Effective date: October 28, 2026
This page lists the cookies and similar technologies used on home-gym-shop.com, what each one does, who sets it and how long it lasts. It is a companion to our Privacy Policy, which explains what we do with personal information generally.
The short version
Cookies that make the store work — your cart, your login, the security of checkout — are always on, because without them there is no store. Analytics and advertising cookies depend on where you are: in Quebec, the EU and UK, and anywhere outside Canada and the United States they are off until you allow them; elsewhere in Canada and in the United States they are on unless you opt out, and a notice tells you so on your first visit. You can change your mind at any time using the Cookie settings link at the bottom of every page. If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal, we treat that as an opt-out automatically and you will not see a banner or a notice at all. Our Privacy Policy explains how we tell which rules apply to you.
Change your choices
Use the control below. Your choice takes effect immediately and applies to this browser on this device; opting out also deletes the analytics and advertising cookies already set on this site.
What a cookie is
A cookie is a small text file a site asks your browser to store, so it can recognise your browser on the next page or the next visit. “Similar technologies” means things that do the same job by other means — local storage, session storage, and tracking pixels. Where we say “cookie” below we mean all of them.
A first-party cookie is set by home-gym-shop.com. A third-party cookie is set by another company whose code runs on the page — for us that is Stripe at checkout, and Google and Meta for analytics and advertising, following the rules for where you are.
Strictly necessary — always on
These do not require consent because the store cannot function without them. They carry no advertising identifiers and are not shared with anyone.
| Cookie | Set by | Purpose | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
woocommerce_cart_hash | Home Gym Shop | Tells the store when your cart contents have changed. | Session |
woocommerce_items_in_cart | Home Gym Shop | Tells the store your cart is not empty, so the cart icon is correct. | Session |
wp_woocommerce_session_* | Home Gym Shop | The unique code for your cart and checkout session. Losing it empties your cart. | 2 days |
wordpress_logged_in_*, wordpress_sec_* | Home Gym Shop | Keeps you signed in to your account and secures the session. Only set if you log in. | Session, or 14 days if you choose “remember me” |
wp-settings-* | Home Gym Shop | Remembers interface preferences for signed-in users. | 1 year |
sc_consent, sc_consent_gpc | Home Gym Shop | Remember your cookie choice, and whether you made it with Global Privacy Control on, so we can honour it without asking on every page. | 180 days |
sc_region | Home Gym Shop | The one-word answer to which cookie rules apply to you: opt-in or opt-out. It never holds your location. | 24 hours |
sc_consent_id | Home Gym Shop | Set only when you accept: a random ID linking your browser to our record of that acceptance (see our Privacy Policy). | 180 days |
wc_facebook_signals_state | Home Gym Shop | Tells our Meta integration to hold its events until your cookie choice allows them. Holds no identifier. | 1 year |
PHPSESSID | Home Gym Shop | Server session identifier used during checkout. | Session |
__stripe_mid, __stripe_sid | Stripe (third party) | Fraud prevention on the payment form. Set when a checkout page loads. Stripe does not use them for advertising. | 1 year / 30 minutes |
popup_form_dismissed_* | Home Gym Shop / MailPoet | Remembers that you closed the 15%-off popup, so it does not reappear on every page. | 30 days |
Statistics
These tell us how the store is used so we can fix what is not working. IP anonymisation is switched on. In the opt-out regions they are set from your first page unless you opt out; everywhere else, only after you allow them. If you decline or opt out, nothing below is set.
| Cookie | Set by | Purpose | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
_ga | Google Analytics 4 (third party) | Distinguishes one browser from another so visits can be counted without identifying you. | 2 years |
_ga_* | Google Analytics 4 (third party) | Keeps the state of your current visit — which pages, in which order, where you left. | 2 years |
Marketing
These measure our advertising and let those platforms show our ads to people who have looked at the store. This is the category that California law may treat as “sharing” personal information — see Do Not Sell or Share. They follow the same rules as Statistics. Declining or opting out has no effect on prices, shipping, returns or support.
| Cookie | Set by | Purpose | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
_gcl_au | Google Ads (third party) | Links an ad click to an order so we can tell which ads work. | 90 days |
IDE, test_cookie | Google / DoubleClick (third party) | Ad measurement and delivery on Google’s network. | Up to 13 months / 15 minutes |
_fbp | Meta (third party) | Ad measurement and delivery on Facebook and Instagram. Only set once our Meta integration is connected, and then following your cookie choice. | 90 days |
What happens before you choose, and after you opt out
Every page starts with Google’s tags in a denied state (Google Consent Mode), before any of them runs, and with Meta’s script not loaded at all. In the opt-out regions that changes straight away unless you have opted out or your browser sends Global Privacy Control; everywhere else it changes only when you allow it. Opting out returns Google’s tags to denied, stops Meta’s, and deletes the cookies listed above.
Controlling cookies in your browser
Independently of anything we do, every major browser lets you block or delete cookies, usually under Settings → Privacy. Blocking strictly necessary cookies will stop the cart and checkout from working, which is a browser setting we cannot override. You can also opt out of Google Analytics on all sites with the add-on at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout, manage Google ad settings at myadcenter.google.com and Meta ad settings at facebook.com/adpreferences.
Changes to this page
We review this list whenever we add or remove a service that could set a cookie, and we update the effective date when we do. If we add a new category of cookie we will tell you again rather than assume the old answer covers it. This version took effect on October 28, 2026.
Questions
Email support@home-gym-shop.com and a person will answer. If you think something on this list is wrong or missing, please tell us — we would rather know.