Cookie Policy

What are Cookies?

Cookies are very small text files stored on your hard drive. They uniquely identify your computer and allow us to store information about your session on our website, improve website security and help us to customise your website experience. A unique user identity is created which ensures that you are not required to re-enter login details as you move throughout the website if logged in as a customer.

How Apache Optics Ltd. use Cookies

Cookies are used to assist us in making our website work more efficiently. We use them to remember your preferences, for example; billing country, delivery country and if VAT is to be applied to your order. When you leave the site and come back to us this information can be reloaded from your computer thereby generally improving your user experience.

What types of Cookies are used on www.apacheoptics.com?

(i) Strictly Necessary Cookies
These Cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around apacheoptics.com and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the website.

(ii) Performance Cookies
These Cookies collect information about how visitors use apacheoptics.com, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These Cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these Cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how apacheoptics.com works.

(iii) Functionality Cookies
These Cookies allow apacheoptics.com to remember choices you make (such as your billing country, delivery country for orders) and provide enhanced, more personal features. For instance, applying VAT in your cart.

(iv) Targeting/Advertising Cookies
acheoptics.com do not use these cookies in any part of our website.

List of Cookies Used on www.apacheoptics.com

PHPSESSID: 
The PHPSESSID cookies are created/sent when a user ‘session’ is created. When you enter the site for the first time you are assigned a PHPSESSID cookie. This cookie stores details such as:

• Your IP Address
• The time you arrived on the site
• Your billing country
• Your delivery country
• If you have been in the checkout area
• If you logged into a customer account
• The pricing method that you wish to view
• If VAT is to be applied to your order

This session cookie has a timeout that expires if there has been no activity between your computer and our website in excess of one hour. This cookie is reset if you complete an order on apacheoptics.com.

Viewed: 
The ‘viewed’ cookies are created/sent when a user brings to review products on the website. The cookie stores the last 30 products viewed by a user in the order they have been viewed to that they can return to those products in the ‘Recently Viewed’ right-hand navigation panel of the product page of the website.

Panels: 
The ‘panels’ cookies is used to remember pages on the website where product panels are displayed. This cookie remembers the position the product panel was last viewed on a specific page when this option is available. It enables the customer to return to a specific panel when returning to view a product category from any part of the website.

__utma: 
This cookie keeps track of the number of times a visitor has been to the site pertaining to the cookie, when their first visit was, and when their last visit occurred. Google Analytics uses the information from this cookie to calculate things like Days and Visits to purchase. This cookie is what’s called a ‘persistent’ cookie, as in, it is not set to automatically expire unless removed by the user.

‘__utmb’ and ”utmc’: 
The B and C cookies work together to calculate how long a visit takes. __utmb takes a timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor enters a site, while __utmc takes a timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor leaves a site. __utmb expires at the end of the session. __utmc waits 30 minutes, and then it expires. You see, __utmc has no way of knowing when a user closes their browser or leaves a website, so it waits 30 minutes for another page view to happen, and if it doesn’t, it expires.

__utmz:
__utmz keeps track of where the visitor came from, what search engine you used, what link you clicked on, what keyword you used, and where you were in the world when you accessed a website. It expires in 6 months. This cookie is how Google Analytics knows to whom and to what source / medium / keyword to assign the credit for a Goal Conversion or an E-commerce Transaction.

All Google Analytics information is recorded anonymously and does not provide or share any user-identifiable information, for more information, please see Google’s Privacy Policy.

For more detailed information on cookies, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.