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🍪 Cookie Policy

Understand how and why we use cookies on our websites

What are Cookies?

Bits & bytes; no chocolate chips 🙁

Cookies are small text files that are saved to your device or computer by websites you visit. Websites may use cookies to help do things like enabling enhanced functionality, remembering any settings or preferences you may have set, making things more relevant to you and providing information to the owners of the website. Cookies may also be used to help in serving you generic and/or personalised ads.

Some cookies may be absolutely necessary in order for websites to work and/or to make sure the website and your visit is kept safe and secure.

Cookies can be either session cookies, which means they are stored on your device only for that visit and deleted when you quit your browser/turn off your device, or persistent, which means they are kept on your device even after you quit your browser/turn off your device - usually for a set time period.

Similar Technologies

Cookies are just one type of technology that can store information on your device, but there are other similar technologies which include, but are not limited to, HTML5 web storage (local storage/session storage), indexedDB and service workers.

Some of these technologies can store things other than just text, such as images, or even copies of web pages so you can view them offline.

To keep things simple, 'Cookies' are used as an umbrella term for all the technologies that can store information on your device or computer.

Our Cookie Categories

Our website and web applications (WebApps) it contains use the following types of cookies. You can enable or disable the optional categories by clicking the choose cookies button.

Required

These types of cookies are necessary for core functionality of our websites and webapps, and to ensure your visit is kept safe and secure. You can use your browser settings to disable these cookies but doing so will affect and limit how our sites and webapps work.

Functionality

These cookies enable enhanced features, improved performance and extra convenience. You can still use our website without them but won't have those extra features.

The enhanced features provided by these cookies are:

  • Highlighting new articles that have been added
  • Highlighting new WebApps that have been added

Analytics

These cookies help us to analyse traffic and usage of our websites and WebApps. You can still use our website with full functionality without accepting them.

We capture analytics under the legitimate interest legal basis. If you opt-out of analytics cookies, we will still continue to capture analytics in an anonymised form. We also give you the ability to opt-out of this on our Privacy Policy page.

Additionaly, the WebApps on this website use the following types of cookies. Each WebApp stores and manages it's own cookies. These are only set if you accept them when using a WebApp and you can enable or disable them from within the WebApp itself.

PWA

These cookies are used on our WebApps to enable Progressive Web Application (PWA) functionality - a PWA is a type of website that can work almost like an application you would install on your phone or computer.

The cookies and similar technologies we use for this enable our WebApps to:

  • Work when you are offline (offline mode)
  • Save the configuration and settings of the WebApp
  • If applicable - save any progress through the WebApp and/or content that you have created in it

Our Cookies

We do not store any information in our cookies that personally identify you. The table below details which cookies and similar technologies we use across our websites and web applications:

TechnologyNameCategoryPurpose
CookiechocChipRequired

Used by all our websites and web applications.

This cookie is used to ensure only the cookies you have enabled are applied, and that you are given notice of/options to accept any new cookies that might be introduced or changes to our policy.

Stored for 90 days after accepting/rejecting cookies or saving your cookie preferences.

CookiebtshlFunctionality

This cookie is used to highlight any articles and/or WebApps that have been added within 30 days of your last visit.

Stored for 30 days.

Cookiematomo_sessidRequired

Set when you use the analytics opt-out feature.

Stored for 14 days.

Cookie_pk_id*Analytics

Used to store a few details about the user such as the unique visitor ID.

Stored for 13 months.

Cookie_pk_ref*Analytics

Used to store the attribution information, the referrer initially used to visit the website.

Stored for 6 months.

Cookie_pk_ses*Analytics

Short lived cookies used to temporarily store data for the visit.

Stored for 30 minutes.

Cookie_pk_cvar*Analytics

Short lived cookies used to temporarily store data for the visit.

Stored for 30 minutes.

Cookie_pk_hsr*Analytics

Short lived cookies used to temporarily store data for the visit.

Stored for 30 minutes.

Cookie_pk_testcookieAnalytics

Created and should be then directly deleted. It is used to check whether the visitor's browser supports cookies.

Cookiemtm_consent, mtm_consent_removedAnalytics

Used to remember that consent was given (or removed) by the user.

Stored for 30 years.

Cookiemtm_cookie_consentAnalytics

Used to remember that consent for storing and using cookies was given by the user.

Stored for 30 years.

Cookiematomo_ignoreAnalytics

Set when you exclude yourself from being tracked (opt-out). This cookie does not contain personal information or any ID and the cookie value is the same for all visitors.

Stored for 30 years.

CookieppCookiesRequired

Used by our Planning Poker WebApp.

This cookie is used to ensure only the cookies you have enabled on the WebApp are applied, and that you are given notice of/options to accept any new cookies that might be introduced or changes to our policy.

Stored for 90 days after accepting/rejecting cookies or saving your cookie preferences.

CookiendCookiesRequired

Used by our Next Do WebApp.

This cookie is used to ensure only the cookies you have enabled on the WebApp are applied, and that you are given notice of/options to accept any new cookies that might be introduced or changes to our policy.

Stored for 90 days after your last use of the WebApp.

Local StorageppPWA

Used by our Planning Poker WebApp.

Stores your number sequence, min and max value configurations.

Stored until you disable PWA cookies in the WebApp's cookie settings.

Local StoragepppwaPWA

Used by our Planning Poker WebApp.

If you enable PWA cookies, this stores your preference to enable offline mode.

Stored until you disable PWA cookies in the WebApp's cookie settings.

Local StoragendpwaPWA

Used by our Next Do WebApp.

If you enable PWA cookies, this stores your preference to enable offline mode.

Stored until you disable PWA cookies in the WebApp's settings.

Local StoragendtodosPWA

Used by our Next Do WebApp.

Stores the to do items you enter in the Next Do WebApp.

Stored until you disable PWA cookies in the WebApp's settings.

Service Workerplanning-poker-sw.jsPWA

Used by our Planning Poker WebApp.

If you enable PWA cookies, this JavaScript file is saved by your browser and enables you to store our Planning Poker WebApp on your browser/device, so you can use it offline.

Stored until you disable PWA cookies in the WebApp's cookie settings.

Service Workerservice-worker.jsPWA

Used by our Next Do WebApp.

If you enable PWA cookies, this JavaScript file is saved by your browser and enables you to store our Next Do WebApp on your browser/device, so you can use it offline.

Stored until you disable PWA cookies in the WebApp's settings.