Privacy & Cookies Policy

Cookies on Medical Specialists® Pharmacy

What are cookies?

A cookie is a simple text file stored on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Each cookie is unique to your web browser and contains some anonymous information such as a unique identifier, the site name and some digits and numbers. Cookies are used to improve user experience and allow certain functionality to work on a website, for example what's in your shopping basket while you browse or if you're logged in or not. Cookies can't harm your computer, and are active for differing lengths of time.

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How we use cookies on Medical Specialists® Pharmacy

At Medical Specialists® Pharmacy, we are committed to protect our customers' online privacy. We use cookies on our website to provide an optimal online shopping experience to our customers however we do not store personally identifiable information such as your name, address or payment details in our cookies. Some of these cookies are created each time you visit and then expire when you leave the site and they are essential while others are optional. If you wish, you can use your browser to restrict, block or delete cookies from Medical Specialists website.

Below is a list of the cookies that maybe stored on your computer when you visit Medical Specialists® website:

Requested Functionality Cookies (Exempt)

guest-view

Stores the Order ID that guest shoppers use to retrieve their order status. Guest orders view. Used in “Orders and Returns” widgets.

• Is Secure? No
• HTTP Only: Yes
• Expiration Policy: Session
• Module: Magento_Sales

login_redirect

Preserves the destination page the customer was loading before being directed to log in. Used in mini cart for logged in customers if the Display Shopping Cart Sidebar configuration option is set to Yes.

• Is Secure? No
• HTTP Only: No
• Expiration Policy: Session
• Module: Magento_Customer

mage-messages

Tracks error messages and other notifications that are shown to the user, such as the cookie consent message, and various error messages. The message is deleted from the cookie after it is shown to the shopper.

There is not an option to disable this cookie.

• Is Secure? No
• HTTP Only: No
• Expiration Policy: Duration 1 year. Cleared on frontend when the message is displayed to the user.
• Module: Magento_Theme

mage-translation-storage (local storage)

Stores translated content when requested by the shopper. Used when Translation Strategy is configured as “Dictionary (Translation on Storefront side)”.

• Is Secure? No
• HTTP Only: No
• Expiration Policy: Per local storage rules
• Module: Magento_Translation

mage-translation-file-version (local storage)

Tracks the version of translations in local storage. Used when Translation Strategy is configured as Dictionary (Translation on Storefront side).

• Is Secure? No
• HTTP Only: No
• Expiration Policy: Per local storage rules
• Module: Magento_Translation

product_data_storage (local storage)

Stores configuration for product data related to Recently Viewed / Compared Products.

• Is Secure? No
• HTTP Only: No
• Expiration Policy: Per local storage rules
• Module: Magento_Catalog

recently_compared_product (local storage)

Stores product IDs of recently compared products.

• Is Secure? No
• HTTP Only: No
• Expiration Policy: Per local storage rules
• Module: Magento_Catalog

recently_compared_product_previous (local storage)

Stores product IDs of previously compared products for easy navigation.

• Is Secure? No
• HTTP Only: No
• Expiration Policy: Per local storage rules
• Module: Magento_Catalog

recently_viewed_product (local storage)

Stores product IDs of recently viewed products for easy navigation.

• Is Secure? No
• HTTP Only: No
• Expiration Policy: Per local storage rules
• Module: Magento_Catalog

recently_viewed_product_previous (local storage)

Stores product IDs of recently previously viewed products for easy navigation.

• Is Secure? No
• HTTP Only: No
• Expiration Policy: Per local storage rules
• Module: Magento_Catalog

stf

Records the time messages are sent by the SendFriend (Email a Friend) module.

• Is Secure? Yes
• HTTP Only: Yes
• Expiration Policy: Session
• Module: Magento_SendFriend

X-Magento-Vary

Configuration setting that improves performance when using Varnish static content caching.

• Is Secure? Yes
• HTTP Only: Yes
• Expiration Policy: Based on PHP setting session.cookie_lifetime
• Module: Magento_PageCache

Persistent Customization Session Cookies (Exempt)

amz_auth_err

Used if Enable Login with Amazon is enabled. Value 1 indicates an authorization error.

• Is Secure? No
• HTTP Only: No
• Expiration Policy: 1 year
• Module: Amazon Pay

amz_auth_logout

Used if Enable Login with Amazon is enabled. Value 1 indicates that the user should be logged out.

• Is Secure? No
• HTTP Only: No
• Expiration Policy: 86400s (24h)
• Module: Amazon Pay

form_key

A security measure that appends a random string to all form submissions to protect the data from Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF).

• Is Secure? No
• HTTP Only: No
• Expiration Policy:
  • PHP: Based on PHP setting session.cookie_lifetime
  • JS: Session
• Module: Page Cache

mage-cache-sessid

The value of this cookie triggers the cleanup of local cache storage. When the cookie is removed by the backend application, the Admin cleans up local storage, and sets the cookie value to true.

• Is Secure? No
• HTTP Only: No
• Expiration Policy: Session
• Module: Magento_Customer

mage-cache-storage

Local storage of visitor-specific content that enables ecommerce functions.

• Is Secure? No
• HTTP Only: No
• Expiration Policy: Session
• Module: Magento_Customer, Magento_Persistent

mage-cache-storage (local storage)

Local storage of visitor-specific content that enables ecommerce functions.

• Is Secure? No
• HTTP Only: No
• Expiration Policy: Session
• Module: Magento_Customer, Magento_Persistent, Magento_NegotiableQuote

mage-cache-storage-section-invalidation (local storage)

Forces local storage of specific content sections that should be invalidated.

• Is Secure? No
• HTTP Only: No
• Expiration Policy: Per local storage
• Module: Magento_Customer

persistent_shopping_cart

Stores the key (ID) of persistent cart to make it possible to restore the cart for an anonymous shopper.

• Is Secure? Yes
• HTTP Only: Yes
• Expiration Policy: Based on Persistent Shopping Cart - Persistence Lifetime (seconds) configuration
• Module: Magento_Persistent

private_content_version

Appends a random, unique number and time to pages with customer content to prevent them from being cached on the server.

It is set in multiple places: in PHP, in JavaScript as a cookie, and in JavaScript to local storage.

For the HTTP Only Yes (based on request) means that the cookie Secure if set during HTTPS request and unsecure if set during HTTP request.

• Is Secure? Yes (based on request), No
• HTTP Only:
  • PHP: 1 year / 315360000s (10yr)
  • JS: 1 day
  • JS local storage: Per local storage rules (forever)
• Expiration Policy: Based on Persistent Shopping Cart - Persistence Lifetime (seconds) configuration
• Module: Magento_PageCache, Magento_Customer

section_data_ids

Stores customer-specific information related to shopper-initiated actions such as display wish list, checkout information, etc.

• Is Secure? No
• HTTP Only: No
• Expiration Policy: Session
• Module: Magento_Customer

store

Tracks the specific store view / locale selected by the shopper.

• Is Secure? No
• HTTP Only: Yes
• Expiration Policy: 1 year
• Module: Magento_Store

Google Analytics Cookies - Non-Exempt

JavaScript Library: ga.js

• __utma: Distinguishes shoppers and sessions .This cookie is created when the JavaScript library executes and there is no existing __utma cookie. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.
• __utmt: Used to throttle request rate.
• __utmb: Determines new sessions/visits. This cookie is created when the JavaScript library executes and there is no existing __utmb cookie. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.
• _utmz: Saves the traffic source or campaign that explains how the shopper reached your site. The cookie is created when the JavaScript library executes, and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.
• __utmv: Stores visitor-level custom variable data. This cookie is created when a developer uses the _setCustomVar method with a visitor-level custom variable. This cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.

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