Cookie Policy
Last Updated: 22nd September 2026
Information About Our Use of Cookies
This cookies policy ("Cookies Policy") outlines how our Website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our Website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our Website and also allows us to improve the Website. Apart from cookies that are strictly necessary for the Website to work, whether analytics and marketing cookies run depends on where you are visiting from and on the choice you make — see "Managing Your Consent" below. You can change or withdraw your choice at any time using the "Cookie Settings" or "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information" links in the footer of every page.
Where the definition of a term does not appear in this Cookies Policy it shall be given its definition as outlined in our website terms of use and any other document referred to therein.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer or mobile device, subject to the choices described below. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's or device's hard drive.
The cookies we use include:
- "Analytical" cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around the Website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our Website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
- "Strictly Necessary" cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our Website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our Website or use a shopping cart.
- "Functionality" cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our Website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
- "Targeting" cookies. These cookies record your visit to our Website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our Website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
| Cookie Name | Purpose | Expiry of Cookie and Further Information |
|---|---|---|
| Our Cookiesdb_cookie_consent | Stores the cookie choices you made in our consent banner (analytics and advertising on or off) so we can honour them on later visits. Strictly necessary. | Expires 12 months after being set / updated |
| Our Cookiesfontbundles / fontbundlesid / is_logged_in | Keep you signed in and let the site know a signed-in member is browsing. Strictly necessary. | Expire 30 days after signing in, or when you sign out |
| Our Cookiestfa_challenge / login_verify / link_login_state / link_login_pending / oauth_state | Carry a sign-in that is part way through (two-factor code, email confirmation link, or Google / Facebook / Apple sign-in) to its next step, and protect it from being hijacked. Strictly necessary. | Expire within minutes, or as soon as the sign-in step completes |
| Our Cookiesdb_mkt_optout | Present only when you are signed in and have asked us not to sell or share your personal information: tells every page straight away that advertising cookies must not be set. Strictly necessary to honour that choice. | Expires 12 months after being set, or when you sign out or switch advertising back on |
| Our Cookiesdb_card_expiry_dismissed | Remembers that you closed the notice about your payment card expiring, so it is not shown again straight away. Strictly necessary. | Expires 4 days after being set |
| Our Cookiesdb_download_error / db_gtm_auth_event | Hand a message from one page to the next: why a download failed, or that you have just signed in or registered. Strictly necessary. | Expire within 30 seconds, or are removed on the next page |
| Stripe__stripe_mid / __stripe_sid | Set by our payment provider Stripe to enable secure checkout and to help detect and prevent fraud. Strictly necessary for taking payments. | Expire 1 year (__stripe_mid) and 30 minutes (__stripe_sid) after being set / updated. |
| Cloudflare__cf_bm / cf_clearance | Set by Cloudflare, which protects the Website from bots and attacks. Strictly necessary for security. | Expire within 30 minutes (__cf_bm) and up to 1 year (cf_clearance). |
| Our Cookiesvisit | Remembers when you last visited so we can count returning visitors in our own site statistics. Analytics — only set where analytics is allowed. | Expires 30 days after being set / updated |
| Our Cookiesdb.tk.anon (browser storage, not a cookie) | A random identifier, kept in your browser's local storage, that links your visits so we can improve recommendations and search. Analytics — only created where you have accepted analytics, or in regions where analytics runs by default. | Expires 13 months after being set |
| Our Cookiesdb_lv | A visitor identifier set by our previous website software. We no longer set it; where it is still present, we read it to personalise the homepage. Analytics — only read where analytics is allowed. | Set by the previous website; expires according to that setting |
| Google Analytics_ga | Distinguishes visitors and determines whether you have visited our Website previously. Analytics. | Expires 2 years after being set / updated. |
| Google Analytics_ga_* | Establishes and continues your session on our Website, and updates as you browse. Analytics. | Expires 2 years after being set / updated. |
| Our Cookiesdb_campaign | Remembers the campaign (for example a newsletter or advert link) that brought you to us so a later purchase can be attributed to it. Marketing. | Expires 30 days after being set / updated |
| Our Cookiesdb_click_id | Remembers the advert click that brought you to us so a later purchase can be attributed to that campaign. Marketing. | Expires 90 days after being set |
| Google Ads_gcl_au / _gcl_aw / _gcl_gs | Set by Google Ads to measure whether a Google advert led to a purchase, and to show you relevant adverts on Google services. Marketing. | Expire 90 days after being set. |
| Meta (Facebook)_fbp / _fbc | Set by the Meta pixel to measure whether a Facebook or Instagram advert led to a purchase, and to show you relevant adverts on Meta services. Marketing. | Expire 90 days after being set. |
| Microsoft Advertising (Bing)_uetsid / _uetvid / MUID | Set by Microsoft Advertising to measure whether a Bing advert led to a purchase, and to show you relevant adverts on Microsoft services. Marketing. | Expire 1 day (_uetsid), 13 months (_uetvid and MUID) after being set. |
Internet Advertising
Our Website may display interest based advertising using information you make available to us when you interact with our Website. Such "personalised" or "targeted" advertising may be displayed to you based on information from activities on our Website.
We may also use cookies, web beacons and other technologies to allow us to learn about what advertisements you see, those you click, and other actions you take on our Website. This allows us to provide you with more useful and relevant ads.
We may work with other third party advertising companies to show you adverts based on other websites you may have visited to show you more relevant and useful adverts. These third party companies may use third party cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies to collect information. They may also collect your device identifier, IP address, or identifier for advertising. We do not have access to or control over cookies or other technology that these third party advertising companies may use, and their practices are not covered by any of our policies. We recommend contacting them directly for further information.
Managing Your Consent
We group the cookies and similar technologies described above into three categories: strictly necessary, analytics, and advertising (also called marketing cookies). Strictly necessary technologies are always active because they are required for the Website to operate. The advertising category covers cookies and tags from advertising partners and the sharing of browsing and purchase data with them; it does not cover emails from us, which you manage with the unsubscribe link in any email.
How we use analytics and advertising technologies depends on the privacy laws that apply to you. Where prior consent is required, we do not set analytics or advertising cookies, or activate third-party analytics or advertising services, until you choose to accept them. Where applicable law permits certain technologies to be used without prior consent, we may use them from your first visit, subject to your right to object or opt out.
Where a banner or notice is shown on your first visit, it lets you make your choices straight away. Everywhere, the "Cookie Settings" and "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information" links in the footer let you review and change the choices available to you.
We also recognise the Global Privacy Control (GPC) browser signal. When we receive it, we treat it as a request to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information and of targeted advertising, and we apply that choice to the marketing technologies and related data disclosures associated with that browser, including reports of later purchases to advertising partners. If you are signed in, the opt-out is recorded on your account and applied on every device you sign in on; we will not ask you to allow advertising again, and you can switch it back on only by choosing to in Cookie Settings and then confirming that choice.
We normally remember your cookie choices in the db_cookie_consent cookie for up to 12 months, unless you clear your cookies or we need to ask you again sooner because our technologies, purposes, or legal obligations change. You can change your choices at any time through Cookie Settings.
When you reject or withdraw consent for a category, we stop loading technologies in that category and, where technically possible, remove the cookies or similar storage that we control. This does not remove cookies or information already held by third parties, and withdrawing consent does not affect processing that took place before it was withdrawn. If you turn off advertising, we also stop reporting subsequent purchases to advertising partners for advertising or advertising measurement purposes.
We may also produce aggregate statistics about use of the Website, such as pages viewed, searches made, and device types, using our own systems. Where the law requires your consent before analytics cookies are set, then until you choose we may still collect this limited usage information without setting a cookie or storing an identifier in your browser, only where that is permitted, and only to produce aggregate statistics. Elsewhere these statistics may use the analytics cookies described above from your first visit. None of this is used for advertising. If you turn off Analytics, we stop collecting this information from your browser.
Controlling the Use of Cookies
Save as outlined in this Cookies Policy or otherwise on our Website, and with the exception of the use of such technologies by our service providers or other authorised third parties, we do not allow third party content on the Website to include or utilise any cookies or similar technologies for tracking purposes or to collect your personal data. If you think other third party content may be collecting personal data or using tracking technologies on our Website, please report it to us.
You may block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of the Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies as soon as you visit our Website.
Note that using opt out methods described above does not necessarily mean that you will not see advertising, only that the advertising will not be specifically targeted to you.
Contact
All questions, comments and requests regarding this Cookies Policy should be addressed to [email protected]. You may also write to us at Design Bundles Limited, Graphic House, City Rd, Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 2PH, United Kingdom.