What cookies are
Cookies are small files that a website can store on a user's device to remember information about their visit. The law regulates them — Article 22.2 of the LSSI-CE and Directive 2002/58/EC — because they involve storing or reading information on the user's device, not because they're inherently a risk.
The two cookies on this website
gopenux.com uses two cookies, and neither is an analytics, advertising or profiling cookie. One is written by the site itself, and only if you pick a language in the selector. The other is set automatically by the network that serves the site, to tell human traffic apart from automated traffic. No provider outside our hosting installs anything: the analytics run without cookies and the fonts are served from our own domain, so they are not requested from Google Fonts or any other external provider either.
| Name | Purpose | Duration | Type |
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| gpx_lang | Remember the language you select, so that version is served on later visits without asking again | 1 year | Technical, first-party |
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| __cf_bm | Tell human traffic apart from automated traffic, to protect the site against bots and denial-of-service attacks | 30 minutes | Technical security cookie, set by our network provider |
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It is a technical personalisation cookie: it is created only in response to an action of yours — clicking the language selector — and stores nothing but the language code. Article 22.2 of the LSSI-CE exempts from consent those cookies needed to provide a service the user has expressly requested, which is the case here, and that is why the site shows no banner. You can delete it at any time from your browser settings; the only consequence is that the site will again suggest a language based on your browser's.
The __cf_bm cookie is set by Cloudflare, the delivery and protection network through which DigitalOcean serves gopenux.com. It is written on every page, without you having to do anything, and its only function is to work out whether a request comes from a person or from an automated software, in order to stop bots and attacks. It lasts 30 minutes, it is HttpOnly — no script on the page can read it—, it is generated separately for each website, so it cannot be used to follow you from one site to another, and it does not correspond to any user identifier. It is strictly necessary for the security of the service you requested, so it is exempt from consent under Article 22.2 of the LSSI-CE, just like the previous one; we declare it here because being exempt from consent is not being exempt from disclosure. Gopenux Lab cannot switch it off: it is configured by our hosting provider, not by the website.
Whether website usage is measured
It is not. The website loads no analytics tool, self-hosted or third-party: it records no page views, compiles no traffic statistics and sets no identifier for that purpose. There is therefore nothing here that requires your consent under Article 22.2 of the LSSI-CE, and no analytics processing to which a legal basis under the GDPR would apply.
This is checkable rather than something to take on trust. The site makes no request to any external domain, and the CSP header it serves is what makes the browser enforce it, so a third-party measurement tool would be blocked outright. One hosted by Gopenux Lab would not be blocked, but it would appear in the network panel of any browser's developer tools — and it would have to be declared here before it was deployed.
Where the data resides
There is no analytics data to reside anywhere: none is collected, so none is stored and none is sent to any provider. No third party receives your browsing activity, because nothing about it is gathered in the first place.
How to check this yourself
The absence of third parties can be verified by opening the browser's developer tools — the network tab — while browsing the website: gopenux.com doesn't make any request to a third-party domain. That check demonstrates that no third party receives your browsing activity; the location of Gopenux Lab's servers is described in section 5.
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