This page explains the cookies and similar storage used on Bagsby.com, including the one that actually pays for the site: the affiliate click cookie that Amazon sets after you leave here. It sits alongside our privacy policy, which covers the wider question of what data reaches us and what happens to it.
What a cookie is
A cookie is a small text file that a site asks your browser to store and hand back on later requests. Related technologies do much the same job by different means, including local storage and session storage in the browser, and small tracking images embedded in a page. Where this policy says “cookie” it covers all of them, because the practical question for you is the same in each case.
Cookies set by this site
Bagsby runs on WordPress, and the platform sets a small number of cookies without which the site misbehaves. These handle the browsing session, remember whether you dismissed a notice, and let anyone with a login stay logged in. Store software is installed on this site as part of the platform, so a cart or session cookie can appear even though nothing is sold here and no payment is ever taken. If you ever see a cart cookie, that is what it is: leftover plumbing, not a purchase in progress.
Caching and delivery cookies also appear. The site sits behind Cloudflare, which sets its own cookies for security screening and to distinguish visitors from automated traffic, and page caching software may store a marker so that a cached page is served to you correctly. These are functional rather than commercial, and they do not identify you to us by name.
Analytics
We measure traffic to see which pages are read and which are ignored, which is how a section such as travel duffels gets expanded or left alone. Analytics here is deliberately light: it records page addresses, the referring site, an approximate location derived from network address, and general device and browser information. It is used in aggregate. We are not building a profile of an individual reader, and we do not use analytics to target advertising, because this site does not run display advertising.
The Amazon affiliate click cookie
This is the one to understand properly. When you follow a product link from a page here, for example from the Samsonite Omni 2 carry-on write up, you leave Bagsby and arrive on Amazon carrying a tag that identifies this site as the referrer. Amazon then sets a cookie on its own domain.
- The standard attribution window is 24 hours from the click. A qualifying purchase made in that window can earn us a commission.
- It is not limited to the product you clicked. If you click through from a page about a garment bag and then buy shoes, groceries and a phone case, those can all attribute to us.
- Placing an item in the cart within the window can extend attribution beyond 24 hours under Amazon’s own program rules.
- The cookie is set by Amazon, on Amazon’s domain, under Amazon’s policies. We cannot read it, delete it or see your order. What reaches us is an aggregate earnings report, not your shopping basket.
- Clearing your Amazon cookies, or browsing Amazon in a private window opened separately, removes the attribution.
Our affiliate disclosure covers the commercial relationship behind that cookie in full.
Other third party content
Where a page embeds something hosted elsewhere, such as a video player or a sharing widget, the provider of that content can set its own cookies when the embed loads. We do not control those and they are governed by the provider’s policy, not ours.
Controlling cookies
Every current browser lets you block cookies, delete them, block third party cookies specifically, or clear everything when you close the window. Those controls live under privacy or site settings in Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Edge, and they override anything a site would otherwise do. Browser level signals such as Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control are honored where the tools we use support them.
Blocking cookies for this site has no serious cost, because we are a reading site with no login for visitors and nothing to buy. The one thing worth knowing is that blocking Amazon’s cookies stops any purchase being attributed to us, which reduces what the site earns but changes nothing about what you pay.
Changes
Plugins and providers change, so this page will be revised when the software behind the site changes. Questions can go through the contact form.
Last updated: August 18, 2026.