Cookie policy
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files placed by your browser on your device when you visit a website to store certain information. Using the stored information, a website can recognize that you have previously accessed and visited it using the browser on your end device.
How do we use cookies?
Compoid uses strictly necessary cookies to make our website operational such as:
- Login/logout of your user account.
- Grant access to restricted content when using a secret links.
- Ensure secure browsing of the website.
- Load balancing incoming traffic across backend servers.
Compoid also uses analytics cookies for gathering anonymous website analytics which is used purely for internal research on how we can improve the service we provide for all our users.
Compoid uses only first-party cookies (i.e cookies set by our site itself), and the cookies we set are only readable by Compoid.
Which cookies do we use?
Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are necessary for the functioning of the website.
| Name | Duration | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
session |
10 days | Used for logging into your user account, granting access to restricted content via secret links, and ensure secure browsing of the website. |
csrftoken |
1 week | Maintain a secure session for you during your visit by preventing Cross-site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks. |
cookie_consent |
12 months | Used to store your cookie consent choice. |
mtm_consent_removed |
13 months | Used to store your cookie consent choice. |
mtm_cookie_consent |
13 months | Used to store your cookie consent choice. |
Analytics cookies
Compoid uses Matomo Analytics to analyse traffic to the website and help improve website performance. Matomo Analytics data is stored at Compoid.
| Name | Duration | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
_pk_id# |
13 months | Recognises website visitors (anonymously - no personal information is collected on the user). |
_pk_ref# |
6 months | Identifies the referrer website initially used to visit the website. |
_pk_ses# |
30 minutes | Identifies the pages viewed by the same user during the same visit (anonymously - no personal information is collected on the user). |
How can you manage cookies?
Removing cookies from your device
You can delete all cookies that are already on your device by clearing the browsing history of your browser. This will remove all cookies from all websites you have visited.
Be aware though that you may also lose some saved information (e.g. saved login details, site preferences).
See aboutcookies.org for further details of how to control/delete cookies.
Managing our analytics cookies
In addition, Compoid supports a technology called "Do Not Track". The "Do Not Track" technology enables visitors to opt-out from being tracked by analytics cookies on websites for whatever purpose, including the use of analytics services.
To enable the "do not track" option in your browser follow the respective link below:
If your preferred browser is not in the above list of browsers, visit the vendor's website for more information.
Further information
See also our privacy policy