1. What cookies and similar technologies are
Cookies are small text files a website stores in your browser. Similar technologies, such as your browser's local storage, let a website remember information on your device.
Cookies set by the website you are visiting are “first-party” cookies. Cookies set by another company's service are “third-party” cookies.
2. Summary
- ADPOS uses three first-party cookies: two to sign you in and submit forms securely, and one in the signed-in service that records your screen size so pages load the right layout.
- It uses browser storage to remember your settings, and to keep a sale you are ringing up if the page reloads.
- Our pages are measured with Cloudflare Web Analytics, which uses no cookies.
- A blog article may contain a YouTube video. Nothing is loaded from YouTube until you press play on it.
- We use no advertising, cross-site tracking or social-media cookies.
3. Cookies we use
| Name | Purpose | Where | Category | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Session cookie | Keeps you signed in while you register, sign in and use ADPOS. It is marked Secure and HttpOnly, so page scripts cannot read it. | Registration, sign-in and the signed-in service | Strictly necessary | 8 hours |
| Form security cookie | Protects forms, such as registration and sign-in, against cross-site request forgery. | Registration, sign-in and the signed-in service | Strictly necessary | 8 hours |
| Screen-size cookie | Records whether your screen is phone-sized or larger, so each page loads the right layout first time. | The signed-in service | Strictly necessary | 1 year |
The public website pages, such as this one, set none of these cookies.
4. Browser storage we use
These items stay on your device and are not sent to us.
| Name | Purpose | Where | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cookie notice choice | Remembers that you have closed the cookie notice, so it is not shown again. | The public website | Until you clear it |
| Theme setting | Remembers whether you chose a light, dark or automatic theme. | The signed-in service | Until you clear it |
| Text size setting | Remembers the text size you chose. | The signed-in service | Until you clear it |
| List column choices | Remembers which columns you chose to show in each list. | The signed-in service | Until you clear it |
| Sinhala typing setting | Remembers whether the Sinhala typing helper is switched on. | The signed-in service | Until you clear it |
| Till settings | Remember, on this device, whether the till's number pad is on and whether you closed its full-screen tip. | The till | Until you clear it |
| Sale in progress | Keeps the sale you are ringing up (the products, quantities and payment method) so it is not lost if the page reloads. Removed when the sale is completed or cleared. | The till | Until the sale is completed; the backup copy until you close the tab |
| Layout check | Stops the page reloading more than once while the screen-size cookie is set. | The signed-in service | Until you close the tab |
5. Third-party services
Cloudflare
Our website and service are delivered through Cloudflare. Our pages are measured with Cloudflare Web Analytics, which records the page visited, how fast it loaded and the type of browser. It sets no cookies and does not follow you to other websites.
If Cloudflare needs to check whether traffic is automated, it may set its own strictly necessary security cookie for a short time.
Fonts
The public website, registration and sign-in pages serve their own fonts. The screens you see after signing in load their fonts from Google Fonts, so Google receives standard request information, such as your IP address and browser type. These requests set no cookies.
YouTube videos in blog articles
Some articles on our blog contain a YouTube video. Until you press play, the article shows only a still picture of the video, kept on our own server, and nothing is sent to YouTube. When you press play, the video is loaded from YouTube's privacy-enhanced mode. From then on YouTube (part of Google) receives your IP address and browser details and may store cookies or similar data on your device, under its own privacy policy. If you prefer, each video also has a link to watch it on YouTube instead.
6. What we don't use
We do not use advertising cookies or pixels, cross-site tracking, tag managers or social-media plugins, and we embed no third-party content other than the click-to-play YouTube videos described above. If that changes, we will update this policy first and ask for your consent where the law requires it.
7. Controlling cookies
Most browsers let you view, block and delete cookies and stored site data in their settings. You can remove the browser-storage items above by clearing this site's data.
If you block the two cookies used for signing in, you will not be able to register or sign in to ADPOS. Clearing a settings item only means the default is used again; clearing the till's sale copy loses a sale you have not completed.
8. Changes to this policy
We will update this policy when the cookies or similar technologies we use change. The latest version is always on this page, with its date at the top.
9. Contact us
For questions about this Cookie Policy, contact:
For how we handle personal information, see our Privacy Policy.