Cookies

Last updated: 4th September 2023

 

 

Strictly Necessary cookies8

Cookie key Domain Path Cookie type Expiration Description
secure_customer_sig steamforged.com / First-party 1 year This cookie is generally provided by Shopify and is used in connection with a customer login.
 
_hjFirstSeen .steamforged.com / First-party 30 minutes The cookie is set so Hotjar can track the beginning of the user's journey for a total session count. It does not contain any identifiable information.
 
cart steamforged.com / First-party 14 days This cookie is generally provided by Shopify and is used in connection with a shopping cart.
 
cart_ts steamforged.com / First-party 14 days Used in connection with checkout.
 
_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress .steamforged.com / First-party 30 minutes The cookie is set so Hotjar can track the beginning of the user's journey for a total session count. It does not contain any identifiable information.
 
cart_currency steamforged.com / First-party 14 days This cookie is used to recognize the user’s country of origin and populate the correct transaction currency.
 
cart_sig steamforged.com / First-party 14 days This cookie is generally provided by Shopify and is used in connection with checkout.
 
_orig_referrer .steamforged.com / First-party 14 days This cookie is generally provided by Shopify and is used in connection with a shopping part.
 

Performance cookies14

Cookie key Domain Path Cookie type Expiration Description
_y .steamforged.com / First-party 1 year This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite.
 
_gat_UA-125164970-6 .steamforged.com / First-party 1 minute This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. It is a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites.
 
_ga_VC17FTGGRZ .steamforged.com / First-party 1 year 1 month This cookie is used by Google Analytics to persist session state.
 
_landing_page .steamforged.com / First-party 14 days This cookie is used to track, report, and analyze on landing pages.
 
_shopify_sa_t .steamforged.com / First-party 30 minutes This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite concerning marketing and referrals.
 
_ga_YCJ6ETMH0H .steamforged.com / First-party 1 year 1 month This cookie is used by Google Analytics to persist session state.
 
__kla_id steamforged.com / First-party 1 year 1 month Tracks when someone clicks through a Klaviyo email to your website
 
_shopify_y .steamforged.com / First-party 1 year This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite.
 
_gid .steamforged.com / First-party 1 day This cookie is set by Google Analytics. It stores and update a unique value for each page visited and is used to count and track pageviews.
 
_shopify_s .steamforged.com / First-party 30 minutes This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite.
 
_ga .steamforged.com / First-party 1 year 1 month This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports.
 
_s .steamforged.com / First-party 30 minutes This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite.
 
_shopify_sa_p .steamforged.com / First-party 30 minutes This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite concerning marketing and referrals.
 
_gat .steamforged.com / First-party 1 minute This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics, according to documentation it is used to throttle the request rate - limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites.
 

Targeting cookies7

Cookie key Domain Path Cookie type Expiration Description
test_cookie
 		 .doubleclick.net / Third-party 15 minutes This cookie is set by DoubleClick (which is owned by Google) to determine if the website visitor's browser supports cookies.
 
_uetsid .steamforged.com / First-party 1 day This cookie is used by Bing to determine what ads should be shown that may be relevant to the end user perusing the site.
 
IDE .doubleclick.net / Third-party 1 year This cookie is set by Doubleclick and carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website.
 
MUID .bing.com / Third-party 1 year This cookie is widely used my Microsoft as a unique user identifier. It can be set by embedded microsoft scripts. Widely believed to sync across many different Microsoft domains, allowing user tracking.
 
_fbp .steamforged.com / First-party 3 months Used by Meta to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers
 
_uetvid .steamforged.com / First-party 1 year This is a cookie utilised by Microsoft Bing Ads and is a tracking cookie. It allows us to engage with a user that has previously visited our website.
 
_gcl_au .steamforged.com / First-party 3 months Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services
 

Functionality cookies1

Cookie key Domain Path Cookie type Expiration Description
localization steamforged.com /en-eu First-party 1 year These cookies are set on pages with the Flickr widget.
 

Unclassified cookies9

Cookie key Domain Path Cookie type Expiration Description
_hjIncludedInSessionSample_2008148 .steamforged.com / First-party 2 minutes  
 
keep_alive steamforged.com / First-party 30 minutes  
 
locale_bar_accepted steamforged.com / First-party Session  
 
aiod_locals steamforged.com / First-party 1 hour  
 
cart_ver steamforged.com / First-party 14 days  
 
_cmp_a .steamforged.com / First-party 1 day  
 
_hjSessionUser_2008148 .steamforged.com / First-party 1 year  
 
shopify_pay_redirect steamforged.com / First-party 1 hour  
 
_hjSession_2008148 .steamforged.com / First-party 30 minutes