Cookie Policy

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1. What Cookies Are

Cookies are small text files placed on your device that let a website remember information between visits — for example that you're signed in, or what's in your basket. We also use similar technologies, such as browser local storage, for the same kinds of purpose; where we say "cookies" in this policy we mean both unless stated otherwise.

2. Categories We Use

We aim to use only what is strictly necessary to run the Platform, plus optional analytics we will always ask your permission for first. This page will be expanded with a full, named cookie table — listing each individual cookie, its purpose, and its exact duration — before live-money launch, once our production analytics stack (if any) is finalised.

3. Strictly Necessary Cookies

These keep you signed in between page loads, remember items you're checking out, remember your cookie consent choice itself, and help protect the Platform from abuse — for example distinguishing genuine sessions from automated traffic attempting to enter Competitions or scrape data at volume. They do not require consent under UK PECR (the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations) because the Platform cannot function without them.

4. Analytics and Performance Cookies

If enabled, these help us understand how the Platform is used — which pages are visited, where people run into trouble — so we can improve it. They are off by default and only activated with your consent through the cookie banner where offered. No analytics provider is confirmed for production at the time of writing; this section will name the specific provider and its own cookies once one is chosen.

5. How Long Cookies Last

Strictly necessary session cookies (such as your sign-in) are typically cleared when you close your browser or after a period of inactivity. Any persistent cookie — one that survives between browser sessions, such as remembering your cookie consent choice — will be listed with its specific duration in the full cookie table referred to in section 2.

6. Your Consent Choices

Where consent is legally required (see section 4), you will be asked to accept or decline before any non-essential cookie is set. You can change your mind at any time; withdrawing consent stops new non-essential cookies being set and, where technically possible, removes existing ones, but does not undo anything that already happened while consent was given.

7. Managing Cookies in Your Browser

Separately from our own cookie banner, you can control or delete cookies through your browser's own settings at any time, and most browsers let you block cookies from specific sites. Blocking strictly necessary cookies is likely to prevent core features — such as staying signed in or completing checkout — from working properly.

8. Do Not Track Signals

Some browsers send a "Do Not Track" signal. There is no single agreed industry standard for responding to it, so we currently do not change our behaviour based on this signal alone; the consent controls in sections 4 and 6 are the reliable way to control non-essential cookies on the Platform.

9. Third-Party Cookies

Our payment provider and identity verification provider may set their own cookies when you use their embedded flows (for example during checkout or identity verification); those are governed by their own cookie and privacy notices, which we will link here once a live provider is confirmed for production use.

10. Changes

We will update this policy as our use of cookies changes, and will refresh consent where the law requires it — for example if we introduce a new analytics or advertising cookie in future.