Cookie policy
What we found when we checked our own site
Most cookie policies are a template that describes cookies the site may or may not actually set. We went the other way and read the site’s own responses.
On 31 August 2026, browsing this website set no cookies at all. We checked the home page, the shop, a product page and the account page. Every one of those responses came back without a single cookie.
Cookies start when you put something in the cart. WooCommerce then sets three: woocommerce_cart_hash, woocommerce_items_in_cart and a wp_woocommerce_session_ cookie. Those are what remember your cart from one page to the next, and without them a cart cannot work at all.
What a cookie is, briefly
A cookie is a small file a website asks your browser to keep, so the site can recognise your browser on the next page. Some are essential, some are convenient, and some exist purely to follow you around. This site’s position on the third kind is at the bottom of this page.
What we will set, once the store can take orders
All of these are strictly functional. Each one exists because a specific feature breaks without it. None of them tells us anything about you as a person, and none is shared with anyone.
| Purpose | What it does | When it appears |
|---|---|---|
| Cart | Remembers what you put in the basket so it survives moving between pages | When you add your first item |
| Session | Ties your browser to your in-progress cart and checkout on the server | When you add your first item |
| Login | Keeps you signed in and protects the session from being reused by someone else | Only if you create an account and log in |
| Account preferences | Remembers small display choices inside your account area | Only while logged in |
| Cache | Lets the page cache tell a visitor with a cart apart from one without, so nobody is served someone else’s cart | Only once you have a cart or are logged in |
These come from WordPress and WooCommerce, which run this store. They are set by this website, on this domain, and they are read only by this website.
What we do not set, and do not intend to
- No analytics cookies. There is no analytics software on this site of any kind. Not Google Analytics, not a self-hosted alternative, not a “privacy-friendly” one.
- No advertising or retargeting cookies. No Meta pixel, no Google Ads tag, no conversion tracking, nothing that would let this site follow you onto another one.
- No social media tracking. The share buttons on our pages are ordinary links. Nothing is embedded from a social network, so nothing from a social network can set a cookie here. If you click a share link you leave for their site, and their rules apply there.
- No third-party cookies at all.
The one thing that does reach outside this site
Our pages load two typefaces from Google Fonts. That request does not set a cookie, but it does disclose your IP address and basic browser information to Google, because your browser has to ask Google’s servers for the font files.
It is the only third party an ordinary page on this site contacts, and we would rather name it than leave you to find it in a network tab. It is in the privacy policy too.
Why there is no cookie banner
Canadian privacy law is built around meaningful consent for the collection and use of personal information, rather than around a consent banner for every cookie. A banner that asked you to accept tracking we do not do would be theatre, so we have not put one there.
If we ever add anything that tracks you, this page changes first, a real choice appears, and it will not be pre-ticked.
Turning cookies off
Every browser lets you block or delete cookies, usually under settings, privacy, or site data. You can browse and read everything on this site with cookies blocked entirely.
What will not work with cookies blocked is a cart, a login, and a checkout, because those genuinely cannot function without remembering your browser between pages. That is a limitation of how the web works, not a choice we made.
Changes to this page
We will change the date at the top whenever what the site sets actually changes, and say what changed. The next expected change is when payment and shipping are configured and the cart cookies begin to appear.
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