Hello! We are currently in the process of sorting and marking all the cookies needed by our website (and therefore the "embedded" Confluence behind it) to be GDPR compliant. We discovered lots of cookies and assigned them accordingly to "needed" and "analysis", but we also found a couple of cookies we can't explain. As far as we found out they are all provided by Confluence - do you know what these cookies are for? Thank you very much in advance! Alex. NAME PURPOSEEXPIRYTYPEatlassian-analytics.confluence PendingPersistentHTML Local Storageatlassian-analytics.confluence.lock PendingPersistentHTML Local Storagebrowser-metrics-journey PendingSessionHTML Local StorageConfluence.insert-wiki-markup-dialog.cache PendingPersistentHTML Local StorageConfluence.insert-wiki-markup-dialog.cacheStack PendingPersistentHTML Local Storage

Hello @Shannon S , Thanks for this information, but I am not allowed to access to the (bitbucket) browser-metrics frontend library. Is this cookie native to Confluence, or is it related to a 3rd party plugin? What do you mean by: "so it may be a leftover from an older version"? We are running Confluence 6.15.4 and this cookie is present. How should we consider it?

Hello @Felix Vogler, Thank you so much for your patience while I tracked this information down. * The cookie browser-metrics-journey is related to the browser-metrics frontend library. This cookie measures transition time between various pages. The information can then be used for profiling and measuring performance. We weren't able to find any usage of this in Confluence, so it may be a leftover from an older version. * Any cookies starting with Confluence.insert-wiki-markup-dialog were used for the Insert Markup functionality. They stored the last choice of conversion format (Wiki or Markdown). Later on, they were converted to Local Storage, so these aren't necessary anymore. I hope that helps, but do let me know if you have any further questions. Regards, Shannon

Hi Felix, Thank you for confirming. I'm getting in touch with the Confluence server GDPR team, let me see what I can find out for you! Shannon

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description of cookies (needed to be GDRP compliant)

Felix Vogler

Hello!

We are currently in the process of sorting and marking all the cookies needed by our website (and therefore the "embedded" Confluence behind it) to be GDPR compliant.

We discovered lots of cookies and assigned them accordingly to "needed" and "analysis", but we also found a couple of cookies we can't explain. As far as we found out they are all provided by Confluence - do you know what these cookies are for?

Thank you very much in advance!

Alex.

NAME	PURPOSE	EXPIRY	TYPE
atlassian-analytics.confluence	Pending	Persistent	HTML Local Storage
atlassian-analytics.confluence.lock	Pending	Persistent	HTML Local Storage
browser-metrics-journey	Pending	Session	HTML Local Storage
Confluence.insert-wiki-markup-dialog.cache	Pending	Persistent	HTML Local Storage
Confluence.insert-wiki-markup-dialog.cacheStack	Pending	Persistent	HTML Local Storage

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Shannon S

Hi Felix,

Thank you for bringing this up to us.

I'm trying to find out for you what these cookies are for specifically; I'll let you know when I find more information on that.

Thank you.

Shannon

Felix Vogler

Hi Shannon,

Did you have any success in finding the specifics?

Thank you very much for your efforts!

Felix.

Shannon S

Hello Felix,

I'm so sorry about that. I found specifics about one of those cookies, but not all of them yet:

atlassian-analytics.confluence - Used for statistics only, in order to store statistics about Confluence usage (for the Analytics feature). I believe the .lock file is probably a version of that cookie.

The others aren't listed anywhere yet, but I've been trying to chase down the information for you still. I will follow-up with the teams again today to see if I can find anymore information.

Regards,

Shannon

Felix Vogler

Thank you so much Shannon!

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