Cookie Policy

01What are cookies

Cookies are small text files stored on your device by your web browser when visiting websites. They are used to facilitate secure authentication, remember preferences, and provide analytical or advertising functionality.

02Cookies used on Sharelinknow

• Public Visitor Sessions: Sharelinknow does not place tracking cookies, advertising identifiers, or cross-site tracking tags on visitors who anonymously create, browse, or retrieve tickets.
• Administrative Session Cookies: For authorized site administrators accessing the private management portal (/admin), the site issues an essential, cryptographically signed HMAC-SHA256 session cookie ('admin_session' or '__Host-admin_session'). This cookie is strictly necessary for secure authentication, CSRF origin verification, and system protection. It has an expiration lifetime of 7 days and is set with HttpOnly, SameSite=Lax, and Secure flags in production.
• Transient Rate Limiting: Coarse IP request timestamps are maintained in transient server memory for up to ten minutes to enforce abuse thresholds and prevent denial-of-service attempts. They are never written to cookie storage on your machine.

03Third-party advertising & Google AdSense

When third-party advertising is enabled on public sections of Sharelinknow, third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this website or other websites on the Internet.

Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to users based on their visits to this site and/or other sites across the web.

These advertising cookies help ensure that relevant ads are displayed, prevent the same ad from showing repeatedly, and detect and prevent fraudulent ad traffic.

04Your choices & advertising opt-out controls

You have direct control over how cookies and advertising identifiers are used on your devices:

• Google Ads Settings: You may opt out of personalized advertising from Google by visiting Google Ads Settings at https://www.google.com/settings/ads.
• Network Advertising Initiative / AboutAds: You can opt out of third-party vendor use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/.
• Browser Controls: You can configure your browser to block, clear, or reject all cookies. Note that blocking all cookies will not impact anonymous ticket creation or retrieval on Sharelinknow, but will prevent administrative dashboard access.

05European Economic Area (EEA), UK & Swiss Privacy (CMP)

In compliance with applicable regulations in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, and Switzerland, Google requires publishers to utilize a Google-certified Consent Management Platform (CMP) integrated with the IAB Europe Transparency and Consent Framework (TCF v2.2) when presenting advertising to users in these jurisdictions.

Sharelinknow does not deploy unverified or mock consent mechanisms. Prior to activating advertising in jurisdictions requiring consent, an approved, Google-certified CMP must be active to present compliant choices regarding cookies, device identifiers, and personalized advertising.

06Questions & inquiries

If you have questions regarding our cookie practices, data minimization model, or privacy standards, please reach out via our Contact page at /contact under the 'Privacy & Data Removal' inquiry category.