Cookie Policy

This is the Cookie Policy for PODatlas. It explains what cookies and similar storage technologies this site uses, what they do, and how you can control them. It works alongside the Privacy Policy.

The short version: PODatlas does not use tracking cookies today. The rest of this page explains what that means in practice, what could change, and what would happen if it did.

Who runs this site

PODatlas is a directory of print-on-demand suppliers, tools, marketplaces, and sales channels. It is run by Mike Savage, trading as a sole trader in the United Kingdom. I am the data controller for any personal data this site collects.

For anything relating to cookies or this policy, email legal@podatlas.co. For general questions about the directory, please use the contact form.

What cookies are

A cookie is a small text file that a website saves to your browser so it can recognise you on later visits. Browsers also have related storage — local storage, session storage, and similar — that work in much the same way for the purposes of this policy. When I talk about "cookies" below, I include those too.

Cookies fall into a few broad buckets under UK and EU rules:

Strictly necessary cookies are the ones a site genuinely needs to function — for example, remembering that you have accepted a banner, or holding a form submission together while it is being processed. These do not require consent under the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR), though you still have to be told they exist.

Analytics cookies record how the site is used in aggregate. These do require consent under PECR unless the analytics tool is genuinely cookieless and privacy-preserving.

Marketing and advertising cookies track you across sites to build a profile and serve targeted ads. These always require explicit consent and a clear way to refuse.

What PODatlas uses today

PODatlas does not set any first-party tracking cookies. There are no analytics cookies, no marketing cookies, no advertising pixels, and no cross-site trackers.

The only things this site stores on your device are technical and minimal:

Analytics: Plausible. Aggregate page-view data is collected by Plausible Analytics. Plausible is cookieless by design — it does not set any cookies in your browser, does not collect personal data, and does not build a profile of you across sites. The Plausible script is served through a first-party proxy on this domain (at /js/script.js and /api/event) so it loads quickly and is not blocked by privacy tools, but the behaviour is identical to the public Plausible script. Plausible is hosted in the EU. Because no cookies are set and no personal data is collected, this analytics use does not require a consent banner under PECR.

Cloudflare. This site is served through Cloudflare. Cloudflare may set a strictly necessary cookie (typically named __cf_bm or similar) to detect automated bots and protect the site against abuse. This cookie does not identify you, is short-lived, and is classed as strictly necessary under PECR.

Hosted scripts. No third-party scripts (Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel, advertising tags, social embeds, chat widgets) are loaded on this site at the moment.

That is the complete list.

What this means for you

You do not need to accept anything to use this site. There is no cookie banner because there is nothing on this site you would need to consent to. You can browse PODatlas anonymously, and nothing follows you to other sites after you leave.

If this changes in future

PODatlas is a growing project. If I add a tool that sets non-essential cookies — for example, an embedded chat widget, a third-party comments system, an A/B testing tool, or an advertising partner — I will not switch it on silently. Two things will happen first:

1. A consent banner will appear the next time you visit. It will let you accept, refuse, or choose categories of cookies before any non-essential cookies are set. Refusing will not break the site.
2. This Cookie Policy will be updated to list the new cookies, what they do, who sets them, how long they last, and the legal basis. The "last reviewed" date at the bottom of this page will be bumped, and material changes will be noted in the newsletter.

In other words: cookies stay opt-in. I will not flip a banner on as a fait accompli and call it consent.

Third parties that may load resources

A few of the tools listed in the Privacy Policy — Mailerlite, Airtable, Cloudflare, Plausible — operate the site itself. They are not embedded as third-party trackers in your browser. Their own cookies (where applicable) only set within their own properties, not on podatlas.co.

If you sign up to the newsletter via the form on this site, the form posts to a Cloudflare Pages Function which then talks to Mailerlite and Airtable. No cookies are set in your browser as part of that submission, beyond the strictly-necessary Cloudflare cookie noted above.

How to control cookies

Because PODatlas does not set non-essential cookies, there is no in-site control to toggle. If you still want to clear or block cookies generally, every modern browser provides controls under its privacy or security settings:

• Chrome: Settings → Privacy and security → Cookies and other site data
• Safari: Settings → Privacy
• Firefox: Settings → Privacy & Security
• Edge: Settings → Cookies and site permissions

You can also use private/incognito browsing modes, which clear cookies and storage at the end of the session.

Note that blocking strictly-necessary cookies (such as Cloudflare's bot-management cookie) may prevent the site from loading correctly. Blocking analytics cookies will have no effect on PODatlas because it does not use them.

Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control

PODatlas does not currently respond to "Do Not Track" or Global Privacy Control signals because there is nothing on this site for those signals to switch off. If that changes — if I introduce any tracking — those signals will be honoured by default.

Your rights

Your rights under UK GDPR are set out in full in the Privacy Policy. Because this site does not collect personal data via cookies today, most of those rights do not apply to cookie data specifically. They do apply to the newsletter list, supplier submissions, and contact-form messages.

To exercise any right, or to ask a question about this policy, email legal@podatlas.co.

You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk if you think this site is handling cookies incorrectly.

Changes to this policy

If I change how cookies are used on this site, I will update this page and bump the "last reviewed" date below. Material changes — anything that introduces a new category of cookie — will trigger a consent banner before the change goes live, and will be noted in the newsletter.

Last reviewed

22 May 2026.