Cookie Notice


This Cookie Policy explains how we may use cookies and similar tracking technologies (like web beacons and pixels) to access or store information, as well as the options you have to control them.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, or mobile device, when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners in order to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.

Cookies set by Good Smile Connect, LLC are called "first party cookies". Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called "third party cookies". Third party cookies enable third party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g. like advertising, interactive content and analytics). The parties that set these third party cookies can recognize your computer both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other websites.

You can find more detailed information about cookies by visiting www.allaboutcookies.org

Why do we use cookies?

We use first and third party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our Websites to operate, and we refer to these as "essential" or "strictly necessary" cookies. Other cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our Services. Third parties serve cookies through our Services for advertising, analytics and other purposes.

How can you manage cookies?

If you wish to control how information is collected from cookies on our Services, and how that information is used, you can do so in a number of different ways. Be aware that if you block cookies, certain features on our Services may not function properly.

Cookie Management Tool

You can manage non-essential cookies by using our cookie management tool. Users will see this tool upon first visiting the Services. Upon visiting the Services, essential cookies are set on your computer. Specific consent must be provided for non-essential cookies.

You can also manage these settings by clicking here.

Browser Settings

You can accept or reject some of all cookies by adjusting your browser settings. If you do not know how to do this, please see the following external links for more information:

Third Party Opt-Out

You can opt-out of various third party cookies on our Services by visiting their opt-out pages:

Cookie declaration

Essential Cookies

Name

Provider

Purpose

Expiry

__cf_bm

Cloudflare

Cloudflare places the cookie on end-user devices that access customer sites protected by Bot Management or Bot Fight Mode.

30 minutes

FFBFID

Good Smile Connect

Preserves users' states across page requests. 

Session

currency

Good Smile Connect

Controls what currency the user sees prices in.

1 month

Statistics Cookies

Name

Provider

Purpose

Expiry

personalization_id

Twitter

Used on sites that share Twitter content and with Twitter share plugin.

2 years

_gid

Google

Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.

1 day

_gat

Google

Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate.

1 day

_ga

Google

It records a particular ID used to come up with data about website usage by the user.

2 years

collect

Google

Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor's device and behavior. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels.

Session

_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress

Hotjar

Used to count how many times a website has been visited by different visitors - this is done by assigning the visitor an ID, so the visitor does not get registered twice.

1 day

_hjFirstSeen

Hotjar

Used to determine if the visitor has visited the website before, or if it is a new visitor on the website.

1 day

_hjSession_#

Hotjar

Collects statistics on the visitor's visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been read.

1 day

_hjIncludedInPageviewSample

Hotjar

Used to detect whether the user navigation and interactions are included in the website’s data analytics.

1 day

_hjIncludedInSessionSample

Hotjar

Registers data on visitors' website-behaviour. This is used for internal analysis and website optimization.

1 day

_hjRecordingLastActivity

Hotjar

Sets a unique ID for the session. This allows the website to obtain data on visitor behaviour for statistical purposes.

Session

_hjSessionUser_#

Hotjar

Collects statistics on the visitor's visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been read.

1 year

Marketing Cookies

Name

Provider

Purpose

Expiry

_fbp

Meta Platforms, Inc

Facebook tracking pixel used to identify visitors for personalized advertising.

3 months

_gcl_au

Google

Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services.

3 months

muc_ads

Twitter

Collects data on user behavior and interaction in order to optimize the website and make advertisements on the website more relevant.

2 years

tr

Meta Platforms, Inc

Facebook tracking pixel used to identify visitors for personalized advertising.

Session

YSC

YouTube

Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen.

Session

VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE

YouTube

Tries to estimate the users' bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos.

Session


What about other tracking technologies, like web beacons?

Cookies are not the only way to recognize or track visitors to a website. We may use other, similar technologies from time to time, like web beacons (sometimes called "tracking pixels" or "clear gifs"). These are tiny graphics files that contain a unique identifier that enable us to recognize when someone has visited our Websites or opened an e-mail including them. This allows us, for example, to monitor the traffic patterns of users from one page within a website to another, to deliver or communicate with cookies, to understand whether you have come to the website from an online advertisement displayed on a third-party website, to improve site performance, and to measure the success of email marketing campaigns. In many instances, these technologies are reliant on cookies to function properly, and so declining cookies will impair their functioning.

How often will you update this Cookie Policy?

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. Please therefore re-visit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.