Cookie Policy

A cookie is a small file this site asks your browser to keep, so that something is remembered between one page and the next. Without them a basket would empty every time you clicked.

The Spider Canada cookie policy says which ones are set here and which of them you can refuse without breaking anything.

The Ones That Have to Be There

These keep your basket, your login and your cookie choice itself. They are not optional, because refusing them would mean a site that cannot take an order. They carry no advertising purpose.

The Ones You Can Refuse

Anything measuring how the site is used falls here: which pages get opened, where visits come from in aggregate, and which pages break. Refusing them costs you nothing and costs us only the ability to find a broken page quickly.

What We Do Not Set

There are no advertising cookies on this site, nothing that follows you to another site, and nothing that builds a profile to be sold on. If that changes, this page changes first.

Cookies Set by Other Companies

The payment provider at checkout and the site host set their own, which are necessary for a payment to work and for the site to load. We do not control those and cannot switch them off on your behalf.

Changing Your Mind

• Use the cookie notice on this site to change your choice at any time.
• Or clear cookies in your browser, which resets everything including the record of your choice.

How Long They Last

Some disappear when you close the browser and some last longer so a basket survives overnight. None of the optional ones outlive their usefulness by design, and clearing them in your browser removes them immediately whatever their stated life.

If You Block Everything

You can, and the site will still work as something to read. What stops working is the part that needs to remember you.

• Your basket will not survive moving between pages.
• Logging in will not hold, so an account becomes unusable.
• The cookie notice will keep reappearing, because the record of your choice is itself a cookie.
• You will still be able to read every page on this site.

That last point is the one worth knowing: blocking everything makes ordering impractical, not browsing.

Questions About the Spider Canada Cookie Policy

If something here does not match what your browser shows you, tell us through the contact page with the cookie name. That is a bug worth knowing about rather than a difference of opinion.