Cookies

What are cookies?

To facilitate the functioning of our website, we place small data files called cookies on your device.

Cookies are pieces of text generated by the web services that a user has visited; these text files can be set on the users’ devices by the website they are currently visiting (“first party cookies”) or by a different website to the one they are currently visiting (“third party cookies”).

Below you can find information on the types of cookies used by our website and their purpose.

You will also find information on the possibility to manage your cookie preferences.

How do we use cookies?

We use different types of cookies, aiming at different purposes.

  • Some cookies allow us to enable specific functions or to improve your navigation experience.
  • Some are strictly necessary, while others help us personalise your navigation by remembering your preferences and settings.

Besides cookies, we also use our server logs to be able to analyse, monitor and diagnose our technical infrastructures and applications. They help us assume our operational security, investigate incidents, monitor our network and telecommunication performance and provide user assistance.

The following information about the visitors to our website are tracked:

  • Information about the browser type and version;
  • The user’s operating system;
  • The date and time of access;
  • Referrer website(s);
  • Websites/sub-pages accessed by the user from the website;
  • Other similar data and information that is used for protection against risks, in the case of attacks to our Information Technology systems.

The collected data will not be shared with any other organisations for marketing, market research or commercial purposes. Moreover, the abovementioned data cannot be used to identify a particular visitor.

Essential and functional cookies

By navigating on our websites, you implicitly accept the use of all technical and session cookies, which are stored during the session lapse time and are necessary for a proper functioning of the website.

Technically necessary cookies are used to facilitate the use of the website by the users and improve its user-friendliness. Some functions on this website could not be provided without the use of cookies, as they require the recognition of the browser when moving from page to page.

List of cookies used by the EU SST website:

Name Expiration Description
PHPSESSID Session Stores the session identifier
BIGipServerpool-workers-https Session Stores the load balancing afinity identifier
Cookie_notice_accepted 1 month Stores the user’s cookie notice visibility status for the current domain

Social media cookies

We are active on three social media platforms. Our presence in the Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn communities strengthens our online presence and visibility.

  • Our website does not set cookies with the display of links to our social media channels when you are browsing our website;
  • You can watch our videos, which we upload (embed) from our YouTube page. You can also follow links from our website to Twitter and LinkedIn;
  • Our videos on our website are embeds from our YouTube channel, with privacy-enhanced mode enabled. This makes it possible to embed videos from our YouTube channel on our website without cookies;
  • Videos viewed on our YouTube channel follow YouTube’s own cookie and privacy policies over which we have no control. There is no installation of cookies from YouTube until you consent to YouTube cookies;
  • Similarly, by clicking on the LinkedIn button on our website, you will be re-directed to the LinkedIn site, which has its own cookie and privacy policies over which we have no control;
  • The display of our Twitter feed on this website uses a cookie-free component. Clicking on the Twitter icon on this website will re-direct you to the Twitter site, which has its own cookie and privacy policies over which we have no control.

In accordance with Article 37 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 and Article 5(3) of Directive 2002/58/EC, the cookies that we use do not require your explicit consent, as they are essential cookies for the basic functioning of our website and functional cookies used exclusively for enhancing your browsing experience.

Therefore, when the website is accessed first, the website visitor is provided with the following options:

(i) “Ok”
(ii) “Cookies policy”

Ok: By clicking this option, the cookies notice will be hidden and not displayed on subsequent visits to the website.
Cookies policy: By clicking this option, the visitor aims to get further information on cookies and will be linked to this page.

You have several options on how to manage the cookies. However, please note that blocking or deleting certain cookies may affect your ability to access and use our website effectively:

a) 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).
b) Managing site-specific cookies. For more detailed control over site-specific cookies, check the privacy and cookie settings in your preferred browser.
c) 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. profile logging-in).

Additional information:

  • For Chrome go to: Settings › Privacy and Security › Clear browsing data › Select “Cookies and other site data”
  • For Internet Explorer go to: Safety › Delete Browsing History › Select “Cookies and website media” › Click “Delete”
  • For Microsoft Edge go to: Settings › Clear Browsing Data › Select “Cookies and saved website data” › Click “Clear”
  • For Firefox go to: Options › Privacy and Security › Cookies and Site Data › Click “Clear data”
  • For Safari go to: Preferences › Privacy › Cookies and website data › Click “Manage Website Data” (Mac) or “Remove All Website Data”. (Windows), › Select “Remove All” to delete all the cookies.

To learn more on how to clear your cookies in different browsers you may visit https://www.aboutcookies.org.

“Do not track” option

Do Not Track is a technology that enables visitors to opt out from being tracked by websites for whatever purpose.

You can enable the “Do not track” option directly in your web browser.

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