What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone by the websites you visit. These text files can be read by the websites you visit and help identify you when you return to the website. These text files can be “permanent” or “temporary”. Permanent cookies remain on your computer even when you close your browser (you go offline), while temporary cookies are deleted when you close your browser. Cookies are used for several purposes, such as remembering your activities and preferences (logins, language preferences, font size or how the page is displayed), to provide personalized/customized content on the website and to display your browsing history.
Why do we use cookies?
We use cookies on this website for the following reasons:
- For the technical functioning of the website;
- For the collection of aggregated and anonymous statistical data;
- To remember your preferences for how the page is displayed (display preferences), such as color contrast or font size;
- To remember/remind you whether you agree (or not) to our use of cookies on this website.
When you visit our website, we may collect some data from your browsing, such as your IP address, which content on the Government website you visited, when you visited it, and which website you were redirected from.
When you visit our website, we use a third-party service, Google Analytics, to collect standard access information and visitor behavior details, but in a way that does not allow anyone to be identified, nor does it enable Google to discover the identities of those who have visited our website.
What type of cookies do we use?
We use persistent cookies, which remember the search/session when the user closes the browser, in order to maintain the users state.
Can you delete or control cookies?
Information related to cookies is not used to personally identify you. Accepting these cookies is not necessary for the website to function, but they may provide you with a better browsing experience. If you wish, you can delete or block these cookies, but if you do so, some features of this website may not work properly.
You can delete all cookies already on your computer and you can set most browsers to block them. If you do this, you may need to manually adjust your preferences each time you visit a website, and some services and functionality may not work.