Cookie Policy

A cookie is a small file a site asks your browser to send back on every later request, which is what makes it useful for recognising people. Outbid has no accounts and no basket, so nothing here needs to know who you are. What it does want to know is how many people looked at the board and which pages they read, and that is measured with Google Analytics, which sets two cookies.

Until you press the theme switch, nothing is stored under outbid.theme at all and the board simply follows whatever your operating system asks for. If storage is blocked, the switch still works for the page you are on.

Cloudflare

The site is served through Cloudflare, which may set a strictly necessary cookie of its own to tell a browser apart from a bot and to remember that a challenge was passed. It carries no information about you and is not ours to read.

Polar

Pressing Outbid sends you to Polar, our payment provider, on Polar's own domain. Everything Polar sets happens there, under Polar's own cookie and privacy policies, and we have no access to it. Nothing from the checkout comes back into this site except the confirmation that a payment cleared.

Google

The two analytics cookies in the table above are read by Google, and are the one thing on this page that is both ours and theirs: we chose to put them there, and Google is what they report to. The next clause says what they measure.

Separately, the icon beside each listing is fetched by your browser from Google's favicon service, which is an image request rather than a cookie. What Google does with the request for an image is covered in the Privacy Policy.

The analytics are Google Analytics 4, measurement id G-HGV8ZBJFX2, loaded on every page. What it reports is the page you are on, roughly where in the world the request came from, what kind of device and browser you used, and which site sent you here. It is used to see which parts of the board people actually read.

The click counts shown on the listings themselves are a separate thing and are not Google's: they are counted on our own server, one number per listing, with nothing stored about who did the clicking.

The analytics load by default and there is no banner on this site asking you first. If you would rather not be counted, any of these works and none of them costs you anything on the board:

• Google publishes a browser add-on that turns Google Analytics off everywhere, at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
• Any tracker-blocking extension, or a browser that blocks third-party and analytics scripts by default, stops the script from loading at all.
• Blocking cookies for .awesomeindie.com in your browser settings leaves the script running but with nothing to write to.

Clearing site data for outbid.awesomeindie.com removes all three values in the table, including the remembered theme, and the board then goes back to following your operating system. Because the analytics cookies sit on the shared domain, clearing them here clears them for awesomeindie.com too.

This page used to say that Outbid set no cookies at all, and it was true until analytics were added on the date at the top. If the list in clause 02 ever grows again, this page changes on the same day, and the date at the top is always the current version.

Nothing here will ever be an advertising or profiling cookie without your being asked first. The whole list of what a visit is worth to us is in the table above.

Questions about this page, or about anything you have found in your browser that you think came from us: [email protected].