BLEU – Cookie Policy

Date of Last Update: January 2022

Welcome to https://bleutorch.com/ (the “Site”), a website operated in the United States of America by Bleu Torch Distribution LLC, (“Bleu Torch“, “we“, “us” or “our“).

Our Site uses cookies to distinguish you from other Site users. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our Site; for example, it means that we can recognise your computer when you access the Site and log into your account with your username and password. The use of cookies also allows us to improve our Site. By continuing to browse the Site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.

Our Site uses functional, performance, marketing and personalisation cookies. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.

We use the following cookies:

  • Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our Site. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our Site or use the shopping cart.
  • Analytical/performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our Site when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our Site works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
  • Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our Site. This enables us to personalise our content for you and remember your preferences.
  • Targeting cookies. These record your visit to our Site, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our Site more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
  • Interest-based advertising cookies: You will have noticed, when visiting other websites, that you are shown adverts for products you may wish to buy. Like many businesses, we place adverts for our products on a range of our partners’ websites. However, to try and ensure that the adverts you see are relevant to you, we use cookies to collect information about the types of things that interest you, for example websites you visit and your geographic location. Having these cookies does not increase the number of adverts you will be shown, but simply makes the adverts you see more relevant. In addition, they limit the number of times you see an advertisement, as well as helping us measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns.

Our current list of cookies are as follows:

Essential Cookies

Necessary cookies enable core functionality of the website. Without these cookies the website can not function properly. They help to make a website usable by enabling basic functionality.

List of cookies the Essential group collects

Cookie Name Cookie Description
PHPSESSID To store the logged in user’s username and a 128bit encrypted key. This information is required to allow a user to stay logged in to a website without needing to submit their username and password for each page visited. Without this cookie, a user is unable to proceed to areas of the web site that require authenticated access.
private_content_version Appends a random, unique number and time to pages with customer content to prevent them from being cached on the server.
persistent_shopping_cart Stores the key (ID) of persistent cart to make it possible to restore the cart for an anonymous shopper.
form_key A security measure that appends a random string to all form submissions to protect the data from Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF).
store Tracks the specific store view / locale selected by the shopper.
login_redirect Preserves the destination page the customer was navigating to before being directed to log in.
mage-messages Tracks error messages and other notifications that are shown to the user, such as the cookie consent message, and various error messages, The message is deleted from the cookie after it is shown to the shopper.
mage-cache-storage Local storage of visitor-specific content that enables e-commerce functions.
mage-cache-storage-section-invalidation Forces local storage of specific content sections that should be invalidated.
mage-cache-sessid The value of this cookie triggers the cleanup of local cache storage.
product_data_storage Stores configuration for product data related to Recently Viewed / Compared Products.
user_allowed_save_cookie Indicates if the shopper allows cookies to be saved.
mage-translation-storage Stores translated content when requested by the shopper.
mage-translation-file-version Stores the file version of translated content.

 

Marketing Cookies

Marketing cookies are used to track and collect visitors’ actions on the website. Cookies store user data and behavior information, which allows advertising services to target more audience groups. Also, a more customized user experience can be provided according to the collected information.

List of cookies the Marketing group collects

Cookie Name Cookie Description
section_data_ids Stores customer-specific information related to shopper-initiated actions such as display wish list, checkout information, etc.
recently_viewed_product Stores product IDs of recently viewed products for easy navigation.
recently_viewed_product_previous Stores product IDs of recently previously viewed products for easy navigation.
recently_compared_product Stores product IDs of recently compared products.
recently_compared_product_previous Stores product IDs of previously compared products for easy navigation.

 

 

 

Google Analytics

A set of cookies to collect information and report about website usage statistics without personally identifying individual visitors to Google.

List of cookies the Google Analytics group collects

Cookie Name Cookie Description
_ga Used to distinguish users.
_gid Used to distinguish users.
_gat Used to throttle request rate.

 

You can manage your cookie settings here.

Please note that third parties (including, for example, providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies. Our current list of third parties who use cookies are as follows:

  • Google Analytics

These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. The data is collected anonymously and reports are compiled including number of visitors, time on page, and what pages were visited. For more information on the Google privacy law please click the following link https://policies.google.com/privacy A user-ID will be assigned to logged in users, which allows for anonymised website tracking across multiple devices (table, desktop, mobile, etc.). No personally identifiable data is collected or connected to the user-ID and you can opt out by using the following tool https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

  • Facebook

This Cookie is placed by Facebook. It enables us to measure, optimize and build audiences for advertising campaigns served on Facebook. It enables us to see how our users move between devices when accessing the website and Facebook, to ensure that our Facebook advertising is seen by our users most likely to be interested in such advertising by analyzing which content a user has viewed and interacted with on the website.

For more information please visit the link below. https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies

  • Hotjar

Hotjar is a tool that aggregates data on how visitors to our site are using it. Hotjar uses cookies to collect non-personal information. Examples of the type of information collected include, but are not limited to, pages visited, how pages are used and interacted with, type of device and browser used, and the country you are in.

For more information on Hotjar, how it collects data, what data it collects and how to opt out of it collecting your information please read Hotjar’s own privacy policy: https://www.hotjar.com/privacy

  • Bing

Bing allows us to build lists of users who have searched for certain terms and clicked on results using their search engines, so that we can target our advertising more effectively. For more information and how you can opt out please visit:  https://choice.microsoft.com/en-GB/opt-out

  • New Relic

New Relic allows us to monitor the website using metrics including loading times, and error rates. We use these metrics to improve your experience on our website.

For more information please visit: https://newrelic.com/termsandconditions/privacy

  • Vimeo

Vimeo is an online video platform that allows us to integrate video content on our website and offer an interactive user experience. Vimeo cookies provide us with statistics about video viewings.

For more information, please visit : https://vimeo.com/privacy

If you want to know more about how cookies work and how to manage or delete them, visit the World Wide Web Consortium’s website (or, for third party cookies, visit https://www.youronlinechoices.com/).

You block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies (which is usually found in the ‘Edit’ menu). If you have disabled JavaScript you will not be able to use this Site. If you use your browser settings to block cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our Site.

Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after 2 years.