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class="ecl"><p>To make the websites managed by the European Commission work properly, we sometimes place small data files called cookies on your device.</p></div> </div> <div class="ecl-u-mb-2xl"> <a id="paragraph_938"></a> <h2 class="ecl-u-type-heading-2">What are cookies?</h2> <div class="ecl"><p>A cookie is a small text file that a website stores on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site.</p><ul><li><strong>First party cookies</strong> are cookies set by the website you are visiting. Only that website can read them. In addition, a website might potentially use external services, which also set their own cookies, known as <strong>third-party cookies</strong>.</li><li><strong>Persistent cookies</strong> are cookies saved on your computer and that are not deleted automatically when you quit your browser, <strong>unlike a session cookie</strong>, which is deleted when you quit your browser.</li></ul><p>Every time you visit the websites managed by the European Commission, you will be prompted to <strong>accept or refuse cookies</strong>.</p><p>The purpose is to enable the site to remember your preferences (such as user name, language, etc.) for a certain period of time.</p><p>That way, <strong>you do not have to re-enter them</strong> when browsing around the site during the same visit.</p><p>Cookies can also be used to establish anonymised statistics about the browsing experience on our sites.</p></div> </div> <div class="ecl-u-mb-2xl"> <a id="paragraph_939"></a> <h2 class="ecl-u-type-heading-2">How do we use cookies?</h2> <div class="ecl"><p>The websites managed by the European Commission mostly use <strong>first-party cookies</strong>. These are cookies set and controlled by the European Commission, not by any external organisation.</p><p>However, to view some of our pages, you will have to accept cookies from external organisations.</p><p>The <strong>3 types of first-party cookie</strong> we use are to:</p><ul><li>store visitor preferences</li><li>make our websites operational</li><li>gather analytics data (about user behaviour).</li></ul><h3>1. Visitor preferences</h3><p>These are set by us and only we can read them. They remember:</p><ul><li>if you have agreed to (or refused) this site’s cookie policy</li><li>if you have already replied to our survey pop-up (about how helpful the site content was) – so you will not be asked again.</li></ul><p><strong>Visitor preferences cookies</strong> are:</p><p><strong>Name</strong>: ecsi</p><p><strong>Service</strong>: Website survey tools</p><p><strong>Purpose</strong>: Stores information on whether you have already replied to a survey pop-up – so you will not be asked again</p><p><strong>Cookie type and duration</strong>: First-party persistent cookie, 1 month</p><p><br><strong>Name</strong>: cck3</p><p><strong>Service</strong>: Cookie consent kit</p><p><strong>Purpose</strong>: Stores your preferences for 3rd-party cookies (so you won't be asked again)</p><p><strong>Cookie type and duration</strong>: First-party session cookie deleted after you quit your browser</p><p><br><strong>Name</strong>: cck1</p><p><strong>Service</strong>: Cookie consent kit</p><p><strong>Purpose</strong>: Stores your cookie preferences (so you won’t be asked again)</p><p><strong>Cookie type and duration</strong>: First-party persistent cookie, 6 months</p><p> </p><h3>2. Operational cookies</h3><p>There are some cookies that we have to include in order for certain web pages to function. For this reason, they do not require your consent. In particular:</p><ul><li><strong>Authentication cookies</strong>: these are stored when you log in to a site managed by the European Commission, using our <a href="https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/cas/about.html">authentication service (EU Login)</a>. When you do this, you accept the associated <a href="/privacy-policy-european-union-website_en">privacy policy</a>.</li></ul><p><strong>Authentication cookies</strong> are:</p><p><strong>Name</strong>: MyEACSDomain</p><p><strong>Service</strong>: Identity Management Service</p><p><strong>Purpose</strong>: Remembers your domain</p><p><strong>Cookie type and duration</strong>: First-party session cookie, deleted after you quit your browser</p><p><br><strong>Name</strong>: __Secure_CASTGC</p><p><strong>Service</strong>: Identity Management Service</p><p><strong>Purpose</strong>: Identifies your session</p><p><strong>Cookie type and duration</strong>: First-party session cookie, deleted after you quit your browser</p><p><br><strong>Name</strong>: __Secure_ECAS_SESSIONID</p><p><strong>Service</strong>: Identity Management Service</p><p><strong>Purpose</strong>: Identifies the current Central Authentication Service session</p><p><strong>Cookie type and duration</strong>: First-party session cookie, deleted after you quit your browser</p><p><br><strong>Name</strong>: ECAS_PREFS</p><p><strong>Service</strong>: Identity Management Service</p><p><strong>Purpose</strong>: Remembers your settings and preferences: user id, user name, acknowledged cookie policy, high contrast mode, privacy mode, view account details after login, last strength selected</p><p><strong>Cookie type and duration</strong>: First-party session cookie, deleted after you quit your browser</p><p>The names of these cookies may change, for technical reasons (particularly <strong>__Secure-CASTGC</strong> and <strong>__Secure-ECAS_SESSIONID</strong>).</p><p> </p><ul><li><strong>Technical cookies</strong> required by certain IT systems are:</li></ul><p><strong>Name</strong>: has_js</p><p><strong>Service</strong>: Corporate content management platform, based on Drupal open source software</p><p><strong>Purpose</strong>: Determines whether Javascript is enabled in your browser. This allows our websites to function properly</p><p><strong>Cookie type and duration</strong>: First-party session cookie, deleted after you quit your browser</p><p> </p><p><strong>Name</strong>: JSESSIONID / CFID / CFTOKEN</p><p><strong>Service</strong>: Java IT platform / Coldfusion IT platform</p><p><strong>Purpose</strong>: Maintain a secure session for you, during your visit</p><p><strong>Cookie type and duration</strong>: First-party session cookie, deleted after you quit your browser</p><p> </p><p><strong>Name</strong>: ecsi</p><p><strong>Service</strong>: Website survey tools</p><p><strong>Purpose</strong>: Stores information on whether you have already replied to a survey pop-up – so you will not be asked again</p><p><strong>Cookie type and duration</strong>: First-party persistent cookie, 1 month</p><p> </p><p><strong>Name of cookie</strong>: MoodleSession</p><p><strong>Service/website where cookie used</strong>: CusTax - EU Learning**</p><p><strong>Purpose of cookie</strong>: Identifies your session**</p><p><strong>Cookie type and duration</strong>: First-party session cookie, deleted after you quit your browser**</p><p> </p><p><strong>Name</strong>: GS_FLOW_CONTROL</p><p><strong>Service</strong>: GeoServer</p><p><strong>Purpose</strong>: Used to provide improved performance.</p><p><strong>Cookie type and duration</strong>: First-party session cookie, deleted after you quit your browser</p><p> </p><p><strong>Name</strong>: SERVERID</p><p><strong>Service</strong>: GISCO</p><p><strong>Purpose</strong>: Used to maintain your session secure during your whole visit.</p><p><strong>Cookie type and duration</strong>: First-party session cookie, deleted after you quit your browser</p><p> </p><p><strong>Name</strong>: jrc_cookie</p><p><strong>Service</strong>: F5</p><p><strong>Purpose</strong>: Used to maintain your session secure during your whole visit.</p><p><strong>Cookie type and duration</strong>: First-party session cookie, deleted after you quit your browser</p><p> </p><p><strong>Name</strong>: TS#</p><p><strong>Service</strong>: F5 (WAF/ASM)</p><p><strong>Purpose</strong>: Used to maintain your session secure during your whole visit.</p><p><strong>Cookie type and duration</strong>: First-party session cookie, deleted after you quit your browser</p><p> </p><p><strong>Name</strong>: enrol-course-url</p><p><strong>Service</strong>: EU-Academy</p><p><strong>Purpose</strong>: Stores the course that the user wanted to enroll to before logging in and enroll the user automatically after the user logins.</p><p><strong>Cookie type and duration</strong>: First-party persistent cookie, 1 day</p><p> </p><p><strong>Name</strong>: current-url</p><p><strong>Service</strong>: EU-Academy</p><p><strong>Purpose</strong>: Stores the current URL to redirect the user to the same page after login. </p><p><strong>Cookie type and duration</strong>: First-party persistent cookie, 1 day</p><p> </p><p><strong>Name</strong>: scopes_children</p><p><strong>Service</strong>: EU-Academy</p><p><strong>Purpose</strong>: Used to provide improved cache performance. </p><p><strong>Cookie type and duration</strong>: First-party persistent cookie, 3 minutes</p><p> </p><p><strong>Name</strong>: coursesForTemplate</p><p><strong>Service</strong>: EU-Academy</p><p><strong>Purpose</strong>: Stores all courses that are included in the current branch, excluding courses that the user is already enrolled in, to display them in the result page. </p><p><strong>Cookie type and duration</strong>: First-party persistent cookie, 5 minutes</p><p><br><strong>Name</strong>: learningPlans</p><p><strong>Service</strong>: EU-Academy</p><p><strong>Purpose</strong>: Stores all learning plans that are included in the current branch, excluding learning plans that the user is already enrolled in, to display them in the result page. </p><p><strong>Cookie type and duration</strong>: First-party persistent cookie, 5 minutes</p><p> </p><p><strong>Name</strong>: user_logins</p><p><strong>Service</strong>: EU-Academy</p><p><strong>Purpose</strong>: Counts the number of logins for a user to display a popup containing a form for the user to complete personal information and preferences. </p><p><strong>Cookie type and duration</strong>: First-party persistent cookie, 1 day</p><p> </p><p><strong>Name</strong>: MOODLEID1_SESSSIONCOOKIE</p><p><strong>Service</strong>: EU-Academy</p><p><strong>Purpose</strong>: Sets a Moodle cookie with a weakly encrypted username.</p><p><strong>Cookie type and duration</strong>: First-party persistent cookie, 60 days</p><p> </p><p><strong>Name</strong>: moodledownload_SESSKEY</p><p><strong>Service</strong>: EU-Academy</p><p><strong>Purpose</strong>: Sets a cookie which is used to inform page JavaScript in submit.js. Used if a form submit results in a file download instead of navigating to a new page, before the file download is sent. </p><p><strong>Cookie type and duration</strong>: First-party session cookie, deleted after you quit your browser</p><p> </p><p><strong>Name</strong>: SourceUrl</p><p><strong>Service</strong>: EU-Academy</p><p><strong>Purpose</strong>: Used for the user redirection made after the AWS WAF will block a request</p><p><strong>Cookie type and duration</strong>: First-party persistent cookie, 60 minutes</p><p> </p><p><strong>Name</strong>: CaptchaSession</p><p><strong>Service</strong>: EU-Academy</p><p><strong>Purpose</strong>: Cookie checked by the AWS WAF in order to establish if the CAPTCHA was solved by the user</p><p><strong>Cookie type and duration</strong>: First-party persistent cookie, 60 minutes</p><p> </p><p><strong>Name</strong>: dtLatC</p><p><strong>Service</strong>: IT hosting infrastructure</p><p><strong>Purpose</strong>: Measures server latency for performance monitoring.</p><p><strong>Cookie type and duration</strong>: First Party Session Cookie, deleted after you quit your browser</p><p> </p><p><strong>Name</strong>: dtPC</p><p><strong>Service</strong>: IT hosting infrastructure</p><p><strong>Purpose</strong>: Required to identify proper endpoints for beacon transmission; includes session ID for correlation.</p><p><strong>Cookie type and duration</strong>: First Party Session Cookie, deleted after you quit your browser</p><p> </p><p><strong>Name</strong>: Rxvt</p><p><strong>Service</strong>: IT hosting infrastructure</p><p><strong>Purpose</strong>: Specifies the session timeout.</p><p><strong>Cookie type and duration</strong>: First Party Session Cookie, deleted after you quit your browser</p><p> </p><p><strong>Name</strong>: rxVisitor</p><p><strong>Service</strong>: IT hosting infrastructure</p><p><strong>Purpose</strong>: Contains the visitor ID to correlate sessions.</p><p><strong>Cookie type and duration</strong>: First Party Session Cookie, deleted after you quit your browser</p><p> </p><p><strong>Name</strong>: dtCookie</p><p><strong>Service</strong>: IT hosting infrastructure</p><p><strong>Purpose</strong>: Tracks a visit across multiple requests.</p><p><strong>Cookie type and duration</strong>: First Party Session Cookie, deleted after you quit your browser</p><p> </p><p><strong>Name</strong>: dtSa</p><p><strong>Service</strong>: IT hosting infrastructure</p><p><strong>Purpose</strong>: Measures server latency for performance monitoring.</p><p><strong>Cookie type and duration</strong>: First Party Session Cookie, deleted after you quit your browser</p><p> </p><p><strong>Name</strong>: dtValidationCookie</p><p><strong>Service</strong>: IT hosting infrastructure</p><p><strong>Purpose</strong>: Used to determine the top-level domain.</p><p><strong>Cookie type and duration</strong>: First Party Cookie, deleted after a few milliseconds; no expiry date set</p><p> </p><p><strong>Name</strong>: dtDisabled</p><p><strong>Service</strong>: IT hosting infrastructure</p><p><strong>Purpose</strong>: Determines if the RUM JavaScript should be deactivated due to cost and traffic control or overload prevention.</p><p><strong>Cookie type and duration</strong>: First Party Session Cookie, deleted after you quit your browser</p><p> </p><p><strong>Name</strong>: X-Qlik-Session</p><p><strong>Service</strong>: QlickSense</p><p><strong>Purpose</strong>: Opens and maintains an X-Qlik user session</p><p><strong>Cookie type and duration</strong>: First-party session cookie, deleted after 30 minutes of inactivity<br> </p><p> </p><h3>3. Analytics cookies</h3><p>We use these purely for internal research on how we can improve the service we provide for all our users.</p><p>The cookies simply assess how you interact with our website – as an anonymous user (they <strong>data gathered does not identify you personally</strong>).</p><p>Also, this data is <strong>not shared with any third parties</strong> or used for any other purpose. The anonymised statistics could be shared with contractors working on communication projects under contractual agreement with the European Commission.</p><p>However, you are <strong>free to refuse</strong> these types of cookies – either via the cookie banner you will see on the first page you visit or at <a href="/europa-analytics_en">Europa Analytics</a>.</p><p><strong>Analytics cookies</strong> are:</p><p><strong>Name</strong>: _pk_id#</p><p><strong>Service</strong>: Corporate web analytics service</p><p><strong>Purpose</strong>: Recognises website visitors (<strong>anonymously</strong> – no personal information is collected on the user)</p><p><strong>Cookie type and duration</strong>: First-party persistent cookie, 13 months</p><p><br><strong>Name</strong>: _pk_ses#</p><p><strong>Service</strong>: Corporate web analytics service</p><p><strong>Purpose</strong>: Identifies the pages viewed by the same user during the same visit. (<strong>anonymously</strong> – no personal information is collected on the user)</p><p><strong>Cookie type and duration</strong>: First-party persistent cookie, 30 minutes</p></div> </div> <div class="ecl-u-mb-2xl"> <a id="paragraph_940"></a> <h2 class="ecl-u-type-heading-2">Third-party cookies</h2> <div class="ecl"><p>Some of our pages display content hosted by contracted services on domains external to europa.eu, for example our contractor who helps operating the Europe Direct Contact Centre. The external hosting may need cookies in order to function.</p><p><strong>Name of the cookie</strong>: PHPSESSIONID</p><p><strong>Service</strong>: Europe Direct contact form</p><p><strong>Purpose</strong>: Session info (random number), used for dealing with multi-language forms. No additional information stored</p><p><strong>Cookie type and duration</strong>: Third-party session cookie, set by our contractor. Deleted after you quit your browser</p><p>Some of our pages display content from external providers, e.g. YouTube, Facebook and Twitter.</p><p>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.</p><p>But if you do not view this content, no third-party cookies are installed on your device.</p><h3>Third-party providers on Commission websites</h3><ul><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/t/terms" class="ecl-link ecl-link--icon ecl-link--icon-after"><span class="ecl-link__label">YouTube</span><svg class="ecl-icon ecl-icon--xs ecl-link__icon" focusable="false" aria-hidden="true" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><use xlink:href="/themes/contrib/oe_theme/dist/ec/images/icons/sprites/icons.svg#external" /></svg></a></li><li><a href="https://archive.org/about/terms.php" class="ecl-link ecl-link--icon ecl-link--icon-after"><span class="ecl-link__label">Internet Archive</span><svg class="ecl-icon ecl-icon--xs ecl-link__icon" focusable="false" aria-hidden="true" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><use xlink:href="/themes/contrib/oe_theme/dist/ec/images/icons/sprites/icons.svg#external" 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