Cookie Notice
1. Information about our use of cookies
1.1 This policy explains how we use cookies on silentpooldistillers.com (this “Website”). We recommend that you read our cookies policy so that you are aware of how we use them and can take steps to reject or delete the cookies if you do not agree to them being used.
1.2 Cookies are small text files stored on your device and used by website operators in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the operators of the website or certain third parties. Each cookie usually contains a unique string of characters, which allows a website to distinguish your browser or device from other users.
1.3 We use cookies to enable you to navigate between pages and to generally improve your user experience. We also use cookies to analyze how users interact with this Website, to enable you to share content using social media, and to provide you with embedded content from third parties. We also sometimes use cookie type technologies in emails to identify how users come to this Website so that we can evaluate and measure the effectiveness of our email marketing.
1.4 We may combine information collected via cookies with information such as your IP address, the type of browser, device, and operating system, for example to provide statistical information about visitors to the Website. Where this Website uses third party cookies, you should check with the relevant third party to see how they use cookies (see section 3 below).
1.5 The cookies that we currently use on the Website are summarised in more detail below. We recommend that you read our cookies policy so that you are aware of how we use them and can take steps to reject or delete the cookies if you do not agree to them being used.
1.6 In this cookies policy, we use the term "cookie" to mean a cookie and any other similar technology, such as web beacons, local stored objects, and pixel tags.
2 Consent to the use of cookies
2.1 Cookies that are essential to the operation of the Website are set automatically. These are described in section 3.1 below.
2.2 We also use analytics cookies on this Website to help us understand how it is used. Our use of analytics cookies is described in section 3.2 below. Unless you use the cookie control to opt-out, the analytics cookies will be set automatically upon closing clicking "save and close" in the cookie control.
2.3 The other cookies described in this policy will only be set where you have given your consent. You can control your consent using the cookie control on the Website.
2.4 We may also remind you about our use of cookies and ask you to reconfirm your consent to cookies when you register for certain services or activate a certain function on the Website that relies on the use of cookies.
3 Cookies we use
We use the following cookies on this Website:
3.1 Strictly Necessary. These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the Website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the Website. Without these cookies, services that you have asked for cannot be provided. These cookies are set automatically.
3.2 Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around this Website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way this Website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
3.3 Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to this Website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
3.4 Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to this Website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make this Website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
3.5 Third Party Cookies. In addition to the cookies listed above, we also use the following third-party cookies for performance and functional purposes, to provide additional function and to make it easier for you to share content on this Website. These are cookies that are set by a third party when you access this Website and controlled by that third party.
3.6 When you interact with our Websites, both we and certain third parties (such as our advertising networks, digital advertising partners and social media platforms) collect information about your online activities, over time and across third-party websites (such as on websites that serve our ads). We may use such information to provide you with advertising about products and services tailored to your individual interests. We also may obtain information for this purpose from third-party websites on which our ads are served. You may see certain ads on other websites because we engage third-party ad buying networks through which we target our messaging to users through demographic, interest-based and contextual means. The information our ad networks collect on our behalf may include data about your visits to websites that serve our advertisements, such as the pages or advertisements you view and the actions you take on the websites. This data collection takes place both on our Websites and on third-party websites that participate in these ad networks. This process helps us track the effectiveness of our marketing efforts. To learn how to opt out of this ad network interest-based advertising, click here: http://www.aboutads.info/choices/.
3.7 We may also use “Social Media” cookies to personalize your interaction with third party social media platforms, such as Instagram and Facebook, where our Website uses such features. Such cookies recognize users of these social media sites when you view social media content on our Website. They also allow you to quickly share content across media, through the use of simple “sharing” buttons. We use the following Social Media cookies: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and Tumblr. For further information about those Social Media cookies please see here:
http://www.facebook.com/help/cookies
https://www.instagram.com/legal/cookies/
https://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-policy
https://policy.pinterest.com/en/cookies
3.8 A list of the cookies used on this Website can be found at the bottom of this notice.
4 Accepting and rejecting cookies
4.1 Other than those cookies listed as being strictly necessary for the operation of this Website, we will not deploy any cookies without your consent. You can provide consent through use of OneTrust technology or by amending your browser settings – more information on this is in section 4.3 below.
4.2 Some cookies are strictly necessary to allow you to use the website and its features, such as storing items in your basket. Without these cookies these features cannot be provided which may impair the functionality of the website meaning you are unable to shop on our website.
4.3 You can select the cookies you would like this website to store on your device by changing your browser settings. Each browser allows you to restrict or block cookies in different ways. Details on how to do this in each browser can be found on the ICO website (please note that we are not responsible for the content of external websites), visit: https://ico.org.uk/your-data-matters/online/cookies/. You can find more information about cookies at: www.allaboutcookies.org. Below are a few examples of how to adjust your browser settings:
- In Internet Explorer, you can refuse all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy”, and selecting “Block all cookies” using the sliding selector.
- In Firefox, you can adjust your cookies settings by clicking “Tools”, “Options” and “Privacy”.
- In Google Chrome, you can adjust your cookies settings by clicking the “Chrome Menu” on the browser tool bar, “Settings”, “Show Advanced Settings”, “Privacy”, “Cookies” and select your preferred setting.
4.4 Within most browsers you can utilise private browsing modes that typically do not save local data associated with the session, such as cookies. These are typically deleted when you close all the windows.
4.5 You can install a browser add-on to opt-out of Google Analytics in your browser across all websites (please note that we are not responsible for the content of external websites), visit: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
4.6 Please note that Cookie Control uses a cookie to remember your preferences. If you clear any cookies from your browser or device, then you will need to reactivate your Cookie Control preferences when you next visit this Website.
5 Changes to this policy
This cookies policy may be amended by us at any time. Please check this page periodically so that you are aware of any changes.
6 Contact us
6.1 For further information from us on any of this Cookie Notice or for any queries relating to them, please contact us by email at dataprotection@wgrant.com or write to us at William Grant & Sons Ltd, The Old Court House, 7 Parkshot, Richmond TW9 2RF.
6.1 For further information from us on any of this Cookie Notice or for any queries relating to them, please contact us by email at dataprotection@wgrant.com or write to us at William Grant & Sons Ltd, The Old Court House, 7 Parkshot, Richmond TW9 2RF.
Suggested Category | Cookie Name | Description | Lifespan | Type (HTTP Cookie, Local storage, Pixel etc.) |
Strictly Necessary | _ab | Used to control when the admin bar is shown on the storefront. | 1 Year | Cookie |
Strictly Necessary | _abv | Persist the collapsed state of the admin bar. | 1 Year | Cookie |
Strictly Necessary | _checkout_queue_token | Used when there is a queue during the checkout process. | 1 Year | Cookie |
Strictly Necessary | _cmp_a | Used for managing customer privacy settings. | 1 Day | Cookie |
Strictly Necessary | _identity_session | Contains the identity session identifier of the user. | 2 Years | Cookie |
Strictly Necessary | _master_udr | Permanent device identifier. | Session | Cookie |
Strictly Necessary | _pay_session | The Rails session cookie for Shopify Pay. | Session | Cookie |
Strictly Necessary | _secure_account_session_id | Used to track a customer's session for new customer accounts. | 30 Days | Cookie |
Strictly Necessary | _session_id | Used for providing reporting and analytics. | 2 Years | Cookie |
Strictly Necessary | _shopify_country | Used for Plus shops where pricing currency/country is set from GeoIP by helping avoid GeoIP lookups after the first request. | 30 Mins | Cookie |
Strictly Necessary | _shopify_essential | Contains essential information for the correct functionality of a store such as session and checkout information and anti-tampering data. | 1 Year | Cookie |
Strictly Necessary | _storefront_u | Used to facilitate updating customer account information. | 1 Min | Cookie |
Strictly Necessary | _tracking_consent | Used to store a user's preferences if a merchant has set up privacy rules in the visitor's region. | 1 Year | Cookie |
Strictly Necessary | auth_state_<<id>> | Stores authentication state before redirecting customers to third party for authentication. | 25 Mins | Cookie |
Strictly Necessary | card_update_verification_id | Used to support verification when a buyer is redirected back to Shopify after completing 3D Secure during checkout. | 20 Mins | Cookie |
Strictly Necessary | cart | Contains information related to the user's cart. | 2 Weeks | Cookie |
Strictly Necessary | cart_currency | Used after a checkout is completed to initialize a new empty cart with the same currency as the one just used. | 2 Weeks | Cookie |
Strictly Necessary | cart_sig | A hash of the contents of a cart. This is used to verify the integrity of the cart and to ensure performance of some cart operations. | 2 Weeks | Cookie |
Strictly Necessary | cart_ts | Used in connection with checkout. | 2 Weeks | Cookie |
Strictly Necessary | checkout | Used in connection with checkout. | 21 Days | Cookie |
Strictly Necessary | checkout_prefill | Encrypts and stores URL parameters containing PII which are used in cart permalink URLs. | 5 Mins | Cookie |
Strictly Necessary | checkout_session_lookup | Used in connection with checkout. | 3 Weeks | Cookie |
Strictly Necessary | checkout_session_token_<<id>> | Used when a checkout session is established on the server. | 3 Weeks | Cookie |
Strictly Necessary | checkout_token | Captures the landing page of the visitor when they come from other sites. | Session | Cookie |
Strictly Necessary | customer_account-locale | Used to keep track of a customer account locale when a redirection occurs from checkout or the storefront to customer accounts. | 1 Year | Cookie |
Strictly Necessary | customer_payment_method | Stores what payment method is being updated for subscriptions. | 1 Hour | Cookie |
Strictly Necessary | customer_shop_pay_agreement | Used to help verify a new Shop Pay payment instrument. | 20 Mins | Cookie |
Strictly Necessary | device_fp_id | Device fingerprint identifier to help prevent fraud. | Session | Cookie |
Strictly Necessary | device_id | Session device identifier to help prevent fraud. | Session | Cookie |
Strictly Necessary | discount_code | Stores a discount code (received from an online store visit with a URL parameter) in order to the next checkout. | Session | Cookie |
Strictly Necessary | dynamic_checkout_shown_on_cart | Adjusts checkout experience for buyers that proceed with regular checkout versus dynamic checkout. | 30 Mins | Cookie |
Strictly Necessary | hide_shopify_pay_for_checkout | Set when a buyer dismisses the Shop Pay login modal during checkout, informing display to buyer. | Session | Cookie |
Strictly Necessary | identity-state | Stores state before redirecting customers to identity authentication. | 1 Day | Cookie |
Strictly Necessary | identity-state-<<id>> | Stores state before redirecting customers to identity authentication. | 1 Day | Cookie |
Strictly Necessary | identity_customer_account_number | Stores an identifier used to facilitate login across the customer's account and storefront domains. | 12 Weeks | Cookie |
Strictly Necessary | keep_alive | Used when international domain redirection is enabled to determine if a request is the first one of a session. | Session | Cookie |
Strictly Necessary | locale_bar_accepted | Preserves if the modal from the geolocation app was accepted. | Session | Cookie |
Strictly Necessary | locale_bar_dismissed | Preserves if the modal from the geolocation app was dismissed. | 1 Day | Cookie |
Strictly Necessary | localization | Used to localize the cart to the correct country. | 2 Weeks | Cookie |
Strictly Necessary | logged_in | Identity logged-in hint. | 12 Weeks | Cookie |
Strictly Necessary | login_with_shop_finalize | Used to facilitate login with Shop. | 5 Mins | Cookie |
Strictly Necessary | master_device_id | Permanent device identifier. | 1 Year | Cookie |
Strictly Necessary | order | Used to allow access to the data of the order details page of the buyer. | 3 Weeks | Cookie |
Strictly Necessary | pay_update_intent_id | Stores an ID of a Shop Pay billing agreement update intent, required for a callback after verifying a new Shop Pay payment instrument. | 20 Mins | Cookie |
Strictly Necessary | preview_theme | Used to indicate whether the theme is being previewed. | Session | Cookie |
Strictly Necessary | previous_checkout_token | Used to prefill checkout with the details from the previous checkout. | 1 Year | Cookie |
Strictly Necessary | previous_step | Used in connection with checkout. | 1 Year | Cookie |
Strictly Necessary | profile_preview_token | Used for previewing checkout extensibility. | 5 Mins | Cookie |
Strictly Necessary | receive-cookie-deprecation | A cookie specified by Google to identify certain Chrome browsers affected by the third-party cookie deprecation. More information about this cookie can be found here. | Session | Cookie |
Strictly Necessary | remember_me | Used to prefill checkout with the details from the previous checkout. | 1 Year | Cookie |
Strictly Necessary | secure_customer_sig | Used to identify a user after they sign into a shop as a customer so they do not need to log in again. | 1 Year | Cookie |
Strictly Necessary | shop_pay_accelerated | Indicates if a buyer is eligible for Shop Pay accelerated checkout. | 1 Year | Cookie |
Strictly Necessary | shopify-editor-unconfirmed-settings | Stores changes merchant does in the editor to update the preview. | 16 Hours | Cookie |
Strictly Necessary | shopify_pay | Used to log in a buyer into Shop Pay when they come back to checkout on the same store. | 1 Year | Cookie |
Strictly Necessary | shopify_pay_redirect | Used to accelerate the checkout process when the buyer has a Shop Pay account. | 1 Year | Cookie |
Strictly Necessary | storefront_digest | Stores a digest of the storefront password, allowing merchants to preview their storefront while it's password protected. | 1 Year | Cookie |
Strictly Necessary | tracked_start_checkout | Used in connection with checkout. | 1 Year | Cookie |
Strictly Necessary | user | Used in connection with Shop login. | 1 Year | Cookie |
Strictly Necessary | user_cross_site | Used in connection with Shop login. | 1 Year | Cookie |
Strictly Necessary | wpm-domain-test | Used to test Shopify's Web Pixel Manager with the domain to make sure everything is working correctly. | Session | Cookie |
Analytical / Performance | _landing_page | Capture the landing page of visitor when they come from other sites. | 2 Weeks | Cookie |
Analytical / Performance | _orig_referrer | Allows merchant to identify where people are visiting them from. | 2 Weeks | Cookie |
Analytical / Performance | _shopify_ga | Contains Google Analytics parameters that enable cross-domain analytics measurement to work. | Session | Cookie |
Analytical / Performance | _shopify_s | Used to identify a given browser session/shop combination. Duration is 30 minute rolling expiry of last use. | 30 Mins | Cookie |
Analytical / Performance | _shopify_sa_p | Capture the landing page of visitor when they come from other sites to support marketing analytics. | 30 Mins | Cookie |
Analytical / Performance | _shopify_sa_t | Capture the landing page of visitor when they come from other sites to support marketing analytics. | 30 Mins | Cookie |
Analytical / Performance | _shopify_y | Shopify analytics. | 1 Year | Cookie |
Analytical / Performance | checkout_one_experiment | Used when a checkout is eligible to Checkout One and has been assigned to an experiment (control group or test group). | Session | Cookie |
Analytical / Performance | shop_analytics | Contains the required buyer information for analytics in Shop. | 1 Year | Cookie |
Analytical / Performance | unique_interaction_id | Used for checkout metrics. | 10 Mins | Cookie |
Strictly Necessary | _identity_session | Contains the identity session identifier of the user. | 2 Years | Cookie |
Strictly Necessary | checkout | Used in connection with checkout. | 21 Days | Cookie |
Strictly Necessary | user | Used in connection with Shop login. | 1 Year | Cookie |
Analytical / Performance | _assignment | Shopify analytics. | 1 Year | Cookie |
Analytical / Performance | _landing_page | Capture the landing page of visitor when they come from other sites. | 2 Weeks | Cookie |
Analytical / Performance | _orig_referrer | Allows merchant to identify where people are visiting them from. | 2 Weeks | Cookie |
Analytical / Performance | _shopify_s | Used to identify a given browser session/shop combination. Duration is 30 minute rolling expiry of last use. | 30 Mins | Cookie |
Analytical / Performance | _shopify_sa_t | Capture the landing page of visitor when they come from other sites to support marketing analytics. | 30 Mins | Cookie |
Analytical / Performance | _shopify_y | Shopify analytics. | 1 Year | Cookie |
Third Party | Cloudflare | Shopify uses Cloudflare Network as a Service for edge routing. | More info | Cookie |
Third Party | Drift | We use Drift to help with conversational marketing to customers while they visit our websites. | More info | Cookie |
Third Party | Fullstory | We use Fullstory to help measure how users interact with our websites. | More info | Cookie |
Third Party | Google Analytics | We use Google Analytics to help measure how users interact with our websites. | More info | Cookie |
Third Party | Google Tag Manager | We use Google Tag Manager to help manage analytics vendors. | More info | Cookie |
Third Party | Vidyard | We use Vidyard to provide video content and measure how users interact with our content. | More info | Cookie |
Third Party | Bizible | We use Bizible to help measure marketing and advertising campaign attribution. | More info | Cookie |
Third Party | Facebook Pixel | We use Facebook Pixel to help measure how users interact with our websites. | More info | Cookie |
Third Party | Facebook Custom Audiences | We use Facebook Custom Audiences to deliver targeted advertisements to individuals who visit our websites. | More info | Cookie |
Third Party | We use Google Ads to deliver targeted advertisements to individuals who visit our websites. | More info | Cookie | |
Third Party | We use Instagram to deliver targeted advertisements to individuals who visit our websites. | More info | Cookie | |
Third Party | iSpot | We use iSpot to help measure how users interact with our websites. | More info | Cookie |
Third Party | LinkedIn Insight Tag | We use LinkedIn Insight Tag to help measure how users interact with our websites. | More info | Cookie |
Third Party | We use Reddit Ads to deliver targeted advertisements to individuals who visit our websites. | More info | Cookie | |
Third Party | TikTok | We use TikTok to help measure how users interact with our websites. | More info | Cookie |
Third Party | We use Twitter to help measure how users interact with our websites. | More info | Cookie | |
Third Party | YouTube | We use YouTube to deliver targeted advertisements to individuals who visit our websites. | More info | Cookie |
Third Party | Facebook Connect | We use Facebook Connect to allow visitors to our website to interact with and share content via Facebook’s social media platform. | More info | Cookie |
Third Party | Gravatar | We use Gravatar to allow visitors to our websites to create avatars. | More info | Cookie |
Third Party | Instagram CDN | Shopify uses Instagram CDN to provide content to user. | More info | Cookie |
Third Party | Sanity CDN | Shopify uses Sanity CDN to provide content to user. | More info | Cookie |
Third Party | Simplecast | Shopify uses Simplecast to distribute podcasts. | More info | Cookie |
Third Party | Twitter CDN | We use Twitter to allow visitors to our website to interact with and share content via Twitter’s social media platform. | More info | Cookie |
Third Party | TypeKit (Adobe Fonts) | We use typekit to load web fonts from Adobe CDN. | More info | Cookie |
Third Party | Wistia | We use Wistia to display video content. | More info | Cookie |
Third Party | YouTube CDN | Shopify uses YouTube CDN to provide content to user. | More info | Cookie |
Third Party | Elfsight | Supports functionality of this service | More info | Cookie |
Third Party | Captcha | Supports functionality of this service | More info | Cookie |
