Last updated: 12 November 2026
Cookies & Local Storage
- We use one sign-in cookie (plus a few short-lived ones while you sign in), and only if you sign in.
- Your browser's local storage autosaves the map you're designing, so you don't lose your work.
- We don't use analytics, advertising or social media cookies, so there's no cookie banner to click through.
- We count visits anonymously without storing anything on your device (see below).
1.What cookies and local storage are
A cookie is a small text file a website saves in your browser, which your browser sends back to that site on each visit. Local storage is similar, but it stays in your browser and isn't sent to our servers automatically. The law treats both in the same way: a site needs your consent to use them, unless they're strictly necessary to provide something you've asked for.
2.What we use
Everything below is strictly necessary for the site to do what you ask, so it doesn't need consent.
| Name | Type | What it's for | How long it lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
mapsie_session | Cookie | Keeps you signed in to your account, so you can save designs and see your orders. Only set if you sign in. | 30 days, or until you sign out |
g_state | Cookie | Set for a few minutes while you sign in with Google, to keep the sign-in secure and return you to the page you were on. | 10 minutes |
g_verifier | Cookie | As above. | 10 minutes |
g_next | Cookie | As above. | 10 minutes |
mapsie-design | Local storage | Autosaves the design you're working on (including any photos you've added) and your chosen country, so your work is still there if you close the tab. | Until you clear your browser's site data |
If you sign in to the admin area, the same sign-in cookie also records when you last entered your authenticator code.
3.What we don't use
We don't use analytics cookies, advertising or retargeting cookies, social media pixels, or any other tracking technology. We don't build profiles of what you do on the site.
To see which parts of the site work and where people get stuck, we count anonymous steps such as "opened the designer" and "reached checkout". This uses a random number that exists only while the page is open: it isn't stored in a cookie or anywhere else on your device, it isn't linked to your name, email or IP address, and it's gone when you close or reload the page. If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track signal, we don't count your visit at all. See our Privacy Policy.
If we ever want to add anything that isn't strictly necessary, we'll update this page and our Privacy Policy first, and ask for your consent before setting it.
4.Other services you'll interact with
- Paying: checkout takes place on a secure page run by Stripe, which uses its own cookies to process payments and prevent fraud. See Stripe's cookie policy.
- Signing in: when you sign in with Google you're briefly taken to Google's own sign-in page, where Google's cookies apply. See Google's cookie policy.
- Maps and search: to show the map and search for places, your browser loads map tiles from OpenFreeMap and elevation data from Amazon Web Services, and sends your searches to Photon (run by komoot). These requests share your IP address with those services, as any web request does, but we don't ask them to set cookies. See our Privacy Policy for more.
5.Managing and deleting them
You can delete cookies and local storage for mapsie.shop at any time in your browser settings (usually under “Privacy” or “Site data”). If you do, you'll be signed out and any design you haven't saved to your account or ordered will be lost from that browser. Blocking these entirely will stop sign-in and autosave from working.
Questions? Email privacy@mapsie.shop.