Cookies are information bundles made out of numbers and letters that are sent by websites to the user’s browser in order to save certain settings, to help the website function more easily and to gather some relevant, statistics-like type of information from users. Cookies do not include personal information and cannot be used to identify users. Rather, cookies often include an individual identifier-that is protected, and randomly generated-stored by instruments. Some cookies leave off after a window is closed, some others are stored on the computer for a longer period.

Every cookie related activity could be inhibited by users by cancelling data files from previously visits. Information regarding the precise process of this can be found on these sites:

Cookies and website data management in Chrome

Information about cookies in Firefox

Managing cookies in Internet Explorer and in Edge

Some browsers allow that every time they are closed, they automatically delete all browser information. More information about this can be found here.

At some parts of website downloads the website’s visit analyser used by us (the Google Inc.’s Google Analytics) automatically places smaller data files in some cases including personal information on the user’s computer. According to the current law, users get notified about this at the first visit on the website and ask for permission and approval. Data files are used to help some functions of the website. Data files from older visits go to the operator. The precise names of these data files (_ga, _gat, _gid) can be read here Link6. IP addresses gathered by Google Analytics from browsers are stored anonymously therefore it cannot be connected to the user. These are stored for 26 months and restart if a new event happens to the user (e.g. a new process starts).

If a user does not want Google Analytics to collect and store information from any website visit for analytics, please use this browser (it can be used for any browser).

Google also uses those kind of Cookies (“DSID”, “IDE”, “NID”) that are used for connecting the user’s activity on her different devices (only if the user previously signed in into his Google account on these devices). This ‘connected activity’ is later used for synchronising ads and measuring conversion events. If the user does not want ads to appear synchronised across her devices, she can use this link to switch off the ‘personalise’ function of ads.

If a user previously had received a Cookie from Facebook-because she has an account, or because she has visited the facebook.com website-, her browser sent data in relation to the cookie when she clicked on the ‘Like’ button or other websites (like this one) that has social plug-ins. You can find more information about this here.

On the company’s website, for marketing reasons, a Facebook conversion measure pixel is used that requires the visitors’ permission when they first enter the site. Information gathered from this pixel will go to Facebook. More information about Facebook Cookies can be found here.

If a user leaves a comment on the website, with her permission the website’s Cookie will help to store her name and email address so at the next visit these would not be necessary to type in again (only if the user checks the checkbox).

The newsletter software uses many types of Cookies that store language related data, help to boost performance and forward analytics.

All share buttons placed on the website (Facebook, Google+, Pinterest) and plug ins (e.g. a YouTube video) also puts Cookies on the user’s computer.