Cookie Policy

Name

Description

Duration

_ab

Used to control when the admin bar is shown on the storefront.

1y

_abv

Persist the collapsed state of the admin bar.

1y

_checkout_queue_token

Used when there is a queue during the checkout process.

1y

_identity_session

Merchant authentication: Main session cookie for Identity authentication. This is the underlying Rails session cookie. It contains the SID.

2y

_master_udr

Permanent device identifier.

session

_merchant_essential

Contains essential information for the correct functionality of merchant surfaces such as the admin area.

1y

_pay_session

The Rails session cookie for Shopify Pay

session

_shopify_country

Used for Plus shops where pricing currency/country is set from GeoIP by helping avoid GeoIP lookups after the first request.

30min

shopify_essential

Contains essential information for the correct functionality of a store such as session and checkout information and anti-tampering data.

1y

shopify_essential_

Contains an opaque token that is used to identify a device for all essential purposes.

1y

shopify_test

Used to check cookie capabilities on the client.

1min

storefront_u

Used to facilitate updating customer account information.

1min

tracking_consent

Used to store a user's preferences if a merchant has set up privacy rules in the visitor's region.

1y

auth_state_<<id>>

Stores authentication state before redirecting customers to third party for authentication.

25min

cart

Contains information related to the user's cart.

2w

cart_currency

Used after a checkout is completed to initialize a new empty cart with the same currency as the one just used.

2w

checkout

Used by checkout to identify the user.

21d

checkout_token

Used by checkout to identify the user.

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.

1y

discount_code

Stores a discount code (received from an online store visit with a URL parameter) in order to the next checkout.

session

hide_shopify_pay_for_checkout

Set when a buyer dismisses the Shop Pay login modal during checkout, informing display to buyer.

session

identity_customer_account_number

Stores an identifier used to facilitate login across the customer's account and storefront domains.

12w

identity-state

Stores a hash of the oauth flow state between redirects.

1d

in_checkout_profile_preview

Used to determine if a merchant is in a checkout profile preview session.

session

keep_alive

Used when international domain redirection is enabled to determine if a request is the first one of a session.

session

localization

Used to localize the cart to the correct country.

2w

login_with_shop_finalize

Used to facilitate login with Shop.

5min

master_device_id

Merchant authentication: Permanent device identifier, public version.

1y

order

Used to allow access to the data of the order details page of the buyer.

3w

profile_preview_token

Used for previewing checkout customizations.

5min

shop_pay_accelerated

Indicates if a buyer is eligible for Shop Pay accelerated checkout.

1y

shopify_pay

Used to log in a buyer into Shop Pay when they come back to checkout on the same store.

1y

shopify_pay_redirect

Used to accelerate the checkout process when the buyer has a Shop Pay account.

1y

skip_shop_pay

Disables Shop Pay as a payment method for a checkout.

1y

storefront_digest

Stores a digest of the storefront password, allowing merchants to preview their storefront while it's password protected.

1y

theme

Used to determine the theme of the storefront.

1w

user

Used in connection with Shop login.

1y

user_cross_site

Used in connection with Shop login.

1y

landing_page

Capture the landing page of visitor when they come from other sites.

2w

merchant_analytics

Contains analytics data for the merchant session.

1y

orig_referrer

Allows merchant to identify where people are visiting them from.

2w

shopify_analytics

Contains analytics data for buyer surfaces such as the storefront or checkout.

1y

shopify_ga

Contains Google Analytics parameters that enable cross-domain analytics measurement to work.

session

shopify_s

Used to identify a given browser session/shop combination. Duration is 30 minute rolling expiry of last use.

30min

shopify_y

Shopify analytics.

1y

shop_analytics

Contains the required buyer information for analytics in Shop.

1y

Marketing

Name

Description

Duration

shopify_marketing

Contains marketing data for buyer surfaces such as the storefront or checkout.

1y

User preferences

Name

Description

Duration

shopify_override_user_locale

Used as a mechanism to set User locale in admin.

1y