Cookies notice

Cookies are small text files a website stores in your browser. They let the site remember things between page loads — like that you're logged in or which theme you prefer.

Cookies broadly fall into four categories: strictly necessary, functional, analytics, and marketing. Under the UK PECR rules, only strictly necessary and functional cookies can be set without your consent.

Right now we use exactly two cookies, both falling into the no-consent-required categories under PECR.

Authentication session

• Name: passes360_session
• Purpose: keeps you signed in so you don't have to log in on every page
• Type: strictly necessary
• Lifetime: 7 days, refreshed on each visit
• Properties: HttpOnly, Secure, SameSite=Lax (your browser blocks scripts from reading it)

Theme preference

• Name: passes360_theme
• Purpose: remembers whether you chose the light or dark interface
• Type: functional (stores a preference you set deliberately)
• Lifetime: 1 year
• Properties: not HttpOnly (the theme switcher needs to read it from JS), Secure, SameSite=Lax

We currently don't use any:

• Analytics cookies — no Google Analytics, Mixpanel, or similar
• Advertising or marketing pixels — no Facebook Pixel, Google Ads conversion, etc.
• Social-media tracking — no Like buttons or share widgets that drop cookies
• Cross-site tracking of any kind

If we add analytics later, we'll update this notice and add a clear consent banner before any non-essential cookies are set.

You can clear or block cookies in your browser settings. Blocking the strictly-necessary cookie will stop you from staying signed in. Blocking the theme cookie means the site reverts to the default theme on each visit.

For step-by-step browser instructions, see allaboutcookies.org. The Information Commissioner's Office also publishes useful plain-English guidance at ico.org.uk.

We'll update this notice whenever we change which cookies we use. The "Last updated" date at the top will tell you when. For any change that introduces a non-essential cookie, you'll see a clear consent banner before the cookie is set.

If you have a question about cookies, email privacy@passes360.co.uk.