Cookie Policy
Last updated: 23/12/2025
We are committed to creating a refined and seamless shopping experience for every visitor. This Cookie Policy explains how we use cookies and similar technologies on www.annabel-b.com. It applies to all guests, including those browsing from the United Kingdom, the European Union and the United States.
By continuing to browse our website, you acknowledge and accept the use of cookies as described below.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. They support essential site functionality, enhance your browsing experience and help us understand how our customers interact with our store.
Cookies may be:
• First‑party cookies set by us
• Third‑party cookies set by trusted partners
• Session cookies that expire when you close your browser
• Persistent cookies that remain until they expire or are removed
How We Use Cookies
We use cookies to ensure that your experience with Annabel‑B is smooth, secure and personalised. This includes:
• Enabling essential website features
• Supporting secure checkout and payment processes
• Understanding how visitors use our site
• Enhancing performance and functionality
• Delivering relevant, refined advertising
Types of Cookies We Use
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential for the website to function. They enable core features such as checkout, cart management, security, and consent preferences. Without them, the site cannot operate correctly.
Performance & Analytics Cookies
These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website, allowing us to refine and elevate the shopping experience. They include Shopify analytics and Google Analytics.
Functional Cookies
These cookies remember your preferences — such as language, region, and browsing choices — to create a more personalised experience.
Marketing & Advertising Cookies
These cookies help us present relevant, curated advertising and measure the performance of our campaigns. They include Meta (Facebook/Instagram) and Google Ads cookies.
Preference Cookies
These cookies store user settings such as locale and display preferences.
Your Cookie Choices
You may manage your cookie preferences at any time through our cookie banner. You can also adjust your browser settings to block or delete cookies. Please note that disabling certain cookies may affect site performance, including checkout functionality.
Cookies Used on This Website
Below is the complete list of cookies used on Annabel‑B, as detected by our Consentmo GDPR scanner. This list is updated regularly to reflect the cookies currently active on our store.
| Name | Description | Category | Provider | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| cookieconsent_status | This cookie is associated with the app Consentmo GDPR Compliance and is used for storing the customer's consent. | Necessary | Consentmo | 1 year |
| cookieconsent_preferences_disabled | This cookie is associated with the app Consentmo GDPR Compliance and is used for storing the customer's consent. | Necessary | Consentmo | 1 day |
| _ab | Used to control when the admin bar is shown on the storefront. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 year |
| _abv | Persist the collapsed state of the admin bar. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 year |
| _checkout_queue_token | Used when there is a queue during the checkout process. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 year |
| _identity_session | Merchant authentication: Main session cookie for Identity authentication. This is the underlying Rails session cookie. It contains the SID. | Necessary | Shopify | 2 years |
| _master_udr | Permanent device identifier. | Necessary | Shopify | Session |
| _merchant_essential | Contains essential information for the correct functionality of merchant surfaces such as the admin area. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 year |
| _pay_session | The Rails session cookie for Shopify Pay | Necessary | Shopify | Session |
| _shopify_country | Used for Plus shops where pricing currency/country is set from GeoIP by helping avoid GeoIP lookups after the first request. | Necessary | Shopify | 30 minutes |
| _shopify_essential | Contains essential information for the correct functionality of a store such as session and checkout information and anti-tampering data. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 year |
| _shopify_essential_ | Contains an opaque token that is used to identify a device for all essential purposes. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 year |
| _shopify_test | Used to check cookie capabilities on the client. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 minute |
| _storefront_u | Used to facilitate updating customer account information. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 minute |
| _tracking_consent | Used to store a user's preferences if a merchant has set up privacy rules in the visitor's region. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 year |
| auth_state_* | Stores authentication state before redirecting customers to third party for authentication. | Necessary | Shopify | 25 minutes |
| cart | Contains information related to the user's cart. | Necessary | Shopify | 2 weeks |
| cart_currency | Used after a checkout is completed to initialize a new empty cart with the same currency as the one just used. | Necessary | Shopify | 2 weeks |
| checkout | Used by checkout to identify the user. | Necessary | Shopify | 21 days |
| checkout_token | Used by checkout to identify the user. | Necessary | Shopify | Session |
| customer_account_locale | Used to keep track of a customer account locale when a redirection occurs from checkout or the storefront to customer accounts. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 year |
| discount_code | Stores a discount code (received from an online store visit with a URL parameter) in order to the next checkout. | Necessary | Shopify | Session |
| hide_shopify_pay_for_checkout | Set when a buyer dismisses the Shop Pay login modal during checkout, informing display to buyer. | Necessary | Shopify | Session |
| identity-state | Stores a hash of the oauth flow state between redirects. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 day |
| identity_customer_account_number | Stores an identifier used to facilitate login across the customer's account and storefront domains. | Necessary | Shopify | 12 weeks |
| in_checkout_profile_preview | Used to determine if a merchant is in a checkout profile preview session. | Necessary | Shopify | Session |
| keep_alive | Used when international domain redirection is enabled to determine if a request is the first one of a session. | Necessary | Shopify | Session |
| localization | Used to localize the cart to the correct country. | Necessary | Shopify | 2 weeks |
| login_with_shop_finalize | Used to facilitate login with Shop. | Necessary | Shopify | 5 minutes |
| master_device_id | Merchant authentication: Permanent device identifier, public version. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 year |
| order | Used to allow access to the data of the order details page of the buyer. | Necessary | Shopify | 3 weeks |
| profile_preview_token | Used for previewing checkout customizations. | Necessary | Shopify | 5 minutes |
| shop_pay_accelerated | Indicates if a buyer is eligible for Shop Pay accelerated checkout. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 year |
| shopify_pay | Used to log in a buyer into Shop Pay when they come back to checkout on the same store. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 year |
| shopify_pay_redirect | Used to accelerate the checkout process when the buyer has a Shop Pay account. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 year |
| skip_shop_pay | Disables Shop Pay as a payment method for a checkout. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 year |
| storefront_digest | Stores a digest of the storefront password, allowing merchants to preview their storefront while it's password protected. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 year |
| theme | Used to determine the theme of the storefront. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 weeks |
| user | Used in connection with Shop login. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 year |
| user_cross_site | Used in connection with Shop login. | Necessary | Shopify | 1 year |
| _landing_page | Capture the landing page of visitor when they come from other sites. | Statistics | Shopify | 2 weeks |
| _merchant_analytics | Contains analytics data for the merchant session. | Statistics | Shopify | 1 year |
| _orig_referrer | Allows merchant to identify where people are visiting them from. | Statistics | Shopify | 2 weeks |
| _shopify_analytics | Contains analytics data for buyer surfaces such as the storefront or checkout. | Statistics | Shopify | 1 year |
| _shopify_ga | Contains Google Analytics parameters that enable cross-domain analytics measurement to work. | Statistics | Shopify | Session |
| _shopify_s | Used to identify a given browser session/shop combination. Duration is 30 minute rolling expiry of last use. | Statistics | Shopify | 30 minutes |
| _shopify_y | Shopify analytics. | Statistics | Shopify | 1 year |
| shop_analytics | Contains the required buyer information for analytics in Shop. | Statistics | Shopify | 1 year |
| _ga | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics | Statistics | Google Analytics | 2 years |
| _ga_6T3330YGPL | ID used to identify users | Statistics | Google Analytics | 2 years |
| _ga_R8F9VPWMGM | ID used to identify users | Statistics | Google Analytics | 2 years |
| _shopify_marketing | Contains marketing data for buyer surfaces such as the storefront or checkout. | Marketing | Shopify | 1 year |
| _fbp | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. | Marketing | Meta Platforms, Inc. | 3 months |
| _gcl_au | Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services. | Marketing | 3 months | |
| shopify_override_user_locale | Used as a mechanism to set User locale in admin. | Preferences | Shopify | 1 year |
Third‑Party Cookies
Some cookies are placed by trusted third‑party partners, including Shopify, Google Analytics, Meta (Facebook/Instagram), Google Ads and payment providers such as Shopify Payments. These partners may process data outside the UK/EU, including in the United States. Where required, we ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place.
Do Not Track (US Visitors)
Some browsers offer a “Do Not Track” (DNT) setting. Our website does not currently respond to DNT signals, but you may manage tracking preferences through our cookie banner.
Changes to This Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time. Any changes will be published on this page with an updated "Last Updated" date.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy or how we use cookies, please contact us at hello@annabel-b.com.