Cookie policy

1. Our approach

Most SaaS sites use cookies to track you across the web. We do not. MachLoad uses a small number of essential cookies to keep you signed in and to protect the service, and a cookieless analytics tool that records page views without setting a cookie or storing a persistent identifier.

That means an EU or UK visitor sees no advertising consent banner, because there is nothing to consent to for advertising. Where we do rely on consent, for product emails, you can withdraw it in one click.

2. Cookies we set

• session: keeps you signed in. Essential, expires when you close the browser or after 30 days if you chose to stay signed in.
• csrf: protects forms against cross-site request forgery. Essential, session lifetime.
• quota_device: a device token used to enforce the free-tier limit fairly. Essential for the free tier, 12 months.
• plan_preview: remembers the last container type you selected in the calculator. Functional, 30 days.
• prefs: remembers currency and unit preferences. Functional, 12 months.

3. Cookies we do not set

No advertising cookies, no cross-site tracking pixels, no social media cookies, and no third-party analytics cookies. We do not embed advertising networks in the product or the marketing site.

Payments are handled on Stripe and PayPal domains, which set their own fraud-prevention cookies under their respective policies. Those cookies are only present while you are in a checkout flow.

4. Analytics

We use a privacy-focused analytics tool that does not set cookies and does not build a persistent profile of a visitor. It records aggregate page views, referrers and country, and event counts such as calculator submissions. This data is used to decide which pages to improve and is retained for 24 months.

5. Consent and how to withdraw it

Essential and functional cookies are set on the basis of our legitimate interest in operating a secure, working product. If you are in the EU or UK and we introduce any non-essential cookie in the future, it will be blocked until you consent through a banner, and refusing will not degrade the product.

You can clear or block cookies in your browser at any time. Blocking the session cookie will sign you out and prevent new sign-ins; blocking the device token will reset the free-tier count for that browser.

6. Do Not Track

We honour the Global Privacy Control signal where a browser sends it: analytics events are not recorded for that session. We do not attempt to identify visitors who send Do Not Track.

7. Contact

Questions about cookies or tracking: legal@mach-load.com. For the wider picture of what we collect and why, see the privacy policy.