Session cookie: The session cookie is stored in temporary memory and is not retained after the browser is closed. Session cookies do not collect information from the user's computer.
Settings: User interface settings shown in a binary form. Default value is 10000. Ones (1) mean switched on and zeros (0) mean switched off. The following user interface settings are in use: a) Competency categories (first bit, default value is 0); b) Specific skills (second bit, default value is 0); c) Free-text tags (third bit, default value is 0); d) Show charts (fourth bit, default value is 0); e) Bigger font (fifth bit, default value is 0).
Google Analytics: We don't use at the moment web analytics. But in some browsers, i.e in Internet Explore, Safari, you could nevertheless sometimes find cookies which start with _ga and _utm: These are used to distinguish users and for Google Analytics. They look like e.g. _ga=GA...; _gat=...; _utma=...; _utmc=...; _utmz=...