Cookies inventory 

Which technical and session cookies do we use? 

These cookies are only stored during a browsing session.

JSESSIONID

Purpose: Used to maintain your session secure during your whole visit.

Duration: Deleted after the closure of the browser

LFR_SESSION_STATE_20120

Purpose: Used to maintain your session secure during your whole visit.

Duration: Deleted after the closure of the browser

SERVERID

Purpose: Used to maintain your session secure during your whole visit.

Duration: Deleted after the closure of the browser

[cms+name_of_the_website]route

Purpose: Used to guarantee a good load balancing on our servers.

The name of this cookie varies according to the website concerned. However, most of the time, it respects the following format “cms+name of the website+route”

Duration: Deleted after the user quits its browser

Which preferences cookies do we use?
These cookies are permanent.

Europarlcookiepolicysagreement

Purpose: Used to record your choice on our analytics cookies.

Duration: 13 months

COOKIE_SUPPORT

Purpose: Used to record your choice on our analytics cookies.

Duration: 13 months

europarl_cookies_accepted

Purpose: Used to record your choice on our analytics cookies.

Duration: 13 months

PRIVACY_REFUSED20143

Purpose: Used to record your choice on our analytics cookies.

Duration: 13 months

PRIVACY_READ20143

Purpose: Used to record your choice on our analytics cookies.

Duration: 13 months

[name_of_the_website]language

Purpose: Used to keep the language in which the site is displayed.

The name of this cookie varies according to the website concerned. However, most of the time, it respects the following format: “name of the website + language”.

Duration: 12 months

GUEST_LANGUAGE_ID

Purpose: Used to keep the language in which the site is displayed.

The name of this cookie varies according to the website concerned. However, most of the time, it respects the following format: “name of the website + language”.

Duration: 12 months

ep_easy_feedback

Purpose: Stores information on whether you have already replied to a survey pop-up – so you won't be asked again.

Duration: 100 days

Which analytics cookies do we use?

AT Internet is the web analytics tool we selected to monitor our websites.

We have configured this tool in order to limit as much as possible the collection of personal data of our users. For instance, we have implemented the IP address de-identification by automatically truncating the last octet (the last 3 digits) of each visitor's IP address (Internet Protocol), making it impossible to identify a visitor via his sole IP address.

The only data we track is the following, always with the aim of improving our websites via aggregated and anonymous statistics reports on visitors’ activities.

  • IP address (anonymised)
  • Sources (types, campaigns, domains, …)
  • Contents being viewed (title of the page, editorial pages settings, path of pages, URL and canonical URL, language, …)
  • Geolocation (country, region, town)
  • Technical profiles (devices, OS, browsers, screen size of user, …)
  • Periods (date and time of the visit to the site, user’s time zone)
  • Campaigns
  • Site search
  • Events (clicks on our contents, on action buttons, …)
  • Files that were clicked and downloaded
  • Domains (links to an external website, referrer website)

To accept or refuse our analytics cookies, go to the Cookies policy page.

AT Internet cookies are listed here below.

atidvisitor

Purpose: Used to monitor the performance of pages visited by users of Parliament's websites.

Duration: 13 months

atuserid

Purpose: Used to store the visitor anonymous ID on the Parliament's websites.

Duration: 13 months

atreman

Purpose: Used to keep a prior attribution campaign in memory.

Duration: 30 days

atsession

Purpose: Used to record the list of new campaigns encountered during a visit, in order to avoid measuring the same campaign several times.

Duration: 30 minutes

Which cookies do we use for the webstreaming?

As part of our democratic work, we ensure the live streaming and the recording of all debates, such as plenary and committee meetings, but also of specific events taking place within our walls.

Two companies have been selected to develop and support our webstreaming platform:

We have selected those two companies after a strict process during which they had to provide guarantees regarding IT security but also data protection.

Those two companies place some cookies, which are mandatory for the smooth functioning of the service.

They are listed here below.

EmbedPlayer.UserBandwidth

Purpose: Used to adapt the quality of the video according to the bandwidth available on the multimedia centre website.

Duration: Deleted after the closure of the browser

EU_CART_ID

Purpose: Used to keep the media selected by a non-logged user, during its login phase.

Duration: 12 months

media_pref_format_* (all)

Purpose: Used to remember your last media format and the quality you selected.

Duration: 12 months

Which data from our server logs do we use?

For technical security, performance purposes and assistance to users, we record the activities of our technical infrastructures and our applications.

However, we limit as much as possible the collection of any personal data. The only personal data we track on our infrastructures, always in the aim of security and monitoring, is the following:

  • IP address
  • Date and timeslot of the connection
  • Part of the European Parliament’s website visited
  • Operating system
  • Connexion to our applications
  • Volume of data loaded
  • IP address of the website
  • Protocole used (http; https; rtmp, etc.)

The data is recorded in daily log files we keep live between thirty days and six months. They are then backed-up between six months and one year. We automatically delete those data at the end of the defined period.

All data collected by our applications is notified to our Data Protection Officer (DPO) through a dedicated notification process stored in the “Data Protection Register”.