Cookies Policy
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that a website stores on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site.
- First party cookies are cookies set by the website you’re visiting. Only that website can read them. In addition, a website might potentially use external services, which also set their own cookies, known as third-party cookies.
- Persistent cookies are cookies saved on your computer and that are not deleted automatically when you quit your browser, unlike a session cookie, which is deleted when you quit your browser.
Every time you visit this website, you will be prompted to accept or refuse cookies.
The purpose is to enable the site to remember your preferences (such as user name, language, etc.) for a certain period of time.
That way, you don’t have to re-enter them when browsing around the site during the same visit.
Cookies can also be used to establish anonymised statistics about the browsing experience on this site.
How do we use cookies?
This website uses “first-party” and “third-party” cookies.
The type of first-party cookies we use are to:
- store visitor preferences
Visitor preferences
These are set by us and only we can read them. They remember:
- if you have agreed to (or refused) this site’s cookie policy
| Name | Service | Purpose | Cookie type and duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| cookie_consent_user_accepted | Cookie consent kit | Stores your cookie acceptance (so you won’t be asked again) | First-party persistent cookie with a default expiration of 2 months |
| cookie_consent_level | Cookie consent kit | Stores your cookie preferences | First-party persistent cookie with a default expiration of 2 months |
Third party cookies
The type of third-party cookies we use are to:
- gather analytics data (about user behaviour)
| Name | Service | Purpose | Cookie type and duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Google Analytics | Used to distinguish users | Third-party permanent cookie which expires after 2 years |
| _gat_gtag_UA_<uuid>_1 | Google Analytics | Used to control the request rate | Third-party permanent cookie which expires 1 minute after creation |
| _gid | Google Analytics | Used to distinguish users | Third-party permanent cookie which expires 24 hours after creation |
For more information on how Google Analytics service treats this data, see here.
How can you manage cookies
You can manage/delete cookies as you wish - for details, see aboutcookies.org.
Removing cookies from your device
You can delete all cookies that are already on your device by clearing the browsing history of your browser. This will remove all cookies from all websites you have visited.
Be aware though that you may also lose some saved information (e.g. site preferences).
Managing site-specific cookies
For more detailed control over site-specific cookies, check the privacy and cookie settings in your preferred browser.
Blocking cookies
You can set most modern browsers to prevent any cookies from being placed on your device, but you may then have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site/page.
The information presented here was based on the cookie policy for the European Commision websites.