This policy explains the cookies and browser storage Tool & Plant uses. It sits alongside the Privacy Policy.
Tool & Plant is operated by Construkta Technologies Limited, registered in England and Wales, company number 17408270, registered office 66 Paul Street, London, EC2A 4NA, United Kingdom.
The short version
Tool & Plant sets no advertising, analytics or tracking cookies. Everything listed below is strictly necessary to sign you in and to make the app work offline on site. Because none of it is non-essential, we do not need your consent to set it under PECR — we tell you it's there, and that's the requirement.
If that ever changes, so does this page: we would put a consent banner in front of anything non-essential, it would load only after you agree, rejecting would be exactly as easy as accepting, and the service would still work if you rejected. No cookie walls.
Cookies
| Cookie | Set by | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|---|
__cf_bm, __cflb | Cloudflare | Bot management and load balancing for the hosting platform | Up to 30 minutes |
__stripe_mid, __stripe_sid | Stripe | Fraud prevention on the checkout and billing pages only | 1 year / 30 minutes |
Stripe cookies are set only when you open checkout or the billing portal. Stripe is the only payment processor we use.
Local storage
These are stored in your browser, not sent to us with every request. They are what makes the app usable on a site with no signal.
| What it stores | Key |
|---|---|
| Photographs waiting to upload when you get signal back | conformiq.scanQueue.v1 |
| Machine records saved offline, waiting to sync | conformiq.equipmentQueue.v1 |
| Fuel tickets saved offline, waiting to sync | conformiq.fuelQueue.v1 |
| Hours and plant log entries saved offline, waiting to sync | conformiq.plantLogQueue.v1 |
| A part-finished "add machine" form, so you don't lose it | conformiq.addPlantDraft.v1 |
| The machines you looked at recently, to speed up search | conformiq.recentEquipment.v1 |
| Whether you dismissed the "install the app" prompt, so we stop asking | conformiq.install.dismissedAt, .sessionCount, .engaged |
| That you've seen this notice | conformiq.cookie-notice.dismissed |
| Your signed-in session, held by the auth library | Auth session keys |
Some of these key names still begin with a former product name. They are kept unchanged for compatibility, so that data already saved in your browser — including work saved offline — is not lost. The name has no effect on what is stored.
Offline packs — the project data you download for use with no signal — are stored in your browser's IndexedDB and in the service worker cache. Both are cleared when you sign out or clear site data.
Managing it
You can clear cookies and site data through your browser settings, and block cookies entirely. Blocking the auth cookie will sign you out and stop the app working. Signing out of Tool & Plant clears the app's own storage.
Changes
If we add a cookie, it appears in the table above and the version and date at the top change.