Cookie Policy

1. What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files stored on your device by a website. They are widely used to make websites work efficiently and to provide information to site owners. This policy explains what cookies we use and why.

2. Cookies on sauron.so (this marketing website)

The sauron.so marketing website sets no advertising cookies. We do not use Meta Pixel or any advertising or retargeting scripts. It uses two analytics tools, described below.

We do use a privacy-respecting product analytics tool, PostHog, to understand which pages people read and which features they're interested in. We run it in cookieless mode: it keeps its state in the page's memory for the duration of your visit and writes nothing to your device. Because nothing is stored on your device, no consent banner is required, and if you return tomorrow you are counted as a new visitor — we accept that loss of accuracy deliberately.

What it records: the pages you view, the page you arrived from, any campaign tags in the link you followed, and whether you clicked our "install" buttons. Requests are routed through sauron.so/ingest rather than a third-party domain, so an ad-blocker doesn't distort the numbers. We do not sell this data or use it for advertising.

Google Analytics (outside the EU, EEA, UK and Switzerland only). If your browser's time zone is outside those regions, the site also loads Google Analytics 4, which sets the first-party cookies below to count visits and to measure the same actions listed above (audit scans, sign-ups, install clicks), and in future purchases made on this site. If your time zone is in those regions, or can't be read, Google Analytics is not loaded and none of these cookies are set. Google Analytics does not log or store IP addresses, and we have not enabled Google advertising features or signals. You can opt out anywhere with Google's browser add-on or by blocking cookies for sauron.so.

As we add features to this site, we will update this policy before placing any new cookies.

3. Cookies in the Shopify admin app

When you use Sauron inside your Shopify admin, the following cookies may be present:

These cookies are strictly necessary for the App to function and cannot be disabled without breaking the Service. They do not track you across other websites.

4. Cookies we do NOT use

• Advertising or retargeting cookies (Facebook Pixel, Google Ads, etc.)
• Analytics cookies — our website analytics run cookieless and store nothing on your device (see section 2)
• Cross-site tracking of any kind: we do not follow you to other websites, and we do not share visitor data with advertisers or data brokers
• Session recording or screen replay on this website. (Inside the Sauron app in your Shopify admin we do record how the app is used, including session replays with typed values and money amounts hidden. That stores nothing on your device either; see the Privacy Policy, section 2.4.)
• Cookies placed on your customers' Shopify storefront; we do not inject any scripts or cookies into your store's frontend

5. Managing cookies

You can control and delete cookies through your browser settings. Note that disabling essential session cookies will prevent the Shopify admin app from functioning. Each browser manages cookies differently; consult your browser's help documentation for instructions.

Common browser cookie settings:

• Google Chrome
• Mozilla Firefox
• Apple Safari
• Microsoft Edge

6. Changes to this policy

If we add new cookies, particularly any analytics or tracking cookies to the marketing site, we will update this policy before they are placed. The "Last updated" date reflects the most recent change.

7. Contact

Questions about cookies or this policy: privacy@sauron.so