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Do we use cookies and server logs?

We use different types of cookies, aiming different purposes

•   Some cookies allow us to enable specific functions or to improve your navigation experience, while others allow us to analyse the way you consult our websites in order to improve it.
•  Some are strictly necessary, while others help us to personalise your navigation by remembering your preferences and settings.

Besides cookies, we also use our server logs in order to be able to analyse, to monitor and to diagnosis our technical infrastructures and applications. They help us to assume our operational security, to investigate on incidents, to monitor our network and telecommunication performance and to provide user assistance.
By navigating on our websites, you implicitly accept the use of:

• all technical and session cookies, which are stored during the session laps time
• all visitor preferences (such as language), which are stored permanently
• all server logs, which are kept for a limited period only

All cookies and server logs we use on our websites are listed and described in the Use of cookies by youthideas section here below.

How can you accept or refuse our analytics cookies?

We use analytics cookies in order to monitor the navigation of our users and improve the quality of your browsing experience.

Analytics cookies are added by our Web Analytics tool, AT Internet, and are considered as third party cookies. They help us to prepare aggregated and anonymous statistical reports on the navigation of our visitors.

You may accept or refuse them, either via the banner displayed at the bottom on our websites, or via the widget proposed on the top of this page. If you decide not to express your agreement, by ignoring the question, we will NOT place any cookie.

If you prefer not to be tracked, you can also activate the "Do Not Track" (DNT) setting on your browsers. It will guarantee you we will not track your navigation activity at all. These “Do Not Track” settings are available in most browsers. See “How do I change my cookie settings?” here below for additional details.

Use of cookies by youthideas

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. The table below explains the cookies we use and why. 

For users and administrators

• Cookie preference: europarlcookiepolicyagreement for 13 months. Purpose: Used to keep of information on your preferences in terms of cookies.
• Session cookie:     jsessionid for 30 minutes. Purpose: Used to record the list of new campaigns encountered during a visit, in order to avoid measuring the same campaign several times.
• At internet: Atidvisitor for 13 months. Purpose: Used to monitor the performance of pages visited by users of Parliament's websites.
•  At internet: Atuserid for 13 months. Purpose: Used to store the visitor anonymous ID on the Parliament's websites.

Only for administrators

Admin connexion: Drupal Session Cookie - Functional for 3 weeks. Purpose: This session cookie is used when an admin is logged in on the website and is used to store the session information.

How do I change my cookie settings?

You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking on the cookie management box on top of this page. You may need to refresh your page for your settings to take effect.
Alternatively, most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings.

Cookies and local storage

This website sets cookies solely in order to enable or enhance functions or improve the navigation experience for the user. The European Parliament uses the Company AT internet to collect anonymised data for statistical purposes only. Under no circumstances does Parliament use cookies to collect, process, disseminate or record personal data. The users can easily change their cookie settings after their initial choice by clicking on the link Cookie management in the footer of the website.

What do you do if you do not want cookies to be set on your computer?

Some people find the notion of information being stored on their computer or mobile device intrusive, in particular when that information is stored and used by a third party without their knowledge. If you prefer, it is possible to block some or all cookies, or even delete cookies which have already been set, but you should be aware that you might lose some functions. To do this, you need to alter your browser privacy settings. 

Some third-party operators have developed tools for disabling data collection and use via their modules.

At Internet

AT Internet is the web analytics tool we selected to monitor our websites.

AT Internet data protection policy

We have configured this tool in order to limit as much as possible the collection of personal data of our users. For instance, we have implemented the IP address de-identification by automatically truncating the last octet (the last 3 digits) of each visitor's IP address (Internet Protocol), making it impossible to identify a visitor via his sole IP address. 
The only data we track is the following, always with the aim of improving our websites via aggregated and anonymous statistics reports on visitors’ activities. 

• IP address (anonymised) and immediately erased
• Sources (types, campaigns, domains, …) 
• Contents being viewed (title of the page, editorial pages settings, path of pages, URL and canonical URL, language, …) 
• Geolocation (country, region, town) 
• Technical profiles (devices, OS, browsers, screen size of user, …) 
•  Periods (date and time of the visit to the site, user’s time zone) 
• Campaigns 
• Site search 
• Events (clicks on our contents, on action buttons, …) 
• Files that were clicked and downloaded 
• Domains (links to an external website, referrer website)