Last updated: 14 September 2026

This notice explains cookies and browser storage used by Patriam Studios, a general partnership in British Columbia, Canada. Read the Privacy Policy for our wider handling of personal information, or contact contact@patriamstudios.com.

1. What cookies do

Cookies are small values a website stores in your browser and receives on later requests. Browser storage can also remember settings locally. These identifiers may relate to your account or device and are not necessarily anonymous.

2. Essential functions and preferences

We use cookies for sign-in sessions, form security and remembering your cookie choice. The website also uses cookies or local storage for requested preferences and features, such as optional remembered login, language, display settings and viewed topics. Essential functions continue when optional cookies are declined. Browser settings can block or clear cookies altogether, but that may prevent sign-in or other features you request.

Handbook readership: with optional cookies allowed, the Handbook reuses the existing website session to count document and section visits and PDF opens. It creates no additional browser cookie. Daily keyed session pseudonyms support repeat-visit filtering and aggregate daily session counts; they are not stored account identities. Declining optional cookies, Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control prevents this collection. See the Privacy Policy for the records, purpose and retention.

3. Cloudflare and other services

Cloudflare helps deliver and protect the site. Security checks may process request, IP and browser information and set security cookies. The site also loads a Cloudflare performance and traffic measurement beacon. Measurement can involve network requests even when no measurement cookie is set; a cookie choice is not a promise that all service or security processing stops.

Links and embedded services can have their own cookies, storage and privacy practices. Check their notices when you use them. We explain our use of service providers in the Privacy Policy.

4. Your choices

The cookie popup lets you allow or decline the optional cookie uses it controls. You can reopen it with the button below, and use your browser settings to inspect, remove or block stored data. Choices apply to this browser; clearing storage or changing devices may require you to choose again.

Closing a notice or registering is not blanket consent to unrelated optional tracking. Where a feature requires separate consent, we will explain that choice. A declined optional use does not remove access to an unrelated service.

5. Questions and updates

We will update this notice when relevant practices change. Contact contact@patriamstudios.com with questions about cookies, our providers or your privacy choices. Do not send passwords or authentication codes.