To make this website work properly, and to help improve your user experience, we place small data files called cookies on your device. Almost all major websites do this too. For more information on where cookies sit as part of the overall Consoles.com browsing experience, see our privacy policy.
A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.
As mentioned above, Consoles.com will only store cookies on your machine if we believe it will help to refine and improve your shopping experience.
The following is a list of our cookies, separated by their purpose.
| The name of the cookie | How long this cookie lasts | What the cookie does |
|---|---|---|
| adblock_enabled | Until you leave the website | This enables us to anonymously track the proportion of users with an ad blocker installed. |
| kwd_v2 | 1 month | Lets us know what ours users, on average, are looking for, so we can provide the more relevant deals possible. |
| popup | 1 day | Anonymously tracks the users who have seen our email sign-up pop-up so we don’t keep showing it to you! |
| track_v2 | 1 month | Helps us track anonymous usage stats of our website, ensuring we can deliver the best experience possible. |
| st_cro- | 1 month | We occasionally run alternate design layouts on Consoles.com to test what helps users navigate the website in the most effective manner. This cookie ensures you are only shown one version of the website. |
| cookie_consent_updated_at | 1 year | This enables us to remember when you chose your cookie preferences. |
| allow_analytics_cookies | 1 year | This cookie enables us to remember your preference on accepting or not accepting optional analytics cookies. |
| allow_support_cookies | 1 year | This cookie enables us to remember your preference on accepting or not accepting optional support cookies. |
We use a Google platform called Google Analytics to anonymously track site users to help us improve to site and make it easier to use.
| The name of the cookie | How long this cookie lasts | What the cookie does |
|---|---|---|
| _dc_gtm_UA-7399257-1 | 1 hour | Helps us track anonymous usage stats of our website, ensuring we can deliver the best experience possible. |
| gclid_v2 | 90 days | Helps us to anonymously track users between the Google Analytics and Google AdWords platforms. |
| _ga | 2 years | Helps us track anonymous usage stats of our website, ensuring we can deliver the best experience possible. |
| _gac_UA-7399257-1 | 90 days | Helps us track anonymous usage stats of our website, ensuring we can deliver the best experience possible. |
| _gid | 1 day | Helps us track anonymous usage stats of our website, ensuring we can deliver the best experience possible. |
| _umta | 2 years | Helps us track anonymous usage stats of our website, ensuring we can deliver the best experience possible. |
| _umtb | 1 hour | Helps us track anonymous usage stats of our website, ensuring we can deliver the best experience possible. |
| _umtc | 1 year | Helps us track anonymous usage stats of our website, ensuring we can deliver the best experience possible. |
| _umtz | 6 months | Helps us track anonymous usage stats of our website, ensuring we can deliver the best experience possible. |
These are various cookies that we use for a variety of functions, ranging from ensuring you only see relevant adverts after visiting our site to providing us tracking data on certain platforms such as Bing. These cookies are entirely optional; they will only be added to your browser should you grant us permission to do so. Below, you can choose whether you want just to accept our analytics cookies, our support cookies, or both.
| The cookie provider | The name of the cookie | How long this cookie lasts | What the cookie does |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bing | MUID | 25 days | Helps us anonymously track users that arrive at our site via Bing’s ad network. |
| Bing | MUIDB | 25 days | Helps us anonymously track users that arrive at our site via Bing’s ad network. |
| fr | 90 days | Anonymously tracks users with a Facebook account to help us serve relevant content to you on Facebook. | |
| HotJar | _hjIncludedInSample | Session | HotJar helps us see which parts of our websites help users the most, and allow us to create more content like this to make your shopping experience better. |
| HotJar | _hjUserId | 1 year | HotJar helps us see which parts of our websites help users the most, and allow us to create more content like this to make your shopping experience better. |
| HotJar | _hjMinimizedPolls | 1 year | HotJar helps us see which parts of our websites help users the most, and allow us to create more content like this to make your shopping experience better. |
| The cookie provider | The name of the cookie | How long this cookie lasts | What the cookie does |
|---|---|---|---|
| TawkTo | _tawkuuid | 10 years | TawkTo is a live chat system we use at busy periods; this cookie enables us to see past conversations with users anonymously to let us help you faster. |
As part of the new EU GDPR guidelines, we offer all users the ability to opt-in or out of certain cookies that are critical for the functionality and general operation of www.consoles.com. These are the cookies marked above. Whilst Consoles.com doesn’t primarily operate in the EU, we feel like these are best practices and offer you the most control over your privacy.
You should have already seen a intersittal giving you the option to opt-in or opt-out. However, if you picked the wrong option, or have since changed your mind about opting in or out, you can change your choice here:
Once a cookie has been set on your browser, we’re not able to remove it for you before it expires naturally. However, it’s extremely easy to remove cookies should you want to. This Digital Trends article contains comprehensive instructions on how to remove cookies for a range of popular browsers.
If you opt to delete your cookies, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionality may not work.
