Scope of Cookies Policy
«MARKS & SPENCER MARINOPOULOS HGREECE» (the “Company” or M&S”)with registered address at 33-35 Ermou Str. PC 105 63, Athens, commits to the protection of your privacy while you navigate to our websites. In this context, under this Policy we wish to provide you with information about the cookies we use, the information we collect with them and how the Company uses them.
You can find out more about the Company’s handling of your personal data and the protection of your privacy in the Company’s Privacy Policy, which is available on our website. You may be informed in more detail on the handling of your personal data and the protection of your privacy through our Privacy Policy, which is available in our website.
Notion of cookies
Like most websites, this website collects cookies. Cookies are small text files that are stored on the computer or mobile device of the user visiting a website. They make it easier for the website to remember information from each user’s visit in order to make it more useful to the user on their next visit (such as language, font size and other display preferences). Some cookies are necessary for functional navigation on our website, while others are used to offer you targeted advertising whether you are visiting our website or other websites.
What information is collected with cookies
Some cookies collect information about your navigation on the website and your preferences when you visit this website via the same computer or mobile device. We do not use cookies to collect or store information that directly identifies you such as your first name, last name, address or other contact information. M&S may use cookies through this website to track your browsing behavior on the website.
Cookies’ Types
There are two main cookies’ categories:
- Temporary cookies (session cookies), which are erased once the browsing session is completed or/and after closing the browser.
Name Provider Expire Description Tracker Type Name Purpose Description cp_laternotif contactpigeon.com Session HTTP Cookie It resets on each session. Used as a session kill switch for the native push subscription dialog box. When the allow notifications native popup is shown the user can choose to click the ‘x’ or ‘Ask later’ for the popup to close without taking an action. This closes the popup but on the next refresh the popup will reappear in order for the user to give an answer. Because this is an annoying behavior we choose to set the ‘cp_laternotif’ cookie as ‘yes’ for our agent to know that the user should not be bothered until later. This cookie is a session cookie. cp_sessionTime contactpigeon.com Session HTTP Cookie It resets on each session. Used as a session storage for the visitor’s page visit time. cp_total_cart_items contactpigeon.com 1 year HTTP Cookie Used as storage for the visitor cart’s total item number. It is utilized mainly for abandoned cart popup as the triggering switch. cp_total_cart_value contactpigeon.com 1 year HTTP Cookie Used as storage for the visitor cart’s total value. It is utilized mainly for abandoned cart popup as the triggering switch. cp_trigger_add2cart contactpigeon.com Session HTTP Cookie Used as a session add2cart flag. It indicates the addition of the sessions’s first item to cart. It resets on each session. cpab contactpigeon.com 1 year HTTP Cookie Used as an identification string for the visitor’s Session. It is a GUID string. cptmpc1 contactpigeon.com Session HTTP Cookie It is set upon request and it is destroyed/removed on each page refresh after its use. Used as a combined, with 2 more, temporary data source for an event sent after the next page refresh. cptmpc2 contactpigeon.com Session HTTP Cookie It is set upon request and it is destroyed/removed on each page refresh after its use. Used as a combined, with 2 more, temporary data source for an event sent after the next page refresh. cptmpc3 contactpigeon.com Session HTTP Cookie It is set upon request and it is destroyed/removed on each page refresh after its use. Used as a combined, with 2 more, temporary data source for an event sent after the next page refresh. IDE doubleclick.net 1 year HTTP Cookie Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user’s actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser’s ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user. test_cookie doubleclick.net 1 day HTTP Cookie Used to check if the user’s browser supports cookies. CookieConsent marksandspencerfood.gr 1 year HTTP Cookie Stores the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain cp_total_cart_value marksandspencerfood.gr 1 year HTTP Cookie Necessary for the shopping cart functionality on the website. ms_chosen_pickup_location marksandspencerfood.gr 10 days HTTP Cookie Necessary cookie for selecting a pickup store during the checkout step ms_chosen_shipping marksandspencerfood.gr 10 days HTTP Cookie Necessary cookie for selecting a delivery or pickup method – Used in order completion in the checkout step of the eshop wc_fragments_# marksandspencerfood.gr Session HTML Local Storage bi ping.contactpigeon.com 1 year HTTP Cookie Used as a load balancing cookie. In your case is considered unnecessary and can be removed cp_total_cart_items marksandspencerfood.gr 1 year HTTP Cookie Necessary for the shopping cart functionality on the website. wp-wpml_current_language marksandspencerfood.gr Session HTTP Cookie Designates the country code that is calculated based on the user’s IP address. Used to determine what language should be used for the visitor. collect google-analytics.com Session Pixel Tracker Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor’s device and behavior. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels. _dc_gtm_UA-# marksandspencerfood.gr 1 day HTTP Cookie Used by Google Tag Manager to control the loading of a Google Analytics script tag. _ga marksandspencerfood.gr 2 years HTTP Cookie Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. _ga_# marksandspencerfood.gr 2 years HTTP Cookie 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. _gid marksandspencerfood.gr 1 day HTTP Cookie Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. td www.googletagmanager.com Session Pixel Tracker Registers statistical data on users’ behaviour on the website. Used for internal analytics by the website operator. pagead/landing doubleclick.net Session Pixel Tracker 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. ads/ga-audiences google.com Session Pixel Tracker Used by Google AdWords to re-engage visitors that are likely to convert to customers based on the visitor’s online behaviour across websites. pagead/1p-user-list/# google.com Session Pixel Tracker 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. _gcl_au marksandspencerfood.gr 3 months HTTP Cookie Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services. cp_sessionTime marksandspencerfood.gr 1 day HTTP Cookie Registers user behaviour and navigation on the website, and any interaction with active campaigns. This is used for optimizing advertisement and for efficient retargeting. cpab marksandspencerfood.gr 1 year HTTP Cookie Collects information on what products the visitor has viewed and the content of the shopping-cart. This is used to increase the website’s conversion rate through targeted advertisement and product promotions through emails. cp_shownnotscookie marksandspencerfood.gr Session HTTP Cookie cp_trigger_add2cart marksandspencerfood.gr 1 day HTTP Cookie ms_cart marksandspencerfood.gr 30 days HTTP Cookie ms_within_attiki marksandspencerfood.gr 10 days HTTP Cookie - Persistent cookies, which remain to the browsing program for a determined period or until you erase them.
Name Provider Expire Description Tracker Type Name Purpose Description uw-icon-locales cdn.userway.org Persistent HTML Local Storage Used to keep settings on the website’s accessibility widget. This helps people with e.g. vision disabilities to properly navigate the site. wc_cart_hash_# marksandspencerfood.gr Persistent HTML Local Storage ti_wishlist_data_# marksandspencerfood.gr Persistent HTML Local Storage cp_shSess marksandspencerfood.gr Persistent HTML Local Storage Registers user behaviour and navigation on the website, and any interaction with active campaigns. This is used for optimizing advertisement and for efficient retargeting. cp_localStorageTrigger marksandspencerfood.gr Persistent HTML Local Storage cp_nots_usrsaid marksandspencerfood.gr Persistent HTML Local Storage cp_productsforLs marksandspencerfood.gr Persistent HTML Local Storage shownnots marksandspencerfood.gr Persistent HTML Local Storage wantsnots marksandspencerfood.gr Persistent HTML Local Storage
M&S uses both session and persistent cookies in order to ensure the proper function of its websites.
Use of cookies
The cookies used in our websites satisfy different purposes. When you visit our website we may use the following cookies:
Strictly Essential Cookies: Such cookies are essential for the proper functionality of the website, they allow you to navigate and use its functionalities, as accessing safe locations. These cookies do not identify you. These cookies are necessary for the website’s functionality and without them the use of the website would be unavailable.
Functional Cookies: These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make (such as your language) and provide enhanced features. Through these cookies, information about users can be collected such as the type of browser, the server, the language chosen by the user, his preferences, his searches and the geographical location of the user. The installation of these cookies is done only if you provide your consent.
In case of hyperlinks (links) to other websites, the website is not responsible for the terms of management and protection of personal data that they follow.
Advertising Cookies (third party): Information deriving through this cookies’ technology and similar technology is shared with third parties in the framework of drafting targeted advertising messages that may be featured to the user during his navigation to third party websites. In addition, the relevant cookies’ technology allows to measure the user’s activity to the website that directed the user to our websites. The installation of these cookies is done only if you provide your consent.
Analytics Cookies (Third party) and other technologies: These cookies collect details for the website’s user and allow to improve its performance. These details help monitoring the website’s performance, measuring the visitors, observing the means of accessing the website etc. The installation of these cookies is done only if you provide your consent.
How to handle cookies
If you wish to de-activate the cookies, depending on their specific type, the website may not operate properly. It is noted that it is not possible to disable the “necessary” cookies, as they are necessary for the proper operation of the website. For all other categories of cookies used by the website, you are free to choose whether or not to use them when you first enter the site, while always retaining the ability to modify your options for using cookies through the button option at the footer of the main page.
You can also revoke your consent to the use of cookies on your computer or other device by following the procedure for deleting them from the memory of the browser you use.
You may always modify your choices in the browsing program to receive notifications regarding the use of cookies or reject the use of cookies. In that case, if you do not allow the use of cookies for certain services, you may not have further access to those.
You may learn more information regarding the browsing program through the following links.
For further information regarding the type of cookies, you may visit our website:: http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
Processing of Personal Data
To learn more for the processing of your personal data and for your rights, please visit the Privacy Policy of our company.
Updates to the Cookies Policy
Μ&S may modify this Cookies Policy from times to times to ensure compliance with regulatory changes or to meet its operating needs and its legal obligations. Updated versions of the present Policy will be uploaded in this website of Μ&S with date indication so that the most recently updated version will be made available.
September 2023
