Strictly necessary only

This site uses strictly necessary storage only: your basket contents and your cookie-consent choice, kept in your browser’s local storage. Both exist so the site functions — a basket that forgets itself between pages is not a basket, and a consent record that forgets your choice would ask you every visit.

There are no advertising cookies, no cross-site trackers, no social media pixels and no analytics that follow you between sites. Page-view counts are aggregated and anonymous.

Managing your choice

Your consent choice (‘accepted’ or ‘rejected’) is recorded when you use the banner buttons and can be changed at any time via the ‘Cookie settings’ link in the site footer — the banner reopens, your choice is updated immediately, and nothing beyond the strictly necessary storage above runs unless you have accepted. Clearing your browser storage for this site resets the banner to its first-visit state.

Third parties, in plain terms

The market does not embed advertising networks, social media widgets or cross-site analytics, so there are no third-party cookies to decline on your behalf. The services that do process small amounts of data while you shop are the ones doing their job: the checkout handling your payment instructions and the email service delivering the seasonal letter you asked for. Each is bound by its own processor terms, and neither receives anything beyond what the task needs.

Seller pages you reach from the market are part of this site and covered by this policy. Where a listing links outward — the FSA’s public hygiene register is the common example — that site’s own cookie and privacy terms apply, and it is worth remembering that the FSA register, like most government services, sets its own cookies to keep the service running.

Web storage, not just cookies

Technically, the basket and consent record use your browser’s local storage rather than classic cookies — nothing about them is sent to the server with every request, they cannot be read by other sites, and they expire only when you clear them. Functionally they behave like first-party cookies, which is why this policy covers them: ‘cookies’ here means cookies and equivalent local storage throughout.

If you want to inspect what is stored, your browser’s developer tools show it directly: two keys for this site, one holding your basket contents and one holding a single word recording your consent choice. That is the entire inventory — and if it ever grows, this page is the first place the growth gets documented.

Last updated: November 2026 · Questions about this document go through the contact page.