Cookie policy

Cookies are small text files that a website saves in your browser. Similar technologies, such as local storage, work in much the same way. In the UK, the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR) and UK GDPR set the rules for using them. This policy covers the Mivva website and app, which are run by One Rectangle Limited.

Signing in and starting a book

These are first-party, strictly necessary cookies. They are set on the Mivva domain when you sign in, create an account or press Start my book on the home page. They are not used to track you across other websites. Visitors who do none of these get no cookies from Mivva.

Paying

Our payment provider, Stripe, sets these on the wallet page, where you top up. They are strictly necessary to keep payments safe from fraud. Stripe's payment form may also set cookies on Stripe's own domains, as its cookie policy (opens in a new tab) explains. Stripe does not use them for advertising.

Mivva does not use:

• analytics cookies or visitor tracking
• advertising or retargeting cookies
• social media pixels or embedded tracking
• device fingerprinting to track you (Stripe's device checks are only used to stop payment fraud)
• local storage to identify or follow you

When something breaks, our error monitoring records technical details on our servers. It does not place cookies in your browser.

PECR lets websites set cookies without asking when they are strictly necessary to provide a service you have asked for. Keeping you signed in securely, keeping the book idea you asked us to start with, and keeping your payments safe are exactly that. As we set no other cookies, there is nothing to consent to, so we do not show a banner that would only get in your way.

If we ever want to use a cookie that is not strictly necessary, such as for analytics, we will:

• update this policy before it goes live
• ask for your permission before setting it
• make accepting and rejecting equally easy, with no pre-ticked boxes
• let you change your mind at any time from a link on every page

You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings. If you block the sign-in cookies, you will not be able to sign in to Mivva, although you can still read the public pages. If you block Stripe's cookies, payments may fail. Signing out deletes Mivva's cookies straight away.

The ICO has plain-English guidance on cookies (opens in a new tab) and how to manage them.

Some pages link to other websites, such as Companies House, the ICO and Amazon. Those sites set their own cookies under their own policies, which we do not control.

Email hello@orlimited.com with any question about cookies. Our privacy policy explains how we handle personal data more broadly.