What are Cookie Files
Cookies are small files that are saved and stored on your computer, tablet, or smartphone when you visit various websites on the internet. A cookie usually contains the name of the website it comes from, the cookie’s “lifetime” (that is, its duration), and a randomly generated unique number used to identify the browser from which the connection to the website is made.
Cookie Policy
1. In connection with providing content on the Carpathian Brown Bear Project website, we use cookies, i.e., information saved by servers on the user’s end device, which servers can read each time they connect from this end device, and may also use other technologies with functions similar to or identical to cookies. In this document, information regarding cookies also applies to other similar technologies used within our websites. Cookie files constitute IT data, in particular text files, which are stored in the end device of the Carpathian Brown Bear Project website user. Cookies usually contain the domain name of the website they come from, their storage time on the end device, and a unique number.
2. Cookie files are used to:
- adapt the content of the website pages to user preferences and optimize the use of websites; in particular, these files allow recognition of the website user’s device and appropriately display the website, tailored to their individual needs,
- create statistics that help understand how website users interact with web pages, which enables improvement of their structure and content,
- maintain the website user’s session (after logging in), thanks to which the user does not have to re-enter their login and password on each subpage of the website,
3. Within the Carpathian Brown Bear Project website, we may use the following types of cookie files:
- “necessary” cookie files, enabling the use of services available within the website, e.g., authentication cookies used for services requiring authentication within the website,
- cookie files used to ensure security, e.g., used to detect authentication abuse within the website,
- cookie files enabling the collection of information about how the website pages are used,
- “functional” cookie files, enabling “remembering” user-selected settings and personalizing the user interface, e.g., in terms of the selected language or region from which the user comes, font size, website appearance, etc.,
4. In many cases, the software used for browsing websites (web browser) by default allows the storage of cookie files on the user’s end device. Website users can change their cookie settings at any time. These settings can be changed in particular to block the automatic handling of cookie files in web browser settings or to inform about their placement on the website user’s device each time. Detailed information about the possibility and ways of handling cookie files is available in the software settings (web browser). Not changing the cookie settings means that they will be placed in the user’s end device, and thus we will store information in the user’s end device and access this information.
5. Disabling cookies may make it difficult to use some services within our website. Disabling the option to accept cookies does not, however, prevent reading or viewing content posted on the Carpathian Brown Bear Project website, except for those that require logging in.
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