COOKIE POLICY

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work, or to improve efficiency and security.

How we use cookies

We use strictly necessary cookies to operate our website securely and enable core functionality.

You can also consent to the use of non-essential analytics cookies.

Types of cookies we use

Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies are required for the website to function properly. These are always active and do not need user consent.

We use the following strictly necessary cookies:

Authentication (.AspNetCore.Cookies) to keep admin users securely logged in during their session.

Security Cookies (.AspNetCore.Antiforgery) to protect the admin areas of the site and prevent malicious requests.

Cookies to integrate Buy Me a Coffee

Buy me a coffee & Stripe implement their own cookies allowing for donations to be made directly from the site. These cookies are used when you click the yellow widget in the bottom right.

Buy me a coffee manages these cookies seperately, with a pop-up asking for you to Accept or Decline these cookies if you use the service.

Non-essential Analytics cookies (Microsoft Azure Application Insights)

We use Microsoft Azure Application Insights to understand how visitors use our website and to help us improve performance and reliability.

This service may set cookies such as ai_user and ai_session to:

- Distinguish unique visitors

- Measure how long a user spends on the site

- Understand how pages are used

- Help diagnose errors and improve performance

These cookies do not directly identify you, but they assign a unique identifier to your browser to help us analyse usage patterns.

We only use these cookies if you give consent. You are asked for consent on your first visit to the site. If you have changed your mind, you can update your preferences at the top of this page.

Cookies we do not use

We currently do not use cookies for advertising or marketing purposes.

Managing Cookies

Cookies can be managed at the top of this page or deleted through your browser settings. Disabling strictly necessary cookies may break parts of the website.

Changing this policy

We may update the cookie policy at any time if new features or services are introduced to the website.

Contact

If you have any questions regarding our Cookie Policy, please get in touch at contact@everything-apple.com.

Last Updated: 26th June 2026