A practical guide to cookies and browser storage.

What cookies and local storage are

Cookies are small files stored by a website or service provider on your device. Local storage is browser storage that can remember information for the same website without sending it on every request. Similar technologies can include pixels, scripts, tags, and device identifiers.

These tools can keep a website working, remember choices, protect payments, measure performance, or support marketing. Because this website concerns age-restricted goods, we treat tracking and storage choices with care.

Essential website storage

Essential cookies and storage support the website features you request, such as loading pages, preserving security, maintaining checkout state, preventing abuse, and enabling payment services.

The current storefront stores basket information in your browser so selected items remain available as you move around the site. This makes the shop usable and can be cleared by emptying the basket or clearing browser storage.

• Basket storage: product selections, quantities, selected variants, and pricing snapshots.
• Customer sign-in: the essential pp_customer_session cookie keeps you signed in for up to seven days. It is unavailable to website scripts, is removed when you sign out, and is replaced or invalidated when your password changes.
• Checkout and security: data needed by payment, fraud prevention, and service reliability providers.
• Server and hosting logs: technical records used to keep the website secure and available.

Payment and fraud prevention technologies

Payment providers may use cookies, scripts, device signals, and secure frames to process card payments, authenticate transactions, detect fraud, and comply with financial rules. These technologies are part of secure checkout and are not used by us to store full card numbers.

If a payment element does not load, a browser extension, strict privacy setting, network block, or third-party cookie control may be interfering with the secure payment provider.

Analytics and performance

We may use analytics to understand page performance, popular product areas, errors, device types, and general usage trends. Where analytics is not strictly necessary and consent is required, it should run only after the relevant choice is collected.

Analytics should be configured to limit personal data where practical, such as by using aggregated reports, shortened IP addresses, restricted retention, and settings that avoid identifying individual customers unless necessary for security or support.

Marketing and third-party content

Marketing technologies can help measure campaigns, remember referral sources, or support advertising. Because tobacco and nicotine products are subject to strict advertising and youth-protection rules, we do not use marketing tools to target minors or encourage unlawful purchases.

If social, map, video, chat, or embedded content is added to the website, that third party may set its own cookies or collect technical information when the content loads. We aim to explain material third-party technologies where they are active.

How to manage storage

You can control cookies and local storage through your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to delete stored data, block third-party cookies, clear site-specific storage, or receive warnings before cookies are placed.

Blocking essential storage may cause the basket, checkout, payment fields, forms, or account features to work less reliably. Clearing storage may remove your basket and preferences from this device.

• Clear the basket in the shop to remove basket data saved by the storefront.
• Use browser settings to delete site data for Premium Puffs.
• Use any consent controls we provide to change optional analytics or marketing choices.

Updates to this page

We may update this Cookies page when we change payment providers, add analytics, introduce consent controls, enable account features, add marketing tools, or adjust how browser storage supports the storefront.

The date at the top shows when this version was last updated.