Cookies and local storage
This page lists everything Artheia keeps on the device of whoever visits the site. It is a short list, and it can be checked: what appears in the browser developer tools is what is written here.
The three categories
Artheia distinguishes three categories, and treats them in three different ways.
| Category | What | Consent |
|---|---|---|
| Necessary | The session of whoever has signed in, security, the record of sign ins | Not required: without it the service does not work |
| Product | Measurements of how the platform is used and of the errors that occur | Required, unless the measurement cannot be traced back to a person |
| Marketing | Third party analytics and advertising pixels | Required, always |
- Category
- Necessary
- What
- The session of whoever has signed in, security, the record of sign ins
- Consent
- Not required: without it the service does not work
- Category
- Product
- What
- Measurements of how the platform is used and of the errors that occur
- Consent
- Required, unless the measurement cannot be traced back to a person
- Category
- Marketing
- What
- Third party analytics and advertising pixels
- Consent
- Required, always
What Artheia keeps on the device
Everything below falls in the necessary category. The first three entries are not cookies: they are browser session storage, which travels in no request and disappears when the tab is closed.
| What | Where | How long | Today |
|---|---|---|---|
| The token that keeps the session open after signing in | Session storage | As long as the tab stays open | Yes |
| The token contained in the password recovery link | Session storage | Read and deleted at once, valid one time only | Yes |
| The outcome of the email address confirmation | Session storage | Read and deleted at once, valid one time only | Yes |
| The chosen language | A cookie, written by the library that handles the two languages | As long as the browser stays open | Yes, when the other language is chosen, or when the language of the page does not match the one the browser asks for |
| The answer to the consent request | Local storage, under a key carrying the version number of the request | Until withdrawn | Yes, after an answer to the consent panel |
- What
- The token that keeps the session open after signing in
- Where
- Session storage
- How long
- As long as the tab stays open
- Today
- Yes
- What
- The token contained in the password recovery link
- Where
- Session storage
- How long
- Read and deleted at once, valid one time only
- Today
- Yes
- What
- The outcome of the email address confirmation
- Where
- Session storage
- How long
- Read and deleted at once, valid one time only
- Today
- Yes
- What
- The chosen language
- Where
- A cookie, written by the library that handles the two languages
- How long
- As long as the browser stays open
- Today
- Yes, when the other language is chosen, or when the language of the page does not match the one the browser asks for
- What
- The answer to the consent request
- Where
- Local storage, under a key carrying the version number of the request
- How long
- Until withdrawn
- Today
- Yes, after an answer to the consent panel
The language cookie is not written by Artheia but by the library that carries the site in two languages, and it exists to remember the choice of someone reading in a language other than their browser’s. It appears at two moments: when «IT» or «EN» is pressed at the top of the page, and when a page opens in a language the browser had not asked for. It contains nothing but the language code, «it» or «en».
Measurement and marketing
Product telemetry is not in use today. GA4 and Meta Pixel belong to the marketing category and are listed in the table below.
Neither marketing tool starts before explicit consent.
The panel can accept everything, keep only what is necessary, or choose product and marketing separately. The control at the foot of every page always reopens the preferences. Withdrawing consent reloads the page so scripts already loaded do not remain active.
How to clear all of this
- The three session storage entries disappear when the browser tab is closed.
- The language cookie is cleared from the browser settings, together with the site data.
- The consent answer is cleared by withdrawing the categories in preferences, or by clearing the site data in the browser.
- Signing out of the platform empties the session immediately, with nothing to close.
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