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Privacy

This is a small storefront site for an eBay store. It has no accounts, no shopping cart and no payments — buying happens on eBay, under eBay's own terms and privacy policy. The only thing you can hand us directly is an email address, and only if you ask for drop alerts.

Last updated 18 August 2026

The short version

• Advertising and analytics cookies from Google, Meta and TikTok are off unless you press Accept on the banner.
• Cookie-free visit counting runs either way, so we can tell whether anyone is reading the site at all.
• If you subscribe to drop alerts, your email is stored with our email provider and used to email you about new listings. Every email has an unsubscribe link.
• We don't sell your data, and we don't buy any.

Your tracking choice

The banner stores one value — granted or denied— in your browser's local storage, under the key hh-consent-v1. It is not a cookie and it is never sent to our server; it exists only to remember your answer on this device and to switch the trackers below on or off.

You can change your mind at any time with the Privacy choices control in the footer of every page, or here:

Privacy choices

That forgets your stored answer, tells the loaded trackers to stop sending, and brings the banner back. Cookies that were already set while consent was granted stay in your browser until you clear them there — we can't delete them for you from this page.

What runs before you choose

We want to be exact about this, because most banners aren't. With no choice made, or after declining:

• Vercel Web Analytics(our host's built-in measurement) records page views and a small number of custom events — for example, that someone clicked through to an eBay listing, and from which section of the page. It does not set cookies and does not receive your email address or any other detail you type.
• Google Analytics 4 loads with Google Consent Mode set to denied across storage, ad data and personalisation. In that state it sends cookie-free pings that Google aggregates; it does not set analytics or advertising cookies until you accept.
• The Meta and TikTok pixel scripts are downloadedfrom those companies' servers before you choose, in their “hold” state (fbq('consent','revoke') and ttq.holdConsent()). No events, cookies or identifiers are sent while held. But downloading a file is still a request, so Meta and TikTok do see your IP address and which page it came from. If that matters to you, a content blocker will stop the download entirely, and the site works normally without it.
• Our host keeps ordinary web server request logs, as every website does.

What runs after you accept

• Google Analytics 4 (measurement ID G-G3MV8FMJGV) switches to its normal cookie-based mode: which pages you visited, roughly where you came from, and clicks through to the eBay store.
• Meta Pixelreleases its queued page view and then reports the same handful of actions: a click through to eBay, viewing or watching a listing card (with that listing's eBay item ID, title and price), and searching the store from the hero search box. Meta may use these to show you our listings on Facebook and Instagram.
• TikTok Pixel receives the equivalent events for the same purpose on TikTok.

These pixels are advertising tools: the companies behind them combine what they receive with their own records of you, which is exactly why we ask first. Their handling is governed by their own policies, not this page.

Drop alerts (the newsletter)

• The address you type is stored with Resend, our email provider, as a contact in our mailing list, and used to send you a welcome email and occasional emails about new listings. Nothing else.
• The signup form is protected by Cloudflare Turnstile, an anti-bot check. Cloudflare receives what it needs to score the submission, including your IP address.
• We rate-limit signups. To do that we briefly count submissions against your IP address and the submitted address.
• If — and only if — you accepted tracking, submitting the form also tells Meta and TikTok that a signup happened, with your email address attached so they can match it to an account. TikTok receives a SHA-256 hash computed in your browser; Meta's pixel is given the address and hashes it in your browser before it is sent, per Meta's own specification. If you declined, or haven't chosen, your address is never handed to either.
• Every email includes a one-click unsubscribe link, and the unsubscribe page works on its own. Unsubscribing removes you from the list.

Images and links

Listing photos are loaded from eBay's image servers, and most links on this site go to eBay. Our web fonts are served from this site, not from Google Fonts. Once you follow a link to eBay, you're on eBay's site under eBay's policies.

Contact

Questions, or want your email address removed by hand? Write to hello@hawkinshawking.com.

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