Cookies

Seven, and no others. None of them holds your name, your email, or anything you typed into a form. The first five are set because the site cannot work without them or because you asked for them; the last two exist only once you have told us what you are happy with.

• clauset_session: keeps you signed in to your account or to the seller portal. It holds a random token and nothing else; the account it belongs to is looked up on our side. Set only when you sign in, deleted when you sign out, and unreadable to JavaScript. Strictly necessary.
• clauset_locale: the language you picked. Lasts a year. Preference.
• clauset_currency: the currency you asked prices to be shown in. Lasts a year. Preference.
• clauset_country: the destination country the checkout starts on, guessed from your device time zone so you do not have to scroll a list to your own country. It is a default you can change on the form, and it decides nothing about price. Preference.
• clauset_theme: the colour scheme picked in your account. Set only while you are signed in, and deleted when you sign out. Preference.
• clauset_consent: which of the choices below you agreed to, and which version of this policy you were shown. Lasts a year. It is what stops us asking you again on every page, and it is set whatever you answer, including when you refuse everything. Strictly necessary, because it is the record of your own decision.
• clauset_visitor: a random number with nothing in it about you, which is what lets us see that two page views were the same visit rather than two strangers. Lasts a year, is unreadable to JavaScript, and is only ever set once you have agreed to the first choice below. Turning that choice off deletes it, and turning it back on later starts a new one.

The first time you arrive, a panel at the bottom of the screen asks about three things. Accepting and refusing are the same button with a different word on it, and refusing everything is one click.

• Understanding how the site is used. Which pages and pieces are looked at, what is searched for, and where a visit stops. This is the one that sets clauset_visitor.
• Personal recommendations. Remembering what you have looked at, so what we put in front of you is closer to what you want.
• Marketing and measurement. Which campaigns brought people here, and audiences for the ones we run. This is the only one that can involve an advertising platform.

Say no and nothing is recorded: not a reduced version, not an anonymous version, nothing. You can change any of it at any time in your account, and turning something off deletes the identifier that tied it together rather than just stopping new entries.