What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files a website might put on your computer or mobile device when you first visit the site or a particular page. The cookie helps the website to recognise your device the next time you visit.
Cookies can:
• Help us to remember your preferences
• Analyse how well our website is performing
• Contain personal information so you don’t need to enter it twice (for instance, when you tick the ‘Remember Me’ box)
What sort of cookies does lightbulbs-direct.com use?
This website uses cookies. We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners who may combine it with other information that you’ve provided to them or that they’ve collected from your use of their services.
• Cookies are small text files that can be used by websites to make a user's experience more efficient.
• The law states that we can store cookies on your device if they are strictly necessary for the operation of this site.
• For all other types of cookies we need your permission.
• This site uses different types of cookies. Some cookies are placed by third party services that appear on our pages.
Your consent applies to the following domains: www.lightbulbs-direct.com
Essential
Essential for the site and any requested services to work, but do not perform any additional or secondary function.
| Name | Provider | Purpose | Expiry | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| __tld__ | BigCommerce | Used to track visitors on multiple websites, in order to present relevant advertisement based on the visitor's preferences. | Session | HTTP |
| _fbp | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. | 3 months | HTTP | |
| ajs%3Acookies | BigCommerce | Collects data on visitors. This information is used to assign visitors into segments, making website advertisement more efficient. | 1 year | HTTP |
| ajs%3Atest | BigCommerce | Collects data on visitors. This information is used to assign visitors into segments, making website advertisement more efficient. | 1 year | HTTP |
| ajs_anonymous_id | BigCommerce | This cookie is used to identify a specific visitor - this information is used to identify the number of specific visitors on a website. | 1 year | HTTP |
| ajs_group_id | BigCommerce | This cookie is used to assign specific visitors into segments, this segmentation is based on visitor behavior on the website - the segmentation can be used to target larger groups. | 1 year | HTTP |
| ajs_user_id | BigCommerce | This cookie is used to collect data on the visitor's behavior on the website - this information can be used to assign the visitor to a visitor segment, based on common preferences. | 1 year | HTTP |
| bc_consent | lightbulbs-direct.com | Used to determine if the shopper has consented to tracking when the consent manager is enabled. | 2 years | HTTP |
| cart-quantity | BigCommerce | Used to keep track of product quantity in cart | Persistent | HTML Local Storage |
| fornax_anonymousId | lightbulbs-direct.com | Registers statistical data on users' behaviour on the website. Used for internal analytics by the website operator. | 2 years | HTTP |
| SHOP_SESSION_TOKEN | lightbulbs-direct.com | Necessary for the shopping cart functionality on the web site. | 6 days | HTTP |
| Shopper-Pref | lightbulbs-direct.com | User preferences. | 6 days | HTTP |
| STORE_VISITOR | lightbulbs-direct.com | Sets a ID for the visitor. This serves to count the number of specific visitors on the website. | 1 day | HTTP |
| test_cookie | lightbulbs-direct.com | Used to check if the user's browser supports cookies. | 1 day | HTTP |
| tracking-preferences | lightbulbs-direct.com | Used to store shopper tracking preferences when consent manager is enabled. To help determine what type of Scripts (Essential, etc) will load. | 2 years | HTTP |
| XSRF-TOKEN | lightbulbs-direct.com | Ensures visitor browsing-security by preventing cross-site request forgery. This cookie is essential for the security of the website and visitor. | Session | HTTP |
Analytics
Provide statistical information on site usage, e.g., web analytics so we can improve this website over time.
| Name | Provider | Purpose | Expiry | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | lightbulbs-direct.com | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | 2 years | HTTP |
| _ga_# | lightbulbs-direct.com | Used by Google Analytics to collect data on the number of times a user has visited the website as well as dates for the first and most recent visit. | 2 years | HTTP |
| _gali | This cookie is associated with Google Analytics. This cookie is used to collect information about how visitors use our site. | 30 seconds | HTTP | |
| _gat | This cookie is associated with Google Analytics. It is used to throttle the request rate – limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. | 1 minute | HTTP | |
| _gid | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | 1 day | HTTP |
Functional
Enables enhanced functionality, such as videos and live chat. If you do not allow these, then some or all of these functions may not work properly.
| Name | Provider | Purpose | Expiry | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Targeting; Advertising
Used to create profiles or personalize content to enhance your shopping experience.
| Name | Provider | Purpose | Expiry | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| dotdigital.com | Tracks and identifies a respondent as they answer the survey and records when the survey is complete. | Session | HTTP | |
| _gcl_au | Google Tag Manager | Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services. | 3 months | HTTP |
| _uetsid | lightbulbs-direct.com | Collects data on visitor behaviour from multiple websites, in order to present more relevant advertisement - This also allows the website to limit the number of times that they are shown the same advertisement. | 1 day | HTML Local Storage |
| _uetsid | lightbulbs-direct.com | Used to track visitors on multiple websites, in order to present relevant advertisement based on the visitor's preferences. | Persistent | HTML Local Storage |
| _uetsid_exp | lightbulbs-direct.com | Contains the expiry-date for the cookie with corresponding name. | Persistent | HTML Local Storage |
| _uetvid | lightbulbs-direct.com | Used to track visitors on multiple websites, in order to present relevant advertisement based on the visitor's preferences. | 1 year | HTTP |
| _uetvid | lightbulbs-direct.com | Used to track visitors on multiple websites, in order to present relevant advertisement based on the visitor's preferences. | Persistent | HTML Local Storage |
| _uetvid_exp | lightbulbs-direct.com | Contains the expiry-date for the cookie with corresponding name. | Persistent | HTML Local Storage |
| 5H2J-71N-Dismissed | dotdigital.com | Tracks and identifies a respondent as they answer the survey and records when the survey is complete. | 1 day | HTTP |
| ads/ga-audiences | google.com | Used by Google AdWords to re-engage visitors that are likely to convert to customers based on the visitor's online behaviour across websites. | Session | Pixel |
| dmSessionID | dotdigital.com | Tracks and identifies a visitor as an Engagement Cloud contact whilst they browse a site’s pages. This data can then be used for better segmenting and targeting of contacts | 1 day | HTTP |
| LP-82158F604453E2185H2J1F0380E8B464D8EA | dotdigital.com | Tracks and identifies a respondent as they answer the survey and records when the survey is complete. | 30 days | HTTP |
| MUID | bing.com | Used widely by Microsoft as a unique user ID. The cookie enables user tracking by synchronising the ID across many Microsoft domains. | 1 year | HTTP |
| pagead/1p-user-list/# | google.com | Tracks if the user has shown interest in specific products or events across multiple websites and detects how the user navigates between sites. This is used for measurement of advertisement efforts and facilitates payment of referral-fees between websites. | Session | Pixel |
| pagevisist | r1.trackedweb.net | Registers statistical data on users' behaviour on the website. Used for internal analytics by the website operator. | Session | Pixel |
| recordID | dotdigital.com | Tracks and identifies a visitor as an Engagement Cloud contact whilst they browse a site’s pages. This data can then be used for better segmenting and targeting of contacts | 1 year | HTTP |
| respondentid5H2J-71N | dotdigital.com | Tracks and identifies a respondent as they answer the survey and records when the survey is complete. | 30 days | HTTP |
| respondentid5H2J-71N | dotdigital.com | Tracks and identifies a respondent as they answer the survey and records when the survey is complete. | Session | HTTP |
| respondentid5H2J-71Ncount | dotdigital.com | A counter to stop users filling in the same form in a second time and overwriting any previous submissions. | Session | HTTP |
| Survey-Started-e96f02ba1f4d4b9d5eye5ecb24afb152fb73 | dotdigital.com | Tracks and identifies a respondent as they answer the survey and records when the survey is complete. | 1 day | HTTP |
Unclassified
Unclassified cookies are cookies that we are in the process of classifying, together with the providers of individual cookies.
| Name | Provider | Purpose | Expiry | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|