What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files stored on your computer or mobile device when you visit some websites. They help us remember your actions and preferences over time so you don’t have to re-enter them when you return.
How do we use cookies?
We use cookies in different ways, such as:
- remembering preferences you’ve chosen previously, such as language
- analysing how you use the site so we can keep making improvements
- providing you a more personalised experience
Under no circumstances does the EIB use cookies to collect, process, disseminate or record attributable personal data.
Cookies we use
Website analysis cookies
These cookies help us to monitor the functions of the website and keep improving website services. These cookies do not collect, process, disseminate or record attributable personal data.
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| Cookie name | Service | Purpose | Description of use | Expiry |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Google Analytics | Monitoring website use | Used by Google’s web analytics service. Helps analyse the use of the website. | 1 year |
| _gat_UA-##-# | Google Analytics | Monitoring website use | Used by Google’s web analytics service. Directly linked to the google analytics account. | 1 day |
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_gid |
Google Analytics | Monitoring website use | Used by Google’s web analytics service. Registers a unique identifier used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the site. | 1 day |
| _pk_id.2.dcfc | Matomo open source software | Monitoring web use | Used by Matomo stored on EIB’s website servers. Recognises website visitors (no personal information is collected on the user). | 1 year |
| _pk_ses.2.dcfc | Matomo open source software | Monitoring web use | Used by Matomo stored on EIB’s website serviers. Identifies the pages viewed by the same user during the same visit. (no personal information is collected on the user). | End of browsing session |
| mtm_consent | Remember cookie settings | Monitoring web use | To identify if the user has allowed or disallowed the usage of Matomo web metrics stored on EIB’s website servers whilst on the website. | 1 year |
| mtm_consent_removed | Remember cookie settings | Monitoring web use | To identify if the user has allowed or disallowed the usage of Matomo web metrics stored on EIB’s website servers whilst on the website. | 1 year |
THIRD PARTY COOKIES
Advertising cookies
These cookies are used by third-party services. These cookies are not set by default and need to be activated by the user.
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| Cookie name | Service | Purpose | Description of use | Expiry |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| _gcl_au | Google AdSense | Advertising | Used specifically on the HR section of EIB.org Used by Google AdSense to test the effectiveness of advertising on various websites using their services. |
3 month |
| _gat_UA-##-# | Advertising | Used specifically on the HR section of EIB.org. Used to identify and keep track of unique users. | 90 days | |
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_fbc |
Advertising | Used specifically on the HR section of EIB.org. only set when a user arrives at your website from an Ad and the destination URL includes the click identifier "fbclid". | 90 days | |
| _hjid | Hotjar | Monitoring web use | Hotjar cookie that is set when the customer first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the Hotjar User ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID. | 1 year |
| _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress | Hotjar | Monitoring web use | This cookie is used to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie. | 30 minutes |
| _hjFirstSeen | Hotjar | Monitoring web use | This is set to identify a new user’s first session. It stores a true/false value, indicating whether this was the first time Hotjar saw this user. It is used by Recording filters to identify new user sessions. | End of browsing session |
| _hjIncludedInSessionSample | Hotjar | Monitoring web use | This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that user is included in the data sampling defined by your site's daily session limit. | 30 minutes |
| _hjTLDTest | Hotjar | Monitoring web use | When the Hotjar script executes we try to determine the most generic cookie path we should use, instead of the page hostname. This is done so that cookies can be shared across subdomains (where applicable). To determine this, we try to store the _hjTLDTest cookie for different URL substring alternatives until it fails. After this check, the cookie is removed. | End of browsing session |
| _hjIncludedInPageviewSample | Hotjar | Monitoring web use | This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that user is included in the data sampling defined by your site's pageview limit. | 30 minutes |
| _pk_id.8.b506 | Matomo open source software | Monitoring web use | Used by Matomo stored on EIAH’s website servers. Recognises website visitors (no personal information is collected on the user). | 1 year |
| _pk_ses.8.b506 | Matomo open source software | Monitoring web use | Used by Matomo stored on EIAH’s website servers. Identifies the pages viewed by the same user during the same visit (no personal information is collected on the user). | 1 year |