Cookies and local storage
Cookies are small files a website can ask your browser to store and return with requests. Local storage keeps values on your device for a website to read. The same privacy principles can apply to both, even when a technology is not technically a cookie.
Kioni uses necessary first-party sign-in cookies in connected mode and local storage for the choices listed below. The inline sample does not authenticate you or save work. No tracking pixels, advertising identifiers, or device fingerprints are used. The hosting and security setup for a public deployment must be reviewed separately before launch.
What is stored
| Name and provider | Purpose and duration |
|---|---|
| Clerk authentication cookies · Clerk Necessary sign-in storage | Clerk uses cookies including __session and __client_uat, plus authentication state on its configured identity domain, to maintain and refresh sign-in. Session JWTs are short-lived; sessions are configured for a maximum of eight hours. Kioni verifies tokens and live session status rather than storing encrypted provider tokens. Exact cookie names, domains and lifetimes depend on the deployed Clerk instance and must be checked at deployment. |
| kioni-cookie-consent Kioni · Local storage | Remembers your action, necessary-only categories, policy version, save time, and expiry. Valid for 180 days; an expired record is ignored and replaced when you choose again. It is not sent to a server by this preview. |
| kioni-theme Kioni · Local storage | Stores only “light” or “dark” after you explicitly choose a theme. Remains until you change it or clear browser storage. Without it, Kioni follows your device’s theme. |
The two local-storage entries stay in this browser and are associated with this site. Different browsers and devices have their own choices. No work example, career report, email address, password, or verification code is written to these local-storage entries.
Necessary and optional uses
Necessary: remembering your privacy choice and the theme you request. These functions do not serve advertising or measurement purposes. Where local law permits, storage strictly necessary for the service or function you request does not require optional-cookie consent.
Analytics: not in use. There are no analytics providers to accept.
Advertising: not in use. There are no advertising providers or sale or sharing for cross-context behavioural advertising.
The storage notice explains necessary storage and can be dismissed with “Got it”. Settings offers “Save necessary only”. Neither action authorizes future tracking, AI analysis, or new providers.
Change your choice
opens the same controls available in every page footer. You can review the inventory and save necessary-only settings whenever you wish. Closing the settings window without saving preserves the previous choice. Scrolling, browsing, or closing the window is not consent.
Your choice is remembered for 180 days. If the stored value expires, is invalid, or belongs to a different consent version, you will be asked again. If storage is blocked, the choice applies in memory to the current visit, and a message explains that it could not be remembered.
Browser site-data controls can remove both entries. Blocking all storage may mean your theme and cookie choice are not remembered; the preview remains readable. Clearing data does not send a deletion request to any hosting provider.
Browser privacy signals
When your browser exposes Global Privacy Control, the settings window acknowledges it. No sale, sharing for targeted advertising, or advertising tracking is enabled, with or without that signal. It is never treated as permission for additional processing.
This preview performs no cross-site tracking, so a “Do Not Track” signal does not change its operation. If optional services are introduced, the operator must review browser signal obligations and implement the relevant choices before activating them.
Future changes and contact
Before introducing any optional storage, Kioni must update this inventory with its provider, purpose, type, duration, and recipients; implement prior consent where required; and make withdrawal effective. Optional services must stay blocked until a valid choice authorises the specific purpose.
Relevant frameworks include the EU ePrivacy rules and GDPR, UK PECR and UK GDPR, and, where applicable, Germany’s TDDDG. Their application depends on the final operation and launch markets. See our privacy policy for the wider data practices and rights.
Kioni’s legal operator, business address, country of establishment, and privacy contact have not yet been designated. A working contact for privacy requests and any required EU or UK representative or data protection officer details must be published before public launch.
Until then, this is a draft for local/staging testing. Please use fictional details in the forms. Cookie and theme preferences can be cleared directly in your browser without contacting us.