Cookie policy

Cookies are small text files stored on your device. Session cookies are deleted when you close your browser; persistent cookies stay until they expire or you delete them. We also use your browser's local storage for a small number of preferences.

These are essential for Gallerite to work — you cannot switch them off without breaking sign-in and galleries. They do not track you across other websites.

• Sign-in cookies (for example gallerite-access-token for photographers and gallerite-admin-token for staff) — keep you securely signed in. These are HttpOnly.
• Session refresh cookie — renews your signed-in session securely and is limited to the sign-in path.
• Gallery session cookie — set after a Client enters a gallery PIN, so they stay in that gallery.
• Sign-in-with-Google security cookie — a short-lived token that protects the Google sign-in flow against cross-site request forgery.

We store two preferences in your browser (not cookies): your theme choice (light or dark), and whether you have already seen the home page's intro animation in this browser session. They stay on your device and are not sent to advertising networks.

We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors use Gallerite so we can improve it. It sets cookies such as _ga. We enable IP anonymisation, and we do not use that data for advertising.

It is not loaded in client galleries, on a photographer's portfolio or on invoice payment pages, so viewing your photos or paying an invoice is never reported to Google.

We advertise Gallerite on Facebook and Instagram. So that we can tell which adverts actually bring photographers to us, our public pages load the Meta Pixel, which sets cookies such as _fbp and _fbc and tells Meta that a visit or a sign-up happened.

It runs on our marketing and sign-in pages only. It is not loaded in client galleries, on a photographer's booking or invoice payment pages, in the photographer dashboard or in our staff tools — so if you are here as a photographer's client to view your photos, pay an invoice or make a booking enquiry, no advertising cookie is set and nothing about your visit is reported to Meta.

We do not sell your data.

You can manage or delete cookies — including analytics cookies — through your browser settings; most browsers let you block or remove cookies from all or specific sites. You can also install Google's opt-out browser add-on to disable Google Analytics, and you can limit advert measurement in your Facebook and Instagram settings. Blocking strictly necessary cookies will stop sign-in and galleries from working.

We may update this policy to reflect changes to the cookies we use; we will post the new version here with an updated date. See our Privacy Policy for how we handle personal data. Questions? Email privacy@gallerite.com.