Cookies
Purpose and use of cookies
We use cookies on our website. A cookie is a small piece of data that a website stores on the visitor’s computer or mobile device. We use cookies for the technical functioning of the website and, if you consent to it, to collect your browsing experience on our website for anonymised statistics, whose purpose is to improve our communication and the service we offer.
The My House of European History (MyHEH) website sets cookies solely in order to enable or enhance functions. If you wish to create an account to contribute your story, cookies are only used to keep your personal settings and to recognise your profile on a later connection.
MyHEH will not use cookies to disseminate any data to other parties.
Cookies and server logs
Cookies
The MyHEH website sets cookies in order to enable or enhance some functions offered on our pages.
Besides the persistent and session cookies needed for this, we also set analytics cookies in order to monitor the navigation of our users and improve the quality of their experience while visiting our website.
Analytics cookies are added by our web analytics tool, AT Internet, and are considered third party cookies. They help us to prepare aggregated and anonymous statistical reports on the navigation of our visitors.
You may consult the list of all cookies used within our pages by following this link:
List of cookies used on MyHEH website
You may accept or refuse analytics cookies to be added on your device by following this link:
Server logs
The MyHEH website also uses server logs in order to analyse, monitor and diagnose our technical infrastructures and applications. This help us to assume our operational security, investigate incidents, monitor our network and telecommunication performance and provide user assistance.
What is a cookie?
Most websites you visit will use cookies in order to improve your user experience. They enable websites to ‘remember’ you - either for the duration of your visit (using a ‘session cookie’) or for repeat visits (using a ‘persistent cookie’).
Cookies can have a host of different functions. They let you navigate between pages efficiently, storing your preferences and generally improving your experience of a website. Cookies make the interaction between you and the website faster and easier. If a website does not use cookies, it will think you are a new visitor every time you move to a new page on the site. For example, when you close a menu and move to another page, it will not remember that you have closed the menu on the previous page and it will display the next page with that page's menu open.
Some websites will also use cookies to enable them to target their advertising or marketing messages based, for example, on your location and/or browsing habits.
Cookies may be set by the website which you are visiting (‘first party cookies’) or they may be set by other websites which run content on the page you are viewing (‘third party cookies’).
A cookie is a simple text file stored on your computer or mobile device by a website’s server. That server will subsequently be able to retrieve or read the contents of that cookie. Cookies are managed by your browser. Each cookie is unique and contains some anonymous information such as a unique identifier, site name, digits and letters. It allows a website to remember your browsing preferences.
First party cookies
First party cookies are set by the website which you are visiting and may only be read by that website.
Third party cookies
Third party cookies are set and used by a different organisation from the owner of the website that you visit. For example, to measure its audience a website might use a third party analytics company, which will set its own cookie to perform that service. The website you visit may also have embedded content, e.g. YouTube videos or Flickr slideshows. Those sites may also set their own cookies.
More significantly, a website might use a third party advertising network to deliver targeted advertising.
Advertising services are not used by MyHEH.
Session cookies
Session cookies are stored temporarily during a browsing session and are deleted from the user's device when the browser is closed.
Persistent cookies
Persistent cookies are saved on your computer for a fixed period (usually a year or longer) and are not deleted when the browser is closed. They are used where we need to know who you are for more than one browsing session.
Here is how cookies are used to make your experience easy.
Our cookies
- myhehproroute: This cookie is used to store browsing information. It expires at the end of each session.
- myheh-mini-footer: This cookie is used to store information about the status of the footer (hidden or visible).
- myheh-user-login-info: This cookie prevents a window being opened which shows the Login / Register link in order to encourage users to add their stories.
- myheh-language: This cookie is used to store the selected language for the website. It expires at the end of each session.
- auth-token & auth-user & auth-refresh-token: These cookies are used to remember the identity of a user after they have successfully logged in.
- europarlcookiepolicysagreement, ep_easy_feedback: These cookies are used to record your choice regarding our analytics cookies.
Analytics cookies
AT Internet is the web analytics tool selected by the European Parliament (EP) to monitor its websites (including MyHEH).
AT Internet data protection policy
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, which automatically masks a portion of each visitor's IP (Internet Protocol), making it impossible to identify a particular EP visitor via the 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, etc.);
· Contents being viewed (title of the page, editorial pages settings, path of pages, URL and canonical URL, language, etc.);
· Geolocation (country, region, town);
· Technical profiles (devices, OS, browsers, screen size of user, etc.);
· Periods (date and time of the visit to the site, user’s time zone);
· Events (clicks on our contents, on action buttons, etc.);
· Files that were clicked and downloaded;
· Domains (links to an external website, referrer website).
You may accept or refuse analytics cookies to be added on your device by following this link, or by activating the ‘Do Not Track’ settings of your browser:
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
idrxvr
Purpose: used to monitor traffic and highlight issues that may arise by people browsing our websites
Duration: 13 months
atredir
Purpose: used to keep information in case of a JS redirection
Duration: 13 months
atuserid
Purpose: used to store the visitor anonymous ID on 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
Cookies from other services
Authentication tools
In order to offer our identified contributors a better connection experience, we offer different solutions to connect yourself: you can use Facebook Login, Twitter Sign-In and Google Sign-In.
Facebook, Twitter and Google may set cookies for sharing content on social networks or for producing access statistics.
The presence, number and status of cookies may depend on how you use these platforms before or while visiting the MyHEH website.
If you wish to use these sign-in services, take some time to read their privacy policies:
• Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/
• Twitter : https://twitter.com/en/privacy
• Google : https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US
You are not obliged to use one of these services: we offer the ability to create an account with only your email address and your own password. We will not share this information in any way.
Map view
On the ‘Near Me’ section, you have the possibility to share or refuse your geographical position to find stories near you. These settings are handled by your own browser, which will ask your consent to access to your location.
You can refuse to share your position, however, for a full experience, in order to offer a geographical view on the ‘Near Me’ section and to explain each story in its context.
To offer this feature, which will show other people’s stories located near you, we use Google Maps API services. Here is how Google uses your geolocation information:
https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US#infocollect
Consent agreement
The EP uses analytics cookies in order to improve your experience in navigating our website.
When landing on our pages, a banner offers you two choices: to ACCEPT explicitly our cookie policy or to REFUSE our cookie policy.
You may accept or refuse them, either via the banner displayed at the bottom of our website, or via the widget proposed on the top of this page. If you decide to ignore the two options, the EP will not track you.
We will collect your analytical navigation data only if you explicitly consent by selecting the option ‘I accept analytics cookies’ proposed hereunder.
If you prefer, you can also activate the ‘Do Not Track’ (DNT) setting on your browser. It will guarantee that we will not track your navigation activity at all. These ‘Do Not Track’ settings are available in most browsers including:
Contact
You can enquire with us about the way we use cookies using our contact form, following the section HELP/CONTACT US on the website top navigation.