Shopify | 24h | Used in connection with customer authentication |
identity_customer_account_number |
Shopify | 12w | Used in connection with customer authentication |
integration |
Avada | Not specified | No description declared |
keep_alive |
Shopify | session | Used when international domain redirection is enabled to determine if a request is the first one of a session. |
localization |
Shopify | 2w | Used to localize the cart to the correct country. |
login_with_shop_finalize |
Shopify | 5min | Used to facilitate login with Shop. |
master_device_id |
Shopify | 2y | Used in connection with merchant login. |
order |
Shopify | 3w | Used in connection with order status page. |
pay_update_intent_id |
Shopify | 20m | Used in connection with checkout. |
preview_theme |
Shopify | session | Used in connection with the theme editor |
previous_step |
Shopify | 1y | Used in connection with checkout. |
privacy_signal |
Shopify | 1y | Remembers a user's privacy choices about cookies and online tracking, especially for marketing and advertising, based on user's regional privacy laws. |
profile_preview_token |
Shopify | 5m | Used in connection with checkout. |
remember_me |
Shopify | 1y | Used in connection with checkout. |
secure_customer_sig |
Shopify | 1y | Used to identify a user after they sign into a shop as a customer so they do not need to log in again. |
session |
Affirm | session | This cookie is typically used to maintain an anonymized user session by the server. |
shop_pay_accelerated |
Shopify | 1y | Used in connection with checkout. |
shopify-editor-unconfirmed-settings |
Shopify | 16h | Used in connection with the theme editor |
shopify_pay |
Shopify | 1y | Used to log in a buyer into Shop Pay when they come back to checkout on the same store. |
shopify_pay_redirect |
Shopify | 1 hour, 3w or 1y depending on value | Used in connection with checkout. |
signed_in |
Shopify | 1y | Used in connection with Shop login. |
source_name |
Shopify | session | Used in combination with mobile apps to provide custom checkout behavior, when viewing a store from within a compatible mobile app. |
storefront_digest |
Shopify | 1y | Stores a digest of the storefront password, allowing merchants to preview their storefront while it's password protected. |
tracked_start_checkout |
Shopify | 1y | Used in connection with checkout. |
user |
Shopify | 1y | Used in connection with Shop login. |
wpm-test-cookie |
Shopify | session | Used to ensure our systems are working correctly. |
Reporting and analytics cookies
These cookies help us understand how visitors use the site and where they come from. They are only set after you consent.
| Cookie | Provider | Duration | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
_ga |
2 years | ID used to identify users | |
_landing_page |
Shopify | 2w | Capture the landing page of visitor when they come from other sites. |
_merchant_analytics |
Shopify | 1y | Contains analytics data for the merchant session. |
_orig_referrer |
Shopify | 2w | Allows merchant to identify where people are visiting them from. |
_s |
Shopify | 30min | Shopify analytics. |
_shop_app_analytics |
Shopify | 1y | Contains analytics data for Shop.app. |
_shopify_analytics |
Shopify | 1y | Contains analytics data for buyer surfaces such as the storefront or checkout. |
_shopify_d |
Shopify | session | Shopify analytics. |
_shopify_fs |
Shopify | 30min | Shopify analytics. |
_shopify_ga |
Shopify | session | Shopify and Google Analytics. |
_shopify_s |
Shopify | 30min | Used to identify a given browser session/shop combination. Duration is 30 minute rolling expiry of last use. |
_shopify_sa_p |
Shopify | 30min | Shopify analytics relating to marketing & referrals. |
_shopify_sa_t |
Shopify | 30min | Shopify analytics relating to marketing & referrals. |
_shopify_t |
Oberlo | Not specified | Shopify analytics. |
_shopify_y |
Shopify | 1y | Shopify analytics. |
_y |
Shopify | 1y | Shopify analytics. |
customer_auth_provider |
Shopify | session | Shopify analytics. |
customer_auth_session_created_at |
Shopify | session | Shopify analytics. |
shop_analytics |
Shopify | 1y | Contains the required buyer information for analytics in Shop. |
shopify_client_id |
Shopify | 1y | First-party analytics identifier set client-side by the Shopify Web Pixel Manager. It stores the visitor's client ID (a UUID) to track an anonymous visitor across sessions for analytics and conversion attribution. |
unique_interaction_id |
Shopify | 10min | Shopify analytics. |
Marketing and retargeting cookies
These cookies are used for advertising and measuring advertising. They are only set after you consent.
| Cookie | Provider | Duration | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
_fbp |
4 months | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers | |
_shopify_marketing |
Shopify | 1y | Contains marketing data for buyer surfaces such as the storefront or checkout. |
_ttp |
TikTok | 13 months | Tracking cookie used by TikTok to identify a visitor |
Functional cookies
These cookies remember settings such as language or locale.
| Cookie | Provider | Duration | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
shopify_override_user_locale |
Shopify | 1y | Used as a mechanism to set User locale in admin. |
4. Your rights
We respect your right to control your personal data. You may exercise the following rights:
- Request access to your Personal Data. The right to access, update or delete the information we have on you. Whenever made possible, you can access, update or request deletion of your Personal Data directly within your account settings section. If you are unable to perform these actions yourself, please contact us to assist you. This also enables you to receive a copy of the Personal Data we hold about you.
Access account information
Email format: example@mailserver.domain
- Request correction of the Personal Data that we hold about you. You have the right to have any incomplete or inaccurate information we hold about you corrected.
Edit account information
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- Request erasure of your Personal Data. You have the right to ask us to delete or remove Personal Data when there is no good reason for us to continue processing it.
Delete account information
Email format: example@mailserver.domain
- To manage your requests. You have the right to ask us to show all your requests to you.
Show all requests
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To exercise any of these rights, please use the forms above or contact us using the details at the bottom of this page.
5. Contact us
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or this Cookies Policy, please contact us at:
MinDrick Store
Email: info@mindrickstore.co.uk
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority if you believe your rights have been violated.