Cookies Policy
Last updated: May 08, 2018
Gadget Man Ltd ("us", "we", or "our") uses cookies on the https://gadgetman.ie/ website (the "Service"). By using the Service, you consent to the use of cookies.
Our Cookies Policy explains what cookies are, how we use cookies, how third-parties we may partner with may use cookies on the Service, your choices regarding cookies and further information about cookies.
Cookies can be "persistent" or "session" cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your personal computer or mobile device when you go offline, while session cookies are deleted as soon as you close your web browser.
Cookies are small pieces of text sent to your web browser by a website you visit. A cookie file is stored in your web browser and allows the Service or a third-party to recognize you and make your next visit easier and the Service more useful to you.
What are cookies
How Gadget Man Ltd uses cookies
When you use and access the Service, we may place a number of cookies files in your web browser.
We use cookies for the following purposes:
To enable certain functions of the Service
To provide analytics
To store your preferences
We use both session and persistent cookies on the Service and we use different types of cookies to run the Service:
Essential cookies. We may use cookies to remember information that changes the way the Service behaves or looks, such as a user's language preference on the Service.
Accounts-related cookies. We may use accounts-related cookies to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. We may use these cookies to remember information that changes the way the Service behaves or looks, such as the "remember me" functionality.
Analytics cookies. We may use analytics cookies to track information how the Service is used so that we can make improvements. We may also use analytics cookies to test new advertisements, pages, features or new functionality of the Service to see how our users react to them.
In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-parties cookies to report usage statistics of the Service, deliver advertisements on and through the Service, and so on.
Third-party cookies
What are your choices regarding cookies
If you'd like to delete cookies or instruct your web browser to delete or refuse cookies, please visit the help pages of your web browser.
Please note, however, that if you delete cookies or refuse to accept them, you might not be able to use all of the features we offer, you may not be able to store your preferences, and some of our pages might not display properly.
For the Internet Explorer web browser, please visit this page from Microsoft: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835
AllAboutCookies: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/
For the Firefox web browser, please visit this page from Mozilla: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/delete-cookies-remove-info-websites-stored
For the Safari web browser, please visit this page from Apple: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411?locale=en_US
For any other web browser, please visit your web browser's official web pages.
Where can you find more information about cookies
You can learn more about cookies and the following third-party websites:
Network Advertising Initiative: http://www.networkadvertising.org/
For the Chrome web browser, please visit this page from Google: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/32050
Managing Cookies
PrestaShop uses encrypted cookies to store all the session information, for visitors/clients as well as for employees/administrators.
The Cookie class (/classes/Cookie.php) is used to read and write cookies.
In order to access the cookies from within PrestaShop code, you can use this:
$this->context->cookie; |
All the information stored within a cookie is available using this code:
$this->context->cookie->variable; |
If you need to access the PrestaShop cookie from non-PrestaShop code, you can use this code:
include_once('path_to_prestashop/config/config.inc.php');include_once('path_to_prestashop/config/settings.inc.php');include_once('path_to_prestashop/classes/Cookie.php');$cookie = new Cookie('ps'); // Use "psAdmin" to read an employee's cookie. |
Data stored in a visitor/client's cookie
|
Token
|
Description
|
|---|---|
| date_add | The date and time the cookie was created (in YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS format). |
| id_lang | The ID of the selected language. |
| id_currency | The ID of the selected currency. |
| last_visited_category | The ID of the last visited category of product listings. |
| ajax_blockcart_display | Whether the cart block is "expanded" or "collapsed". |
| viewed | The IDs of recently viewed products as a comma-separated list. |
| id_wishlist | The ID of the current wishlist displayed in the wishlist block. |
| checkedTOS | Whether the "Terms of service" checkbox has been ticked (1 if it has and 0 if it hasn't) |
| id_guest | The guest ID of the visitor when not logged in. |
| id_connections | The connection ID of the visitor's current session. |
| id_customer | The customer ID of the visitor when logged in. |
| customer_lastname | The last name of the customer. |
| customer_firstname | The first name of the customer. |
| logged | Whether the customer is logged in. |
| passwd | The MD5 hash of the _COOKIE_KEY_ in config/settings.inc.php and the password the customer used to log in. |
| The email address that the customer used to log in. | |
| id_cart | The ID of the current cart displayed in the cart block. |
| checksum | The Blowfish checksum used to determine whether the cookie has been modified by a third party. The customer will be logged out and the cookie deleted if the checksum doesn't match. |
Data stored in an employee/administrator's cookie
|
Token
|
Description
|
|---|---|
| date_add | The date and time the cookie was created (in YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS format). |
| id_lang | The ID of the selected language. |
| id_employee | The ID of the employee. |
| lastname | The last name of the employee. |
| firstname | The first name of the employee. |
| The email address the employee used to log in. | |
| profile | The ID of the profile that determines which tabs the employee can access. |
| passwd | The MD5 hash of the _COOKIE_KEY_ in config/settings.inc.php and the password the employee used to log in. |
| checksum | The Blowfish checksum used to determine whether the cookie has been modified by a third party. If the checksum doesn't match, the customer will be logged out and the cookie is deleted . |