Cookies — the small kind.

A cookie is a small text file a website asks your browser to keep. It rides along with each subsequent request, letting the server recognise you between page loads.

Cookies cannot read files from your device or run code. They store identifiers, preferences and short-lived tokens — nothing more.

We split cookies into four categories. Strictly necessary cookies are set the moment you arrive — without them you cannot sign in, list a horse, or rely on escrow. Everything else is opt-in.

We do not sell cookie data. We do not share cookie data for cross-context behavioural advertising. The categories are listed below; the cookies set within each are listed in the table that follows.

Use the “Cookie preferences” link in the footer (or the button below) to turn each non-essential category on or off. Your choice is stored in a single cookie (hl_cookie_consent) for one year.

You can also clear cookies in your browser settings — we will re-prompt on your next visit. Browser-level Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control signals are respected as a default refusal of non-essential categories.

Stripe sets cookies during checkout and KYC for fraud prevention; these are classed as strictly necessary on payment pages. Google Analytics 4 and Vercel Analytics are loaded only with analytics consent. GA4 sets first-party `_ga` cookies to count returning visitors; we run it with IP-anonymisation enabled and never link analytics data to individual accounts. Revoking analytics consent both stops further beacons and clears the `_ga` cookies from this browser.

We do not load Facebook Pixel or any cross-site advertising tag without explicit marketing consent. The marketing category is currently inactive on the public marketplace; it is reserved for future stallion campaign measurement.

Session cookies expire when you close the tab. Persistent cookies live as long as the table below indicates — at most one year. The consent record itself is reset on a major version bump (re-prompt) so revoked categories take effect.

If we add a new category — for example, a future stallion-comparison preferences cookie — we will bump the consent version and ask again. Material changes are also notified via email to account holders.