Cookie Policy

1. Introduction

This Cookie Policy explains how Alpha & Omega Limited, trading through Blueprints Market, uses cookies, local storage, session storage, server logs, pixels, software development kits, device identifiers, and similar technologies in connection with blueprintsmarket.com and its related pages, account systems, checkout processes, restricted download areas, licensing tools, and online services.

This Policy should be read together with the Blueprints Market Privacy Policy, Terms & Conditions, Acceptable Use Policy, Product Licence Agreements, and any consent notice displayed when you visit or use the Website.

Some technologies are necessary for the Website to operate securely and reliably. Other technologies, such as analytics or marketing technologies, should only be used where permitted by law and, where required, after appropriate consent has been obtained.

2. Scope of This Policy

This Policy applies to cookies and similar technologies used through:

• blueprintsmarket.com and its subdomains.
• Public Website pages and product previews.
• Customer account and authentication systems.
• Shopping, checkout, payment, and order-confirmation processes.
• Restricted product-download and licence-delivery systems.
• Support, contact, and enquiry forms.
• Theme, language, accessibility, and interface preferences.
• Security, fraud-prevention, abuse-detection, and enforcement systems.
• Embedded media, social links, review links, and other third-party integrations.

This Policy does not control cookies placed directly by independent third-party websites after you leave Blueprints Market. Those third parties are responsible for their own technologies and privacy practices.

3. Definitions

• “Cookie” means a small text file or data record placed on or read from a browser or device.
• “Similar Technologies” includes local storage, session storage, pixels, tags, scripts, SDKs, device identifiers, browser identifiers, and comparable tools.
• “First-Party Cookie” means a cookie set by Blueprints Market or on the blueprintsmarket.com domain.
• “Third-Party Cookie” means a cookie set by an external provider whose technology is used or embedded on the Website.
• “Session Cookie” means a cookie that ordinarily expires when the browser session ends.
• “Persistent Cookie” means a cookie that remains until its stated expiry date or until deleted.
• “Strictly Necessary Cookie” means a cookie or similar technology required for security, navigation, authentication, checkout, delivery, consent recording, or another essential function.
• “Analytics Cookie” means a technology used to understand Website usage, performance, traffic, errors, or interaction patterns.
• “Marketing Cookie” means a technology used to measure advertising, build audiences, personalise promotions, or track users across services.
• “Consent Tool” means a banner, preference centre, or other mechanism used to record cookie choices.

4. What Cookies and Similar Technologies Do

Cookies and similar technologies can help a website remember information between page requests or visits. Depending on their function, they may:

• Maintain a secure session.
• Keep a user signed in.
• Remember interface, theme, or language choices.
• Preserve shopping-cart or checkout information.
• Record whether a legal notice or consent choice was displayed or accepted.
• Protect accounts and downloads against abuse.
• Measure Website performance and errors.
• Support embedded content or payment services.
• Help detect suspicious access, bots, scraping, fraud, or licence misuse.

A cookie may contain a random identifier, preference, timestamp, security token, session reference, consent status, or similar technical data. Cookies should not contain passwords, complete payment-card numbers, or the full contents of Restricted Materials.

5. Our General Approach

Blueprints Market aims to use only technologies reasonably necessary for clearly identified business and Website purposes. We seek to minimise unnecessary collection, avoid collecting identifying information where it is not required, and configure retention periods proportionately.

Strictly Necessary Cookies may operate without optional consent where they are required to provide a service requested by you, protect the Website, remember privacy choices, or complete a transaction. Optional analytics, performance, personalisation, or marketing technologies should be disabled until the required choice or consent has been obtained.

Cookie-derived information that relates to an identifiable individual is treated as personal information and handled in accordance with the Blueprints Market Privacy Policy and applicable New Zealand privacy law.

6. Strictly Necessary Cookies

Strictly Necessary Cookies support core Website functions that cannot reasonably be provided without them. They may be used for:

• Secure page navigation and session continuity.
• Account authentication and sign-in state.
• Cross-site request forgery protection and security tokens.
• Load balancing, traffic routing, and availability.
• Shopping-cart, checkout, and order continuity.
• Restricted download and licence-delivery access.
• Recording cookie or privacy choices.
• Fraud, bot, abuse, scraping, and attack prevention.
• Preserving forms during a transaction.
• Supporting accessibility and essential interface functions.

Blocking Strictly Necessary Cookies may prevent accounts, checkout, secure downloads, licence acceptance, payment flows, or other essential Website functions from operating correctly.

7. Security and Fraud-Prevention Technologies

We may use cookies, device information, server logs, IP addresses, request patterns, session identifiers, integrity tokens, and similar signals to protect the Website, customers, Products, Restricted Materials, and licensing systems.

These technologies may help detect:

• Credential attacks and suspicious login attempts.
• Automated scraping or bulk downloading.
• Payment fraud and chargeback abuse.
• Account sharing or unauthorised access.
• Malware, spam, bots, and denial-of-service activity.
• Repeated attempts to bypass download or licence controls.
• Unusual access to purchaser-specific or watermarked files.
• Violations of the Terms & Conditions or Product Licence Agreements.

Security information may be retained for investigation, compliance, evidence preservation, fraud prevention, and enforcement as described in the Privacy Policy.

8. Session Cookies

Session Cookies ordinarily remain active only while your browser is open or while a secure session is continuing. They may be used to:

• Move safely between Website pages.
• Maintain form, cart, checkout, or authentication state.
• Associate related page requests with one temporary session.
• Prevent repeated security or consent prompts within the same session.
• Support temporary error recovery and transaction continuity.

Some browsers or devices may preserve a session when tabs are restored. Actual expiry therefore depends partly on browser behaviour and the specific cookie configuration.

9. Authentication and Account Cookies

Where customer accounts or restricted areas are available, authentication technologies may be used to recognise a signed-in session, apply account permissions, protect restricted pages, and associate downloads or licence actions with the correct account.

Authentication Cookies may contain random session identifiers or signed tokens. Passwords should not be stored directly in cookies. Sensitive authentication tokens should be configured with appropriate security controls, which may include Secure, HttpOnly, SameSite, short expiry periods, rotation, revocation, and server-side validation.

You should sign out after using a shared device and promptly notify us if you believe an account or authentication session has been compromised.

10. Consent and Preference Cookies

We may use a Strictly Necessary Cookie or local-storage record to remember whether you have viewed the cookie notice, accepted or rejected optional categories, or changed your preferences.

A consent record may include:

• The preference categories selected.
• The date and time of the choice.
• The version of the Cookie Policy or consent notice.
• A pseudonymous consent identifier.
• The domain or Website area to which the choice applies.

Optional technologies should not be activated merely because you continue browsing where express consent is required. You should be able to reject optional categories as easily as accepting them and to change your choices later through an accessible preference mechanism.

11. Shopping Cart & Checkout Cookies

Blueprints Market may use cookies or similar technologies to maintain the integrity of the shopping cart and checkout process.

These technologies may temporarily store:

• Selected Products.
• Licence selections.
• Currency preference.
• Checkout progress.
• Tax calculations.
• Delivery method.
• Order reference.
• Fraud prevention tokens.

These cookies are considered essential because the checkout process cannot operate correctly without them.

12. Payment Provider Technologies

Payments may be processed through independent payment providers. Those providers may place their own cookies or similar technologies necessary to process secure payment transactions, detect fraud, authenticate cardholders, and comply with banking requirements.

Blueprints Market does not control cookies placed directly by payment providers. Their use of cookies is governed by their own privacy and cookie policies.

13. Download Authentication Technologies

Restricted blueprint downloads may use temporary authentication technologies to verify licence entitlement before allowing access.

• Download session verification.
• Temporary security tokens.
• Licence validation.
• Order verification.
• Account authentication.
• Download expiry enforcement.

These technologies help protect intellectual property and reduce unauthorised distribution.

14. Licence Verification Technologies

Where applicable, licence verification systems may associate temporary identifiers with a purchaser account to ensure only authorised users access Restricted Materials.

These identifiers are intended to support:

• Licence validation.
• Order verification.
• Download continuity.
• Support requests.
• Audit records.
• Enforcement of licence conditions.

15. Digital Rights Protection

Certain Products may use purchaser-specific identifiers, download identifiers, digital fingerprints, or similar technologies to help identify unauthorised redistribution.

These technologies are intended solely for intellectual property protection, licence administration, and enforcement.

16. Analytics Technologies

Where enabled, analytics technologies may help us understand:

• Page popularity.
• Navigation behaviour.
• Browser compatibility.
• Performance bottlenecks.
• Error reporting.
• Website reliability.
• Traffic trends.

Analytics technologies should only operate where legally permitted and after any required consent has been obtained.

17. Performance Technologies

Performance technologies may measure:

• Page loading time.
• Server response.
• Image optimisation.
• Download performance.
• CDN efficiency.
• Caching performance.
• Resource utilisation.

These measurements help improve Website reliability and user experience.

18. Preference Technologies

Preference technologies may remember settings selected by the user, including:

• Language.
• Theme.
• Display preferences.
• Accessibility settings.
• Cookie choices.
• User interface layout.

These technologies improve convenience and do not normally store sensitive personal information.

19. Browser Local Storage

Blueprints Market may use browser local storage or session storage for technical functions where appropriate.

Local storage may retain:

• Theme settings.
• Language.
• Temporary application state.
• Consent choices.
• Interface preferences.

Users may clear browser storage through browser settings, although doing so may reset saved preferences.

20. Pixels, Tags & Similar Technologies

Blueprints Market or authorised service providers may use pixels, tags, JavaScript, or similar technologies to:

• Measure page performance.
• Detect errors.
• Verify successful transactions.
• Improve Website functionality.
• Measure optional marketing effectiveness where consent has been provided.

These technologies should never be used to circumvent user privacy choices or applicable legal requirements.

21. Third-Party Cookies

Some areas of the Website may use services supplied by independent third-party providers, including payment processing, embedded media, document delivery, security services, customer communications, analytics, or other Website functionality.

These providers may place or access their own cookies or similar technologies when their services are loaded. Blueprints Market does not control those cookies and cannot modify their operation.

You should review the privacy and cookie policies of each third-party provider for information regarding their own technologies.

22. Embedded Content

If the Website contains embedded videos, presentations, maps, social media content, or externally hosted documents, those providers may place cookies or similar technologies when the embedded content is viewed.

• Embedded video platforms.
• Interactive maps.
• Social media widgets.
• Document viewers.
• Product demonstrations.
• Hosted presentations.

Embedded content should only load optional tracking technologies where any required consent has been obtained.

23. Cookie Retention Periods

Different cookies remain active for different periods depending upon their purpose.

Category	Typical Retention
Session Cookies	Until browser closes
Authentication	Until logout or expiry
Preference Cookies	Several months
Consent Records	Until preference changes or policy updates
Analytics	Provider dependent

Actual retention periods depend upon Website configuration and browser behaviour.

24. Managing Cookies

Most modern browsers allow users to:

• Delete cookies.
• Block cookies.
• Block third-party cookies.
• Clear browser storage.
• Control site permissions.
• View stored cookies.

Blocking essential cookies may prevent secure login, checkout, licence validation, or restricted downloads from functioning correctly.

25. Withdrawing Cookie Consent

Where optional cookies rely upon consent, you may withdraw or change your preferences at any time using the Cookie Preference Centre or other controls provided by the Website.

Withdrawal of consent does not affect processing that occurred before consent was withdrawn.

26. Do Not Track

Some browsers provide a "Do Not Track" preference. Because there is no universally adopted technical standard, Blueprints Market may not respond uniformly to every Do Not Track signal.

Where legally required, user choices are instead managed through our Cookie Preference Centre and consent mechanisms.

27. International Processing

Cookies or similar technologies may involve information being processed outside New Zealand where Website services utilise international infrastructure.

Where personal information is disclosed overseas, Blueprints Market seeks to comply with the applicable requirements of New Zealand privacy law and appropriate contractual safeguards.

28. Cookie Security

Where appropriate, security-sensitive cookies should be configured using industry-standard protections including:

• Secure attribute.
• HttpOnly attribute.
• SameSite protection.
• Short expiry periods.
• Session regeneration.
• Server-side validation.

These measures reduce the risk of interception, cross-site attacks, and session hijacking.

29. Changes to this Cookie Policy

Blueprints Market may amend this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in law, technology, business operations, or Website functionality.

Updated versions become effective upon publication unless otherwise stated.

30. Contact Information

Questions regarding this Cookie Policy, cookie technologies, or privacy practices may be directed through the contact details published on the Blueprints Market Website.

Blueprints Market
A Trading Brand of Alpha & Omega Limited
New Zealand

31. Browser Controls

Most modern browsers provide built-in tools allowing you to manage cookies and other website storage technologies. Depending on your browser, you may:

• View all stored cookies.
• Delete individual cookies.
• Delete all cookies.
• Block cookies from specific websites.
• Block all third-party cookies.
• Block all cookies.
• Automatically clear cookies when the browser closes.
• Manage local storage and other website data.

Disabling certain cookies may reduce Website functionality, prevent secure authentication, interrupt licensing services, or disable portions of the Website.

32. Mobile Device Controls

If you access the Website using a mobile device, additional privacy controls may be available through your operating system or browser application.

• Reset advertising identifiers.
• Limit tracking permissions.
• Manage application storage.
• Delete browser data.
• Clear cookies.
• Manage website permissions.

33. Regulatory Compliance

Blueprints Market seeks to operate its Website in accordance with applicable privacy and electronic communications legislation governing the use of cookies and similar technologies.

Where required by applicable law, optional cookies will only be used following appropriate user consent.

34. Related Policies

This Cookie Policy should be read together with the following Website policies:

• Privacy Policy
• Terms & Conditions
• Acceptable Use Policy
• Licensing Policy
• Copyright Policy
• DMCA Copyright Policy
• Trademark Policy

35. Cookie Preference Centre

Where implemented, the Cookie Preference Centre allows users to:

• Accept all optional cookies.
• Reject non-essential cookies.
• Select individual cookie categories.
• Review current consent status.
• Change preferences at any time.
• Withdraw consent for optional cookies.

36. Website Functionality

Blocking essential cookies may prevent some Website features from operating correctly, including:

• User authentication.
• Customer account access.
• Shopping cart functionality.
• Digital download verification.
• Licence validation.
• Secure payment processing.
• Security protection systems.

37. Website Implementation Guidance

For maximum legal compliance, Blueprints Market should implement:

• A cookie banner displayed on first visit.
• Granular consent options by cookie category.
• A persistent "Cookie Settings" link.
• Consent logging with timestamps.
• Policy version recording.
• User preference storage.
• Easy withdrawal of consent.

38. Policy Version

Document	Cookie Policy
Version	Version 1.0
Status	Current Release
Applies To	Blueprints Market Website

39. Final Statement

Blueprints Market is committed to providing a transparent, secure, and privacy-conscious browsing experience while maintaining the functionality, security, and performance necessary to deliver its digital products and services.

40. Contact

Questions regarding this Cookie Policy may be directed through the contact information published on the Blueprints Market Website.

Blueprints Market
A Trading Brand of Alpha & Omega Limited