Cookies, and the short list of them.
A cookie is a small note a website leaves in your browser so the next page knows something the last one did. Here is every one Piggles uses, which of our three sites uses it, and what it is for.
Everything here describes what Piggles actually does: no clause is in it because other companies have one.
The ones that make it work
These are the plumbing. They keep you signed in, and they let the workspace open where you left it and in the shape of the screen you are on. None of them counts anything or leaves our sites, and there is no switch for them because switching them off makes Piggles worse for you and better for nobody.
| Cookie | Where | What it is for | How long |
|---|---|---|---|
| piggles-account.session_token | getpiggles.com and mypiggles.com | Keeps you signed in. Each of the two sites sets its own copy on its own address (they cannot share one) and both point at the same single sign-in, so signing out of either ends both. | Until the session expires or you sign out |
| piggles_active_property | mypiggles.com | Remembers which of your sites you were last working on, so the workspace opens where you left it. It holds an identifier for one of your own sites and nothing about you. | One year |
| piggles_compact | mypiggles.com | Whether the window you are working in is phone-sized or desktop-sized, so the workspace opens in the right shape instead of drawing the wide version first and rearranging itself in front of you. It is one yes-or-no about the window, not about you. | Until you close the browser |
The ones you choose
Two things, asked separately in the two places they apply. On this site: where you came from, so we know which of the things we do actually brings anybody here. Inside the workspace at mypiggles.com: which screens you use, so we find out that one is confusing before you have to tell us. Neither runs until you say yes, and neither is ever sold or passed on.
| Cookie | Where | What it is for | How long |
|---|---|---|---|
| PostHog (several, all beginning ph_) | meetpiggles.com and mypiggles.com | Counts pages being opened. On this site it tells us how many people a thing we did actually brought here, which is the only way to know whether it was worth doing. Inside the workspace it tells us which screens get used and where something broke. It is not advertising, none of it is sold on, and on this site it does not start at all unless you say yes. | Up to one year |
| piggles_attr_first | meetpiggles.com | Where you first came from (a search, an advert, somebody else’s website) so we know what is worth doing more of. Written once and never revised, so however often you come back it still says how you found us the first time. Only set if you say yes. | Up to one year |
| piggles_attr_last | meetpiggles.com | The same thing for your most recent visit that came from somewhere. A plain return visit leaves it alone rather than overwriting it. Only set if you say yes. | Up to one year |
| piggles_consent_state | meetpiggles.com | Your answer to the question above, so we stop asking. This one is set whichever way you answer, including when you say no, because remembering a no is the only way to honor it. | One year |
Seven things worth knowing
None of them are advertising cookies
There is no ad network on any Piggles site, nothing is sold or passed to a data broker, and nothing here follows you to somebody else’s website.
This site asks before it counts anything
meetpiggles.com has no advertising tags and no ad network. It does two things, and only if you agree to them: it counts pages being opened, and it remembers where you came from. Between them they tell us whether a thing we did brought anybody here, which is the only way to know whether to do it again. Say no and it keeps nothing but your no. When you click "start free", what it knows travels in the link, because the three Piggles addresses are separate domains and could not share a cookie anyway.
Signing in with Google is your choice
If you sign in with Google rather than a password, Google sets its own cookies as part of that and knows you signed in to Piggles. A password involves nobody else. Either way Piggles ends up with the same one session cookie.
Connecting an outside account does not add cookies here
Linking Instagram, a payment provider or a carrier lets Piggles talk to them from our servers. It does not put their tracking on any page you look at. What information travels to them is on the privacy page.
Your own visitors are your business, not ours
The website you build with Piggles is yours. If you add something to it that sets cookies (a chat widget, an ad pixel, a video embed), that is your decision to make and yours to tell your visitors about.
You are asked before anything is counted
Twice, because there are two different places to ask about. On this site: may we count your visit and remember where you came from. That is answered in the bar at the bottom and changeable whenever you like. Inside mypiggles.com: may we see which screens you use. That one is answered on the signup form, or on a screen of its own if you signed up with Google, and kept with your account so it follows you. Say no to either and that one never starts.
Turning them off
Every browser can block or clear cookies, and you can use Piggles’ public pages with them off entirely. Signing in is the one thing that genuinely needs one: without the session cookie there is no way for the next page to know it is still you.
More on how your information is handled is on the privacy page, and how it is kept safe is on trust.