Cookie Policy
Last updated 1 August 2020
Our Use of Cookies
When you visit Oh So Simple’s website, we will use cookies to give you the best experience.
What are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that a website stores on your device. Websites use them for multiples purposes, like storing login statuses, remembering the cart items in an e-commerce store, identifying whether a user is a new visitor or a returning visitor, or analyzing the user behavior on the website, etc.
The specific types of cookies served through our website and the purposes they perform are described below.
Necessary Cookies
These cookies are necessary for the Oh So Simple site to function. They are set in response to actions made by you.
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
| catAccCookies | 4 weeks | This cookie is used to store the acceptance of the cookie policy on the website. |
Google Analytics Cookies
Google Analytics is a tool that helps website owners measure how users interact with the website content. As a user navigates between web pages, Google Analytics provides website owners JavaScript tags (libraries) to record information about the page a user has seen, for example the URL of the page.
The Google Analytics JavaScript libraries use HTTP Cookies to “remember” what a user has done on previous pages / interactions with the website.
Google Analytics upports three JavaScript libraries (tags) for measuring website usage: gtag.js, analytics.js, and ga.js.
gtag.js and analytics.js – cookie usage
The analytics.js JavaScript library is part of Universal Analytics and uses first-party cookies to:
- Distinguish unique users
- Throttle the request rate
gtag.js and analytics.js set the following cookies:
| Cookie | Expiration | Description |
| _ga | 2 years | Used to distinguish users. |
| _gid | 24 hours | Used to distinguish users. |
| _gat | 1 minute | Used to throttle request rate. |
| AMP_TOKEN | 30 seconds to 1 year | Contains a token that can be used to retrieve a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. Other possible values indicate opt-out, inflight request or an error retrieving a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. |
| _gac_<property-id> | 90 days | Contains campaign related information for the user. |
ga.js – cookie usage
The ga.js JavaScript library uses first-party cookies to:
- Determine which domain to measure
- Distinguish unique users
- Throttle the request rate
- Remember the number and time of previous visits
- Remember traffic source information
- Determine the start and end of a session
- Remember the value of visitor-level custom variables
By default, this library sets cookies on the domain specified in the document.host browser property and sets the cookie path to the root level (/). This library sets the following cookies:
| Cookie | Expiration | Description |
| __utma | 2 years from set/update | Used to distinguish users and sessions. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and not existing __utma cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. |
| __utmt | 10 minutes | Used to throttle request rate. |
| __utmb | 30 minutes from set/update | Used to determine new sessions/visits. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utmb cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. |
| __utmc | End of browser session | Not used in ga.js. Set for interoperability with urchin.js. Historically, this cookie operated in conjunction with the __utmb cookie to determine whether the user was in a new session/visit. |
| __utmz | 6 months from set/update | Stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how teh user reached your site. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. |
| __utmv | 2 years from set/update | Used to store visitor-level custom variable data. This cookie is created when a developer uses the _setCustomVar method with a visitor level custom variable. This cookie was also used for the deprecated _setVar method. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. |
How to Contact Us
If you have questions about this Cookie Policy, please contact us via:
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: 1 (734) 234-6677
Or write to us at:
Oh So Simple, llc, P.O. Box 130283, Ann Arbor, MI 48113