Last updated: 7 October 2026
Draft for legal and technical review
1. Current approach
Lambda Twelve aims to keep tracking on this website to a minimum.
At the date of this policy, our public-site analytics uses Umami configured without analytics cookies. We do not intentionally use advertising cookies, behavioural advertising trackers or a Facebook/Meta Pixel on the public website.
2. Strictly necessary storage
The website and customer portal may use cookies or similar browser storage where strictly necessary to provide functionality requested by the user, including:
- account authentication and session continuity;
- security and fraud prevention;
- checkout/order state; and
- preferences necessary to provide a requested function.
Strictly necessary technologies are not used for behavioural advertising.
3. Analytics
Our current Umami deployment is configured to operate without analytics cookies. Limited technical information may still be processed in order to produce aggregate usage statistics. Further information about the purposes and legal basis for website analytics is provided in the Privacy Notice.
4. Consent
Because the current public website does not intentionally use non-essential cookies or similar tracking technologies, we do not display a consent banner merely for analytics.
If we introduce technologies for which consent is required, we will update this policy and implement an appropriate consent mechanism before those technologies are activated for the user.
5. Technical verification
The conclusion in this policy depends on how the site actually behaves, not on how it is meant to be configured, so it is checked against the deployed site.
At the last check, on 30 September 2026, the public pages of this website set no cookies at all, and loaded no resources from any third-party host. The share buttons on our articles are plain links: nothing is loaded from LinkedIn, X, Bluesky or Facebook unless you choose to click one, which takes you to that platform.
The customer portal uses one cookie, l12_portal, which is strictly necessary. It can be read only by our servers, not by scripts in the page, and it is sent only over encrypted connections. It is set in three situations, each started by you:
- when you sign in, to keep you signed in, for at most 8 hours;
- after you enter your password, while the second sign-in step is pending, holding a sign-in attempt that is valid for 5 minutes; and
- when you open a password-reset link, holding the right to set one new password, valid for 15 minutes. This does not sign you in.
The cookie is not used to track you or for any other purpose.
When we run a public poll on this website, such as choosing which stickers to print, casting a vote sets one cookie, l12_poll. It holds a random value with nothing about you in it, and exists only so that the same browser cannot vote twice. It is set only if you vote, lasts at most 60 days, and is strictly necessary for the voting you asked to do. We keep a one-way hash of that value with your ballot, and delete the hash 30 days after you vote.
An article may embed a video from YouTube, in its privacy-enhanced mode, or from Vimeo. When such an article is shown, the video player is loaded from that provider, which may then set its own cookies or use similar storage. At the last check, no article did.
We re-check this after material changes to the front end or the checkout, because an embedded video, a chat widget, a payment component or a new analytics configuration can each change the answer.
6. Contact
Questions about cookies, tracking or privacy may be sent to legal@lambda-twelve.com.