Cookies Policy
Last updated: 13 November 2026 · Version 1.9
This policy covers cookies, local storage, session storage and similar access to your device on adopt.me. BuxUp Limited operates the service; contact contact@adopt.me.
We use a conservative opt-in approach for optional app-managed storage across the UK, EU and US. No analytics or advertising integration is installed in this release. Accepting optional storage enables Preferences only; it does not install trackers or authorise a future undisclosed purpose.
1. Your controls
The first-visit notice provides equally accessible Accept optional, Reject optional and Manage choices controls. Optional categories start off. Closing settings or continuing to browse is not acceptance. Reopen at any time to change or withdraw consent. Withdrawal stops registered optional integrations and removes the optional preference key. Language and currency can still be changed for the current page without being remembered.
Essential functions, security and the privacy choice itself remain available. For storage whose purpose needs consent, consent is obtained before activation; purpose-specific legal exceptions may apply to strictly necessary or other qualifying uses. Our choice to ask for optional preference consent is a product approach, not a claim that every technology has the same legal rule. ICO storage and access guidance.
2. Current app storage inventory
| Name and type | Purpose and category | Duration / control |
|---|---|---|
| adopt-me-consent-v1 · localStorage · first party | Privacy-choice version, category permissions and timestamps. Essential to remember your decision; no advertising identifier. | Valid for 180 days. Expired/version-mismatched records are removed when the control next runs. You can change the choice sooner. |
| adopt-me-privacy-optout-v1 · localStorage · first party | Sale/sharing and targeted-ad opt-out, including a recognised GPC signal. Essential privacy preference. | Until changed or site data is cleared. GPC reasserts the opt-out while enabled. |
| adopt-me-demo-v1 · sessionStorage · first party | Requested simulated cart, favourites, applications, comments, listings, referrals and orders. Required for the demo interactions you choose; not analytics or advertising. | Current browser session, subject to tab restoration. Reset demo activity clears its contents. Browsing an untouched page does not write a new empty activity record. |
| adopt-me-preferences · sessionStorage · first party | Language, display currency and suggested charity. Optional Preferences category. | Current browser session only after opt-in. Removed on rejection or withdrawal. Without consent, settings work in page memory. |
3. Hosting and WordPress installations
The application does not set advertising cookies, but the hosting platform may use necessary security, authentication or delivery technologies outside this app’s storage keys. The consent control cannot disable essential platform controls. The installable WordPress version may additionally use WordPress login/security cookies, WooCommerce cart/session cookies and other technologies from activated plugins. Durations vary with login/cart settings. Optional commenter-detail cookies are disabled by the supplied module. No analytics or advertising plugin is bundled.
Before operating a separate live WordPress service, audit its actual cookies, suppliers and durations, publish that inventory, and connect every non-exempt optional integration to a compatible consent mechanism. This control does not automatically classify or intercept arbitrary third-party plugin scripts. Payment or fraud-prevention technology must be evaluated when payments are enabled.
4. US choices and GPC
records an opt-out independently of cookie consent and also blocks targeted advertising in app-managed integrations. GPC is recognised as an opt-out signal and cannot be overridden by Accept optional while the signal is active. Analytics and preference consent are separate choices. No sale, sharing for cross-context behavioural advertising or targeted-ad integration is currently enabled by adopt.me. See the CPPA guidance and our Privacy Policy.
5. Browser settings and changes
Choices are browser/device-specific. Private browsing or blocked storage may prevent saving them; in that case optional use remains off by default on a new page and the notice may reappear. Clearing browser data removes saved choices, so you may be asked again. Removing necessary cart/session data can reset activity. We do not infer acceptance from scrolling, silence or a pre-ticked optional box. A new purpose or vendor requires review, notice and fresh consent where applicable.
Privacy requests and questions: contact@adopt.me.