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Cookies

Every cookie this site sets, what it does, and how long it lasts.

Draft — not yet reviewed by a lawyer

This page accurately describes how the site currently works, and is written to be a useful starting point for legal review. It has not had that review yet, and must not be relied on as it stands.

Strictly necessary

These make the site work. Without them you cannot stay signed in or submit a form, so they are set for everyone.

Cookie Purpose Lasts
buy-stuff-direct-session Keeps you signed in and links your browser to your session. 120 minutes
XSRF-TOKEN Stops another website submitting forms as you. 120 minutes

Not necessary — referral and affiliate tracking

These exist so that whoever introduced you to the site gets credited if you later buy something. They do not build an advertising profile and are not shared with any advertising network, but the site works perfectly well without them.

Cookie Purpose Lasts
cl_ref Remembers which member referred you. 30 days
cl_aff Remembers which affiliate referred you. 30 days
cl_visitor A random identifier so one visitor's repeat clicks are counted once. 30 days

Your choice

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Fonts and third parties

The typefaces on this site are served from our own servers. No font, analytics or advertising provider is contacted by your browser, and none of them can set a cookie here.

Turning them off

You can change your answer at any time using the control above, and declining also deletes the tracking cookies already set. Separately, every browser can block or delete cookies for a site from its own settings. Blocking the strictly necessary ones will stop you being able to sign in. Blocking the tracking ones has no effect on anything you can see — it only means a referral will not be credited.

Cookies we would like to set

The site needs a few cookies to work at all, and those are always on. We would also like to set cookies that tell us which partner or member sent you here, so they get credit for it. Those are up to you. What each cookie does