1. Current website use
At the date of this notice, this public website does not set non-essential cookies and does not run advertising or cross-site behavioural tracking. There is therefore no non-essential cookie consent banner to accept or reject.
The website uses Vercel Web Analytics to count page views in aggregate. This measurement is cookieless: it stores nothing on your device, sets no identifier that persists between days, and does not follow you to other websites. It tells us which pages are read and roughly how many people read them, and nothing about who those people are. Vercel Inc. processes this data on our behalf as described in our privacy notice.
Shop pages also report, to the shop concerned, that a page was opened and whether its phone number, website or directions were tapped. This is cookieless too — nothing is stored on your device, the request carries no identifier beyond what any web request carries, the server keys it on a salted hash that is never shown to anyone, and shops only ever see totals. A Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track signal from your browser switches it off. See the privacy notice for the detail.
The website host may create ordinary server logs, such as an IP address, requested page, time and browser information, to deliver and secure the site. Server logs are not necessarily cookies because they do not require information to be stored on your device. Their use is covered by our privacy notice.
2. What cookies and similar technologies are
Cookies are small text files stored on a browser or device. Similar technologies include local storage, software development kit identifiers, pixels and other methods that store information on or read information from a device.
Some technologies are essential to provide a feature requested by a user. Others support preferences, audience measurement, advertising or profiling. UK rules generally require clear information and a valid choice before non-essential technology is used.
3. Essential technology
The public website stores a small amount of information on your device to provide features you have asked for. None of it is advertising, none of it identifies you, and none of it leaves your browser. In full:
- dt.finder — the last shop search you ran on this browser (the place you typed and the distance you chose), so the finder opens where you left off instead of empty. Provider: DiscoverTCG (stored on your device only). Duration: until you clear it or clear your browser storage. There is a Search somewhere else button on the finder that removes it immediately.
- shelf_view.<shop> — whether you last looked at a shop’s shelf as a binder or as a list, so the page opens the way you left it. Provider: DiscoverTCG (device only). Duration: until cleared.
- ws-intent — whether you told us you are a collector or a shop, so we do not ask again every visit. Provider: DiscoverTCG (device only). Duration: until cleared.
- sb-<project>-auth-token — your signed-in session on the store console, without which you would be signed out on every page. Provider: Supabase, on our behalf. Duration: until you sign out or the session expires.
All four are essential in the sense the rules use: each one exists only to deliver something you asked for, and clearing your browser storage removes every one of them.
The public website may later use strictly necessary technology for security, load balancing or remembering a privacy choice. If introduced, we will list the name, provider, purpose and duration here even where consent is not required.
The DiscoverTCG app uses secure on-device storage where necessary to maintain an authenticated session and requested preferences. This is used to provide account functionality, not for advertising.
Since 4 September 2026 the app also measures which steps of setting up work and which lose people. It is first-party, it is not advertising and it does not follow you to any other app or site. It stores nothing on your device for this purpose: the key that joins one session’s steps together is random, held in memory only, and gone when the app closes. The single thing kept on the device is your own on/off choice. Purpose: making the app work for the people who install it. Duration: individual records for 90 days, then daily totals only. You can switch it off at any time under Settings → Privacy, where it is called “Help us improve the app”; it is off by default for anyone under 18. The full description is in section 2 of the privacy notice.
4. If this changes
Before adding non-essential analytics, advertising or similar technology, we will:
- audit what is stored or accessed and why;
- update this notice with the technology, provider, purpose and duration;
- ask for a clear choice before non-essential technology loads where required; and
- make withdrawing or changing that choice straightforward.
Simply continuing to browse will not be treated as consent to non-essential cookies.
5. Browser controls
Most browsers allow you to view, block or delete cookies and site data. Blocking all storage may affect sign-in or other features where it is strictly needed. Consult your browser’s privacy settings for the controls available on your device.
6. Contact us
Questions about this notice can be sent to support@discovertcg.com.