One cookie. It keeps you signed in, and that’s all.

More about it:

• It is set only when you sign in, and removed when you sign out.
• It is sent only to LinkIt’s own address — never to the student sites hosted on LinkIt — and the page itself can’t read it (HttpOnly). It is only sent over encrypted connections (Secure).
• It is a first-party cookie: LinkIt sets it, LinkIt reads it, nobody else receives it.
• Signing out, or choosing “Sign out of all devices”, ends it. Signing out also clears an older cookie simply called session, if your browser still has one from before the current name was introduced.

• No analytics — no Google Analytics, no visitor counters, no heatmaps.
• No advertising or social-media cookies, pixels or buttons.
• Nothing stored in your browser’s local storage or session storage.
• No third-party scripts on LinkIt’s pages, and the fonts are served by LinkIt itself — so your browser doesn’t contact Google or anyone else when you visit.

The law asks for your consent before a site stores anything in your browser that it doesn’t strictly need to give you the service you asked for — analytics, advertising, tracking. A cookie whose only job is to keep you signed in after you chose to sign in is the textbook example of one that is strictly necessary, so it needs no consent.

What Swiss law does require is telling you what is stored, why, and how to refuse it. That is this page. A banner asking you to accept a cookie you can’t use LinkIt without would be a question with only one answer, and would teach you to click away the banners that do matter.

What would change this: if LinkIt ever adds analytics, an embedded video or map, error tracking that identifies you, or any other script that stores or reads something in your browser for a purpose other than keeping you signed in, it will ask you first — and this page will change before it does.

You can block or delete cookies in your browser’s settings at any time. If you block this one, everything public — the home page, the docs, Explore, the sites people publish — still works; you just won’t be able to sign in.

The sites at project addresses are made by students, and they can set their own cookies or load their own analytics. Those are the student’s responsibility, not LinkIt’s, and this page doesn’t cover them. LinkIt’s own cookie is never sent to those sites, and they can’t read it or overwrite it.

More on how your data is handled: privacy notice.