Cookie policy

This policy lists the cookies Publicert stores in your browser and what each one is for. A cookie is a small text file a website keeps in your browser to remember something from one page or visit to the next.

Cookies the site needs

These make the site work, so they are set without asking. None of them is used for advertising.

• publicert-session keeps your visit together from one page to the next, and keeps you signed in if you have an account. It lasts 30 days.
• XSRF-TOKEN protects our forms from being sent by another website in your name. It lasts 30 days.
• course_guest holds a random identifier that links your tests and results to this browser, so that you can come back to them without an account. It lasts 30 days.
• recent_test holds no identifier. It only tells the site to check whether you have an unfinished test or a certificate not yet collected. It lasts 24 hours.
• guest_checkout is set when you pay without an account and links the payment to this browser. It lasts a year.
• cookie_consent remembers whether you accepted or declined analytics cookies. It lasts a year.

Preferences

• locale remembers the site's language. It lasts a year.
• appearance remembers the light or dark look, if you switch it. It lasts a year.
• sidebar_state remembers whether the menu in your account is open or closed. It lasts 7 days.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics to count visits and to see which pages lead to a certificate. Its cookies, _ga and _ga_ followed by our measurement ID, hold a random identifier and last up to two years.

In the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom, the site asks first: nothing is loaded from Google until you accept analytics cookies in the cookie banner. Elsewhere, analytics are on by default.

When you pay or create an account, our server also tells Google Analytics; for a payment, its number, product and amount. With it goes your email address in a hashed (one-way encoded) form and, if you have an account, your name, also hashed, and your country, so that Google can match the event to a visit. Your answers and results are never sent. If you declined analytics cookies, none of this is sent.

Changing your choice

In the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom, delete this site's cookies in your browser's settings, and the banner will ask again on your next visit. Elsewhere, you can block Google Analytics with your browser's tracking protection or Google's opt-out add-on (tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout), or write to us. You can also block all cookies in your browser, but without the ones the site needs you cannot sign in, keep your test or pay.

Changes

If we add or remove a cookie, this page changes with it.