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Cookie Policy

Draft · last updated June 10, 2026

This is a working draft pending legal review. It explains in plain language how Piczel works, not the final binding document.

This policy explains the cookies and similar technologies Piczel uses, what each category does, and how you can control them. The short version: we use cookies to run the product, not to follow you around the internet.

1. What cookies are

Cookies are small files a site stores in your browser. We also use similar technologies such as local storage. Together they keep you signed in, remember your preferences, and tell us, in aggregate, how the product is used. This policy covers the Piczel website, the Piczel app, and the galleries and portfolio sites photographers publish with Piczel.

2. Strictly necessary

These make the product work and cannot be switched off from within Piczel:

  • Authentication: keeps you signed in to your account and signs you out when a session expires.
  • Security: protects forms against cross-site request forgery and helps us detect abusive traffic.
  • Gallery access: remembers that a client has entered a gallery password or PIN, so they are not asked on every page.
  • Billing: remembers your detected currency so prices are shown correctly.

Blocking these in your browser will stop sign-in and password-protected galleries from working.

3. Preferences

These remember choices you have made so the product behaves the way you left it: your light or dark theme, interface settings, and similar. Losing them is harmless but mildly annoying; the product falls back to defaults.

4. Analytics

We use a small amount of privacy-respecting analytics to see which pages and features are used, so we can improve them. This data is aggregated, is not used to profile you, and is not used to track you across other websites. We do not use advertising cookies or sell data collected through cookies.

5. Cookies on client galleries and portfolio sites

Galleries and sites photographers publish with Piczel use the necessary cookies above (access and favourites), and may record view counts and engagement so the photographer can see how their work is being received. That information is processed for the photographer, who is the controller of their galleries; their own privacy notice applies alongside this policy.

6. Third-party cookies

When you pay, our payment providers (such as Paystack) may set their own cookies on their checkout pages under their own policies. We do not control those cookies. We do not embed advertising networks or social-media trackers on Piczel pages.

7. Controlling cookies

You can clear or block cookies at any time in your browser settings, per site or globally. Most browsers also let you browse privately so cookies are discarded when you close the window. Remember that blocking strictly necessary cookies will prevent sign-in and gallery access from working.

8. Changes to this policy

If we add a new category of cookie, or a new third party that sets one, we will update this page and note the date above before it takes effect.

9. Contact

Questions about cookies or tracking? Email [email protected].