Cookie Policy
1. 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 website. We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our website and hold certain information. Cookies are files with small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyse our website. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our website.
2. Personal information obtained through the use of cookies on our website is handled according to our Privacy Policy https://optica.africa/pages/privacy-policy
3. We generally use the following cookies:
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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 such as session cookies. |
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Analytical or 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.
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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).
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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]. Advertising Cookies are used to serve you with advertisements that may be relevant to you and your interests.
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4. More particularly, we use the following cookies to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website
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session_id, unique token, sessional |
This cookie allows us to store information about your session (referrer, landing page, etc). This cookie enables us to: Store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise our site and to provide you with offers that are targeted to your individual interests. If you register with us or complete our online forms, we will use cookies to remember your details during your current visit, and any future visits provided the cookie was not deleted in the interim.
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_shopify_visit |
No data held. It is persistent for 30 minutes from the last visit. It enables our website provider’s internal stats tracker to record the number of visits; Recognise you when you return to our site; and Estimate our audience size and usage pattern. |
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_shopify_uniq |
No data held, expires midnight (relative to the visitor) of the next day. It Counts the number of visits to a store by a single customer. This cookie enables us to estimate our audience size and usage pattern; and Allows you to use our site in a way that makes your browsing experience more convenient. |
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cart_unique token |
persistent for 2 weeks, Stores information about the contents of your cart. It enables us store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise our site and to provide you with offers that are targeted to your individual interests |
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storefront _digest, unique token, indefinite |
If the shop has a password, this is used to determine if the current visitor has access.
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5. Please note that third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These include our e-commerce platform provider Shopify.Inc.
6. You can 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 website.
7. The length of time that a 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 cookies we use are persistent and will expire between 30 minutes and two years from the date they are downloaded to your device.
