3.1 What are cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that a website stores on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site.
First party cookies are cookies set by the website you’re visiting. Only that website can read them.
In addition, a website might potentially use external services, which also set their own cookies, known as third-party cookies.
Persistent cookies are cookies saved on your computer and that are not deleted automatically when you quit your browser.
Session cookies are deleted when you quit your browser.
Every time you visit our websites, you will be prompted to accept or refuse cookies. The purpose is to enable the site to remember your preferences (such as user name, language, etc.) for a certain period of time. That way, you don’t have to re-enter them when browsing around the site during the same visit.
Cookies can also be used to establish anonymised statistics about the browsing experience on our sites.
3.2 How can you control SHEIN’s use of cookies?
When you land on our website, you will be presented with a cookie management tool, which asks for your consent to deploy several types of cookies. You can use this tool to give or withdraw your consent to the use of these cookies. If you do not make a choice using the tool, the website will deploy only strictly necessary cookies (see below).
If you wish to change the preference you made via the cookie management tool, you should click on “manage cookies” at the bottom of the web page. This will recall the cookie management tool for you to make new choices.
3.3 How do we use cookies?
Currently, there are five types of cookies that may be generated as you browse our site:
Strictly Necessary Cookies, Performance Cookies, Functional Cookies, Targeting Cookies and Social Media Cookies
- A. Strictly Necessary Cookies .
- These cookies are essential for you to browse the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the site. Cookies that allow web shops to hold your items in your cart while you are shopping online are an example of strictly necessary cookies, as are cookies which protect the site against malicious attacks.
- Because these cookies are necessary to the functioning of the website, the cookie management tool does not allow you to decline them. However, you can use your browser settings to disable them. These cookies are critical to the efficient working of the site. If you choose to disable these cookies from this site, the functionality of the site may be greatly reduced.
- B. Performance Cookies
- These cookies collect information about how you use a website, like which pages you visited and which links you clicked on. None of this information can be used to identify you. It is all aggregated and, therefore, anonymized. Their sole purpose is to improve website functions. This includes cookies from third-party analytics services as long as the cookies are for the exclusive use of the owner of the website visited.
- Statistical information is used in reports and to improve our site. For example, we have used analytics data to add, remove or change features of the site based on how popular they are with users.
- We track, for example:
- the numbers of visitors to individual pages;
- when pages were visited;
- how long users stayed on the page;
- the IP address of the user of the website;
- the page they came from;
- technical data about the device being used to browse the site (such as browser and operating system version, and display size) — we use this data to ensure that the technology our site uses is appropriate for the majority of our users, and how best to display the site for users who have less capable browsers.
- Because these cookies are not strictly necessary to the functioning of the website, the cookie management tool allows you to decline them at any time. However doing so may impede our ability to offer customers the best experience.
- C. Functional cookies .
- These cookies allow a website to remember choices you have made in the past, like what language you prefer, whether you have accepted cookies, what regional store you should be directed to, or what your user name and password are so you can automatically log in.
- Because these cookies are not strictly necessary to the functioning of the website, the cookie management tool allows you to decline them at any time. However doing so may impede your enjoyment of the website.
- D. Targeting cookies .
- These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. They do not store directly personal information, but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising.
- Because these cookies are not strictly necessary to the functioning of the website, the cookie management tool allows you to decline them at any time. However doing so may result in you seeing less relevant online advertising.
- E. Social Media Cookies .
- These cookies are set by a range of social media services that we have added to the site to enable you to share our content with your friends and networks. They are capable of tracking your browser across other sites and building up a profile of your interests. This may impact the content and messages you see on other websites you visit.
- Because these cookies are not strictly necessary to the functioning of the website, the cookie management tool allows you to decline them at any time. If you do not allow these cookies you may not be able to use or see these sharing tools.
3.4 Removing cookies from your device
You can delete all cookies that are already on your device using the settings in your browser. This will remove all cookies from all websites you have visited. Be aware though that you may also lose some saved information (e.g. saved login details, site preferences).
Be aware though that you may also lose some saved information (e.g. saved login details, site preferences).
3.5 Blocking cookies
In addition to using the cookie management tool, you can set most modern browsers to prevent any cookies being placed on your device, but you may then have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site/page, and some services and functionalities may not work properly at all (e.g. profile logging-in).
3.6 Analytics
We may use third-party service providers to monitor and analyse the use of our Services. Presently, we use
Google Analytics. Google Analytics is a web analytics service that tracks and reports Site traffic. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page:
https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en. Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on provides visitors with the ability to prevent their data from being collected and used by Google Analytics, available at:
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptoutIf Google Analytics is structured to collect personal data, the cookie banner on our Site will provide you the opportunity to consent to Google Analytics and the data controller will be Google Ireland Ltd., Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. We have implemented Google Analytics with the “AnonymizeIP” function, which makes sure that your IP address will be shortened before it is sent to servers in the U.S. Exceptionally, the shortening may take place after such transfer to the U.S. Google uses this data to evaluate your use of our Services, to compile reports on activities on our online services and to provide us with other services related to Site, App and internet use.
3.7 Behavioural Remarketing
We also use remarketing services to advertise on third-party websites to you after you visited our Services. For this purpose, visitors are grouped by certain actions on our Services, e.g., by the duration of a visit. This enables us to understand your preferences and to show you personalized advertising even if you are currently surfing on another website that also participates in the Google advertising network.
We use the following tools and services for these purposes:
Google Ads remarketing service is provided by Google. You can opt-out of this by visiting the Google Ads Settings page:
https://www.google.com/settings/ads .
If Google Ads is structured to collect personal data, the data controller will be Google Ireland Ltd., Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. .
Bing Ads is a service operated by Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited, One Microsoft Place, South County Business Park, Leopardstown, Dublin 18, Ireland. Please read Microsoft’s privacy statement for more information on how Microsoft processes your information
https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-US/ . When you access our Site via advertisements on Bing Ads, a cookie is set on your computer. In addition, a Universal Event Tracking tag is integrated on our Site. This is a code that, in combination with the cookie, stores data about the use of the Site, e.g. length of time spent on the Site, areas accessed, and ads used to reach the Site. In addition, Microsoft may track your usage patterns across multiple of your electronic devices through so-called cross-device tracking. The information collected is transferred to a Microsoft server in the United States. If Bing Ads is structured to collect personal data, the cookie banner on our Services will provide you the opportunity to consent to Bing Ads. .
Facebook Ads. Using
Facebook Business Tools , we may show you interest-based ads when you use Facebook. To change your preferences or opt out of personalization for ads served by Facebook, you can visit Facebook
Ads Preferences in addition to the Your Choices section below. We may also show ads to audiences who share similar characteristics to yours. To this end, a list of email addresses is irreversibly hashed encrypted and uploaded or transmitted from our site, and Facebook compares the hashed data with its users, generating a lookalike audience and deleting the uploaded list. We don't have access to the identity of anyone in the "lookalike" audience, unless they choose to click on one of our ads. .
3.8 Other Tracking Technologies
We may also use Tracking Technologies to collect "clickstream" data, such as the domain name of the service providing you with Internet access, your device type, IP address used to connect your computer to the Internet, your browser type and version, operating system and platform, the average time spent on our Site, webpages viewed, content searched for, access times and other relevant statistics, and assign unique identifiers to the device or other credentials you use to access the Site for the same purposes.
Pages of our Site may also use Java scripts, which are code snippets embedded in various parts of websites and applications that facilitate a variety of operations including accelerating the refresh speed of certain functionality or monitoring usage of various online components; entity tags, which are HTTP code mechanisms that allow portions of websites to be stored or “cached” within your browser to accelerate website performance; and HTML5 local storage, which allows data from websites to be stored or “cached” within your browser to store and more quickly retrieve data in HTML5 pages when the website is revisited.
3.9 Location Information
You may be able to adjust the settings of your device so that information about your physical location is not sent to us or third parties by (a) disabling location services within the device settings; or (b) denying certain websites or mobile applications permission to access location information by changing the relevant preferences and permissions in your mobile device or browser settings.