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Cookies 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. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.

  • First-party cookies are cookies set by the website you’re visiting. Only that website can read them.
  • Third-party cookies may be used when a website uses external services which set their own cookies.
  • Session cookies are cookies that are deleted automatically when you quit your browser.
  • Persistent cookies are cookies that are saved on your computer and remain on your computer when you quit your browser.
  • Essential cookiesare cookies that are necessary to ensure that the website is properly displayed for you. They may e.g. include information on your operating system version and language, browser or location.

Every time you visit the Publications Office’s websites, you will be prompted to either accept all cookies or only essential cookies. Cookies can also be used to establish anonymised statistics about the browsing experience on our sites.

How do we use cookies?

Publications Office websites mostly use first-party cookies set and controlled by the Publications Office, not by any external organisation. However, to view some of our pages, you will have to accept third-party cookies. You can delete or block these cookies, but if you do that some features of this site may not work as intended. These cookies are used to remember:

  • your display preferences, such as browsing language, contrast colour, font size, device used, search results preferences and notification preferences;
  • your latest visit to the website (for statistical purposes) and the three most recent pages visited (to help our helpdesk if you send a request);
  • if you have agreed (or not) to our use of cookies on this site.

Visitor preferences

The cookies registering your preferences are set by us and only we can read them. They remember if you have accepted all the cookies or only the essential ones..

Name Service Purpose Cookie type and duration
PORTAL2012_USER_PREFERENCES OP PORTAL Store user preferences(language, accessibility, pagination, default querys, etc) End of browser session
GUEST_LANGUAGE_ID OP PORTAL Store guest language 1 year

Operational cookies

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:

  • authentication cookies ;
  • technical cookies required by certain IT systems.

Authentication cookies

These are stored when you log in to the Publications Office sites, using our authentication service (EU Login). When you do this, you accept the associated privacy policy.

Name Service Purpose Cookie type and duration
PORTAL2012_USER_PREFERENCES  OP PORTAL Authenticate users in the portal End of browser session
GUEST_LANGUAGE_ID OP PORTAL Authenticate users in the portal End of browser session
       

Operational cookies

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: 

  • authentication cookies 
  • technical cookies required by certain IT systems. 

Authentication cookies 

These are stored when you log in to the Publications Office sites, using our authentication service (EU Login). When you do this, you accept the associated privacy policy.

Name Service Purpose Cookie type and duration
KC_RESTART OP PORTAL Authenticate users in the portal End of browser session
AUTH_SESSION_ID OP PORTAL Authenticate users in the portal End of browser session
AUTH_SESSION_ID_LEGACY OP PORTAL Authenticate users in the portal End of browser session
KEYCLOAK_LOCALE OP PORTAL Authenticate users in the portal End of browser session
KEYCLOAK_SESSION OP PORTAL Authenticate users in the portal End of browser session
KEYCLOAK_SESSION_LEGACY OP PORTAL Authenticate users in the portal End of browser session
KEYCLOAK_IDENTITY OP PORTAL Authenticate users in the portal End of browser session
KEYCLOAK_IDENTITY_LEGACY OP PORTAL Authenticate users in the portal End of browser session

 

The names of these cookies may change, for technical reasons.

Technical cookies

Name Service Purpose Cookie duration
OP_PORTAL_BASKET_ID  OP PORTAL Manage shopping cart  End of browser session
COOKIE_SUPPORT  OP PORTAL used to know if the user admits cookies duration 1 year
JSESSIONID OP PORTAL used by sites to maintain an anonymous user session by the server End of browser session
LFR_SESSION_STATE_10161 OP PORTAL contains the user's ID on the Liferay platform. End of browser session
OPPORTAL_LAST_PATH OP PORTAL Used in the redirect after login process End of browser session
Route OP PORTAL Used by the web proxy for the node affinity Expires in 2days
dtCookie OP PORTAL Tracks a visit across multiple requests End of browser session
dtLatC OP PORTAL Measures server latency for performance monitoring End of browser session
dtPC OP PORTAL Required to identify proper endpoints for beacon transmission; includes session ID for correlation End of browser session
dtSa OP PORTAL Save user action names, such as Click on Login, across different pages End of browser session
rxVisitor OP PORTAL Contains the visitor ID to correlate sessions End of browser session
opSSWS OP PORTAL expert search information End of browser session

 

Analytics cookies

 
 We use these purely for internal research on how we can improve the service we provide for all our users. The cookies assess how you interact with our website — as an anonymous user (the data gathered does not identify you personally). 

Also, this data is not shared with any third parties or used for any other purpose. The anonymised statistics could be shared with contractors working on communication projects under contractual agreement with the Publications Office. 

However, you are free to refuse these types of cookies — via the cookie banner you’ll see on the first page you visit by selecting to accept only essential cookies. 

Name Service Purpose Cookie duration
_pk_ses OP PORTAL Collect analytics data from users 30 minutes
_pk_id OP PORTAL Collect analytics data from users 13 months
ppms_privacy_ OP PORTAL Stores visitor`s consent to data collection and usage 365 days or 30 minutes (for anonymous tracking)

 

Third-party cookies

Some of our pages display content from external providers, such as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. These third-party services are outside of the control of the Publications Office. Providers may at any time change their terms of service, purpose and use of cookies, etc.

To view this third-party content, you first have to accept their specific terms and conditions. This includes their cookie policies, over which we do not have any control.

If you do not view this content, no third-party cookies will be installed on your device.

Private data

The cookie-related information is not used to identify you personally and the data is fully under our control. These cookies are not used for any purpose other than those described here.

How can you manage cookies?

You can manage/delete cookies as you wish — for details, see aboutcookies.org

Private data

The cookie-related information is not used to identify you personally and the pattern data is fully under our control. These cookies are not used for any purpose other than those described here.

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 (e.g. logging in to your profile).