Online shop doesn’t collect any information in an automatic way, excluding the information in the cookies files.
The cookies files represent IT details, especially the text files, which are stored in the final device of the Client and are dedicated to use the websites of an Online shop. Cookies usually contain the name of the website the originate from, the time of storing them on the final device and a unique number.
The subject posting the cookies files on the Client’s final device and obtaining the acces to them is the Merchant.
Cookies files are used to:
Adjust the contents of the website of an Online shop to the Client’s preference and optimization of using the websites; those files especially allow to recognize the Client’s device and properly view the website adjusted to his individual needs;
Making statistics, which help to understand, how the Clients are using the websites, which makes it possible to upgrade its structure and contents;
Keeping the Client’s session in order to allow him to come back to the shopcart’s content.
Within an Online shop there are the following cookies files that are applied:
session cookies and persistent cookies. Session cookies are the temporary files, that are stored in the final device of the Client to the moment of him logging out, oleaving the website or disabling the software (web browser). The persisten cookies files are stored in the final device of the Client through the time determined in the cookies files parameters or to the moment of removing them by the Client;
necessary cookies files allowing to use the services available within an Online shop, e.g. certifying cookies files used to the services requiring cerifying within an Online shop.
cookies files used to ensure safety e.g used to detect abuses in the range of within an Online shop;
performance cookies files, allowing to collect the information about a way of using the websites of an Online shop;
functioning cookies files allowing to rememeber the settings chosen by the Client and the Client’s interface personalization, e.g. in the range of chosen language or region from which the Client comes from, the size of the font, the look of the website etc.;
advertisment cookies files allowing to deliver promotional contents to the Clients more adjusted to their interests.
In many cases the software used to browse the websites (web browser) allows to keep the cookies files in the final device of the Client by default. The Clients can make changes to the cookies files settings any time. Those settings can be changed especially in a way to block the automatic use of the cookies files in the web browser’s settings or inform about its every insertion in the Client’s device. The detailed information about the possiblities an ways of using of cookies files re available in the software’s settings (web browser).
The Merchant informs, that he restricts applying the cookies files can result in some functionalities on an Online shop not working properly.