Global Beer Network

Cookies

This is an internal system for Global Beer Network staff. It uses two cookies, both set by this site. It runs no analytics, no advertising, and no third-party scripts, and it does not track you across other websites.

sb-<project>-auth-token
Strictly necessary
Keeps you signed in. Without it, every page would ask for your password again.
Kept for Until you sign out or the session expires
gbn_sidebar
User-interface preference, set by your own click
Remembers whether you collapsed the sidebar. Only ever holds “expanded” or “collapsed”.
Kept for 1 year

Cookie	What it does	Kept for
`sb-<project>-auth-token` Strictly necessary	Keeps you signed in. Without it, every page would ask for your password again.	Until you sign out or the session expires
`gbn_sidebar` User-interface preference, set by your own click	Remembers whether you collapsed the sidebar. Only ever holds “expanded” or “collapsed”.	1 year

Why there’s no cookie banner

Consent banners exist for cookies you could reasonably say no to — analytics, advertising, and tracking. This portal has none. The sign-in cookie is required for the portal to work at all, and the sidebar cookie only records a preference you set yourself by clicking. Both are exempt from consent under the ePrivacy Directive, so a banner would be asking permission for things you cannot decline while still using the portal. If analytics or any third-party tool is added later, that changes, and consent will be asked for before it loads.

Managing them

You can clear or block cookies in your browser settings at any time. Blocking the sign-in cookie will prevent you from using the portal. Signing out removes it immediately.

Questions about how staff data is handled should go to your administrator. Back to sign in