Cookies

A cookie is a small file this site asks your browser to keep and send back on your next request. Some of them are the only reason a shopping cart survives a page load; others exist to measure things, and those are the ones you get a say in.

We treat local storage in your browser the same way this policy treats cookies. It is the same question — what is kept on your device, and who it is for — and splitting the two would be a technicality used to avoid answering it.

Strictly necessary. Your signed-in session, the CSRF token that proves a form submission came from this site, the cart, and your answer to this banner. These cannot be switched off, because switching them off would mean you could not sign in or check out. They are set whether or not you accept anything else.

Preferences. Remembers choices you made — the compare tray, a dismissed announcement, the layout you last used. Turning this off costs you nothing except having to make those choices again.

Analytics. Aggregated, non-identifying counts of which pages and paddles get looked at, so we know which spec sheets are worth writing properly. Off until you turn it on.

Marketing. Measures whether a campaign actually sent anyone here, and lets us avoid showing you the same offer twice. Off until you turn it on.

Two cookies hold your storefront session: a short-lived access token and the refresh token that renews it. One carries the CSRF token. The admin panel uses its own separate pair, which a customer never receives.

One more — the consent cookie — stores the answer you gave the banner and the version of this policy you were shown. Deleting it is what makes the banner appear again.

When you answer the banner we store your choice on your device and keep a dated record of it: which categories you allowed, which version of this policy you were shown, and when. That record is what lets us show, later, what was actually agreed.

The record is tied to a random identifier generated in your browser. It is not derived from your email address, your account or your IP address — and the IP address and browser string attached to it are stored only as one-way hashes, never in the clear.

Use the cookie settings control on this page. The change takes effect immediately, and withdrawing consent is exactly as easy as giving it — one click, same place, no confirmation maze.

You can also clear cookies in your browser settings, which resets everything including your session. If we materially change what the optional categories do, we raise the version of this policy and ask you again rather than assuming your old answer still covers it.

We do not run third-party advertising pixels and we do not sell or share what your browser tells us. Where a payment provider sets a cookie during checkout, that is their cookie under their policy, and it is set only because you chose to pay.