Last updated 3 September 2026
Strictly necessary cookies
mc_account — keeps you signed in to your workspace. HttpOnly, up to 30 days, cleared when you sign out.
mc_entitlement — records what you have paid for so downloads unlock. HttpOnly, up to 60 days.
These cannot be turned off without breaking sign-in and purchases. They are not used for advertising and carry no profile of you.
Browser storage (not cookies)
makecreati-editor (IndexedDB) — the PDFs you have opened and your edits. Stored on your device, never uploaded. Removed when you delete a document or clear site data.
mc_cart — what is in your basket before checkout.
mc_orders — your purchase history, so the account area can show it.
mc_tickets — support requests you have raised.
mc_reviews — reviews you have written.
mc_google_measurement stores your choice if you switch Google measurement off or back on. It remains until you change it or clear site data.
mc_gads_<payment reference> and mc_ga4_<payment reference> are one-time markers that stop a confirmed purchase being counted twice. They contain no PDF details.
All of these live only in your browser. Clearing site data deletes them permanently and we cannot restore them.
Payment provider
PayPal sets its own cookies on its checkout pages for fraud prevention and to complete the payment. Those are governed by PayPal's own policy. Make Creati does not read them.
Counting visitors: no cookie at all
We do count how many people visit and which pages they open without a cookie. This first-party count is done by our own server and is not sent to Google or another analytics company.
To count one person once a day, we turn your IP address, your browser's user agent, a secret held only on our server, and today's date into an irreversible code. The date is part of it deliberately: the same person produces a different, unconnected code tomorrow, so we cannot follow anyone over time. Nothing is stored on your device, so there is nothing here to accept, refuse, or delete.
Full detail is in the privacy policy under “How we count visitors”.
Google measurement
Google Analytics and Google Ads measurement is on unless you switch it off, and personalized advertising is always off. Google may set _ga and _gcl cookies to measure public-page visits, editor starts, and confirmed purchases, including whether an advert led to them. Recognized Google click IDs and UTM campaign parameters may be used for that attribution; unrelated query parameters are removed from the events we send. Personalized advertising stays off.
No PDF, document name, document identifier, document content, private workspace page, support detail, or payment-return query string is shared with Google Analytics.
Use Privacy choices in the footer to switch Google measurement off or back on. Switching it off removes Google measurement cookies this site can access. You can also manage personalised Google advertising in Google's Ads Settings and third-party vendor cookies at aboutads.info/choices.
Managing all of this
Use Privacy choices in the footer to switch Google measurement off or on. Every browser also lets you view, block, and delete cookies and site data, usually under Privacy settings. Blocking the strictly necessary items will stop sign-in and purchases from working.
Deleting site data also deletes any documents you have open in the editor. Download anything you want to keep first.