Cookies

What we keep in your browser

Like any site you sign in to, Flash Listings keeps a little in your browser - in cookies and in its own storage. Most of it the site needs to work, and it is used whatever you choose. One part, counting visits, only happens if you say yes.

Needed for the site to work

• Your sign-in. Keeps you signed in, and signs you out after a long time away. Without it nothing works.
• The free trial. Two small cookies (fl_device, fl_tried) so each browser gets its one free listing without signing up.
• Your choice here. Remembers whether you said yes to counting visits, so we do not ask on every page.
• Your settings. The things you choose as you work - the theme, the eBay account you list on, the photo and video settings, which tab you were on - so they are as you left them.

Only with your yes: counting visits

With your yes we note each page you open, how you found the site, how far down you read, the headings you saw and the buttons and links you press - by what they say, never anything you type. It tells us what to make better. We keep no cookie for it and no IP address: a visitor is a code made from the connection, the browser and the day, which cannot be turned back into either and changes at midnight. It is never used for advertising and never sold.

If you came from one of our own posts or adverts, the link's tags - which post or advert, on which site - are kept in this browser for up to 90 days, and with your account if you make one then, so we know which of them brings people. Say no and they are forgotten.

Google Ads

We advertise on Google. Google's ad tag loads on every page but our own admin pages, with its advertising cookies off until you say yes (Google calls this Consent Mode). Without your yes it sets no cookies, and Google gets only a cookieless signal that a page was seen or an account made, which like any request to a website shows it your internet address.

Whatever you choose, we count that one of our Google adverts was clicked: the page and the advert, and nothing about you or your device. Nothing is stored in your browser for it.

With your yes, Google Ads can also tell us when somebody who clicked one of our adverts made an account or paid - that is how we know which adverts are worth paying for. Google sets its own cookies for it (such as _gcl_au and _gcl_aw, kept up to 90 days) and handles them under its own advertising policy. Say no later and it is told to stop at once.

Nothing else follows you elsewhere, and nothing is sold. More on what we hold is in the privacy policy.

Flash Software Ltd, company number 17500154.