Cookies and trackers
Cookie policy
1. What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small text file placed on your device (computer, smartphone, tablet) when you visit a website. It allows the site to remember information about your visit: language preferences, items in your basket, login sessions, or browsing data for analytics purposes.
Cookies contain no viruses and cannot access the files stored on your device.
2. Types of cookies used
The site apexstudioworks.com sorts cookies into four categories, the ones you find in the “Manage your preferences” panel of the consent banner.
Strictly necessary
Essential to the operation of the site, they cannot be disabled and do not require your consent. They handle your session, your basket, your account login and your language preferences.
Personalisation
They remember your actions in order to adapt your next visit.
Advertising
They are used to measure and personalise commercial communications, including on other sites.
Analytics
They help us understand how you use the site in order to improve it.
The last three categories are placed only after your explicit consent. You may accept or refuse them separately.
3. Detailed list of cookies
Strictly necessary cookies
| Name | Issuer | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| _session_id | Shopify | Management of the user session (basket, login) | Session |
| cart | Shopify | Storage of the basket contents | 2 weeks |
| _shopify_fs | Shopify | First session — detection of a first visit | Session |
| _shopify_s | Shopify | Shopify internal usage statistics (aggregated) | 30 minutes |
| _shopify_sa_t | Shopify | Marketing and conversion tracking (internal analytics) | 30 minutes |
| _shopify_sa_p | Shopify | Traffic source tracking (internal analytics) | 30 minutes |
| _shopify_y | Shopify | Unique user identification for Shopify analytics | 1 year |
| keep_alive | Shopify | Maintaining the customer connection | 2 weeks |
| secure_customer_sig | Shopify | Secure authentication of the customer account | 20 years |
Optional cookies — Marketing and email (Omnisend)
| Name | Issuer | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| omnisend_* | Omnisend | Tracking of opened emails, clicks and conversions from email and SMS campaigns | 13 months |
| omnisend_visitor_id | Omnisend | Visitor identification for the personalisation of popups and forms | 13 months |
Optional cookies — Analytics (Microsoft Clarity)
| Name | Issuer | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| _clck | Microsoft Clarity | Browser identifier used to link the visits of a same user | 1 year |
| _clsk | Microsoft Clarity | Grouping of the pages viewed within a same session | 24 hours |
4. Consent and management of your preferences
On your first visit to apexstudioworks.com, a consent banner is presented to you. You may accept or refuse the optional cookies. Strictly necessary cookies are placed regardless of your choice, as they are essential to the operation of the site.
You may change your preferences at any time:
- Directly below, in the “Manage my preferences” module
- From the consent banner, through the “Manage your preferences” link, which lets you accept or refuse each category separately
- By deleting the site's cookies from your browser settings
- By writing to us at info@apexstudioworks.com
Manage my preferences
Refusing is as simple as accepting: both choices are presented at the same level, in the banner as here, and refusing has no consequence on your browsing or on your order.
Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out before it.
5. Management through your browser
Every browser offers its own cookie management settings. Here are the direct links to the official guides:
| Google Chrome | support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647 |
| Mozilla Firefox | support.mozilla.org |
| Safari | support.apple.com |
| Microsoft Edge | support.microsoft.com |
Disabling certain cookies may affect the operation of the site, in particular the basket and the customer account login.
6. Retention period
Analytics and marketing cookies are retained for a maximum of 13 months from the time they are placed, in accordance with the recommendations of the Belgian Data Protection Authority. At the end of that period, your consent is sought again.
7. Changes
Apex Studio reserves the right to amend this policy at any time, in particular when new features or applications are added to the site. The version in force is the one published on this page, dated in the header.
For any question relating to cookies, contact us at info@apexstudioworks.com.