WorldofBooks.com Cookie Notice v3.0
Last updated 9th July 2024
This Cookie Notice applies to information collected and used by World of Books Group Limited ("we," "our" or "us") when you visit our website. This information is collected through instruments known as cookies and various other technologies used to set and interact with cookies on our site, including tools such as web beacons and tracking pixels (all referred to as "cookies").
You are free to ask us to (or set your browser or operating system settings to) limit certain tracking or to decline cookies in relation to cookies which are not necessary, but by doing so, you may not be able to use certain features on our website.
In certain circumstances, we collect personal information about you through these cookies which may include your IP address, information about the way you use our website, your choice of internet browser and the type of device you're accessing our website from. This is in order for us to analyse customer behaviour, administer the website, track users' movements, and to collect information about users which may be relevant to offering our services to you. Where any information we collect through cookies qualifies as personal information, our Privacy Notice as well as this Cookie Notice, applies to the collection and use of such personal information.
PRIVACY NOTICES
U.S based Customers’ Privacy Notice can be found here.
UK and European based Customers’ Privacy Notice can be found here.
WHAT ARE COOKIES?
Cookies are small files placed onto your computer or mobile phone by certain websites that you visit or e-mails that you open. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.
Cookies can be 'first-party' or 'third-party' depending on the domain that sets them. In relation to our website, first-party cookies are set by us and information is collected and used by us in accordance with the terms of this Cookie Notice and our Privacy Notice. Third-party cookies are set by third parties and information is collected and used in accordance with their policies.
First and third-party cookies are either 'persistent' or 'session' cookies depending on their duration. Persistent cookies remain on a user's device for the period of time specified in those cookies and are activated each time that user visits the website that created the cookies, until the cookies expire or are disabled by the user. Session cookies allow the actions of a user to be linked during a single browsing session. A session starts when a user opens a browser window, stores information while you are browsing and ends when you leave the website and close the browser window, following which all session cookies are deleted. Our platforms use both persistent and session cookies. We have set out clearly in the table below when our cookies expire.
COOKIES WE USE
We use the following types of cookies on our platforms:
Strictly Necessary: These cookies have a legal definition. These cookies should be essential. Examples include cookies that are essential for the proper functioning of a site. These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not then work. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.
Performance Cookies: These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance.
Functional Cookies: These cookies enable the website to provide enhanced functionality and personalisation. They may be set by us or by third party providers whose services we have added to our pages. If you do not allow these cookies then some or all of these services may not function properly.
Targeting Cookies: These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. They do not store directly personal information, but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising.
COOKIES REGISTER
We keep a record of all the cookies we use on our website to provide clear information to you and we update this register regularly.
| Cookie Name | Category (e.g. necessary/analytics/functional/social media, etc.) | Description | Source (e.g. first party or third party – such as Google) | Lifespan |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OptanonConsent | Strictly Necessary Cookies | This cookie is set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust. It stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. This enables site owners to prevent cookies in each category from being set in the users browser, when consent is not given. The cookie has a normal lifespan of one year, so that returning visitors to the site will have their preferences remembered. It contains no information that can identify the site visitor. | First party | 1 Year |
| cart_currency | Strictly Necessary Cookies | Set after a checkout is completed to ensure that new carts are in the same currency as the last checkout. | First Party | 2 weeks |
| swym-session-id | Strictly Necessary | This is a general-purpose platform session cookie used to maintain an anonymous user session. | First Party | 30 Mins |
| keep_alive | Strictly Necessary | This stores the email address when the shopper logs into the store or when the shopper authenticates their wishlist or subscribes for a back-in-stock alert. |
First Party | 2 Weeks |
| swym-email | Strictly Necessary | Freshdesk bot functionality cookie | First Party | 1 year, unless user logs out or manually disconnects |
| swym-swymRegid | Strictly Necessary | This cookie is used to store an encrypted version of the user’s device ID and information on the user’s session.The ID links the user’s Swym app-specific content to their device. It also retrieves those contents from our cloud storage whenever the user attempts to access Swym apps. | First Party | 1 Year |
| _cmp_a | Strictly Necessary | Used for managing customer privacy settings. | First Party | 1 Day |
| OptanonAlertBoxClosed | Strictly Necessary | This cookie is set by websites using certain versions of the cookie law compliance solution from OneTrust. It is set after visitors have seen a cookie information notice and in some cases only when they actively close the notice down. It enables the website not to show the message more than once to a user. The cookie has a normal lifespan of one year and contains no personal information. | First Party | 1 Year |
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secure_customer_ sig |
Strictly Necessary | Used to identify a user after they sign into a shop as a customer so they do not need to log in again. | doubleclick.net | 389 Days |
| swym-pid | Strictly Necessary | Unique identifier to track merchants and their wishlist settings | First Party | 1 Year |
| localization | Strictly Necessary | Used by to record the store which the user is viewing to ensure user remains in that location. | First Party | 2 Weeks |
| _tracking_consent | Strictly Necessary | Used to store a user's privacy preferences. | First Party | 1 Year |
| _shopify_essential | Strictly Necessary | Used for managing customer authentication and securing the cart. | First Party | 1 Year |
| wpm-test-cookie | Strictly Necessary | Used to ensure our systems are working correctly. | First Party | Session |
| __verify | Strictly Necessary | This cookie determines whether the browser accepts cookies. | First Party | Session |
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locale_bar_accept ed |
Strictly Necessary | Locale bar acceptance cookie. | First Party | Session |
| _orig_referrer | Performance |
Allows us to track landing pages. | First Party | 2 Weeks |
| swym-o_s |
Performance | Swym Wishlist session information for user tracking. |
First Party | 30 Mins |
| _hjTLDTest | Performance | When the Hotjar script executes we try to determine the most generic cookie path we should use, instead of the page hostname. This is done so that cookies can be shared across subdomains (where applicable). To determine this, we try to store the _hjTLDTest cookie for different URL substring alternatives until it fails. After this check, the cookie is removed. | Less than 1 Day | 89 Days |
| swym-sms-confi | Performance | Swym Wishlist SMS configuration cookie. | First Party | 1 Year |
| _hjSessionUser_ | Performance | Hotjar cookie that is set when a user first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the Hotjar User ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID. | First Party | 1 Year |
| _hjSession_ | Performance | A cookie that holds the current session data. This ensues that subsequent requests within the session window will be attributed to the same Hotjar session. |
First Party | Session |
| swym-cu_ct | Performance | Wishlist cookie for tracking user actions. | First Party | 1 Year |
| swym-v-ckd | Performance | Swym Wishlist version cookie for tracking user actions. | First Party | 30 Mins |
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swym- instrumentMap |
Performance | Swym Wishlist cookie for internal mapping. | First Party | 1 Year |
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_hjShownFeedbac kMessage |
Performance | This cookie is set when a visitor minimizes or completes Incoming Feedback. This is done so that the Incoming Feedback will load as minimized immediately if they navigate to another page where it is set to show. | First Party | Less than 1 day |
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Functional | Book2look cookies are used to enable the “look inside” feature where available on our site | www.book2look.com | Up to 1 year |
| _ga | Targeting | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. | First Party | 1 Year |
| _ga_xxxxxxxxxx | Targeting | Used by Google Analytics to identify and track an individual session with your device | First Party | 1 Year |
| FPLC | Targeting | This FPLC cookie is a cross-domain linker cookie | First Party | Less than 1 Day |
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__exponea_time2_ _ |
Targeting | Timestamp offset between browser and server time | First Party | 1 hour |
| __exponea_etc__ | Targeting | Our Engagement platform cookie used for tracking user activity. | First Party | 2 Years |
| xnpe_ | Targeting | Exponea API cookie for tracking. | api.uk.exponea.com | 2 Years |
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Targeting | These cookies are associated with Shopify's analytics suite. We may use this functionality for marketing and referral activity. | First Party | Up to 1 year |
| _ALGOLIA | Targeting | Algolia search integration cookie to help us build user profiles for Personalization and Recommendations based on search activity. | First Party | Less than 1 Day |
GOOGLE ANALYTICS
Our website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. ('Google') Google Analytics uses cookies (text files placed on your computer) to help us analyse how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the UK. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage, such as facilitating remarketing. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf.
DISABLING THE USE OF COOKIES
You can view and manage cookie settings here
Cookies Settings
You may also refuse to accept cookies by changing the settings of your Internet browser. If you do not want cookies to be placed on your device, you can control this through your browser's settings. Please refer to the links below for each browser's guide on how to turn off or delete cookies.
Alternatively, you can control some third party cookies by using a privacy enhancement platform such as optout.aboutads.info or youronlinechoices.com. For more information about cookies, visit allaboutcookies.org.
If you choose not to allow the use of cookies, some areas of our website may not function properly or be accessible, and you'll need to accept the use of cookies and provide other cookie-preference information again if you change your mind.
As explained above, we use Google Analytics to measure traffic on our website. If you'd like to opt out of tracking by Google Analytics, visit the Google Analytics opt-out page. Google has their own Privacy Policy which you can review here.
CHANGES TO THIS COOKIE POLICY
From time to time we may make changes to this Cookie Notice to ensure that it is accurate and up to date and to reflect any changes in the law. This Notice was last updated on 9th July 2024.
Contacting us and making a complaint
If you have comments, questions or complaints about or requests relating to this Cookie Policy statement, please contact us using: data@worldofbooks.com.