Cookie Policy
How we use cookies to enhance your browsing experience, personalise content, and analyse website traffic, as well as how you can manage your cookie preferences.
What are Cookies?
STEEL-SUBMISSION.COM puts small files (known as ‘cookies’) onto your computer to collect information about how you browse the site.
Cookies are used to:
- measure how you use the website so it can be updated and improved based on your needs
- remember the notifications you’ve seen so that we don’t show them to you again
- remember you while you’re changing your email subscriptions
Find out more about how to manage cookies.
How we use Cookies
Measuring website usage (Google Analytics)
We use Google Analytics software to collect information about how you use our website. We do this to help make sure the site is meeting the needs of its users and to help us make improvements, for example improving site search.
Google Analytics stores information about:
- the pages you visit on our website
- how long you spend on each page
- how you got to the site
- what you click on while you’re visiting the site
We do not collect or store your personal information (for example your name or address) so this information can’t be used to identify who you are.
Google Analytics sets the following cookies:
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| _ga | This helps us count how many people visit our website by tracking if you’ve visited before | 2 years |
| _gid | This helps us count how many people visit our site by tracking if you’ve visited before | 24 hours |
| _gat | Used to manage the rate at which page view requests are made | 10 minutes |
You can opt out of Google Analytics cookies.
Shopping Cart Functions (WooCommerce)
These cookies are active when a user interacts with one of these features or to allow admin functions to be performed from within the store’s dashboard.
WooCommerce sets the following cookies:
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| woocommerce_cart_hash | Helps WooCommerce determine when cart contents/data changes. | Session |
| woocommerce_items_in_cart | Helps WooCommerce determine when cart contents/data changes. | Session |
| wp_woocommerce_session_ | Contains a unique code for each customer so that it knows where to find the cart data in the database for each customer. | 2 Days |
| woocommerce_recently_viewed | Powers the Recent Viewed Products widget. | Session |
| store_notice[notice id] | Allows customers to dismiss the Store Notice. | Session |
Cookie Policy Last updated 15 July 2024