Cookie policy


What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed by your browser on your device when you visit a website to store certain information. Using the stored information, a website can recognize that you have previously accessed and visited it using the browser on your end device.

How do we use cookies?

Zenodo uses strictly necessary cookies to make our website operational such as:

  • Login/logout of your user account.
  • Grant access to restricted content when using a secret links.
  • Ensure secure browsing of the website.
  • Load balancing incoming traffic across backend servers.

Zenodo also uses analytics cookies for gathering anonymous website analytics which is used purely for internal research on how we can improve the service we provide for all our users.

Zenodo uses only first-party cookies (i.e cookies set by our site itself), and the cookies we set are only readable by Zenodo.

Which cookies do we use?

Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies are necessary for the functioning of the website.

Name Duration Purpose
session 10 days Used for logging into your user account, granting access to restricted content via secret links, and ensure secure browsing of the website.
csrftoken 1 week Maintain a secure session for you during your visit by preventing Cross-site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks.
cookie_consent 12 months Used to store your cookie consent choice.
mtm_consent_removed 13 months Used to store your cookie consent choice.
mtm_cookie_consent 13 months Used to store your cookie consent choice.
_zammad_session_# End of session Used for logging into the support system.
5569e5a730cade8ff2b54f1e815f3670 End of session Used for load balancing to distribute incoming traffic across backend servers.
46332df5d7775b3951ab9554d9a34b8e End of session Used for load balancing to distribute incoming traffic across backend servers.
be722e80d111280a196a845353f9d65f End of session Used for load balancing to distribute incoming traffic across backend servers.

Analytics cookies

CERN uses Matomo Analytics to analyse traffic to the website and help improve website performance. Matomo Analytics data is stored at CERN (legal entity of Zenodo).

Name Duration Purpose
_pk_id# 13 months Recognises website visitors (anonymously – no personal information is collected on the user).
_pk_ref# 6 months Identifies the referrer website initially used to visit the website.
_pk_ses# 30 minutes Identifies the pages viewed by the same user during the same visit (anonymously – no personal information is collected on the user).

How can you manage cookies?

Removing cookies from your device

You can delete all cookies that are already on your device by clearing the browsing history of your browser. This will remove all cookies from all websites you have visited.

Be aware though that you may also lose some saved information (e.g. saved login details, site preferences).

See aboutcookies.org for further details of how to control/delete cookies.

Managing our analytics cookies

You can change your preferences using the following buttons:

In addition, Zenodo supports a technology called "Do Not Track". The "Do Not Track" technology enables visitors to opt-out from being tracked by analytics cookies on websites for whatever purpose, including the use of analytics services.

To enable the “do not track” option in your browser follow the respective link below:

If your preferred browser is not in the above list of browsers, visit the vendor's website for more information.

Further information

See also our privacy policy

Last revision: 2024-03-20