Gleanin Cookie Policy

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that websites place on the computers and mobile devices of people who visit those websites. This cookie policy is to inform users about the use of cookies by Gleanin. For information on personal data and how we handle that, see our Privacy Policy.

Cookies can be “session” cookies - which are deleted when you close your browser, or “persistent” which are kept on your computer or device between sessions.

How does Gleanin use cookies?

Gleanin uses both session and persistent cookies to deliver its service and uses cookies from 3 domains:

Cookies used by the Gleanin share tool

Cookie Name Domain Type & Usage
_project_x_session .gleanin.com Session cookie - deleted when you close your browser. Contains encrypted token.

Used to protect against cross site request forgery.
_session_id .gleanin.com Session cookie - deleted when you close your browser. Contains user id.

Used for login authentication to the client admin area. Empty when using our advocate tool.
CSRF-TOKEN .gleanin.com Session cookie - deleted when you close your browser. Contains encrypted token.

Used to protect against cross site request forgery
12 characters* 0-9 a-f invt.io Persistent Cookie - deleted 72 days after last access and contains no personal data.

These cookies are used to store the last advocate link someone clicked on. Only one cookie will be stored per event (e.g. if someone clicks on 2 advocate links for the same event, only the last is present)
* We assign a unique 12 character identifier to each of our clients’ events. We use this identifier as the name for the cookie related to that event.

Additional cookies used by the Gleanin admin interface (clients only)

Cookie Name Domain Type & Usage
.gleanin.com Session cookie - deleted when you close your browser.

Used in user authentication.
auth.token_expiration.cookie .gleanin.com Session cookie - deleted when you close your browser.

Used in user authentication.
auth.strategy .gleanin.com Session cookie - deleted when you close your browser.

Used in user authentication.
i18n_redirected .gleanin.com Persistent Cookie - deleted 365 days after last.

Used to indicate language preference.
Multiple** chargebee.com Session & persistent cookies.

These cookies are only stored when viewing the admin interface to support our billing provider.
** Our billing provider uses several cookies on the chargebee.com domain.

Does Gleanin use cookies to track me around the internet or for advertising?

No, Gleanin cookies are used to track the performance of our advocate links shared via our tools. They are only ever used in the context of a specific event.

Does Gleanin use third party cookies?

Gleanin does not use third party cookies other than for logged in client users. Clients accessing their billing/account pages receive a Chargbee cookie (see table above).

What if I don’t want cookies?

Our product, Gleanin, is provided as a service to event organisers and used on their marketing and registration websites. If you would like to block cookies specifically from Gleanin, browsers allow you to control which sites you would like to accept cookies from. Help on the most common browsers can be found here: