Cookies Policy

To make the websites of the Publications Office work properly, we sometimes place small data files called ‘cookies’ on your device.

What are cookies?

A cookie is a small text file that a website stores on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.

• First-party cookies are cookies set by the website you’re visiting. Only that website can read them. In addition, a website might potentially use external services, which also set their own cookies, known as third-party cookies.
• Persistent cookies are cookies that are saved on your computer and are not deleted automatically when you quit your browser, unlike a session cookie, which is deleted when you leave your browser.

Every time you visit the Publication Office’s websites, you will be prompted to accept or refuse cookies.

Cookies can also be used to establish anonymised statistics about the browsing experience on our sites.

How do we use cookies?

Publication Office websites mostly use ‘first-party cookies’. These are cookies set and controlled by the Publications Office, not by any external organisation.

However, to view some of our pages, you will have to accept cookies from external organisations.

You can delete or block these cookies, but if you do that some features of this site may not work as intended. These cookies are used to remember:

• your display preferences, such as browsing language, contrast colour, font size, device used, search results preferences and notification preferences;
• your latest visit to the website (for statistical purposes) and the three most recent pages visited (to help our helpdesk if you send a request);
• if you have agreed (or not) to our use of cookies on this site.

Visitor preferences

These are set by us and only we can read them. They remember if you have agreed to (or refused) this site’s cookie policy.

Name	Service	Purpose	Cookie type and duration
eTenderingPublic	ETENDERING	Stores the session information for the eTendering public part, set when a connection is established on the public part and valid for its duration	End of browser session
etendering_language	ETENDERING	Set at the connection time (on both public and private part) to store the user preferred language	Valid for 3 years and 2 months
cck1	ETENDERING	Memorise the response given by the user to the Cookie Consent Kit	Less than 6 months

Operational cookies

There are some cookies that we have to include in order for certain web pages to function. For this reason, they do not require your consent. In particular:

• authentication cookies;
• technical cookies required by certain IT systems.

Authentication cookies

These are stored when you log in to the Publications Office sites, using our authentication service (EU Login). When you do this, you accept the associated privacy policy.

Name	Service	Purpose	Cookie type and duration
ECAS_PREFS	EU Login	Preferences of the user in EU Login	First-party cookie deleted after 3 years
__Secure ECAS_SESSIONID	EU Login	Authenticate users in TED	First-party cookie deleted at the end of browser session

The names of these cookies may change, for technical reasons.

Technical cookies

Name	Service	Purpose	Cookie type and duration
JSESSIONID	TED	Internal usage of application server: keep the session between page accesses	First-party cookie deleted at the end of browser session

Analytics cookies

We use these purely for internal research on how we can improve the service we provide for all our users.

The cookies simply assess how you interact with our website — as an anonymous user (the data gathered does not identify you personally).

Also, this data is not shared with any third parties or used for any other purpose. The anonymised statistics could be shared with contractors working on communication projects under contractual agreement with the Publications Office.

However, you are free to refuse these types of cookies —via the cookie banner you’ll see on the first page you visit.

Name	Service	Purpose	Cookie type and duration
_pk.id	Europa Analytics	Collect analytics data from users	First-party cookie deleted after 13 months
_pk_ses	Europa Analytics	Collect analytics data from users	First-party cookie deleted at the end of browser session
WT_FPC	Webtrends	Collect analytics data from users	First-party cookie deleted after 1 year
ppms_privacy_*	Piwik	Collect analytics data from users	First-party cookie deleted after 1 year

Third-party cookies

Some of our pages may display content from external providers, such as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter.

To view this third-party content, you first have to accept their specific terms and conditions. This includes their cookie policies, which we have no control over.

But if you do not view this content, no third-party cookies will be installed on your device.

Third-party providers on Publications Office websites

These third-party services are outside of the control of the Publications Office. Providers may, at any time, change their terms of service, purpose and use of cookies, etc.

Private data

The cookie-related information is not used to identify you personally and the pattern data is fully under our control. These cookies are not used for any purpose other than those described here.

How can you manage cookies?

You can manage/delete cookies as you wish — for details, see aboutcookies.org

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).

Managing site-specific cookies

For more detailed control over site-specific cookies, check the privacy and cookie settings in your preferred browser.

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. logging in to your profile).

To find out more about cookies: https://ec.europa.eu/info/cookies.