Cookies and your choices
Some of what The Night Market stores is needed to sell you a ticket. The rest is about measuring advertising, and it is yours to switch off. Nothing here is required to buy, view or use a ticket.
Your choices
Changes take effect immediately. Turning off advertising also deletes the identifiers already stored on this device.
Strictly necessary
Keeps you signed in and your order attached to you through checkout. The site cannot sell you a ticket without these, so they cannot be switched off.
Advertising
Lets Meta (Facebook and Instagram) recognise that you visited, so we can show the event to people like you and stop paying to advertise to those who already have tickets. Sets the _fbp and _fbc cookies.
Sharing purchase data
When you buy a ticket, sends your email and phone number to our advertising platforms in scrambled (hashed) form so a sale can be matched to the advert that led to it. We never send them in readable form.
Improving the site
Analytics that count which pages people use and where checkout goes wrong so we can fix it. It reports visits in aggregate, not who you are.
Strictly necessary
These cannot be turned off, because the site cannot keep you signed in or take an order without them. They are not used for advertising.
| Name | Set by | What it does | Kept for |
|---|---|---|---|
| __Secure-authjs.session-token | This site | Keeps you signed in, so your tickets stay attached to your account and reach you after payment. | 30 days |
| __Host-authjs.csrf-token | This site | Stops another site from submitting the sign-in or checkout form on your behalf. | Until you close the browser |
| __Secure-authjs.callback-url | This site | Returns you to the page you were on after you sign in. | Until you close the browser |
| ticky_consent | This site | Remembers the choices you make on this page, so you are not asked again on every visit. | 6 months |
Advertising — optional
Set only while advertising is switched on above.
| Name | Set by | What it does | Kept for |
|---|---|---|---|
| _fbp | Meta | Identifies your browser to Meta so we can measure whether an advert led to a ticket sale, and avoid paying to advertise to people who already bought. | 90 days |
| _fbc | Meta | Records which advert you clicked to arrive here. | 90 days |
Data we share when you buy
If “sharing purchase data” is on when you check out, we send our advertising platforms the order value and your email address and phone number in scrambled (hashed) form, so a sale can be matched to the advert that led to it. Hashing is one-way: they receive a fingerprint, not your address or number. We never send them in readable form, and we never sell your details to anyone.
Your choice is recorded against the order at the moment you pay, so switching this off means nothing is sent for that purchase — even though the sale is confirmed a few moments later, once your bank has responded.
Other ways to control this
Every major browser can block or delete cookies in its settings, and that overrides anything set here. Blocking the strictly necessary ones will stop you being able to sign in or check out. You can also change what Meta shows you from your Facebook or Instagram ad preferences.
Last updated 20 August 2026. If you want to know what The Night Market holds about you, or want it deleted, contact tickets@thenightmarket.co.za.