Cookies

The Website collects data about its visitors so that the Website Administrator can assess effectiveness of the Website and ways to improve it. The Controller is constantly improving the Website to make it more useful, and therefore the Controller needs to know what information is important to visitors to the Website, how often they visit the Website, what devices and browsers they use, what region visitors come from and what content they prefer to read. The Controller uses Google Analytics to analyse visitors’ use of the Website. More information about the basic principles of Google Analytics can be found at https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1012034?hl=lten&ref_topic=6157800.

The Controller uses the collected data in its legitimate interest to better understand the needs of visitors to the Website and to improve the accessibility of information published by the Controller. Visitor may opt out of having Google Analytics collecting his/her data at any time as described here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.

The server hosting the Website may record visitors’ requests (device, browser, IP address, date and time of access). The data referred to in this paragraph is used for technical purposes, to ensure that the Website operates properly and remains secure, and to investigate any security incidents that may occur. Collecting the data referred to in this paragraph is based on the Controller’s legitimate interest in ensuring the technical availability and integrity of the Website.

Cookies are small files that are stored by the visitor’s browser on the visitor’s computer each time the visitor visits the Website, to the extent permitted by the visitor’s browser settings. Certain cookies are used to select and tailor the information and advertisements offered to the visitor based on the content that the visitor has viewed in the past. This makes the use of the Website easy, convenient and personalised to the visitor. Please visit www.aboutcookies.org for more information about cookies and ways to delete and manage them.

The Website uses cookies to collect the IP addresses and browsing information of the users and to enable the Website to remember the choices made by the visitors. Cookies allow the Controller to track the Website data traffic and the interactions of the users with the Website. The Controller uses this data to analyse visitor behaviour and improve the Website. The legal basis for the use of cookies is the Controller’s legitimate interest in ensuring the functionality, availability and integrity of the Website.

Visitors can control and/or delete cookies at their own discretion. Further information on this process can be found at www.aboutcookies.org. Visitor can delete all cookies from his/her computer. Most browsers can be set to block cookies from being placed on their computer. The visitor may opt out of collecting cookies in the browser menu or by visiting https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. Please consult your browser’s terms and conditions for the appropriate settings. If cookies are blocked, the visitor will have to manually adjust the settings each time he/she visits the Website and some of the services and features of the Website may not function properly.

Access to statistical data about the Website visitors is limited to those employees of the Controller who are responsible for analysing such data.

Unless otherwise specified, cookies are stored until the action for which they were collected has been completed, and they are then deleted.

Where the Controller’s Website provides a comment option, the IP address will be stored on the Website, as well as the data provided by the visitor. The cookies with such data can be stored for a year.