Cookie Policy

Twitch · Official agreement

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Account & Service Control · Restriction or exception

Operational cookies keep you logged in and cannot be disabled without severely affecting use

Operational cookies are critical to running the Twitch Services, for example to keep you logged in and remember your preferences. Twitch says they cannot be disabled without severely affecting your use of the Twitch Services.

Supporting quotations

Operational Cookies: These cookies are critical to the operation of the Twitch Services. These cookies are used, for example, to maintain your login state and remember your preferences. These cookies cannot be disabled without severely affecting your use of the Twitch Services.

Qualifications & exceptions

  • Login state and preferences are given as examples, not a complete list.

Cross-references

Account & Service Control · Context

Example cookies: auth-token for sign-in, api_token for security, language for preferences

The notice gives a two-column table of example cookies with their stated purposes. The first rows list auth-token (authentication and authorization), api_token (security) and language (user preferences). The table is introduced as examples of operational, analytics and advertising cookies but does not label which category each row belongs to.

Supporting quotations

Examples of operational, analytics, and advertising cookies:
auth-token
Authentication & authorization
api_token
Security
language
User preferences

Qualifications & exceptions

  • The table is a list of examples, not a complete cookie inventory.

Not stated here

  • The table does not say which purpose category (operational, analytics or advertising) each cookie belongs to, or its lifespan.