Cookie Policy

What this page covers

Cookies are small files a site stores in your browser. Local storage does much the same job by a different mechanism. This page covers both, because what matters is what is stored and why, not which technique stores it.

Everything listed below is either strictly necessary or a preference you set yourself. There is nothing here for advertising, and nothing that follows you to another site.

Strictly necessary

These are required for the service to work at all. Blocking them breaks signing in or paying.

• Session cookies set by our identity provider, which keep you signed in as you move between pages. They expire when your session ends.
• Security cookies that protect sign-in and form submissions against cross-site request forgery.
• Fraud-prevention values set by our payment provider on pages where you pay, which help it tell a real customer from a stolen card.

Preferences you set

These remember a choice you made. They are stored in your browser and are never sent anywhere for analysis.

• Your chosen interface language, stored in local storage so the site opens in it next time.
• An unsaved project brief, kept in session storage while you are writing it so a refresh does not lose your work. It is cleared when you close the tab.

Why there is no cookie banner

European law requires consent for cookies that are not strictly necessary. We do not use any, so there is nothing to consent to and no banner to dismiss.

That means no analytics, no advertising pixels, no social media trackers and no cross-site identifiers. We do not know which other sites you visit, and we would rather not.

If that ever changes, we will ask for your consent properly before setting anything, and update this page first.

Controlling what is stored

Every browser lets you view, block and delete cookies and local storage, usually under privacy settings. You do not need our permission and we do not detect it.

Be aware of the trade-off: blocking the strictly necessary items above will stop you signing in or completing a payment, because those are the things they exist to do.

Changes to this page

The list above is kept accurate as the service changes. The effective date at the top shows when it was last correct, and a new category would be added here before it went live.