Cookie policy

What this policy covers

The law here is not really about the word cookie. It covers anything stored on or read from your device, which includes local storage. This site uses both, so both are described.

Three things in total. Two are strictly necessary and are not asked about, because asking would be a formality with no possible answer. One needs your consent and does nothing whatsoever until you give it.

None of them is a third-party advertising cookie. There is no advertising on this site.

The unlock, after a purchase (strictly necessary)

When you buy a download, a signed string is stored twice: in a cookie and in local storage. The cookie lets the server answer an already-paid page without a flash of paywall; the local storage copy survives the kind of cookie cleaning that browsers do to third-party cookies and takes ours along with them. Somebody who has paid should not be asked to pay again for changing tabs.

It holds no identity. Only which site it belongs to, what it unlocks, when it was issued, when it expires, and a random value that makes each one distinct. There is no name and no email address inside it.

It lasts 30 days, the cookie is set to the same 30 days, and it is only sent on navigations that start on this site.

No consent is asked for it because none is required: it exists only after you have chosen to pay, it does one thing, and without it the thing you paid for stops working.

Treat it a little like a ticket. Anyone holding that string holds the unlock, so do not paste it anywhere public.

Your consent choice (strictly necessary)

When you accept or decline in the banner, that answer is written to local storage so that the banner stops asking. It stores one word.

This is strictly necessary too, and it is faintly absurd that it has to be: remembering that you said no is the only thing that stops us asking again.

It stays until you change it or clear your browsing data. Clear it and the banner returns with everything switched off, which is the safe direction to fail in.

Statistics, only with your consent

If you accept, Google Analytics 4 is allowed to write its measurement cookies and count visits: which pages get opened, roughly where people arrive from, what kind of device they use. It is used to decide which kinds of pattern are worth drawing more of.

Before you answer, and permanently if you decline, analytics storage is denied through Google Consent Mode and no measurement cookie is written. That default is set in the head of the page, before anything else loads, so the very first page of a first visit is covered too.

Declining costs you nothing. Nothing on this site sits behind analytics, no feature degrades, and the banner does not come back to ask again.

What is never stored

Advertising storage, advertising identifiers and personalised advertising are denied by default and never granted, on any page, for anybody. We do not run ads and do not ask for consent to something we do not do.

There is no social network button, no embedded video player, no chat widget, no font fetched from a third party while you browse, and no session recorder. Each of those would drop something into your browser, and none of them is here.

Your photograph is not stored in your browser either. It is read into memory, converted, and gone when you close the tab.

How to accept, refuse, or change your mind

The banner puts accept and decline side by side, the same size, on the first screen. There is no arrangement where refusing costs an extra click — that is precisely the thing European regulators fine people for, and it would be an odd corner to cut for a statistic.

Advanced opens the individual switches for anyone who wants them. It sits in addition to the plain decline button, never instead of it.

To change your mind later, use the cookies link at the foot of any page. The banner reopens and whatever you choose replaces your previous answer immediately. Withdrawing consent has to be as easy as giving it: that is the legal test, and it is also just decent.

You can do the same from your browser by blocking or deleting cookies and site data for this domain. If you do, expect to lose the unlock as well.

If you clear your browser

Clearing cookies and site data removes all three things: your consent choice, the unlock, and any analytics cookie. The banner will ask again, and a paid download will lock again.

Losing the unlock does not lose the purchase. Stripe holds the record of the payment; write to hallo@pixelperlen.com with your receipt or the payment reference and a new unlock is issued by hand.

Private browsing works normally, with the one difference that everything disappears when the window closes. If you pay inside a private window, download the files before you close it.

Contact

Questions, complaints, refund requests and takedown notices: hallo@pixelperlen.com. A person reads that address.

This cookie policy was last updated on 9 August 2026.