A cookie is a small text file stored by your web browser on your computer or mobile phone's hard drive. Some cookies are essential for the website to work for example to remember what you have added to your basket while you browse the site. They are useful because they help us to provide you with relevant information, such as remembering what you have in your wish list or basket when you return to our site. They also allow us to recognise your computer (but not specifically who is using it) when you access our website and to improve the usability and performance of our website.
Web beacons are usually tiny transparent images (gifs) that help us track the activity on certain web pages. They can also send the website owner (for example, us or our technology partners) information in cookies such as whether an email with a web beacon in it has been opened. We use web beacons together with cookies to help us understand how you interact withour website and to better manage our website and email content. They do not carry any personally identifiable information and are only used to track the effectiveness of a particular campaign.
Session cookies are deleted after each 'session'. For example, when you are browsing a our site, it will remember you for the duration of your visit, but the cookie will be removed from your computer as soon as you close down your internet browser.
Without a session cookie, every time you open a new web page the web server where that page is stored will treat you like a completely new visitor and items placed in your shopping basket will disappear by the time you reach the checkout. These are sued to show your recently viewed items, for us to understand how the site is used or where there may be issues.
Persistent cookies remember you for a set period of time unless you delete your cookies within this period.
On your first visit to our site it will be presented to you in a default manner. Over time, the version of the site you see may change, as persistent cookies remember items you have viewed, preference changes you have made, or whether you logged into or out of your account while browsing.
Here is a list of the different types of cookies we use:
Cookie purpose |
Cookie type |
Summary |
Transaction |
Session cookie |
Used to maintain your transaction with. This cookie expires and is removed every time you close your browser. |
Checkout Flow |
Session cookie |
Used to determine where you are in the checkout process.This cookie expires and is removed every time you close your browser. |
Login |
Session cookie |
Remembers whether you are logged in or logged out. It can also remember your log in name (but not your password) to save you time on your next visit. |
Basket Cookie |
Persistent Cookie |
Used to store your basket details when you've added items to your basket, but are yet to purchase them. This cookie expires after 90 days. |
eCommerce Platform usage |
Session cookie |
Internally used by our e-commerce server to use the software |
When you access our website we will have placed some cookies on our computer, in order to be able to display the page to you. If you continue to use our site, additional cookies will be placed for the site functionality to work.
If you don’t want cookies placed on your computer, you can change your browser settings to either reject all cookies; to only allow “trusted sites” or only accept cookies from the site(s) you are currently on.
You can disable cookies on your computer by changing the preferences or options menus in your browser. Instructions for disallowing cookies can usually be found in the browser's 'Help' menu. However, some parts of our website will not operate correctly if you disable cookies.
For more detailed information about cookies visit www.allaboutcookies.org which provides guidance on how to control cookies. You will also find links to the cookie policies of our technology partners where, if possible, you can control cookies they place more easily.
We work with several partners who serve advertisements on our behalf. Most of these third party marketing sites use both session and persistent cookies.
All data collected by these third parties is anonymous and will never contain your name, address, telephone number, email address or payment details. You can delete your cookies at any time from any of the third party marketing sites and technology partners mentioned below. Toast will never disclose your personal details to third parties without your specific permission.
More information on our third party, network and supplier relationships can be found below.
Google use session and persistent cookies across their advertising products and cookies are used by Google partners across their third party advertising network.
Google uses cookies to serve you relevant advertisements based on your searches. Anyone can opt out of this. We use Google Analytics to better understand how customers use our website, how they navigate and how often they return to our site. Google Analytics uses cookies to track on-site conversions. All this data is anonymous.
Google Privacy Policy.
Webtrends provides us with web analytics data - this means detailed but anonymous information on the performance of our site, such as how many visits have been made to each page.
Webtrends Privacy Policy
We use Rocketfuel to display our adverts on websites that are likely to be visited by people who are interested in Toast products. There is no personally identifyable information collected in order to do this. Rocketfuel’s Privacy Policy
DoubleClick use cookies to serve Toast adverts on third party websites. The DoubleClick cookie serves relevant ads to potential customers and gathers information about how or if you are interacting with these ads. We use DoubleClick conversion tracking cookies to track on-site conversions. Double Click’s Privacy Policy
Strruq cookies collect browsing data – like the products you have viewed. This data may then be used by other website(s) in their network to serve advertisements containing products that you may have looked at or similar products.
Advertisements will always include a link to Struq's Privacy Policy page. If you'd like to opt out of ad targeting, or would like to see more information on why you are being retargeted, simply click the blue 'i' icon which appears in the top right hand corner of every advertisement. Alternatively, if you wish to opt out of receiving Struq advertisements altogether, please go to Struq’s Cookie and Privacy Policy
Yahoo! and Bing use cookies across their advertising products and their third party advertising network. Bing and Yahoo! may set and access Bing and Yahoo cookies on your computer or use web beacons to access their own cookies inside and outside of their network of websites and in connection with Yahoo! or Bing products and services. Bing/Yahoo! Privacy & Cookie Policy