Last updated: August 18, 2026
A cookie is a small text file that a website asks your browser to store and hand back on your next request. Cookies are how a site remembers that you are logged in, that you dismissed a notice, or that you already passed a security check. This page describes which ones are involved in reading sanue.com, what each is for, and what happens if you refuse them. It sits alongside our Privacy Policy, which covers personal information more generally.
The baseline is quieter than you might expect
An ordinary visit to a page here, by a reader who is not logged in and does not interact with anything, sets very few cookies and frequently none at all. This site sells nothing, runs no reader accounts, operates no newsletter and carries no advertising network, so most of the cookie categories a policy like this usually has to explain simply do not apply. Cookies appear when something specific happens, and the sections below cover each case.
Strictly necessary cookies
WordPress, the software this site runs on, sets session and authentication cookies for anyone who signs in to the administration area. Those are for editors, and a visitor who never logs in never receives them. WooCommerce is installed underneath WordPress as part of how the catalog is structured, and it can set session and cart cookies if you trigger a cart action. Nothing is for sale here, so those cookies carry no order or payment information.
These cookies cannot be turned off from within the site, because refusing them would break the function they exist to perform. They do not track you across other websites.
Caching and security
Pages here are cached so they load quickly, which means most visitors receive a stored copy of a page rather than one built fresh. Caching is mainly a server side arrangement, but the caching layer can set a marker cookie to recognize a visitor who must be served an uncached page, such as a logged in editor. Cloudflare sits in front of the site as a content delivery network and security filter, and where it challenges a request that looks automated it may set a short lived cookie of its own to record that the challenge was passed. These are functional cookies, not tracking cookies, and Cloudflare handles them under its own terms.
Analytics
We measure which pages are being read so we know which parts of the catalog to expand. That measurement runs through a first party analytics service we operate ourselves on a separate domain, not through a third party advertising platform. It records the page viewed, where the visit came from, an approximate location derived from the IP address, the device type, and clicks on outbound product links, reporting them in aggregate. There is no Google Analytics tag, no advertising pixel and no retargeting here. If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track signal, we treat it as a request not to be measured.
The affiliate click cookie
This is the one worth understanding properly. When you click a buying link on one of our product write ups, you leave sanue.com and land on Amazon. Amazon then sets a cookie on its own domain that records which site referred you. It is Amazon’s cookie, on Amazon’s domain, and we cannot read it, cannot see who you are through it, and cannot control how long it lasts.
Amazon’s program terms describe a window of roughly twenty four hours from that click. If you buy in that period, the sale is credited to us and we receive a commission. If you add an item to your cart during the window and buy it later, Amazon’s rules extend the credit for that item for a longer period after the cart action. If you do nothing for a day, if you clear your cookies, if you shop from a different browser or device, or if you click through another publisher’s link in the meantime, the credit is gone and no commission is paid.
What matters for you is that none of this changes the price you pay, none of it is added to your bill, and refusing the cookie costs you nothing except that we do not get paid. Our Affiliate Disclosure sets out the commercial relationship in full.
Controlling cookies
Every major browser lets you see stored cookies, delete them, block third party cookies, or block cookies entirely, and the controls sit under privacy or site settings in Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Edge. Private browsing discards cookies when you close the window, and tracker blocking extensions can block the analytics request described above without preventing you reading anything here.
Blocking cookies on this site has modest consequences. Pages will still load and read normally. What breaks is signing in to the administration area, any cart action, and the affiliate attribution described above. Because Amazon’s cookie is set on Amazon’s own domain, controlling it means using Amazon’s settings and your browser’s, not ours.
Changes and questions
We will update this page if the cookies involved in running the site change, and the date at the top shows when it last did. If you want to know what a specific cookie in your browser is doing, or you think this description is out of date, ask through the contact form and we will check it.