Legal document
In effect since September 5, 2026. What we place on your browser, why, and for how long.
The website linqfolio.com is published by LINQFOLIO SAS, a company registered in France (full details in the legal notice). This policy explains how we use cookies and similar technologies when you visit this marketing website and its forms (newsletter).
A cookie is a small text file placed on your device (computer, smartphone, tablet) when you visit a website. Cookies let us recognize your browser, remember preferences, or (when you agree to it) measure audience traffic and marketing campaigns to a limited extent.
We also use browser local storage (localStorage) for certain interface preferences that are not HTTP cookies but have a comparable effect on your device.
Summary table of what gets written to your device. Our internal audience counters do not appear here: they write nothing at all, no cookie and no storage key. They are described in the next section.
| Name | Type | Purpose | Basis / consent | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| linqfolio-consent | localStorage | Remember your answer to the banner (essential to the consent mechanism itself). | Exempt from consent: without it, we could not remember that you declined. | 6 months, then we ask again |
| linqfolio-lang | localStorage | Remember the language you picked (French or English) with the site's switcher. | Exempt: a display preference you expressed yourself. | Persistent |
| linqfolio-theme | localStorage | Remember the light or dark theme you picked with the site's switcher. | Exempt: a display preference you expressed yourself. | Persistent |
| _ga | HTTP cookie (Google Analytics 4) | Tell visitors apart, so a returning visit can be recognised and traffic sources measured, printed QR code campaigns included. | Consent (the banner's "Accept" button). Not set before you agree, nor if you decline. | 13 months |
| _ga_<measurement ID> | HTTP cookie (Google Analytics 4) | Keep the state of the current session (start, duration, pages visited in sequence). | Consent (the banner's "Accept" button). Not set before you agree, nor if you decline. | 13 months |
We measure traffic in two ways, which fall under different legal regimes and do not see the same things. The first works for everyone because it keeps nothing about you; the second waits for your agreement because it does keep something.
Every page view increments counters hosted on our own infrastructure, in Ireland. These counters hold nothing but additions: one row per day and per indicator, a number inside it. "412 home pages viewed today", "31 clicks to the App Store", "18 banner refusals".
That set of conditions is exactly the one the CNIL requires for audience measurement exempt from consent: a single purpose, strictly anonymous results, a scope limited to the publisher alone, no cross-referencing. The result is not anonymised after the fact — it is anonymous from the moment it is written, since there were only ever numbers.
What this lets us know is deliberately poor: totals. How many visits, which pages, what share of our readers declines the banner, which printed materials bring people in. Never a journey, never a profile, never a returning visit.
Google Analytics gives us what counters cannot: the sequence of gestures within a single visit. Which section holds attention, where on the page people give up, how many arguments they read before clicking through to an app store.
That tool requires cookies and processing by a third party. The CNIL does not grant it the exemption described above: it is therefore neither loaded, nor executed, nor contacted until you click "Accept". Before you answer and after a refusal, your browser makes no contact with Google at all.
If you accept, the _ga and _ga_<measurement ID> cookies are set and data is processed by Google Ireland Limited acting as a processor, with IP address anonymization. We enable neither advertising signals, nor ad personalization, nor sharing with Google's advertising products: those settings stay denied at all times, including after you accept.
Because one alone would lie. If we only measured the people who accepted, every figure would describe a fraction of our audience without our knowing which one. The internal counters give the real volume and the refusal rate; Google Analytics gives the detail on those who accepted it. Setting the second against the first is how we know what the second is worth.
Signing up for the newsletter requires your email address and a separate consent checkbox, distinct from the cookie banner. Data is processed in accordance with the privacy policy.
The form uses no cookie. The page language and the form's location are recorded with your request, so that we write to you in the right language.
The panel below shows your current answer on Google Analytics and lets you change it in one click, at any time. The change takes effect immediately: if you withdraw, the _ga cookies already set are cleared straight away, with no need to reload the page.
The internal counters in section 4.1 come with no decline button, and that is deliberate: there would be nothing to decline. They keep no data about you, so there is nothing to withdraw, access, or erase — a right to object would presuppose that a trace of you exists somewhere, and it does not.
To exercise your rights over the personal data we do hold (newsletter sign-up, exchanges with support), write to dpo@linqfolio.com.
Last updated: September 5, 2026. We will update this policy if our processing activities or the cookies we use change.
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