One cookie, and why

The cookie this website sets

Name

hpm_session

What it does

Remembers your bag, keeps you signed in to your account, and protects the site's forms from being sent by someone else on your behalf.

How long

Up to 30 days, so your bag is still there when you come back. Signing out ends the sign-in at once.

Needed?

Yes. Without it the bag and checkout cannot work, so it is set without asking, as the law allows for cookies a site cannot run without.

What your browser keeps for you

The pieces you keep (the heart), the pieces you have looked at recently, and your motion setting are stored in your own browser so the site can show them back to you. They never leave your device. Clearing your browser data removes them.

When you pay

Payment happens on Stripe's own secure page, which sets its own cookies to keep the payment safe and to prevent fraud. Stripe's cookie information covers those.

The typefaces

The House's typefaces are loaded from Google Fonts. Your browser asks Google for them, which shares your IP address with Google in the ordinary way of loading any web page. Google Fonts does not set cookies.

Counting visits

The House counts, without cookies and without knowing who you are, how many people visit, which pages and pieces they look at, which kind of device they use, where they came from (for example a search or Instagram) and which printed cards are scanned. To count visitors rather than page loads, your browser keeps a random number for the length of one visit (in session storage, which clears when you close the tab). Nothing is used for advertising.

More about what happens to what you tell us is in the Privacy Policy.