Cookie Policy
The cookies the TagsforHope® Partners portal sets: all strictly necessary for sign-in, your cart, and currency display, plus one optional Meta pixel on the public application page with a consent notice or a one-click off switch, depending on your region.
1. What cookies are
Cookies are small text files a website stores in your browser so it can remember things between pages and visits, like the fact that you're signed in. Some sites also use them for analytics and advertising. Here, everything is essential except one optional ad-measurement pixel on our public application page, governed by the consent rules in section 2.
2. Our approach: essential cookies, plus one choice that's yours
The TagsforHope® Partners portal sets only cookies that are strictly necessary to make it work: signing you in, keeping your order in the cart, and showing prices in your account's currency. Signed-in portal pages run no analytics cookies, no advertising or social-media trackers, and no marketing pixels.
There is exactly one optional exception: our public application page can load a Meta (Facebook) pixel that tells us whether the ads we run for the partner program led to applications. Where the law requires opt-in consent (Quebec, the EU and UK, and anywhere we cannot tell where you are), it stays off until you choose "Allow" on a small notice. Elsewhere, including the United States, Australia, and the rest of Canada, it runs with this policy as your notice, and section 5 turns it off in one click. Browsers sending the Global Privacy Control signal are treated as a no everywhere. The application works exactly the same in every case, and your choice is remembered either way (section 5).
3. The cookies we set
Exact names can vary slightly with software versions, but these are the families of cookies the portal uses:
| Cookie | Purpose | Typical duration |
|---|---|---|
wordpress_sec_*wordpress_logged_in_* |
Your secure sign-in session. Created when you use a sign-in link or code, checked on every page so only you see your account. | Session, up to 14 days |
wordpress_test_cookie |
Checks that your browser accepts cookies so sign-in can work. | Session |
wp-settings-* |
Remembers interface settings for your signed-in account. Set only after you sign in, at your request. | Up to 1 year |
wp_woocommerce_session_* |
Ties your cart to your browser while you build an order. | About 2 days |
woocommerce_items_in_cartwoocommerce_cart_hash |
Lets the cart update correctly as its contents change. | Session |
aelia_cs_selected_currencyand related aelia_* cookies |
Remember your account's currency and country so prices display correctly. | Session to about 2 days |
__cf_bm and related Cloudflare cookies |
Network security and bot protection from our security provider, Cloudflare. | Under 1 hour |
tp_meta_consent |
Remembers the choice you made on the application page's pixel notice (yes or no), so we don't ask again. Set only when you make a choice. | 180 days |
tp_meta_consent_apps |
Set only if you submit an application after allowing the pixel: remembers which application it was, so turning the pixel off on this page also stops ad measurement for that application on our side. | 180 days |
The signed-in portal also keeps one short-lived entry in your browser's sessionStorage (a cousin of cookies): partners-activity-session, a random identifier that groups your portal activity during a visit for our own internal records, described in our Privacy Policy. It disappears when you close the tab, and it is readable only by this site.
Optional, only with your consent: the Meta pixel
When the pixel is allowed to run for you (section 2: your "Allow" where consent is required, this policy's notice elsewhere), it loads on the application page and Meta sets its own cookies. We use it for one thing: counting which of our partner-program ads led to submitted applications. While it is allowed, when you submit the application we also send Meta a one-way hashed version of the contact details you submitted (email, phone, name, city, province, country), along with your IP address and browser type, so the count stays accurate for people who block scripts. Turning it off (section 5) stops all of this for future visits and submissions. Meta's use of this data is described in Meta's privacy policy.
| Cookie | Purpose | Typical duration |
|---|---|---|
_fbp |
Meta's browser identifier, used to match an ad view or click to a later application. | About 90 days |
_fbc |
Stores the ad-click reference when you arrive from a Meta ad. | About 90 days |
4. Payment providers at checkout
When you pay by card, the payment fields are served by our payment providers (Braintree, a PayPal service, or Stripe). Those providers may set their own strictly necessary cookies inside the payment form for security and fraud prevention. Those cookies are governed by the providers' own policies.
5. Managing cookies
Your browser lets you view, block, and delete cookies at any time (usually under Settings → Privacy). Because everything else the portal sets is essential, blocking or deleting those cookies will sign you out and empty your cart.
The Meta pixel is the one optional thing, and you can change your mind about it right here. Your current choice and the switches:
Turning it off stops the pixel from loading on your future visits. If you already allowed it, you can also clear the _fbp and _fbc cookies in your browser.
6. The main store is different
Our consumer store at tagsforhope.com is a separate website that does use analytics and advertising cookies, with its own consent banner and its own cookie policy. Visiting it is governed by that policy, not this one.
7. Changes
If we ever add a cookie that isn't strictly necessary, we'll update this policy and introduce a consent mechanism before it's set. Questions: [email protected].