Cookies

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a piece of data that is stored on your computer by the website and sent on every later request to it. Cookies allow websites to track users through successive requests to a website.

Cookies take minimal space and do not slow down the computer, and they normally do not contain any specific personal information. Most of them are cleared automatically after you close your browser.

What kinds of cookies do we use?

• Technical cookies: these are required for the website to work, and are implicitly enabled for all visitors.

  • We use a session identifier cookie to persist certain settings across successive requests of the same user (even when not logged in) and implement user authentication. The session identifier is unique and random, and does not contain any personal information.
  • We use a Cross Site Request Forgery protection cookie with a unique random identifier. This cookie is used to protect users from this kind of attack. It is cleared automatically when the browser is closed, and regenerated when necessary.
  • If you agree to our use of cookies, an additional cookie will let our website know about this. This will disable further notifications about our use of cookies, and will enable the optional cookies.

• Tracking cookies: these are used by us or by third parties in order to analyze the traffic that arrives to this site and tell apart human users from automated processes ("spiders" or "bots"). This statistical analysis allows us to improve the website, by having a better idea of how it is used and accessed.

  • The registration form uses the Google reCAPTCHA service to prevent fake registrations by automated processes. Google reCAPTCHA may set or read various tracking cookies in order to verify that the user is a human being and not an automated process.
  • If the user explicitly consents to our usage of cookies, we run a Google Analytics script that collects various pieces of information about our visitors and performs various statistic analyses on them. This may include IP addresses, browser software being used and specific dates and times, among other details.

How do I block these cookies?

Blocking these cookies is possible through the options of your web browser. Here are some help pages for the currently most common browsers:

• Google Chrome
• Microsoft Internet Explorer
• Mozilla Firefox
• Safari

Please keep in mind that some or all parts of the website may not work without cookies.