GeneralSurgeryBoardsQA

Last updated: 28 August 2026

Cookie policy

There is no cookie banner on this site, and this page explains why that is allowed rather than an oversight.

Why there is no banner

Spanish Law 34/2002, Article 22.2, and the ePrivacy Directive require consent for storage that is not strictly necessary to provide a service the user has asked for. This site sets only strictly necessary cookies. No advertising, no tracking across sites, no profiling, no third-party marketing pixels. Nothing here needs consent, so nothing is asked.

The day that changes, a banner appears and this page changes with it. It has not.

What is actually stored

NamePurposeTypeLifetime
sb-*-auth-tokenKeeps you signed in between pagesStrictly necessary cookieUntil sign-out or expiry
gsboardsqa-progressYour answers and scores, so progress survives a reloadLocal storage, on your deviceUntil you clear it
__stripe_mid / __stripe_sidFraud prevention during payment, set by StripeStrictly necessary cookie1 year / 30 minutes

The progress store is local storage in your own browser, not a cookie and not sent anywhere. Clearing your browser data erases it, and it will not come back.

Turning them off

Any browser can block cookies for this domain. Blocking the authentication cookie means you cannot stay signed in, which is the only thing it does. Blocking the Stripe cookies may cause a payment to be declined as suspicious.

More detail

What is collected and who processes it is set out in the privacy policy. Questions to lozanon57@gmail.com.