Seven cookies, and no adverts.

A cookie is a small text file a website asks your browser to keep. Next time you arrive, the browser hands it back. That is the whole mechanism — no code runs, nothing is taken off your device.

Ours are dull by design. The most exciting thing any of them says is “this person is signed in”. There is no profile of you here, and nothing built to follow you around other websites.

Essential

Keep you signed in as you move between pages, and keep the checkout secure. Without these there is no account and no way to buy a credit.

Security

Spot fraud at the payment step and tell a real customer apart from a bot. Set by Stripe, not by us.

Analytics

Count visits and see which pages help people and which ones lose them. Grouped numbers, not a file on you. These are the only ones we ask permission for.

Your answer

Remember whether you accepted or declined the analytics ones, so the banner stops asking you every single visit.

This is the complete list. The two analytics cookies only appear after you accept them — decline, and your browser never receives them at all.

Names can change when a supplier updates their software. If this list ever falls behind what your browser shows, tell us and we will fix the page.

We do not write these cookies ourselves — they come from the services that run sign-in, payment and traffic counting. Each company has its own privacy policy, and each one is worth a read.

• Clerk — the sign-in system. Sets the session cookies.
• Stripe — the payment processor. Sets the fraud and checkout cookies.
• Google Analytics — traffic counting. Sets the two analytics cookies.

That is the entire third-party list. No advertising network, no social pixel, no data broker has a cookie on this site.

Change your mind whenever you like. This button reopens the same banner you saw on your first visit, and your new answer takes effect immediately.

You can also do it at the browser level, which covers every site at once rather than just this one. Here is where each browser keeps that setting.

Google also publishes a browser add-on that opts you out of Google Analytics everywhere, if you would rather solve it once and forget about it.

Blocking cookies is your call. This is the honest consequence list.

Decline analytics

Nothing changes for you. We just count one fewer visit.

Block essential

You cannot stay signed in, so you cannot reach your library or buy a credit. The public pages still read perfectly.

Clear everything

You get signed out. Your account, your credits and your songs are untouched — they live on our servers, not in the cookie. Sign in again and they are all there.

Some browsers send a “Do Not Track” or Global Privacy Control signal. There is still no agreed standard for what a site must do with either, and most analytics tools ignore them.

So rather than claim we honour a signal we do not fully control, here is the position: we set no advertising cookies at all, so there is no ad tracking to stop. And the one thing there is to stop — the analytics count — has a plain Decline button in section 5 that works every time.

If we add a tool that sets a cookie, it goes on the table above before it goes live — name, purpose, lifespan and all.

Anything that needs your permission gets asked for in the banner before it is set — that is the rule, not a plan. This page carries the date of its last change at the top, so you can always see how current it is.

What we hold beyond cookies is covered in the privacy policy. This version is dated 20 August 2026.