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Cookies policy

To make Commission websites work properly, we sometimes place small data files called cookies on your device.

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 the Commission’s websites, 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 our sites.

How do we use cookies?

 

European Commission websites mostly use “first-party cookies”. These are cookies set and controlled by the Commission, not by any external organisation.

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)

 

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
  • if you have already replied to our survey pop-up (about how helpful the site content was) – so you won't be asked again.

 

 

Name

Service

Purpose

Cookie type and duration

eu_cookie_consent

Cookie consent kit

Stores your cookie preferences (so you won’t be asked again)

First-party session cookie deleted after you quit your browser

Ecsi, Eurostat-SearchFeedback

Website survey tools

Stores information on whether you have already replied to a survey pop-up – so you won't be asked again.

First-party persistent cookie, 1 month

cck3

Cookie consent kit

Stores your preferences for 3rd-party cookies (so you won't be asked again)

First-party session cookie deleted after you quit your browser

cck1

Cookie consent kit

Stores your cookie preferences (so you won’t be asked again)

First-party persistent cookie, 6 months

clima_survey

Climate Action

Stores information on whether you have already replied to a survey pop-up – so you won't be asked again

First-party persistent cookie, deleted after 1 day after you close the survey popup
Deleted after 1 year if you respond or ask to not answer the survey

econt_font_size

DEVCO companion

Stores the font size in which you want to read the content on the web page, following selection from the font-size menu

First-party session cookie, deleted after you quit your browser

econt_resizable_width

DEVCO companion

Remembers the width of the sidebar

First-party session cookie, deleted after you quit your browser

econt_font_size

PRAG Practical guide

Stores the font size in which you want to read the content on the web page, following selection from the font-size menu

First-party session cookie, deleted after you quit your browser

econt_resizable_width

PRAG Practical guide

Remembers the width of the sidebar

First-party session cookie, deleted after you quit your browser

escoLanguage

ESCO Portal

Stores your language preferences

First-party cookie deleted after one week

cookie-agreed

Speech Repository

Stores your cookie preferences (so you won’t be asked again)

First-party persistent cookie, 100 days

confluence.sidebar.width

Extranet Wikis

Public Wikis

Remembers the width of the sidebar

localStorage, persistent data

dashboard.route.last

Extranet Wikis

Public Wikis

Remembers preference for information displayed on the user's dashboard

localStorage, persistent data

Third-party cookies

 

Some of our pages display content from external providers, e.g. YouTube, Facebook and Twitter.

To view this third-party content, you first have to accept their specific terms and conditions. This includes their cookie policies, which we have no control over.

But if you do not view this content, no third-party cookies are installed on your device.

 

Third-party providers on Commission websites

 

You Tube
Internet Archive
Google Maps
Twitter
TV1
Vimeo
Microsoft
Facebook
Google
LinkedIn
Livestream
SoundCloud
European Parliament

 

These third-party services are outside of the control of the Commission. Providers may, at any time, change their terms of service, purpose and use of cookies, etc.