Cookie policy

What cookies are

A cookie is a small file a website saves in your browser. This policy also covers similar ways of saving information in your browser, such as local storage. In this policy we call them all cookies.

Our approach

We only set cookies the site needs to work and stay safe, unless you agree to more. These are called strictly necessary cookies, and the law does not need your agreement for them.

If we add analytics cookies (to see how people use the site) or advertising cookies (to see which adverts work), we will ask you first and set them only if you say yes. You will be able to change your mind at any time.

Cookies we set

Today the site sets no analytics cookies and no advertising cookies at all.

These are the only cookies that can be set, besides the tab storage described below:

Cookie	Set by	What it does	How long it lasts
__cf_bm	Cloudflare	Helps tell people from automated programs, to protect the site from abuse	30 minutes
_cfuvid	Cloudflare	Helps apply limits on how often the site can be used, so one person cannot overload it	Until you close your browser
cf_clearance	Cloudflare	Remembers that your browser passed a security check, so you are not asked again. Set only if you are shown a check	30 minutes, or as long as our security settings say
tradimation_session	Tradimation	Keeps our own staff signed in to our admin pages. Never set for visitors or customers	12 hours

All four are strictly necessary. Cloudflare protects and carries visits to our site; its cookies hold no information that identifies you by name. Our privacy notice says more about Cloudflare.

Order pages also keep answers you have typed but not yet sent in your browser's tab storage (session storage), so a reload does not lose them. This is strictly necessary for the page you are using, and your browser clears it when you close the tab.

Counting visits without cookies

Our own server records which steps of the site are used, such as starting a cartoon or playing a clip. Your browser sends a short message to our site when you take a step; nothing is saved in your browser and no cookie is set for it, and no other company receives these records. Our privacy notice says what they hold and how long we keep them.

Cookies we may add later

We will add each of these to the table above before we use it.

• Customer sign-in. When paid orders open, a cookie to keep you signed in to your order. This is strictly necessary.
• Your cookie choice. A cookie that remembers whether you said yes or no to analytics and advertising cookies. This is strictly necessary.
• Analytics, only if you agree. PostHog, with its servers in the EU, to see which pages people use and where they get stuck.
• Advertising, only if you agree. Cookies or messages that tell advertising platforms, such as Facebook, that someone who clicked one of our adverts went on to make a cartoon or order a film.

How to control cookies

Once we add analytics or advertising cookies, a "Cookie settings" link at the bottom of every page will let you change your choice.

You can also block or delete cookies in your browser settings. If you block strictly necessary cookies, parts of the site, such as security checks, may not work.

Contact

For questions about cookies, use the form on our contact page.