Privacy & analytics

You can browse Sovereign Shops without allowing optional analytics. Your choice does not affect searching, saving products, or shopping with independent sellers.

For visitors whose connection is located in the United States, basic analytics is on by default. Elsewhere, or when we cannot determine the country, analytics stays off until you allow it. We use our hosting provider's approximate country information to choose this default; we do not request your device's precise location.

A saved choice takes priority over the regional default. Global Privacy Control and Do Not Track signals turn optional analytics off, including Google Analytics. You can turn analytics off below at any time.

Optional visit measurement

When enabled, Google Analytics helps us understand visits to public marketplace, product, shop, and community pages. It uses analytics cookies and receives technical information about your browser and device. Google explains its processing in How Google uses information from sites that use its services.

Our integration does not send names, email addresses, account IDs, search text, private collections, URL query strings, or URL fragments. Analytics is not loaded on private account or admin pages. Advertising personalization and Google signals are disabled.

Public Team picks and collections shared publicly may be measured too. Their page views use the public page URL and a generic label, without sending the collection title, description, or owner’s details. Private collections remain excluded.

To understand how visitors find us, optional analytics may recognize the website domain of a known search engine, social network, or AI service such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, or Copilot. We send only that service's origin, not its page path, conversation identifier, prompt, query string, or fragment. Unknown referring websites are omitted. Some services and apps do not provide a referrer, so these reports cannot measure every referral.

Product performance reports

When analytics is allowed, a shopping guide can be connected to a later seller click for the same selected product for up to 30 minutes. This uses temporary storage in the current browser tab containing only the guide, product, and time. It expires after 30 minutes, is cleared when you turn analytics off, and does not identify you or follow you onto the seller’s website. If temporary storage is unavailable, the connection lasts only within the current page session.

Under the same regional default and privacy choices, our in-house system counts visible product impressions, opened product details, and clicks to a seller's product page. It records product and shop identifiers, the day, and a broad location such as search, a shop page, or a collection—not your search words or a collection's identity. These aggregate counts help us improve discovery and can support performance reports for featured placements.

These reports do not identify individual shoppers or confirm purchases. We do not store names, email addresses, account identifiers, browsing histories, or raw IP addresses in the product metrics database. Random event identifiers are kept briefly to prevent duplicate counts. A rotating, one-way hash of the network address is used only for short-lived abuse limits, not shopper profiles. The in-house system also skips browsers sending Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control signals.

Spotlight sharing

Anyone can create a link to promote a public product, shop, or collection. If you sign in, your account keeps your links and their aggregate results. Sharing does not claim a shop or give access to its private information.

Creating a sharing link sets a first-party browser cookie for up to 30 days to limit abuse and exclude your own visits. When optional analytics is allowed, an incoming sharing link can be connected to qualified visits and seller clicks for up to 30 minutes. This attribution stays on Sovereign Shops and does not track purchases or activity on the seller’s website.

Private, one-way browser and network keys help prevent repeated credit and abuse. Visit deduplication keys and abuse-limit records become eligible for removal after 48 hours through hourly cleanup. A separate private creator key stays with a sharing link to exclude the creator’s own visits. Aggregate daily results and dated selection history remain. Turning analytics off clears Spotlight cookies and stops visit measurement. Recent qualified interest fades over seven days; it does not automatically award a featured badge.

Essential site features

Sign-in and saved collections rely on essential account and session information, separate from optional analytics. Collections you choose to share are visible in the community. Purchases happen on the seller's own website and are covered by that seller's privacy practices.