Privacy and cookies

This documentation site is run by 7x for the Exponential Foundation. It shows the same pages to everyone and needs no account to read.

Cookies the site needs

These are always set, because the site needs them to work. They are not used to follow you and are not shared with anyone.

• exp_design: the design you chose (Classic or Modern), kept for one year.
• The language choice keeps the language you picked.
• ng-cc-consent: your answer to the cookie banner, kept for 6 months.
• A session cookie, set only when you sign in.

Statistics with Google Analytics, only with your consent

If you agree in the cookie banner ("Accept all", or "Statistics (Google Analytics)" under "Settings"), the site loads Google Analytics through Google Tag Manager (container GTM-MPGWKTQV) to count visits and see which pages are read. Until you agree, and after "Reject all", nothing is loaded from Google and no Google cookie is set.

What is collected: the pages you open and their titles, the page you came from, the time of the visit, your browser, operating system, device type, screen size and language, and an approximate location (country, region, city) that Google derives from your IP address. A random identifier in the _ga cookie tells repeated visits of the same browser apart; it does not tell us who you are.

Who receives it: Google (Google Ireland Limited, Dublin, Ireland, and Google LLC, USA) processes the data on our behalf and gives us visit statistics. The data may be transferred to the USA; Google LLC is certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework. Google keeps the visit data for the retention period set in the Analytics account (2 or 14 months in a standard account). Google's own privacy policy: policies.google.com/privacy.

The legal basis is your consent (Article 6(1)(a) GDPR). Google Analytics sets these cookies on the domain .exponential.earth:

• _ga: tells visits of the same browser apart, kept for 2 years (Chrome and some other browsers limit it to 400 days).
• _ga_0E6ZZJSKN2: keeps the state of the current visit for this site's statistics, kept for 2 years (400 days in Chrome).

How to withdraw your consent: choose "Cookie settings" at the foot of any page, switch "Statistics (Google Analytics)" off and choose "Save my choice". The page then sends nothing more to Google, the _ga cookies are deleted, and later pages load nothing from Google. Withdrawing does not affect what was collected before. You can also delete the cookies in your browser at any time.

Page view counts

The "Most read" list on the front page comes from the site's own page view counts, made from the web server log, without cookies and without sending data to anyone. They are separate from Google Analytics.

Feedback

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Your rights and contact

You may ask for access to, correction or deletion of data about you, and you may complain to a data protection supervisory authority. Contact: [email protected].