Last updated: 2026-09-16
This page lists every cookie this store sets, what each one does, who sets it and how long it lasts, and explains how you control them. It is part of the privacy policy.
1. What a cookie is
A cookie is a small text file a website stores in your browser. Some are needed for the site to work, such as remembering what is in your cart. Others measure how the site is used or track you for advertising.
2. Who sets cookies here
This store runs on Shopify. Every cookie listed below is set by Shopify, the platform that hosts the store and the checkout. Our theme sets no cookies of its own, and we have installed no analytics, advertising, chat, review or social-media tools. One exception: on the contact page and on the Your Privacy Choices page, Shopify's CAPTCHA provider, hCaptcha (Intuition Machines, Inc.), loads to protect the form and may set its own cookies while it runs. Our theme also uses your browser's session storage (cleared when you close the tab) for a few functional values only: two page-transition flags, whether your browser can show AVIF images, the color you last picked, and the email address you typed into the contact form so the confirmation can repeat it.
Shopify publishes and updates the list of cookies it sets on merchants' stores in its own cookie policy. The tables below reproduce that list as it stood on the date at the top of this page. If Shopify changes its list, or if we install an app, we update this page before the change goes live.
3. Strictly necessary cookies
Required for the store to work. They cannot be switched off in a consent banner, because the cart, checkout and account functions do not work without them.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| _shopify_essential | Keeps your session, the cart and the checkout working and protects the checkout against tampering | Shopify | 1 year |
| _shopify_test | Checks whether your browser accepts cookies | Shopify | 1 minute |
| _tracking_consent | Stores your cookie-consent choice for the region you are in | Shopify | 1 year |
| cart | The contents of your cart | Shopify | 2 weeks |
| cart_currency | The currency of your cart after checkout | Shopify | 2 weeks |
| discount_code | A discount code you have entered | Shopify | Session |
| localization | The country and language the store is shown in | Shopify | 1 year |
| login_with_shop_finalize | Completes a sign-in with Shop | Shopify | 5 minutes |
| shopify_pay | Keeps you signed in to Shop Pay if you use it | Shopify | 1 year |
| storefront_digest | Lets you view the store while it is password-protected | Shopify | 1 year |
4. Analytics cookies
These are Shopify's own cookies. Shopify uses them to produce the basic store reports we see, such as how many people visited and which page they arrived on. We have installed no separate analytics tool. Today no consent banner is shown (section 7), so these cookies are set when you visit; where a consent banner is shown, they are set only after you accept them.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| _landing_page | The page you arrived on | Shopify | 2 weeks |
| _orig_referrer | The site that sent you here | Shopify | 2 weeks |
| _shopify_analytics | Shopify's analytics on the store's buying surfaces | Shopify | 1 year |
| _shopify_s | Identifies your browsing session | Shopify | 30 minutes |
| _shopify_y | Identifies your browser across visits for Shopify's analytics | Shopify | 1 year |
| shop_analytics | Shopify's buyer analytics | Shopify | 1 year |
5. Marketing cookies
We run no advertising pixels, retargeting or social-media tracking on this site. Shopify's own marketing cookie is listed because Shopify may set it on its checkout and buying surfaces; today no consent banner is shown (section 7), so it is set when you visit; where a banner is shown, it is set only after you accept.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| _shopify_marketing | Shopify's marketing data on the store's buying surfaces | Shopify | 1 year |
If we ever install an advertising pixel, we add it to this table, add a "Do Not Sell or Share" link for US visitors, and switch on the consent banner for every region that requires consent, before the pixel goes live.
6. Preference cookies
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| shopify_override_user_locale | Remembers a language override in the Shopify admin (staff only, not customers) | Shopify | 1 year |
7. The consent banner
Shopify's consent banner is not switched on today: the store sells to the United States only, where consent before setting cookies is not required, so the analytics and marketing cookies above are set when you visit. If we ever sell to the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, we will switch the banner on for those regions before doing so, and the cookies in sections 4 and 5 will then be set only after you accept. Strictly necessary cookies are set either way.
Where a banner is shown, you can change your choice later by clearing this store's cookies in your browser; the banner appears again on your next visit.
8. Browser controls
You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings. If you block strictly necessary cookies, the cart and checkout will not work.
9. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control
We run no analytics or advertising tools of our own, so a "Do Not Track" or Global Privacy Control signal changes nothing on this site today beyond Shopify recording the preference for your browser (see the Your Privacy Choices page). If we ever add such tools, the Global Privacy Control signal will be honored as an opt-out from data sale or sharing.
10. Changes
We update this page and the date at the top whenever the cookies on this site change.
11. Contact
Email: support.vapora@gmail.com