Cookie Policy

What is a Cookie? 

A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognizes that cookie, to develop a record of a user’s online activity.  Cookies may be delivered in a first-party (set by our website) or third-party (set by another website) context and may also be set in association with emails you receive from Blakes.

Cookies Used on This Site 

1. Essential Cookies. These cookies are essential for enabling your movement around our website, allowing access to certain areas of the site that require a log-in, ensuring security of the website, remembering your preferences and ensuring that the website content is delivered to you in an optimal format (e.g. mobile or desktop). These cookies cannot be disabled. The table below provides more information about these cookies.
    

   Provider	Name	Description	Duration
   Kentico	CMSCookieLevel	Specifies which cookies are allowed by the visitor.	1 year
   Kentico	ASP.NET_SessionId	Keeps the user session ID for security reasons.	Until session end
   Kentico	CMSCsrfCookie	Store's a security token that the system uses to validate all form data submitted via POST requests. Helps protect against Cross site request forgery.	Until session end
   Kentico	CMSPreferredCulture	Stores the visitor's preferred content culture.	1 year
   Kentico	CMSMobileRedirected	Indicates if the visitor has been redirected to the mobile version of the website by the Mobile device redirection web part.	Until session end
   Kentico	CMSCurrentTheme	Stores the name of the current visual theme to provide proper design to the dialog windows.	1 day
   Kentico	CMSForumPostAnswer	Keeps a list of Question-Answer forum posts in which the user voted for an answer to prevent repeated votes.	1 month
   Kentico	CMSVotedPolls	Keeps a list of polls where the user voted to prevent repeated votes.	1 year
   Kentico	CMSRatedDocuments	Keeps a list of pages that the user rated to prevent repeated votes.	1 year
   Kentico	CMSShowDesktopVersion	Indicates that the visitor has switched to the desktop (default) version of the website from a specific device profile.	1 year
   Kentico	CMSWindowsUser	Stores information for users who were imported from an Active Directory domain during authentication.	Until session end
   Kentico	.ASPXFORMSAUTH	Stores the user's encrypted authentication ticket when using forms authentication.	Until session end

2. Analytics Cookies. We use analytics cookies to collect information about how visitors access and use our website. These cookies collect information in the aggregate to give us insight into how many people visit our website, how our website is being used, what information and content is most popular, how visitors arrive at our website and where they go after visiting our website. The following table has more information about these cookies.
    

   Provider	Name	Description	Duration
   Kentico	VisitorStatus	Indicates if the visitor is new or returning. Used for tracking the visitors statistic in Web analytics.	20 years
   Kentico	Source	Stores the channel which the user came from (e.g., email, Facebook, Twitter, etc.).	50 years
   Kentico	Campaign	Stores the web analytics Campaign assigned to the visitor.	50 years
   Kentico	TrackedCampaigns	Stores all the web analytics Campaigns, which should be tracked within a JavaScript snippet.	50 years
   Kentico	UrlReferrer	Stores the URL referrer from which the user arrives on the website.	1 day
   Kentico	CurrentContact	Stores the GUID of the contact related to the current site visitor. Used to track activities on the website.	50 years
   Kentico	CMSAB<ABtestname>	Used to track conversions for the test and maintain consistent page content for the visitor. Stores the name of the page variant assigned to the visitor, the list of performed conversions and information whether visitor is included in A/B testing specified by an A/B test.	2 months
   Kentico	CMSMVT<mvtestname>	Stores the combination of variants assigned to the visitor by an MVT test. Used to track conversions for the test and maintain consistent page content for the visitor.	1 month
   Kentico	CMSNoTestMVT<templateid>	Stores the currently selected MVT combination for editors in the administration interface.	1 month
   Kentico	CMSBodyClass	Body element class to provide accessibility standards.	50 years
   Kentico	CMSEd<GUID>Current	Stores the current step of Wizard layout web parts.	1 day
   Kentico	CMSUserPage	Stores the IDs (DocumentID, NodeID) of the last visited page. Used for logging landing and exit page web analytics and activities.	20 minutes
   Kentico	__openid_selector_*	Stores OpenId user identification for authentication purposes.	1 year
   Kentico	CMSLandingPageLoaded	Indicates that the landing page has already been visited and the Landing page activity is not logged again for the current visitor.	20 minutes
   AddThis	ssc / ssh / sshs / __atuvc / di2 / uid / ouid / loc / um / mus / uvc / vc / na_id	This cookie is associated with the AddThis social sharing widget which is commonly embedded in websites to enable visitors to share content with a range of networking and sharing platforms. It stores an updated page share count.	13 months
   AddThis	__atuvs	The AddThis cookie is is associated with the ‘share buttons’ where a user can email or share a link of a post to their friends.	30 minutes
   Google	_ga	Used to distinguish users.	2 years
   Google	_gid	Used to distinguish users.	24 hours
   Google	_gat	Used to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be named _dc_gtm_<property-id>.	1 minute
   Google	AMP_TOKEN	Contains a token that can be used to retrieve a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. Other possible values indicate opt-out, inflight request or an error retrieving a Client ID from AMP Client ID service.	30 seconds to 1 year
   Google	_gac_<property-id>	Contains campaign related information for the user. If you have linked your Google Analytics and Google Ads accounts, Google Ads website conversion tags will read this cookie unless you opt-out.	90 days

How to Control and Delete Cookies 

1. Consent Tool. Our cookie consent tool can be utilized to control analytics cookies set by Blakes.com. Essential cookies cannot be disabled. 

2. Using Your Browser. Many of the cookies used on our website and through emails can be disabled through your browser. To disable cookies through your browser, follow the instructions usually located within the “Help,” “Tools” or “Edit” menus in your browser. Please note that disabling a cookie or category of cookies does not delete the cookie from your browser unless manually completed through your browser function.