1. What cookies are
Cookies are small text files a site asks your browser to store. Similar technologies — local storage, session storage, and pixels — achieve the same result. Throughout this policy “cookie” includes all of them.
2. Why Affiliate.Wiki uses them
We use cookies in three categories:
- Essential — needed for the Site to work: session state, your saved cookie preferences, security and rate-limiting.
- Preference— remember small UI choices you’ve made so you don’t have to set them every visit.
- Analytics— tell us, in aggregate, which pages are read, which offers get clicked through, and whether changes we make are working. We use a privacy-first analytics vendor that doesn’t track people across websites.
We don’t use advertising cookies, remarketing pixels, or third-party tracking that follows you to other sites.
3. Cookies we set
| Name | Purpose | Type | Retention |
|---|---|---|---|
| aw_session | First-party session token — remembers that you’ve accepted the cookie banner and keeps search overlay state between page loads. | Essential | 6 months |
| aw_consent | Stores your cookie preferences so we don’t show the banner on every visit. | Essential | 12 months |
| aw_theme | Remembers interface preferences you set (e.g. dismissed banners, carousel position). | Preference | 12 months |
| aw_ref | Captures which page you arrived from so our editors can see which content drove an offer click (aggregated, not tied to you). | Analytics | 30 days |
| _plausible_* | Privacy-first analytics — counts page views and session length without cross-site identifiers. Provided by our analytics vendor. | Analytics | 24 hours |
4. Third-party cookies
When you click an outbound link to a network, offer landing page, or tool vendor, the destination site sets its own cookies according to its own policies. We don’t control that behavior. Where an offer uses a referral parameter to attribute a click to Affiliate.Wiki, the parameter is passed in the URL — not via a cookie we set on your browser.
5. How to control cookies
Preference and analytics cookies are not set until you consent. Essential cookies are needed to deliver the Site and can’t be turned off. If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal or a Do Not Track header, we treat it as a standing opt-out of non-essential cookies — see Section 6.
Most browsers let you block or delete cookies entirely. Here are the help pages for the major ones:
- Chrome — Settings → Privacy and security → Cookies and other site data
- Firefox — Settings → Privacy & Security → Cookies and Site Data
- Safari — Settings → Privacy → Manage Website Data
- Edge — Settings → Cookies and site permissions → Cookies and site data
Blocking essential cookies may break parts of the Site — cookie-banner preferences, for one, can’t be remembered if you disable all cookies.
6. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control
We honor the Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal: when your browser sends , we treat it as an opt-out of non-essential cookies and analytics for the session. Do Not Track (DNT) is treated the same way. You don’t need to do anything else if your browser already sends one of these signals.
7. Changes
When we add or remove cookies, we update the list above and the “Last updated” date at the top. Significant changes get a notice on the Site.
8. Contact
Cookie questions: privacy@affiliate.wiki. Full privacy details: Privacy Policy.