Cookie Policy

What cookies are, why our cashback cannot work without them, and how to manage them.

Last updated: June 7, 2026

Cookies are small temporary files stored in your browser's folder on your device. Every online service creates them so that it can work — and work conveniently.

Saving your login and password in a service is a cookie: the site remembers you so you don't have to type it in again on every page or on your next visit. Adding a product to a shopping basket is a cookie too: it lets you set things aside and check out in one go at the end.

What We Use Cookies For

On our site, cookies keep you signed in and hold the stores you've viewed in temporary memory. But their main job is tracking your cashback: the stores and services connected to us can only tell that a purchase came from SecretDiscounter — via our website, browser extension or app — because of a cookie.

No cookies means no cashback. If cookies are blocked or cleared mid-purchase, the store has no way of knowing we sent you, and there is nothing for us to pay you from.

What it does	Why it exists	Can you switch it off?
Essential	Keeps you signed in and holds your session together.	No — the site stops working
Cashback tracking	Tells the store your order came from SecretDiscounter.	Yes — but you'll earn nothing
Preferences	Remembers viewed stores, favourites and your settings.	Yes — you just lose the convenience
Analytics	Anonymous counts of which pages people actually use.	Yes — no effect on your cashback

The One Setting That Decides Whether You Get Paid

The cashback cookie is a third-party cookie. It is set by the affiliate network that sits between us and the store, not by the store itself — which is exactly why the store is able to read it and know that we sent you.

If your browser blocks third-party cookies, you will earn nothing. Not less — nothing. The store never learns you came from us, no commission reaches us, and there is nothing to pass on. Most browsers still allow them by default; some privacy settings and extensions do not. Check before you shop, not after.

Two more ways the same cookie gets lost:

Private or incognito windows discard cookies when you close them — and sometimes refuse them outright. Shop in a normal window.
Ad blockers and other shopping extensions either strip the cookie or overwrite it with their own. Another cashback extension will quietly claim the commission we would have paid you.

Advertisers set cookies of their own on their own sites, under their own policies. Once you leave SecretDiscounter, what happens on the store’s site is governed by the store’s cookie and privacy policies, not ours.

Cookies Don’t Stay Forever

Cookies are temporary files. They delete themselves after a while so they don't fill up your device's memory. You can also delete them by hand in any browser.

If you need to clear your cookies, we recommend doing it after you've completed a cashback purchase, or before you activate cashback and place an order — never in between.

Cookies You Can’t Switch Off

Two kinds are not optional, and we say so plainly rather than hide it in a consent dialogue you’d click through anyway:

Session cookies. They keep you signed in. Block them and the site cannot tell one page view from another — you’d be logged out on every click.
The cashback cookie. You can block this one. But then the service does nothing at all: no store learns you came from us, no commission arrives, nothing is credited to you. Switching it off is not a privacy setting so much as an off switch for the entire product.

Everything else — preferences and analytics — you can refuse without losing a cent. Analytics cookies count page views and nothing more; they have no bearing on whether a purchase tracks.

Managing Cookies

Every browser lets you block or delete cookies, and some analytics providers offer their own opt-outs. Just remember what that costs you: with cookies switched off, your purchases can't be tracked and your cashback can't be paid.