Cookie Policy
This cookie notice will give you information about:
- The different types of cookies
- The cookies that are required on our websites (Essential Cookies)
- The cookies that you can reject (Non-Essential Cookies)
- The cookies we use
- How to manage your cookie preferences
Benchmark Golf and third-party service providers use cookies, pixel tags, web beacons, clear GIFs, or similar technologies to track the actions of Site users and email recipients across non-affiliate websites over time, in order to personalize your experience on the Site by presenting advertisements that are more relevant to you. For example, we use third party service providers, to present products and offers tailored to the preferences and interests demonstrated by your online activity over time. If you would like opt-out of receiving personalized ads from third party advertisers and ad networks who are members of the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) or who follow the Digital Advertising Alliance’s Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising, you may visit the opt-out pages on the NAI website and DAA website.You understand that these opt-out mechanisms are maintained by third parties, not Benchmark Golf. Benchmark Golf is not responsible for, nor does it control these mechanisms of the third parties who choose to participate in these opt-out programs.
Cookies
"Cookies" are small files which enable us to store individual information related to your computer or other device used to access our website. Cookies help us, e.g., to determine the frequency of use and the number of people visiting our website and to create our services as comfortable and efficient as possible for you.
Classes of Cookies.There are two types of cookies: session cookies, and persistent cookies.
- Session cookies make it easier for you to navigate the websites and expire and disappear from your device when you close your browser.
- Persistent cookies remain longer and help in understanding how you use the websites, and enhance your user experience, and they stay on your device even after you close your device’s browser or end your session. Session cookies may remain on your hard drive for an extended period of time.
Sources of Cookies. Cookies also come from different sources – Benchmark Golf (these would be “first party cookies” because Benchmark Golf places the cookies itself), and other third parties (these are “third party cookies” because they are not placed by Benchmark Golf).
- First party cookies are set by the website you are visiting, and they can only be read by that site.
- Third party cookies are not set by the owner of the website you are visiting, but by a different organization. For example, advertisers and other third parties may use their own cookies when you click on an advertisement or link on our website, or we might engage a third-party analytics company that will set their own cookie to perform this service.
Third Party Cookies and Website Analytics. We use third party services including Google analytics to analyze Website activity. When you visit the Websites, Google Analytics automatically collects information from you through the use of Google’s analytics IDs, and Google provides some of this information to us. An analytics ID is a specific string of numbers and letters (often called a “character string”) that is assigned to your computer or device but does not name you. The analytics ID allows Google to track usage data of the Websites, such as date and time of visit, duration of visit, Website traffic patterns, “clickstreams,” other similar information about your use of the Websites, the type of web browser used, the operating system/platform you are using, your IP address, the websites that referred or linked you to our Website, and your CPU speed. Google Analytics does not share the analytics ID assigned to your computer or device that you use to access and use the Websites. Google Analytics provides information about the use of our Websites to us in aggregate form (i.e., data about many Website users combined and not just about you). Some of this data might include the regional location of Website users, but again, this data will be in aggregate (and not individual) form. We rely on this aggregate data to inform us how users are using the Websites and to help us improve the Websites.
Social Media Widget Cookies. Some pages of our Websites include social media features, such as the Facebook “Like” button, and widgets, such as the “Share This” button or interactive mini- programs that run on our Websites. These features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on the Websites, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social media features and widgets are either hosted by a third-party or hosted directly on the Websites. See the Social Media section under the heading How We Share Personal Information, below, for more details about your interactions with these features on our Websites.
Types of Cookies. The different types of cookies can be categorized as follows:
Essential Cookies: There are certain cookies that we have to include in order for certain web pages to function. For this reason, they do not require your consent. In particular:
- Necessary cookies are cookies that are required for the operation of our website, such as to ensure security. Other necessary cookies allow us to provide features or services that you expressly request. These cookies do not require your consent and cannot be switched off (although in some cases you can change your requests). You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of our website may not work if you block these types of cookies.
- Functional cookies are used to provide certain functionalities to you by recording your choices and settings regarding our Services, maintaining your preferences over time and recognizing you when you return to our website so that we can offer you a better experience on this website. We will only store and access functional cookies on your device if you consent to such storage and access. If you do not consent to these types of cookies, we will not be able to provide certain functionalities to you.
Non-Essential Cookies: We use these cookies only for internal research on how we can improve our website for our users. These cookies simply assess how you interact with our website as an anonymous user (meaning the data gathered does not identify you personally).
Also, this data is not shared with any third parties or used for any other purpose. The anonymized statistics may be shared with contractors working on communication projects under a contract with Benchmark Golf. However, you are free to refuse these types of cookies, via the cookie banner when you first visit the site.
- Performance cookies are used to improve the performance of our website and to enhance your experience. Google Analytics automatically collects certain usage and performance data from our Website users. The information these cookies collect is aggregated and anonymous information, and we are never provided with your personal information from these cookies.
- Analytics cookies allow us to analyze website usage and understand how visitors use it. These cookies recognize and collect information about the number of visitors, the pages they view, how long they view pages and how they move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that visitors are easily finding what they are looking for. We will only store and access analytics cookies on your device if you consent to such storage and access. If you do not consent to these types of cookies, we will not be able to improve our website based on information from your visit.
- Targeting and advertising cookies track browsing habits and are used to deliver targeted (interest-based) advertising. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an ad and to measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the Websites operator’s permission. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organizations, such as advertisers.
Cookies We Use: We use the following "cookies" on our websites in connection with some of the functionalities described above.
| Cookie Type | Name | Purpose | Duration |
| Necessary Cookies | _ab | Used to control when the admin bar is shown on the storefront. | 1y |
| _abv | Persist the collapsed state of the admin bar. | 1y | |
| _checkout_queue_token | Used when there is a queue during the checkout process. | 1y | |
| _cmp_a | Used for managing customer privacy settings. | 1d | |
| _identity_session | Contains the identity session identifier of the user. | 2y | |
| _master_udr | Permanent device identifier. | session | |
| _pay_session | The Rails session cookie for Shopify Pay | session | |
| _secure_account_session_id | Used to track a customer's session for new customer accounts. | 30d | |
| _session_id | Used for providing reporting and analytics. | 2y | |
| _shopify_country | Used for Plus shops where pricing currency/country is set from GeoIP by helping avoid GeoIP lookups after the first request. | 30min | |
| _shopify_essential | Contains essential information for the correct functionality of a store such as session and checkout information and anti-tampering data. | 1y | |
| _storefront_u | Used to facilitate updating customer account information. | 1min | |
| _tracking_consent | Used to store a user's preferences if a merchant has set up privacy rules in the visitor's region. | 1y | |
| auth_state_<<id>> | Stores state for customer authentication. | 25min | |
| card_update_verification_id | Used to support verification when a buyer is redirected back to Shopify after completing 3D Secure during checkout. | 20min | |
| cart | Contains information related to the user's cart. | 2w | |
| cart_currency | Used after a checkout is completed to initialize a new empty cart with the same currency as the one just used. | 2w | |
| cart_sig | A hash of the contents of a cart. This is used to verify the integrity of the cart and to ensure performance of some cart operations. | 2w | |
| cart_ts | Used in connection with checkout. | 2w | |
| cart_ver | Set every time a cart is updated and used to track cart version mismatches. | 2w | |
| checkout | Used in connection with checkout. | 21d | |
| checkout_one_remember_me | Used to prefill checkout with the details from the previous checkout. | 1y | |
| checkout_prefill | Encrypts and stores URL parameters containing PII which are used in cart permalink URLs. | 5min | |
| checkout_session_lookup | Used in connection with checkout. | 3w | |
| checkout_session_token_<<id>> | Used when a checkout session is established on the server. | 3w | |
| checkout_token | Captures the landing page of the visitor when they come from other sites. | session | |
| customer_account_locale | Used to keep track of a customer account locale when a redirection occurs from checkout or the storefront to customer accounts. | 1y | |
| customer_payment_method | Stores what payment method is being updated for subscriptions. | 1h | |
| customer_shop_pay_agreement | Used to help verify a new Shop Pay payment instrument. | 20min | |
| device_fp_id | Device fingerprint identifier to help prevent fraud. | session | |
| device_id | Session device identifier to help prevent fraud. | session | |
| discount_code | Stores a discount code (received from an online store visit with a URL parameter) in order to the next checkout. | session | |
| dynamic_checkout_shown_on_cart | Adjusts checkout experience for buyers that proceed with regular checkout versus dynamic checkout. | 30min | |
| hide_shopify_pay_for_checkout | Set when a buyer dismisses the Shop Pay login modal during checkout, informing display to buyer. | session | |
| keep_alive | Used when international domain redirection is enabled to determine if a request is the first one of a session. | session | |
| locale_bar_accepted | Preserves if the modal from the geolocation app was accepted. | session | |
| locale_bar_dismissed | Preserves if the modal from the geolocation app was dismissed. | 1d | |
| localization | Used to localize the cart to the correct country. | 2w | |
| logged_in | Identity logged-in hint. | 12w | |
| login_with_shop_finalize | Used to facilitate login with Shop. | 5min | |
| master_device_id | Permanent device identifier. | 1y | |
| order | Used to allow access to the data of the order details page of the buyer. | 3w | |
| pay_update_intent_id | Stores an ID of a Shop Pay billing agreement update intent, required for a callback after verifying a new Shop Pay payment instrument. | 20min | |
| preview_theme | Used to indicate whether the theme is being previewed. | session | |
| previous_checkout_token | Used to prefill checkout with the details from the previous checkout. | 1y | |
| previous_step | Used in connection with checkout. | 1y | |
| profile_preview_token | Used for previewing checkout extensibility. | 5min | |
| receive-cookie-deprecation | A cookie specified by Google to identify certain Chrome browsers affected by the third-party cookie deprecation. More information about this cookie can be found here. | session | |
| remember_me | Used to prefill checkout with the details from the previous checkout. | 1y | |
| secure_customer_sig | Used to identify a user after they sign into a shop as a customer so they do not need to log in again. | 1y | |
| shop_pay_accelerated | Indicates if a buyer is eligible for Shop Pay accelerated checkout. | 1y | |
| shopify-editor-unconfirmed-settings | Stores changes merchant does in the editor to update the preview. | 16h | |
| shopify_pay | Used to log in a buyer into Shop Pay when they come back to checkout on the same store. | 1y | |
| shopify_pay_redirect | Used to accelerate the checkout process when the buyer has a Shop Pay account. | 1y | |
| storefront_digest | Stores a digest of the storefront password, allowing merchants to preview their storefront while it's password protected. | 1y | |
| tracked_start_checkout | Used in connection with checkout. | 1y | |
| user | Used in connection with Shop login. | 1y | |
| user_cross_site | Used in connection with Shop login. | 1y | |
| wpm-domain-test | Used to test Shopify's Web Pixel Manager with the domain to make sure everything is working correctly. | session | |
| Functional Cookies | _identity_session | Contains the identity session identifier of the user. | 2y |
| checkout | Used in connection with checkout. | 21d | |
| user | Used in connection with Shop login. | 1y | |
| Analytics Cookies | _landing_page | Capture the landing page of visitor when they come from other sites. | 2w |
| _orig_referrer | Allows merchant to identify where people are visiting them from. | 2w | |
| _shopify_ga | Contains Google Analytics parameters that enable cross-domain analytics measurement to work. | session | |
| _shopify_s | Used to identify a given browser session/shop combination. Duration is 30 minute rolling expiry of last use. | 30min | |
| _shopify_sa_p | Capture the landing page of visitor when they come from other sites to support marketing analytics. | 30min | |
| _shopify_sa_t | Capture the landing page of visitor when they come from other sites to support marketing analytics. | 30min | |
| _shopify_y | Shopify analytics. | 1y | |
| checkout_one_experiment | Used when a checkout is eligible to Checkout One and has been assigned to an experiment (control group or test group). | session | |
| shop_analytics | Contains the required buyer information for analytics in Shop. | 1y | |
| unique_interaction_id | Used for checkout metrics. | 10min | |
| _assignment | Shopify analytics. | 1y | |
| _landing_page | Capture the landing page of visitor when they come from other sites. | 2w | |
| _orig_referrer | Allows merchant to identify where people are visiting them from. | 2w | |
| _shopify_s | Used to identify a given browser session/shop combination. Duration is 30 minute rolling expiry of last use. | 30min | |
| _shopify_sa_t | Capture the landing page of visitor when they come from other sites to support marketing analytics. | 30min | |
| _shopify_y | Shopify analytics. | 1y |
The content of a cookie is limited to an identification number. Name, IP-address or other information regarding your true identity is only collected to the extent necessary for the operation of the functionality cookies (i.e., in connection with the log-in function).
Managing Cookies and Withdrawing Consent
We will obtain your opt-in consent to the use of the non-essential cookies and other tracking technologies on this website when you first access the website and if we introduce any new cookies to the website, unless they are essential cookies, in which case your consent is not required. When you visit this website, a pop up will appear to inform you about our use of such cookies. You can then consent by clicking on “Accept”, or you may refuse cookies (except necessary cookies) by clicking on “Deny”.
You may withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future.
If you deny cookies, we will not set those cookies on your device, except essential cookies and a cookie to remember that you don't want any cookies set when you visit this website.
If you have accepted cookies but want to deny them (withdraw your consent) for the future, you can delete the cookies in your website browser and the cookies window including the link to the cookie manager appears again.
Cookies and Browser Settings. You can disable cookies by changing your website browser settings to reject cookies. How to do this will depend on the browser you use. Rejecting cookies will prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, as well as (depending on the sophistication of your browser software) allow you to decide on acceptance of each new cookie in a variety of ways. You can also delete all cookies that are already on your device. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit this website. All modern browsers allow you to change your cookie settings, typically by going to the ‘options’ or ‘preferences’ menu of your browser. Use the ‘Help’ option in your browser for more details.
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