Cookies
Cookies are small files a website stores in your browser. We use as few as we can.
We do not use cookies for advertising or analytics. We don’t track you
around the web, we don’t build a profile of you, and we never sell or share your information.
If you are just reading our site, you receive no cookies at all. They only appear when you
do something that needs one — put coffee in your cart, sign in, or pay.
Cookies we need
These make the shop work. Turning them off breaks it.
- Your cart — remembers what you have added and keeps your total correct.
- Your shopping session — links your browser to your cart on our server, for one week.
- Signing in — keeps you signed in, secures your session, and is what lets
us apply subscriber discounts. - Payment — Stripe, who process our payments, set cookies to detect fraud
during checkout. These last up to two years, because recognising a device over time is how
card fraud is caught. - Security — Cloudflare and hCaptcha set cookies that tell real customers
apart from bots. Stripe loads hCaptcha itself as part of its fraud checks. - Your cookie choice — records what you chose here so we don’t ask again,
for twelve months.
Cookies for convenience
These make things easier but are not essential, and you can decline them.
- Keeping your cart between visits — four weeks.
- Remembering we already showed you the sign-in prompt — one week.
- Refer a Friend — if you arrive through a friend’s referral link, we
remember it so they get the credit, for twelve months.
Our newsletter
Our newsletter signup box is provided by Substack. Their box sets its own cookies for their
own purposes. We do not control these and we receive nothing from them.
Who else receives anything
Only Stripe, to take your payment and prevent fraud, and Cloudflare and hCaptcha, to keep
bots out. We do not use Google Analytics, advertising networks, or social media tracking of
any kind.
Your choices
You can change your cookie preferences at any time using the cookie settings on this site,
and you can block or delete cookies in your browser — though blocking the necessary ones will
stop the shop working.
We also honour Global Privacy Control. If your browser sends that signal, we respect it
automatically, without you having to ask.