Cookie policy
Draft pending legal review before publication. Drawn up in accordance with the GDPR, the CNIL guidelines and the ePrivacy directive.
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small file placed on your device when you visit a site. Depending on its purpose, it lets the service work, remembers your preferences, or measures audience. “Trackers” cover cookies and equivalent technologies (local storage, etc.).
Cookie inventory
| Cookie / storage | Category | Purpose | Lifetime | Party |
|---|---|---|---|---|
__Host-kovant_session |
Necessary | Authentication session | Session / 30 d | 1st |
kovant_consent |
Necessary | Stores your consent choices | 13 months | 1st |
kovant_locale |
Necessary | Language preference | 1 year | 1st |
csrf_token |
Necessary | Cross-site request forgery protection | Session | 1st |
_kv_analytics |
Audience measurement | Audience stats (if consented, outside exempt mode) | 13 months | 1st (self-hosted) |
__stripe_* |
Necessary (payment) | Payment-fraud prevention | Session | Stripe |
Exempt cookies and consent-based cookies
Cookies that are strictly necessary for the service to work, together with our audience measurement in CNIL-exempt mode (anonymous, with no cross-site identifier), do not require your consent. Other trackers are only set after your consent. Because our audience measurement runs in exempt mode by default, most pages show no banner.
Giving and withdrawing your consent
When consent is required, you are shown two equally prominent buttons — “Accept all” and “Reject all” — with no pre-ticked boxes and no dark patterns. The “Customise” button allows a per-category choice (necessary, audience measurement, preferences, marketing). You can change or withdraw your consent at any time via the “Manage cookies” link in the footer. Consent is valid for 13 months; after that, you are asked again.
Browser settings
You can also configure your browser to block or delete cookies. However, refusing necessary cookies may prevent some features of the service from working correctly.
Contact
For any question, see the privacy policy or write to dpo@kovant.eu.