Cookies in our website

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 our website, you will be prompted to accept or refuse cookies.

The purpose is to enable the site to remember your preferences (such as 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 our site.

All cookies used in our website are technical cookies. They enable our website to function and help us serve you better. For example, a cookie will tell the site which language you normally use to browse it.

How do we use cookies?

We mostly use “first-party cookies”. However, to view some of our pages, you will have to accept cookies from external organisations.  

The 3 types of first-party cookie we use are to:

  • store visitor preferences

  • make our websites operational

  • gather analytics data (about user behaviour)

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. saved login details, 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 being placed on your device, but you may then have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site/page. And some services and functionalities may not work properly at all.

Data protection Information and measures

First party cookies

We store cookies that expire and will be automatically removed from the user’s device. A cookie is a small piece of data that a website stores on the visitor’s computer or mobile device. There are two types of cookies – session and persistent cookies.

The data collected contains no personal information and the random unique visitor ID that is generated by the software cannot be used to identify a particular visitor. Data will not be shared with any other organisations for marketing, market research or commercial purposes.

Cookies used enable to collect the following information about visitors:

  • internet protocol (IP) address (anonymised)

  • location: country, region, city, approximate latitude and longitude (geolocation)

  • date and time of the request (visit to the site)

  • title of the page being viewed (page title)

  • URL of the page being viewed (page URL)

  • URL of the page that was viewed prior to the current page (referrer URL)

  • screen resolution of the user's device

  • local time in visitor's time zone

  • files that were clicked and downloaded (download)

  • links to an outside domain that were clicked (outlink)

  • page generation time: the time it takes for webpages to be generated by the webserver and then downloaded by the visitor (page speed)

  • main language of the browser being used (accept language header)

  • browser version, browser plugins (PDF, Flash, Java) operating system version, device identifier (user agent header)

  • language of the visited page

  • campaigns

  • site search

  • events

Social media cookies

We are active on social media platforms and there are links to these platforms in our website.

Our website does not set cookies when displaying links to our social media channels when you browse our website. By clicking on the social media links on our website, you will be redirected to the platform in question, which has its own cookie and privacy policies.