Tracking & cookies
There is no cookie banner on this site because there is nothing to ask you about. We set no advertising cookies, run no cross-site tracking, and our analytics write nothing to your device at all. Three small items get stored, all of them ours, all listed below.
Last updated 11 August 2026
Why there is no banner
Consent banners exist because most sites load trackers that follow you between websites. We do not load any. Asking you to click "accept" on nothing would train you to dismiss a dialogue that should mean something.
If that changes — and it will, if we ever run ads — the banner appears first and the tracking waits for your answer. Not the other way round.
How our analytics work
We use PostHog, hosted in the EU, to see which steps of the flow people complete and which ones break. It runs in a deliberately restricted mode: no cookies, no device identifier, no automatic capture of everything you click. The record of your visit lives in the page itself and is gone when you close it.
What we actually look at is shaped like "out of a hundred people who uploaded a file, eleven reached checkout" — never like a profile of you. The one thing that changes it is giving us your email at checkout, which necessarily links your order to your order.
The most useful signal we collect is the one that tells us a GPX file failed to parse. It is how we find out that a particular watch exports something we mishandle, and it is worth more to you than to us.
What is stored on your device
| Name | What it does | Lasts |
|---|---|---|
lope.draft.v1Session storage | The design you are working on, so a refresh or a discarded tab does not lose it. | Until you close the tab |
lope-unitsLocal storage | Whether you asked for kilometres or miles, so we do not ask twice. | Until you clear it |
lope:attrSession storage | Which link brought you here, so we can tell which of our own posts are worth making. First-party, never shared, never used to follow you elsewhere. | Until you close the tab |
None of these are cookies in the strict sense and none are readable by anyone but us. You can clear all three at any time through your browser; the only consequence is that the editor forgets an unfinished design and asks about kilometres again.
Stripe, and the one exception
When you reach checkout you are on Stripe's payment page, and Stripe sets its own cookies there to process the payment and detect fraud. Those are strictly necessary to take money safely, and they are governed by Stripe's privacy policy. We cannot switch them off and would not want to.
Questions
If you want to know what we hold on you specifically, the privacy policy explains how to ask and what we have to do about it. Anything narrower, email hello@lope.studio.