1.What are cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that a website stores on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site.
- First party cookies are cookies set by the website you’re visiting. Only that website can read them. In addition, a website might potentially use external services, which also set their own cookies, known as third-party cookies.
- Persistent cookies are cookies saved on your computer and that are not deleted automatically when you quit your browser, unlike a session cookie, which is deleted when you quit your browser.
Every time you visit the https://tresscodehair.com website, you will be prompted to accept or refuse cookies.
The purpose is to enable the site to remember your preferences (such as user name, language, etc.) for a certain period of time.
That way, you don’t have to re-enter them when browsing around the site during the same visit.
Cookies can also be used to establish anonymised statistics about the browsing experience on our sites.
2. How do we use cookies?
The https://tresscodehair.com website mostly uses “first-party cookies”. These are cookies set and controlled by the site owner, not by any external organisation.
However, to view some of our pages, you will have to accept cookies from external organisations.
The 3 types of first-party cookie we use are to:
- make our websites operational
- gather analytics data (about user behaviour)
- provide visitors with relevant ads
I. Operational cookies
There are some cookies that we have to include in order for certain web pages to function. For this reason, they do not require your consent.
| Name | Purpose | Duration |
| ba_test | This cookie is used by the Barion payment gateway – it is necessary to ensure secure payment. | session |
| ba_vid | This cookie is used by the Barion payment gateway – it is necessary to ensure secure payment. | 18 months |
| a.gif | This cookie is used by the Barion payment gateway – it is necessary to ensure secure payment. | 2 years |
| rc::a | Helps us distinguish human users from robots. | permanent |
| rc::b | Helps us distinguish human users from robots. | permanent |
| rc::c | Helps us distinguish human users from robots. | permanent |
| wc_cart_hash_# | Stores cart contents | permanent |
| wc_fragments_# | Allows cart functionality. | session |
| CookieConsent | Stores whether cookie consent was given. | permanent |
II. Analytics cookies
These help us gather statistical data about our users.
| Name | Purpose | Duration |
| _gid | Creates a unique user ID, which helps us gather statistical data about how our site is used. | 1 day |
| _ga | Creates a unique user ID, which helps us gather statistical data about how our site is used. | 2 years |
| _gat | Created by Google Analytics to throttle requests. | 1 day |
III. Advertising cookies
Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with relevant ads and marketing campaigns. These cookies track visitors across websites and collect information to provide customized ads.
| Name | Purpose | Duration |
| NID | Google cookie. Creates a unique ID for the user. Used to increase ad relevance. | 6 months |
3.How can you manage cookies?
You can manage/delete cookies as you wish – for details, see aboutcookies.org.
Removing cookies from your device
You can delete all cookies that are already on your device by clearing the browsing history of your browser. This will remove all cookies from all websites you have visited.
Be aware though that you may also lose some saved information (e.g. saved login details, site preferences).
Managing site-specific cookies
For more detailed control over site-specific cookies, check the privacy and cookie settings in your preferred browser
Blocking cookies
You can set most modern browsers to prevent any cookies being placed on your device, but you may then have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site/page. And some services and functionalities may not work properly at all (e.g. profile logging-in).