diff --git a/auth/assets/public/style.css b/auth/assets/public/style.css
index c5c6930d7..067f2db50 100644
--- a/auth/assets/public/style.css
+++ b/auth/assets/public/style.css
@@ -154,7 +154,6 @@ select.form-control {
 .footer {
   position: fixed;
   bottom: 0;
-  z-index: -1;
 }
 
 /* position bootstrap icons on buttons centrally */
diff --git a/auth/assets/templates/inc_footer.html.tpl b/auth/assets/templates/inc_footer.html.tpl
index bee1782f6..e9354348f 100644
--- a/auth/assets/templates/inc_footer.html.tpl
+++ b/auth/assets/templates/inc_footer.html.tpl
@@ -1,11 +1,7 @@
 		</main>
 		{{ template "inc_toasts.html.tpl" .alerts }}
-        <div class="footer col text-center mb-4 py-4">
-            <a href="https://cortezaproject.org/" target="_blank" class="text-white mr-2">cortezaproject.org</a>
-            <a href="https://github.com/cortezaproject/" target="_blank" class="text-white ml-2">GitHub</a>
-						<i class="p-1 small text-white position-absolute version mr-3 mb-3">
-							{{ tr "inc_footer.version" "version" version }}
-						</i>
+        <div class="footer col text-center mb-4 py-4 text-white">
+            Access source code on <a href="https://github.com/cortezaproject/" target="_blank" class="text-white ml-2">GitHub</a>
         </div>
 	</body>
 	<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.5.1.slim.min.js" integrity="sha384-DfXdz2htPH0lsSSs5nCTpuj/zy4C+OGpamoFVy38MVBnE+IbbVYUew+OrCXaRkfj" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>