Cookies and storage

No tracking cookies

There is no analytics cookie, no advertising cookie and no session cookie on the shop. The one cookie it can set is 'dp_lang', and only when you choose a language yourself: it holds two letters, such as 'bg', so the site opens in that language next time, and it expires after a year. It is never used to recognise you.

The one exception is not yours: the staff panel runs on a separate address and sets a sign-in cookie there. It is never set on the shop.

What is kept in your browser

Your unfinished poster, meaning the place, the words, the fonts and the colours, is saved in your browser's local storage under 'dearplace.config.v2' so that a reload does not lose your work. It never leaves your browser and we cannot read it.

If you turn map loading off, that choice is stored the same way, so it still holds on your next visit.

Clearing this site's data in your browser removes both, and so does the Reset link at the foot of the editor.

What your browser fetches from other companies

Drawing a map means downloading map data, and that comes from OpenFreeMap, which serves OpenStreetMap data and keeps no accounts. Searching for a place asks Nominatim, run by the OpenStreetMap Foundation. Typefaces come from Google Fonts, and the map libraries — MapLibre GL JS and Leaflet — from the unpkg CDN.

Your browser talks to each of them directly, so each sees your IP address and which page asked. None of them is sent anything you typed on the poster.

The map loads as soon as you open the editor, because drawing it is the service you came for. Turning map loading off, from 'Cookies and storage' at the foot of the editor, stops the map tiles, the style previews and the place search. Nothing is then requested from any map service and none of them learns you were here. The editor still works: you can type, arrange, choose fonts and colours, and the map area stays empty. A poster without a map is not much of a poster, so this is a real trade-off rather than a dark pattern, which is why the choice is offered instead of assumed.

Two requests are not covered by that choice, and it would be misleading to imply otherwise: the typefaces from Google Fonts and the map libraries from unpkg load either way, because the page cannot be laid out or run without them. They receive your IP address and nothing else. Serving both from this server instead would remove them from the picture entirely, and that is the intended fix rather than a permanent state of affairs.

Stripe

Paying takes you to Stripe's own checkout page at Stripe's own address. Stripe sets its own cookies there, for its own fraud checks, under its own policy. We can neither set nor read anything on that page.

Changing your mind

Map loading can be switched off, or back on, at any time from 'Cookies and storage' at the foot of the editor.