Cookie Policy

This policy explains how Cognition, Brain, Behavior. An Interdisciplinary Journal uses cookies. It complements the journal’s Privacy Statement and the privacy policies of Babeș-Bolyai University.

1. What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small text file that a website asks your browser to store and that the browser sends back on each later visit. It is passive: it contains no software, cannot read your hard disk and cannot run anything on your device. A cookie has two parts — a name and a value.

2. What information is collected?

This journal does not use analytics, advertising or social-media cookies. No profiling takes place, and no data is shared with advertising networks. The single cookie described below stores only a random session identifier — it carries no name, no email address and no reading history.

Separately from cookies, the web server keeps standard access logs and the journal records article download counts for reporting to indexing services. These counts are aggregated and are not linked to individual visitors.

3. Cookies used on this website

Strictly necessary cookies — required for the site to function. These cannot be switched off.

• OJSSID — keeps your session while you browse and is required in order to sign in and to submit forms. Set by this website only. Expires after 7 days, or when you clear your browser data. Marked HttpOnly, so it cannot be read by scripts, and SameSite=Lax, so it is not sent from other sites.
• cbbCookieConsent — records that you have seen the cookie notice, so that it is not shown again on every page. Expires after 30 days, after which the notice appears once more.

Statistical, registration, YouTube and Google Maps cookies — not used. The journal embeds no videos, no maps and no third-party trackers. Links to Facebook, X, Scopus or CEEOL are ordinary links: nothing is loaded from those services unless you click through, at which point their own policies apply.

4. What if you do not want any cookies at all?

Both cookies described above are strictly necessary, and we want to be straightforward about what that means in practice.

The session cookie is sent by the server together with the page itself, before the notice can appear on screen. No banner can prevent it — not on this site, and not on any other. Offering you a „refuse” button for it would be a promise we could not keep, which is why the notice has a single button.

If you want to refuse them anyway, your browser can. Block cookies for this site in your browser settings, or use a private window. The good news: you can still read the entire journal that way — every article, issue and page works with cookies fully blocked. Only signing in and submitting forms stop working, because those genuinely need a session.

The notice reappears if you clear your cookies, and you can read this policy again at any time using the Cookie settings button at the bottom of every page.

5. Updates

This policy will be updated if the journal ever starts using additional cookies — for example if web analytics is introduced. The date of the last change is shown below.

Last updated: 20 August 2026.