Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work efficiently, remember your preferences, and provide information to website owners.

Alongside cookies, FayeBaby also uses similar browser storage technologies such as localStorage. This is used, for example, to remember your active dependant profile, your shopping list, and your display preferences between visits.

This Cookies Policy explains how FayeBaby ("we", "us", "our") uses cookies and similar technologies when you use our website and application (the "Service"), and how you can control them.

Strictly Necessary Cookies: These are essential for the Service to function. They enable core features such as authentication, keeping you signed in during your session, securing your account, and preventing fraudulent activity. The Service cannot work properly without them, and they cannot be disabled.

Functional Cookies and Local Storage: These remember choices you make to improve your experience, such as your selected dependant profile, your region preference (South Africa or Global), your shopping list contents, and whether you have already seen an informational banner. This data is stored on your device and is not used to track you across other websites.

Analytics Cookies: These help us understand how visitors use the Service — for example, which pages are visited, how long sessions last, and where errors occur. This allows us to improve performance and the user experience. Analytics data is aggregated and does not identify you personally.

Preference Cookies: These remember your notification preferences, such as whether you wish to receive forum or recall notifications.

Authentication and Security: Verifying your identity when you sign in, maintaining your session, and protecting your account from unauthorized access.

Remembering Your Settings: Keeping you signed in, remembering your dependant profiles, region selection, and other preferences.

Performance and Improvement: Measuring usage of features so that we can prioritize improvements and fix issues.

Communication: Supporting the delivery of service announcements and notification features.

We do not use cookies for third-party advertising, profiling, or cross-site tracking of any kind.

Some trusted third-party services we rely on may set cookies when you interact with them:

Payment Processing: When you subscribe to our Pro plan, our payment provider (Dodo Payments) may set cookies as part of the secure checkout process. These cookies are governed by the payment provider's own privacy policy.

Cloud Infrastructure: Our hosting and content delivery providers may set cookies to ensure reliable and fast delivery of the Service.

We do not allow third parties to use cookies on our Service for advertising or data brokerage purposes.

You can control and delete cookies through your browser settings at any time. Most browsers allow you to:

View which cookies are stored on your device and delete them individually or entirely.

Block cookies from specific sites or all sites.

Block third-party cookies only.

Clear your browsing data, including cookies and local storage.

You can also clear FayeBaby's locally stored data (such as your shopping list or active dependant) by clearing your browser's site data for our domain.

Please note that blocking strictly necessary cookies may prevent you from signing in and using features of the Service that require an account.

Under the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) of South Africa and, where applicable, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you have the right to be informed about cookies placed on your device and to object to non-essential cookies.

Strictly necessary cookies do not require your consent, because the Service cannot function without them. Analytics and functional cookies are used only to the extent permitted by applicable law.

To learn more about how we collect, use, and protect your personal information generally, please read our Privacy Policy.

We may update this Cookies Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our use of cookies, legal requirements, or the technologies we use. When we make changes, we will revise the "Last updated" date at the top of this page.

We encourage you to review this page periodically to stay informed about how we use cookies.

If you have any questions about this Cookies Policy or about how FayeBaby uses cookies and similar technologies, please contact us through our Contact page.

We are committed to responding to your queries and helping you understand and control your cookie preferences.