COOKIE POLICY
themusiclink.com & themusiclink.net (our sites) are sites operated by The Music Link Corporation (we, our, us). We are registered in the United States. Our registered office is at 23899 Foley St, Suite B, Hayward, California, 94545, USA.
Our site uses cookies to distinguish you from other users. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our site and also allows us to improve our site. By continuing to browse the site, you are consenting to our use of cookies.
If you wish to remove cookies placed on your device by our site or stop our site placing further cookies on your device you can do this at any time (learn how to do so below), however such action is likely to mean that our site will not function as intended.
What is a cookie?
A "cookie" is a piece of information, like a tag, that's stored on your device when you visit a website. The only personal information a cookie can contain is information supplied by the user. A cookie cannot read data from a user's hard drive or read cookie files created by other websites. The use of cookies is an industry standard that can be found on most major websites. We use information obtained from cookies to tailor our services better to our users' needs. Many improvements and updates to our site are based on such data.
We reserve the right to modify or amend the use of cookies at any time and for any reason. Any changes will be posted on our site and will take effect as soon as they are posted. Where required we will obtain your consent for any new non-essential cookies before they are placed.
We use the following cookies:
Essential cookies: Necessary cookies are essential for our website to function properly. These cookies enable basic operational and security features of the website. They are also used to recognize you when you return to our site. This enables us to personalize our content for you and remember your preferences.
Analytical/Performance cookies: These cookies allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors to our site and to see how visitors move around our site when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our site works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
Marketing cookies: Marketing cookies are used to provide visitors with relevant advertisements and marketing campaigns. These cookies track visitors across websites and collect information (which may for example include browsing activity information) to provide customized advertisements.
Please note that third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
You can find out more information about the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
ESSENTIAL
Necessary cookies are essential for our website to function properly. These cookies enable basic operational and security features of the website.
| Cookie Name | Cookie Provider | Cookie Description | Cookie Lifetime | Cookie Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PHPSESSID | Magento | To store the logged in user's username and a 128-bit encrypted key.This information is required to allow a user to stay logged in to a website without needing to submit their username and password for each page visited. Without this cookie, a user is unable to proceed to areas of the website that require authenticated access. | 1 hour | 1st Party |
| private_content_version | Magento | Appends a random, unique number and time to pages with customer content to prevent them from being cached on the server. | 10 years | 1st Party |
| form_key | Magento | A security measure that appends a random string to all form submissions to protect the data from Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). | 1 day | 1st Party |
| store | Magento | Tracks the specific store view / locale selected by the shopper. | 1 year since created/refreshed | 1st Party |
| mage-messages | Magento | 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. | 1 hour | 1st Party |
| mage-cache-storage | Magento | Local storage of visitor-specific content that enables e-commerce functions. | 1 hour | 1st Party |
| mage-cache-storage-section-invalidation | Magento | Forces local storage of specific content sections that should be invalidated. | 1 hour | 1st Party |
| mage-cache-sessid | Magento | The value of this cookie triggers the cleanup of local cache storage. | 1 hour | 1st Party |
| product_data_storage | Magento | Stores configuration for product data related to Recently Viewed / Compared Products. | 1 hour | 1st Party |
| mage-translation-storage | Magento | Stores translated content when requested by the shopper. | 1 hour | 1st Party |
| mage-translation-file-version | Magento | Stores the file version of translated content. | 1 hour | 1st Party |
| section_data_ids | Magento | Stores customer-specific information related to shopper-initiated actions such as display wish list, checkout information, etc. | 1 hour | 1st Party |
| mage-cache-timeout | Magento | This cookie is necessary for the cache function. A cache is used by the website to optimize the response time between the visitor and the website. The cache is usually stored on the visitor's browser. | Persistent | 1st Party |
MARKETING
Marketing cookies are used to provide visitors with relevant advertisements and marketing campaigns. These cookies track visitors across websites and collect information (which may for example include browsing activity information) to provide customized advertisements.
| Cookie Name | Cookie Provider | Cookie Description | Cookie Lifetime | Cookie Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| recently_viewed_product | Magento | Stores product IDs of recently viewed products for easy navigation. | 1 hour | 1st Party |
| recently_viewed_product_previous | Magento | Stores product IDs of recently previously viewed products for easy navigation. | 1 hour | 1st Party |
| recently_viewed_product | Magento | Stores product IDs of recently viewed products for easy navigation. | 1 hour | 1st Party |
| recently_compared_product | Magento | Stores product IDs of recently compared products. | 1 hour | 1st Party |
| recently_compared_product_previous | Magento | Stores product IDs of previously compared products for easy navigation. | 1 hour | 1st Party |
| recently_viewed_product | Magento | Stores product IDs of recently viewed products for easy navigation. | 1 hour | 1st Party |
ANALYTICAL/PERFORMANCE
These cookies allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors to our site and to see how visitors move around our site when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our site works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
| Cookie Name | Cookie Provider | Cookie Description | Cookie Lifetime | Cookie Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Google Analytics | Used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the site's analytics reports. | 2 years | 1st Party |
| _gid | Google Analytics | Used to store and count pageviews. | 2 years | 1st Party |
| _gat | Google Analytics | Used to read and filter requests from bots. | 1 minute | 1st Party |
| rc::a | Used to distinguish between humans and bots in order to make valid reports on the use of the website. | persistent | 1st Party | |
| rc::c | Google reCAPTCHA | Used to distinguish between humans and bots. | 2 | 1st Party |
| _GRECAPTCHA | google.com | Set by the Google Recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. | 6 months | 1st Party |
Turning Off Cookies
You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies. The Help function within your browser should tell you how to do this. For more information about how to change your browser settings please see: https://www.aboutcookies.org. Doing so however is likely to limit the functionality of our site.
Revised 04/22/2024
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