Cookie 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.

There are two kinds of cookies: first-party and persistent cookies.

• 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.
  • The 3 types of first-party cookies we use are to:
    • store visitor preferences
    • make our websites operational
    • gather analytics data (about user behaviour)‍
  • 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.

You will be prompted to accept or refuse cookies every time you visit the EU Peers website. The purpose of this is to enable the site to remember your preferences (such as user name, language, etc.) for a certain period of time. Once you set your preferences, 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.

What Cookies do we use, and how do we use them?

On the EU Peers project website, three distinctive types of cookies are used:

1. Strictly necessary cookies which are necessary for the operation of the website. They include data such as the user's consent to use their cookies and temporary short-lived cookies for the session on the website. 
2. Performance cookies which collect information about the use of the EU Peers project website. These cookies include information about page visits and document downloads. Performance cookies are gathered and aggregated anonymously thus, it is impossible to identify the users. The user can opt out of gathering performance cookies.
3. Functional cookies collect user choices while browsing the EU Peers project website. These cookies include the user's geographical location and preferences, such as text size, fonts, and other customisable site elements. The user can opt out of gathering functional cookies.

How can you manage Cookies?

Removing cookies from your device

You can delete cookies that are already on your device by clearing your browser's browsing history. This will remove all cookies from all websites you have visited. Please note that by doing so, you may also lose the information (saved preferences, login details)

Managing site-specific cookies

You can access the more detailed control over site-specific cookies and check your preferred browser's privacy and cookie settings.  

Managing our analytics cookies

You can manage your preferences concerning cookies in the prompt when you visit our website. 

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