Cookie Preferences
This page shows what Architechtures stores on your device and lets you decide about everything that is optional. Your choice is remembered on this device for 12 months, and you can change it here whenever you like.
Your choice
Switching a category off deletes what it stored on this device.
Cookie declaration
Everything the site stores on your device, by category. Some items are not cookies but entries in your browser's storage; they are listed all the same.
Strictly necessary
Signing in, security, your language and the choice you make here. The site cannot work without them, so they are not asked about.
| Name | Provider | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|
arch_consentCookie | Provider: Architechtures | Remembers the choice you make on this page, so you are not asked on every visit and our checkout can respect it. | Lifetime: 12 months |
__sessionAlso as __session_<instance>Cookie | Provider: Clerk | Keeps you signed in while you use the site. | Lifetime: 1 minute, renewed while you are signed in |
__client_uatAlso as __client_uat_<instance>Cookie | Provider: Clerk | Records when your sign-in state last changed, so the site knows when to refresh your session. | Lifetime: 12 months |
__clientCookie | Provider: Clerk | Identifies your browser to the sign-in service, so your session survives closing the tab. | Lifetime: 12 months |
__refresh_<instance>Cookie | Provider: Clerk | Lets the site renew your session when it has lapsed, so you are not sent to sign in again. | Lifetime: 12 months |
__clerk_environmentLocal storage | Provider: Clerk | Keeps a copy of the sign-in service's settings, so the sign-in forms still load when the service is slow to answer. | Lifetime: 1 day, renewed on each visit |
clerk_active_contextCookie | Provider: Clerk | Remembers which session is active in this tab. | Lifetime: Until you close the browser |
__cf_bmCookie | Provider: Cloudflare (Clerk) | Tells people from bots on the sign-in service, to protect accounts from automated attacks. | Lifetime: 30 minutes |
_cfuvidCookie | Provider: Cloudflare (Clerk) | Lets the sign-in service limit abusive traffic without blocking everyone on a shared network. | Lifetime: Until you close the browser |
_GRECAPTCHACookie | Provider: Google reCAPTCHA | Helps reCAPTCHA tell people from bots, to keep spam out of the contact form. | Lifetime: 6 months |
_grecaptchaLocal storage | Provider: Google reCAPTCHA | Keeps reCAPTCHA's bot-protection token between visits. | Lifetime: Until you clear your browser's data |
rc::<…>Session storage | Provider: Google reCAPTCHA | Holds reCAPTCHA's working data while the tab is open. | Lifetime: Until you close the browser |
NEXT_LOCALECookie | Provider: Architechtures | Remembers the language you chose. | Lifetime: Until you close the browser |
sidebar_stateCookie | Provider: Architechtures | Remembers whether you left the sidebar open or collapsed. | Lifetime: 7 days |
temp-storage-modeCookie | Provider: Architechtures | Remembers that you switched on Temp Storage Mode in the dashboard. | Lifetime: 12 months |
editor-snap-settingsLocal storage | Provider: Architechtures | Remembers your snap settings in the editor. | Lifetime: Until you clear your browser's data |
PaddleCookies on the provider's own domain | Provider: Paddle | While you pay or change your payment method, Paddle's payment form stores what it needs to process the payment and prevent fraud. Nothing is stored before that. | Lifetime: Set by the provider |
2CheckoutCookies on the provider's own domain | Provider: 2Checkout (Verifone) | While you pay or change your payment method, 2Checkout's payment form stores what it needs to process the payment and prevent fraud. Nothing is stored before that. | Lifetime: Set by the provider |
Analytics
Lets us measure how the site and the editor are used, with Google Analytics, so we know what to improve.
| Name | Provider | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|
_gaCookie | Provider: Google Analytics | Tells one visitor from another, so visits can be counted. | Lifetime: 2 years |
_ga_<container-id>Cookie | Provider: Google Analytics | Keeps the state of your current visit, so the pages you view in it are counted together. | Lifetime: 2 years |
Marketing
Lets us measure whether our Google Ads lead to sign-ups and purchases.
| Name | Provider | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|
_gcl_auCookie | Provider: Google Ads | Stores an identifier used to measure whether our ads lead to sign-ups and purchases. | Lifetime: 90 days |
_gcl_awCookie | Provider: Google Ads | Stores the click on a Google Ads ad that brought you here, so a later sign-up or purchase can be credited to it. | Lifetime: 90 days |
_gcl_dcCookie | Provider: Google Ads | Stores the click on a Google display or video ad that brought you here, so a later sign-up or purchase can be credited to it. | Lifetime: 90 days |
_gcl_<type>Cookie | Provider: Google Ads | Other cookies of the same family, such as _gcl_gs, _gcl_ag or _gcl_gb. Which one is stored depends on the kind of Google ad and click that brought you here; the purpose is the same as the cookies above. | Lifetime: 90 days |
_gcl_lsLocal storage | Provider: Google Ads | Stores the click on the ad that brought you here in your browser's storage, for the same purpose as the cookies above. | Lifetime: Until you clear your browser's data |
_gac_<property-id>Cookie | Provider: Google Ads | Stores the campaign of the ad that brought you here, shared between Google Analytics and Google Ads. | Lifetime: 90 days |
Where a name ends in <instance>, that part is a short code identifying our account with the sign-in service. It keeps our cookies apart from those of other sites on the same domain.
Videos on this site load from YouTube only when you press play. Until then YouTube stores nothing on your device; once a video plays, YouTube may store its own cookies under its own policy.