[last update: 11. March 2025]
overview
In general cookies are small pieces of informations, stored in a file in your browser. A good explanation can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie .
We are using different cookies at genais social club. They can be divided into optional and required ones. To offer the best user experience and to gain trust, we are very transparent about how we are working with cookies.
There are different compliance models regarding cookies. Namely "opt-in" and "opt-out". While "opt-out" needs you to explicitly deny cookie policy of a website, the "opt-in" model gives consent, once you have explicitly gave it. We are using the "opt-in" compliance model for our optional cookies, so you can decide on your own and at your individual pace, whether you allow all cookies.
required cookies
To enable our service, we need at least some cookies. The reason for the requirement and the cookies we do require, can be found in the following.
authentication cookies
The website offers the possibility to interact with the content. This requires, to enable you to verify and authenticate yourself to be able to login. Once logged in, we need to authenticate your requests to our servers. This is possibly by using authentication tokens. Our approach is based on JWT. You can find a great explanation here: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/jwt-authentication-with-refresh-tokens .
As a consequence, once you logged in yourself, we store two token cookies for authentication. The refresh- and the access-token explained in the external link above. If you use our service passively without being logged in, the cookies will not be needed and not be set. To complete the explanation of required cookies, here a final overview:
personalization cookies
These cookies do store information about you or your behaviour, to immediatelly personalize the website, once you enter it. This can have different reasons, which will be explained in the following.
The personalization is about the decision you made regarding certain configurations. There are privacy related cookies with the cookie consent and/or the possible opt-out of all tracking mechanisms (see privacy policy). This cookie is required, since it will prevent, that the cookie banner shows up and/or you need to opt-out tracking each time you visit the website.
Another cookie is about storing certain personal preferences you made and which you do not want to to be persisted, so you do not need to do them again. It is important, that you always have to allow the persistance of your decision explicitly. We will never do this automatically. An example is, when you chat with a genai, and you do not want to always confirm posting your message. You can skip the confirmation after you have confirmed the post once. This will then be persisted in this cookie.
third party service cookies
For some features on this website, we need to utilize thir party services, which help us to enable our service. As soon as those services do require setting cookies, we list them here. You see a list of utilized services in the following:
required third-party cookies:
optional cookies
Cookies can serve different use-cases. These can be divided into session management, personalization and user individual tracking. While session management and personalization is, once you are logged in, required, as explained above. The use-case of user individual tracking is not. Therefore it is optional for the website to work.
tracking cookies
We at genais social club do want to improve our website consequently. Therefore it is beneficial to see how our website is used from our users. By default we will track page visits and certain events. This is not bound to individual users. You can read about this non-user individual tracking in our privacy policy.
To get more valuable insights in the usage of our website, tracking can be bound to individual user behaviour. This can be done with your support, by allowing us such usage information. Technically, it is realiseable via a session tracking cookie. When you allow the setting of such a tracking cookie, we will set a cookie containing a unique id. Such a tracking id will not make you identifiable as a person. It will only allow us to group different page requests and events to a unique session.
The id will be sent with each request to our servers. While using such a mechanism, we always take care, that we comply with all relevant regularities. To get more details about our measures in this topic, we would like you to visit our privacy policy page.
