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Cookie Policy

Adapted from the Basecamp open-source policies / CC BY 4.0

At The Laser Workshop, we use cookies to make our website work effectively, analyze our traffic, and improve your user experience. This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, how we use them, and your choices regarding cookies.

What are cookies?

A cookie is a small piece of text that is sent to your browser by a website you visit. It helps the website to remember information about your visit, like your preferred language and other settings. That can make your next visit easier and the site more useful to you.

How we use cookies

  • Authentication (Essential): We use cookies to verify your account and determine when you're logged in so we can make it easier for you to access the Services and show you the appropriate experience and features.
  • Security (Essential): We use cookies to help us keep your account, data, and the Services safe and secure.
  • Analytics: We use Umami, PostHog and Google Analytics to count visits and learn which pages and features help makers. Umami doesn't use cookies; PostHog and Google Analytics do. We don't use analytics for advertising, and session recording is off. Whether analytics run before you choose depends on where you are (see below).
  • Preferences: We use cookies to remember your settings and preferences.
  • Referral Tracking: If you visit via an affiliate link, we store a temporary cookie to attribute any subsequent account creation or purchase to that affiliate. This enables us to pay commissions fairly.
  • Signup Source: A first-party cookie remembers how you first reached us (the link's campaign tags, the referring site's domain, and your landing page) for up to 90 days. We read it only if you create an account, and we never share it. Declining cookies, Do Not Track, or Global Privacy Control turns it off.

Analytics choices by location

  • United States and Canada (outside Quebec): Umami and PostHog run by default, and you can opt out at any time from the banner or below. Google Analytics runs by default too, except in California, where it runs only if you choose "Allow all".
  • Everywhere else, including the EU, the UK and Quebec: no analytics run until you accept.
  • Everywhere: if your browser sends Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track, we treat it as an opt-out and run no analytics.

We work out which rule applies from your IP address. We don't store your location; your browser keeps only the rule, and only until you close it.

Managing cookies

You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities (like logging in) may not work.

You can opt out of analytics, or change your choice, at any time.