AWESOME DOG LTD
COOKIE POLICY

Introduction

This Cookie notice applies to our website www.awesomedog.com (and any subdomains), which is operated by or on behalf of Awesome Dog Limited (also trading as Awesome Dog Mocap and Abranimations®) (we/us/our).

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.

What is a cookie? A cookie is a small text file stored by your web browser on your computer or mobile device. Some cookies are essential for a website to work and help us provide you with relevant information. They also allow us to recognise your computer (but not specifically who is using it) when you access our site and to improve the usability and performance of our site.

What do we use cookies for? We use cookies to compile anonymous, aggregated statistics that allow us to understand how people use our sites and to help us improve their structure and content. We cannot identify you personally from this information.

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 a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
  • Analytical/performance cookies. They 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, 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.

Individual cookies on our site

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them below:

Shopify Cookies

We use Shopify to provide our website store front. There are a range of cookies that Shopify uses for its functionality. The length of time that a Shopify cookie remains on your  computer or mobile device depends on whether it is a “persistent” or “session” cookie. Session cookies last until you stop browsing and persistent cookies last until they expire or are deleted. Most of the Shopify cookies are persistent and will expire between 30 minutes and two years from the date they are downloaded to your device.

This is the link to Shopifys cookie policy https://www.shopify.co.uk/legal/cookies should you wish to find out more from them.

Cookie

Name

Type

Purpose

Shopify

_ab

Necessary

Used in connection with access to admin.

Shopify

_secure_session_id

Necessary

Used in connection with navigation through a storefront.                                 

Shopify

Cart

Necessary

Used in connection with shopping cart.

Shopify

cart_sig                               

Necessary

Used in connection with checkout.

 

Shopify

cart_ts                                 

Necessary

Used in connection with checkout.

 

Shopify

checkout_token              

 

Necessary

Used in connection with checkout.

Shopify

Secret          

Necessary

Used in connection with checkout.

Shopify

Secure_customer_sig   

Necessary

Used in connection with customer login.

 

Shopify

storefront_digest           

 

Necessary

Used in connection with customer login.

Shopify

_shopify_u                        

Necessary

Used to facilitate updating customer account information.

Shopify

_tracking_consent                         

 

Performance and analytics

Tracking preferences.

Shopify

_landing_page                                 

Performance and analytics

Track landing pages.

Shopify

_orig_referrer                                  

Performance and analytics

Track landing pages.

Shopify

_s                                                          

Performance and analytics

Shopify analytics.

 

Shopify

_shopify_fs                                        

Performance and analytics

Shopify analytics.

 

Shopify

_shopify_s                                         

Performance and analytics

Shopify analytics.

 

Shopify

_shopify_sa_p                                 

Performance and analytics

Shopify analytics relating to marketing & referrals.

 

Shopify

_shopify_sa_t                                  

Performance and analytics

Shopify analytics relating to marketing & referrals.

 

Shopify

_shopify_y                                         

Performance and analytics

Shopify analytics.

 

Shopify

_y                                                          

Performance and analytics

Shopify analytics.

 

Shopify

tracked_start_checkout              

Performance and analytics

Shopify analytics relating to checkout.

 

Google & YouTube Cookies

We have YouTube embedded videos on some sections of our website to provide tutorial videos, help videos and demonstration videos. YouTube is a part of googles services.

1) Read googles privacy policy here https://policies.google.com/privacy 
2) Find a comprehensive list of the cookies they use here https://policies.google.com/technologies/types

These are the YouTube specific cookies that our site uses.

Cookie

Name

Type

Purpose

Expiry

YouTube

 GPS

Marketing/Tracking

 Store Location Data

 session

 

YouTube

VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE

Necessary

Estimate bandwidth

6 Months

 

YouTube
YSC Statistics Stores session ID session

YouTube

PREF Statistics Tracks visitors accross site 1 Year

These are other google related cookies our site may use.

Cookie

Name

Type

Purpose

Expiry

Google Preferences

 

NID

 

Performance

Google uses this to remember your preferences, although it is also used by Google to customize ads on Google properties, like Google Search. Click here for more information about this cookie.

6 months

Google Marketing Cookies

ads/ga-audiences

 

 

Targeting or advertising
These cookies are used by Google to show you relevant and engaging ads. Although we don’t show ads on our site, Google uses this information to provide you with ads on other sites. Session
Google AdSense

IDE

 

Performance
The Google AdSense service we use to serve advertising uses a doubleclick.net cookie to serve more relevant ads across the web and limit

the number of times that a given ad is shown to you.

For more information on Google AdSense see the official Google AdSense privacy FAQ
1 Year
Google Analytics

collect

 

Performance
Session


Google Analytics Cookie

We may use google analytics to help us gather useful information on visits to our website to help us understand and improve our site .

These performance cookies are used to collect information about how you use our website. The information collected includes number of visitors, pages visited and time spent on the website. The information is collected by Google Analytics in an aggregated form, and we use the data to help us make improvements to the website. 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

You can read googles privicy policy here https://policies.google.com/privacy

Cookie

Name

Type

Expiry

Google Analytics

 

_ga

 

Performance

 2 years

Google Analytics

_gat

 

Performance
Session
Google Analytics

_gid

 

Performance
Session
Google Analytics

collect

 

Performance
Session

Turning off and deleting cookies.

When you use our site, we’ll give you the opportunity to consent to all of the cookies we’ve listed above (except for essential “Session Cookies”). You can also refuse to accept any cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. If you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our sites. If you use different devices to view and access our sites (for example, your computer, smart phone, tablet etc.) you will need to ensure that each browser on each device is adjusted to suit your cookie preferences.

If you disable the cookies that we use, this may impact your experience while on the sites.

Blocking cookies.

You can also block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, 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.

More information.

For more detailed information about cookies please visit www.allaboutcookies.org which provides guidance on how to control cookies.

Changes to this notice.

We may revise this cookies notice from time to time. Any changes we may make to our cookies notice in the future will be posted on this page.

Contact us.

Questions, comments and requests regarding this cookies notice are welcomed. Please contact us at privacy@awesomedog.com


(This notice was last updated 4/09/2020)