Cookie Policy

1. What these technologies are

Cookies are small text records stored by your browser. Anno also uses local storage, which lets the browser remember a setting on your device without sending that setting with every web request. This policy covers both cookies and similar browser technologies used on annopb.com.

2. Essential storage

Essential storage is used to provide features you request and is not controlled by the analytics setting.

• Authentication: An encrypted ASP.NET authentication cookie keeps you signed in and carries the credentials Anno needs for authenticated server requests. It uses a sliding expiration of up to 30 days.
• Security: ASP.NET antiforgery cookies help verify that form submissions came from Anno and protect against cross-site request forgery.
• Affiliate preference: anno_ebay_affiliate_optout remembers for up to one year if a signed-in member disables eBay affiliate attribution.
• Appearance: anno-theme in local storage remembers day or night mode.
• Privacy preference: anno-analytics-preference-v1 in local storage records the choice, policy version, and timestamp used by Cookie Settings.

3. Google Analytics

Anno uses Google Analytics 4 to measure visits, referring pages, device and browser characteristics, and interactions with pages and features. This helps us diagnose problems and decide what to improve. We configure the tag with advertising storage, advertising user data, advertising personalization, Google Signals, and advertising-personalization signals disabled.

When analytics storage is enabled, Google Analytics may set cookies including _ga and a property-specific _ga_* cookie. These cookies distinguish browser visits and may remain for up to two years unless you delete them or turn analytics off. Anno does not intentionally send your name, email address, Anno ID, message contents, locker contents, payment details, or precise location to Google Analytics.

4. Your analytics choice

You can use the Cookie Settings link in every page footer to keep or turn off analytics. Turning analytics off sends a denied analytics-storage state to Google and removes accessible Google Analytics cookies from the current Anno domain. If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal, Anno treats it as an analytics opt-out and does not let the on-page control override it.

Google consent regions covering the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, and Switzerland default analytics storage to denied unless a choice allows it. Outside those regions, basic analytics is enabled by default but remains optional.

5. Third-party features

Some pages use services such as Firebase authentication, Mapbox, Google Maps, Stripe, Veriff, eBay, or content-delivery networks. Those providers may receive technical request information such as an IP address, browser details, and the requested resource when you use the relevant feature. A provider may use its own cookies or storage according to its terms and privacy notice. Anno does not use the analytics setting to enable advertising cookies for these services.

6. Managing browser storage

Most browsers let you inspect, delete, or block cookies and site data. Blocking essential storage may prevent sign-in, saved preferences, forms, maps, or other requested features from working. Clearing site data will also clear your saved analytics choice, so the control may appear again.

7. Changes and contact

We may update this policy as Anno's services or vendors change. We will revise the effective date and, when appropriate, ask for a new choice after a material change. Questions or privacy requests may be sent through Anno Support. Also review our Privacy Policy.