Cookies

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Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improve the user experience. They can also help to ensure that adverts you see online are more relevant to you and your interests. Cookies are not computer programs, cannot disseminate viruses and cannot read other information saved on your hard drive.

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By using the Sweaty Betty website you are agreeing to the use of cookies. Certain features of our website cannot function without them.

The cookies used on the Sweaty Betty website have been categorised based on the categories found in the ICC UK Cookie guide. A list of all the cookies used on this website by category is set out below:


Strictly necessary cookies:

These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the website. Without these cookies services you have asked for, like shopping baskets or e-billing, cannot be provided.

Strictly necessary cookies Why we use it
session This cookie is required to make the core functionality of the website work. This cookie ensures that any selections you make are carried through your journey. For example, any products that you add to your shopping basket stay there until you are ready to check out, or if you select next day delivery it remains selected if you go back and forth between the checkout page and other pages on the website.
ASPSESSIONIDACDCCSQT Websites are hosted on servers. This cookie is launched by our server to make sure both the front-end (the customer facing website) and the back-end (where all the technical changes happen) work in synch with each other. This cookie contains alphanumeric characters unique to your session, and like all other cookies is personally non-identifiable.

Performance cookies:

These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they receive error messages from web pages. These cookies do not collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how a website works.

Performance cookies Why we use it
CurrentCustomerSweaty+Betty1 Once you log in on our website we give you a Customer ID so we can recognise you next time you visit. This cookie enables us to set that customer number and therefore populate your account with your previous orders. This will enable you to check your order status or exchange an item on our website or via our Customer Care team. This cookie also tells us how many times our Postcode look-up service is used.
__utma, __utmb, __utmc, __utmz, __utmv These cookies enable our Google Analytics software to work. This means we can see data like visitor numbers, which pages are visited, order volumes and response to marketing campaigns. We use this data to ensure we are marketing to the correct people and to analyse and improve the journey our customers make through the website.
Session%5Fsrc This cookie lets us know where you came from before landing on our website. We can see if you clicked through from one of our emails, clicked on an advert that we have paid for, or found us in a search engine. We can use this information to measure the success of our marketing campaigns.
_#uid, _#sess, _#env, _#srchist, _#vdf, _#tsa, _#lps We work with DC Storm to have a deeper understanding of our marketing campaign results and website conversion. This builds on the data that Google Analytics can provide us and helps us to provide you with a better experience online. DC Storm cookies store a user identifier (nothing personally identifiable) and information about the user’s session. They flag the environment variables (what is your screen size, which browser you use etc), store the history of traffic source the user has arrived to the website from (google, yahoo, bloggers etc), and check whether you have been to visit us before.
Flashtalking We work with Flashtalking to analyse our marketing campaigns. Flashtalking uses cookies to collect general data on the performance of our advertising campaigns so we can report aggregated results. This data is collected on an anonymous and non-personally identifiable basis.
Bazaarvoice We work with Bazaarvoice to provide a system for customers to review our service and products online. Bazaarvoice uses cookies to collect information from consumers such as the IP address of your computer, the pages you visit within the Bazaarvoice Network, the date and time of your visit, browser type and version and other click-stream data (collectively "Analytics and Tracking Data"). Bazaarvoice use this Analytics and Tracking Data to operate the Services, enable the submission of User Generated Content, to enable anonymous analytics and measurement reporting, and to display online advertisements to you and other users.
Google Google use information collected from cookies and other technologies, like pixel tags, to improve your user experience and the overall quality of their services. For example, to tailor adverts to make sure they are relevant and of interest to you based on non PPI data such as browser type, time of day and website visited. Click here to find out more.

Functionality cookies:

These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. For instance, a website may be able to provide you with local weather reports or traffic news by storing in a cookie the region in which you are currently located. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customise. They may also be used to provide services you have asked for such as watching a video or commenting on a blog. The information these cookies collect may be anonymised and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.

Functionality cookies Why we use it
recentlyViewed We use this cookie to show you what items you have recently viewed. By doing this you can easily find a product that you have just looked at and may want to re-visit.
ChannelSelection This cookie remembers whether you prefer to shop from our UK website or USA website, next time you visit we'll remember your preference and send you straight there.

Advertising cookies:

These cookies are used to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaigns. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organisations such as advertisers. Quite often targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organisation.

Advertising cookies Why we use it
Turn Inc. We work with Turn Inc to deliver tailored advertising relevant to you. Turn Inc collect information about the website(s) that you visit and the advertisements that a browser displays while online. Turn Inc use this information collected to help make the advertisements you see more relevant to you, and for ad delivery and reporting purposes.
Google Google use information collected from cookies and other technologies, like pixel tags, to improve your user experience and the overall quality of their services. For example, to tailor adverts to make sure they are relevant and of interest to you based on non PPI data such as browser type, time of day and website visited. Click here to find out more.
Sublime Skinz We work with Sublime Skins to deliver advertisements online. Cookies help Sublime Skins to collect data and improve the effectiveness of their advertising. This allows them to deliver relevant online advertising to individual consumers and helps get their ads in front of the people that are most likely to find them interesting.
Facebook We use Facebook to deliver advertisements across both the Facebook social networking platform and Instagram. Cookies help us show ads to people who may be interested in the products, services or causes they promote. We also use cookies to help measure the performance of ad campaigns. Click here to find out more.
Pinterest We use Pinterest to deliver advertisements across the Pinterest Platform. Cookies help us show ads to people who may be interested in the products, services or causes they promote. We also use cookies to help measure the performance of ad campaigns.