Cookie policy

Use of cookies on easa.europa.eu

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 aggregated statistics, whose purpose is to improve our communication and the service we offer.

The EASA website, after consent, will install first-party cookies and third-party-cookies(social media cookies). More details are provide below

Manage your consent

By default, the browsing experience of our website visitors is NOT tracked by the Analytics service and social media embeds don’t start automatically.

By managing your consent you can decide to allow the following:

  • Aggregated analytics: support EASA to improve the browsing experience of our website by allowing the creation of aggregated statistics.
  • Social media embeds (i.e. YouTube): allow social media embeds to load automatically. For example this will allow YouTube video player to set a third party cookie and start playing automatically when you visit a page with social media embeds.

If you wish to change or withdraw your consent click on
Manage your consent.

All cookies used

Cookie Owner Description Type Duration First / Third party
cookie-agreed EASA This cookie is set when a visitor saved his cookie preferences. It is used to not show the cookie banner again on consecutive pageviews. Functional 3 months First party
cookie-agreed-version EASA This cookie is used to keep track of the cookie banner version to which consent has/has not been given. Functional 3 months First party
cookie-agreed-categories EASA This cookie is set when a visitor saved his cookie preferences. It is used to keep track of the cookie categories for which consent has been given. This cookie also saves your selection to allow social media embeds to be loaded or not. Functional 3 months First party
_pk_id.3.bb8a Matomo used by EASA This cookie is installed by Matomo, a tool we use to analyse the website performance. This specific cookie is used to recognize new and returning visitors. Analytics 13 months First party
_pk_ses.3.bb8a Matomo used by EASA This cookie is installed by Matomo, a tool we use to analyse the website performance. It shows the visitor's active session. Analytics Session First party
AEC, APISID, SAPISID, HSID, NID, SID, SIDCC, SSID, __Secure-1PAPISID, __Secure-1PSID, __Secure-1PSIDCC, __Secure-1PSIDTS, __Secure-3PAPISID, __Secure-3PSID, __Secure-3PSIDCC, __Secure-3PSIDTS, PREF, VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA, VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE, YSC YouTube Multiple cookies set by YouTube (embedded videos) used for multiple purposes. Marketing and functional Multiple durations Third party

Analytics service (Matomo)

It’s a service which monitors and evaluates the effectiveness and efficiency of the EASA website. It uses an open-source analytics platform, Matomo (formerly Piwik), fully controlled by the EASA.

The type of data collected by the Matomo

  • IP address (masked)
  • Location: country, region, city, approximate latitude and longitude (Geolocation)
  • Date and time of the request (visit to the site)
  • Title of the page being viewed (Page Title)
  • URL of the page being viewed (Page URL)
  • URL of the page that was viewed prior to the current page (Referrer URL)
  • Screen resolution of user's device
  • Time in local visitor's time-zone
  • Files that were clicked and downloaded (Download)
  • Links to an outside domain that were clicked (Outlink)
  • Pages generation time (the time it takes for webpages to be generated by the webserver and then downloaded by the visitor: Page speed)
  • Main language of the browser being used (Accept-Language header)
  • Browser version, browser plugins (PDF, Flash, Java, …) operating system version, device identifier (User-Agent header)
  • Language of the visited page
  • Campaigns
  • Site Search
  • Events

Do not track preferences

Do not track is a function that allows visitors to opt-out from being tracked by websites for any purpose, including the use of analytics services, advertising networks and social platforms.

If you have enabled the do not track function, you will not be tracked. This is in addition to you opting out of the aggregation and analysis of data for our website statistics;

Restricted access to information

All analytics data communication is encrypted via HTTPS protocol. The analytical reports generated by Analytics can only be accessed through the EASA authentication service by EASA staff and by duly authorized external sub-contractors, who may be required to analyse, develop and/or regularly maintain certain sites.

Social media cookies

The EASA is active on social media platforms to strengthen our online presence and visibility.

The EASA website does not set cookies when displaying links to our social media channels when you browse our website. When the EASA website shows social media widgets, such as a YouTube video player, the EASA website will ask for consent before loading the YouTube video player, which will then install a third-party cookie from YouTube or the social media widget used.

Contact

You can enquire us about the way we use cookies via dpo [at] easa.europa.eu (dpo[at]easa[dot]europa[dot]eu) .