Cookies are small text files stored on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies serve a number of purposes. They help the website remember your settings, e.g. language, font size or other settings that you set up on your computer to view our website, so that when you visit the website again you don’t need to set them up again. This way websites can remember your preferences and settings, information that you have already completed the web survey or simply the fact that you have already logged in.

Some cookies are necessary for website functioning (e.g. the login cookie, cookie for the web store shopping cart content), some are intended to improve the user experience (e.g. storing of user’s preferences) and some are used for monitoring website visits, which helps the website administrator improve the website and the user experience with it. Some cookies enable user tracking across several websites.

Controlling the cookies

Most browsers accept cookies automatically. You can change browser functioning in settings so that the computer rejects cookies or that you receive a notice before the cookies are stored. In your browser you can also prevent storing of cookies completely for all websites visited. You can delete cookies that are already stored on your computer.

Which cookies do we use?

Strictly necessary cookies:

The website does not store cookies that are strictly necessary for its operation. A cookie generated by a website when a visitor agrees to the use of cookies is stored on the user’s device.

Performance Cookies:

• __utma: The cookie serves to distinguish users and sessions and is stored for 2 years. Source: Google Analytics
• __utmt: The cookie serves to throttle request rate and is stored for 10 minutes. Source: Google Analytics
• __utmb: The cookie serves to determine new sessions/visits and is stored for 30 minutes. Source: Google Analytics
• __utmc: The cookie serves to determine new sessions/visits and is stored for 30 minutes. Source: Google Analytics
• __utmz: The cookie serves to store the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached the website and is stored for 6 months. Source: Google Analytics
• __utmv: The cookie serves to store visitor-level custom variable data and is stored for 2 years. Source: Google Analytics

More information about Google Analytics is provided in Google Analytics Terms of Service, Google’s Principles of Security and Privacy and in Google’s Privacy Policy.