Gul Watersports Cookie Policy

This policy explains what cookies are, how we use them and how you can switch them off.

What are Cookies and other tracking technologies?

Cookies are small files which are stored on your internet browsing device (e.g computer, tablet or phone) when you visit one of our websites, use our app or see one of our adverts elsewhere on the internet. Cookies don't store personal details such as your credit card details, your name or your date of birth. They play an important role in helping us to enhance the usability and performance of our websites and your experience using them. Some cookies are also essential to enable you to move around our Website and use its features. Other tracking technologies, like web beacons, clear GIFs, page tags and web bugs, are used to understand how people are using our services and to target advertising.

When you first use our Website, we will ask you to consent to our use of cookies and give you information about them. If you continue to browse our Website, and don't take steps to change your preferences, you are consenting to our use of cookies.

What types of Cookies do we use?

Our Website uses session cookies and persistent cookies. Session cookies operate from the moment you enter the Website until the moment you leave. Once you log off session cookies are deleted. Persistent cookies will not be deleted after each session.

Strictly Necessary Cookies are essential to our Website, if these are disabled, your experience on our Website may be interrupted and you may not be able to use a shopping basket or make payment.

Performance Cookies collect anonymous data about visitors. We use the data to improve your future experience and identify issues that our users may be experiencing.

Functionality Cookies customise the look and appearance of our Website. For example, a functionality cookie will remember your username and language preferences next time you visit.

Targeting or Advertising Cookies deliver advertisements which are tailored to your web activity. A targeting cookie tracks what you click on whilst on our Website, and may share details of what you click on with other organisations such as advertisers. These cookies can also help us to measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign.

Third party cookies may be used on our Website by approved organisations to provide services on our Website.

A list of all the cookies that we, our advertising network and technology partners use can be found in our Cookie List details of which are below.

How we use Cookies and other tracking technologies

We use a combination of our own cookies, third party cookies and other tracking technologies to enhance your browsing experience and to enable our Website and app to function efficiently. In particular, we use cookies to:

enable you to set up an account, place orders and make payments;
remember items you place into your shopping basket;
remember items you have been looking at so that you can quickly and easily go back to an item you looked at previously;
enhance and personalise your shopping experience.

The default setting on your web browser is to prohibit cookies, but you may have changed this during the installation process. You can also choose which cookies Sports Direct Group places on your computer when you access our Website and can manage this in our preference centre. Further information on cookies, including instructions on how to amend your browser settings to turn off cookies, is available widely online. However, if you disable or delete certain cookies you may not be able to shop or access important parts of our Website.

Cookie List:

Cookie Name	Host	Expiration	Purpose
ID	https://www.gul.com	1 Day	Used to uniquely identify a visitor to keep track of information for the session such as basket contents.
CID	https://www.gul.com	1 Year	Used to uniquely identify a customer.
NEWSLETTERPOPUP	https://www.gul.com	30 days	Sets a flag noting that the site newsletter offer popup has been displayed.
CONSENT	google.com	2 Years	Used to store a user’s state regarding their cookies choices.
cc_cookie	https://www.gul.com	6 Months	Used to store a user’s cookie choices.
rmStoreGateway	https://www.gul.com	30 Days	Used to store information about affiliates.
referrer	https://www.gul.com	30 Days	Used to store information about the referrer to the user's website visit.
__stripe_mid	https://www.gul.com	1 Year	Used to store an identifier regarding Stripe payment after an order.
__stripe_sid	https://www.gul.com	Session	Used to store a session identifier regarding Stripe payment after an order.
_ga	google.com	2 years	Records a particular ID used to come up with data about website usage by the user.
_gid	google.com	Session	Keeps an entry of unique ID which is then used to come up with statistical data on website usage by visitors. It is an HTTP cookie type and expires after a browsing session.
gaListTypeClick	google.com	Session	Records that the user has clicked on a tracked product listing.
OTZ	google.com	30 Days	Used by Google Analytics that provides an aggregate analysis of website visitors. The “S” cookie may collect certain information used to help improve services, including the pages users visit most often and whether users get error messages from certain pages.
SOCS	google.com	13 Months	Used to store a user's state regarding their cookies choices.
__Secure-ENID	google.com	13 Months	This cookie is used to remember your preferences and other information, such as your preferred language, how many results you prefer to display on a search results page (for example, 10 or 20) and whether you want Google's SafeSearch filter to be activated.
AEC	google.com	6 Months	AEC cookies ensure that requests within a browsing session are made by the user, and not by other sites. These cookies prevent malicious sites from acting on behalf of a user without that user's knowledge.
BVBRANDSID	bazaarvoice.com	Session	Allows internal Bazaarvoice web analytics to be correlated to the same user browsing session for interactions within a particular client domain.
BVImplmain_site	bazaarvoice.com	2 Hours	Used for client-driven A/B tests.
joe-chnlcustid	cdn.freshbots.ai	1 Year	Enables interaction with the chatbot hosted by Freshdesk by storing a unique ID.
spd-custhash	cdn.freshbots.ai	1 Year	Enables interaction with the chatbot hosted by Freshdesk by storing a unique ID.
_ttp	tiktok.com	13 Months	Measures and improves the performance of advertising campaigns and personalizes the user experience on TikTok.
_fbp	facebook.com	Session	Facebook tracking pixel used to identify visitors for personalized advertising.
scarab.visitor	emarsys.com	1 Year	Stores visitor ID which will identify the visitor through sessions.
_tt_enable_cookie	tiktok.com	13 Months	Tracks website activity to optimize advertising.
tta_attr_id	tiktok.com	364 Days	Used by TikTok to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real-time bidding from 3rd party advertisers.
tpc_id	attentivemobile.com	1 year, 1 month	Used by Attentive to deliver a series of advertisement products.
__attentive_vf	attentive.com	1 day	Used by Attentive to deliver advertisement products.
tta_attr_id_mirror	tiktok.com	1 year	Measures and improves the performance of advertising campaigns and personalizes the user experience on TikTok.
__attentive_ss_referrer	attentive.com	30 Minutes	Tracks where the user came from for sign-up unit display logic.
attn	attentive.com	400 days	Contains the visitor ID and some page view and session details.
__attentive_id	attentive.com	60 years or, if GDPR compliant, 390 days	Unique visitor identifier that gets tied to a subscriber in Attentive. Used to attribute onsite events to the visitor and to govern display rules for Attentive sign-up units.
__attentive_dv	attentive.com	Depending on CCPA logic, 2 hours or 24 hours	Used for CCPA compliance.
__attentive_pv	attentive.com	30 Minutes	Tracks the number of page views in a visitor's session for sign-up unit display logic.
__attentive_cco	attentive.com	60 years or, if GDPR compliant, 390 days	Used to calculate expiration.
attntv_mstore_email	attentive.com	30 Minutes	Used at checkout for attribution.
attntv_mstore_phone	attentive.com	30 Minutes	Used at checkout for attribution.
s	facebook.com	Session	Facebook browser identification, authentication, marketing, and other Facebook-specific function cookies.
DV	google.com	1 day	Provides ad delivery or retargeting.
partnerizeClickRef		30 days	Used at checkout for attribution.