Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy explains how Made By Zen (referred to as "we," "us," or "our") uses cookies and similar technologies on our website, madebyzen.com.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit our website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently, improve your experience and provide information to the site owners about how the site is being used. Cookies allow a web application to tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

How we use cookies

We use cookies for a variety of reasons, primarily to enhance your experience and improve our services:

  • Strictly required cookies/Essential Website Operations: Certain cookies are necessary for the website to function correctly, such as maintaining your session ID, managing your shopping cart and preventing forged requests. Such cookies are only set in response to actions made by you such as language, currency, login session, privacy preferences. You can set your browser to block these cookies but this might affect the way our site is working.
  • Analytics and Statistics cookies: These cookies allow us to measure visitors traffic and see traffic sources by collecting information in data sets. They also help us understand which products and actions are more popular than others.
  • Marketing and Personalisation cookies: These cookies are usually set by our marketing and advertising partners. They may be used by them to build a profile of your interest and later show you relevant ads. If you do not allow these cookies you will not experience targeted ads for your interests.
  • Functional cookies: These cookies enable our website to offer additional functions and personal settings. They can be set by us or by third-party service providers that we have placed on our pages. If you do not allow these cookies, these or some of these services may not work properly.

Managing Your Cookie Preferences

You can manage cookies through your browser settings by enabling, disabling, or deleting them. Most browsers provide guidance under “Help”, “Tools”, or “Settings”.
Please note that restricting cookies may limit your access to certain features or secure areas of the site.

List of Cookies We Collect

Below is the full list of cookies used on the site, grouped by category.

Essential Cookies

Name Provider Duration Description
_orig_referrer Shopify 2 weeks Identifies where visitors come from so the site works correctly.
_landing_page Shopify 2 weeks Stores the first page visited to help with basic site functions.
_ab Shopify 1 year Handles admin bar visibility for store functionality.
_secure_session_id Shopify 1 day Maintains secure browsing during the session.
cart Shopify 2 weeks Stores cart information needed for checkout.
cart_currency Shopify 2 weeks Saves cart currency based on visitor location.
cart_sig Shopify 2 weeks Confirms the integrity of cart content.
cart_ts Shopify 2 weeks Helps maintain cart session timestamps.
cart_ver Shopify 2 weeks Stores cart version to support cart updates.
checkout Shopify Session Supports checkout and order processing.
secure_customer_sig Shopify 1 year Used for secure customer login.
localization Shopify 2 weeks Stores visitor country for correct settings.
_iCartUserCountry iCart 1 year Stores shopper country so the cart shows correct shipping, currency and rules.
Other iCart cookies iCart Varies Manage cart state and upsell features required for cart functionality.


Analytics Cookies

Name Provider Duration Description
_shopify_s Shopify 30 minutes Shopify analytics for pages visited and user flow.
_shopify_sa_t Shopify 1 day Tracks marketing events such as conversions.
_shopify_sa_p Shopify 1 day Helps measure referral activity.
_shopify_y Shopify 1 year Used for Shopify analytics.
_ga Google Analytics 2 years Tracks visitor behaviour across pages.
_gid Google Analytics 1 day Tracks daily visitor activity.


Marketing Cookies

Name Provider Duration Description
_fbp Meta 3 months Helps deliver ads and measure ad performance.
test_cookie Google Ads 1 year Checks if the browser supports cookies for ads.
ttcsid Trustpilot Session Loads Trustpilot review widgets and related features.
ttcsid_variant Trustpilot Session Unique Trustpilot session id for review widgets.
yotpo_pixel Yotpo 1 year Tracks behaviour related to reviews and marketing.


Preference Cookies

Name Provider Duration Description
locale_bar_accepted Shopify Session Remembers if the visitor closed the locale notification bar.