Cookie policy
1 · What cookies are
A cookie is a small piece of text a website stores in your browser so it can remember something from one page to the next. The world over, its commonest use is tracking and advertising — which is not what we use it for, nor for anything beyond running this platform.
This page covers the study platform. The association's official website at https://example.org is governed by the cookie policy published there, with its own consent tool.
2 · The cookies this platform sets
| Cookie | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| lernata-session | Carries your session identifier — how the platform knows it is you from one page to the next. Without it there is no signing in at all. | 120 minutes from your last activity |
| XSRF-TOKEN | Protects the platform's forms from being submitted in your name by another site without your knowledge. | 120 minutes from your last activity |
| remember_web_… | Set only if you choose «remember me» when signing in, so that your session survives closing the browser. | until you sign out or it expires |
All three are strictly necessary in the legal sense: the service you asked for cannot be provided without them. Your interface language is stored in your session and on your profile, not in a cookie of its own.
3 · What this platform does not set
No analytics, no advertising, no third-party cookies, no tracking pixels in emails, no profiling. Even the fonts are hosted on our own server, so no third party learns of your visit.
4 · YouTube videos inside lessons
Recorded lectures are hosted on the institution's YouTube channel. Because opening the YouTube player means your browser connecting to Google's servers, we do not load the player until you press «play video»; before that, no request leaves your browser for Google. Once you press it, Google's own policy applies and cookies may be set by them.
5 · Zoom sessions
The join button takes you to Zoom or opens its application. Whatever cookies are set there are governed by Zoom's own policy, not ours.
6 · Controlling them in your browser
Every browser lets you view, delete and block cookies from its settings. One plain warning: blocking the necessary cookies listed above means you will not be able to sign in — not because we prevent it, but because signing in is built on them.
7 · Why you see no cookie banner
Because consent is asked for what is not necessary: §25(1) TDDDG requires it for non-essential technologies, and §25(2) exempts the strictly necessary ones. We set nothing else — a banner asking about something that does not exist tires the reader without protecting them. The one thing that genuinely calls for consent, the YouTube player, stays blocked until you click it yourself, and your click is that consent under §25(1) TDDDG and Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR.