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Protection of Personal Data is of great importance for ESA, therefore this Cookie Notice aims to ensure lawfulness and transparency by explaining the cookies and similar technologies that we use in the ESA public website, what they do, what your choices regarding their use are and how you can contact us.

What is a cookie?

Cookies are small bits of data that a website may send to the browser on your device, for instance mobile device or computer, upon your visit to the website. Cookies may allow a website to recognise an individual’s device and store some information about the user.

What are the different types of cookies?

A cookie can be classified by its lifespan and the domain to which it belongs.
By lifespan, a cookie is either a:

• session cookie which is erased when the user closes the browser or;
• persistent cookie which remains on the user’s computer/device for a pre-defined period of time;

As for the domain to which it belongs, there are either:

• first-party cookies which are set by the web server of the visited page and share the same domain;
• third-party cookies stored by a different domain to the visited page’s domain. This can happen when the webpage references a file, such as JavaScript, located outside its domain.

Which cookies do we use?

Strictly Necessary or Essential Cookies: these cookies are strictly necessary for the website to provide the services that you requested and/or for the solely purpose of the transmission of the services and/or the website. Without these cookies you would not be able to access the services or the website and therefore this category cannot be disabled.

Functional Cookies: These cookies are not strictly necessary, but allow you to have a with a better experience by provide enhanced and more personal features. We only place this cookies if you have provided your prior consent. Privacy policy is available here.The social plugins allow that social media website to receive information that you have visited website and share the content. Please note this is an optional feature to use.

Changes to our Cookie Notice All future changes we make to our Cookie Notice will be posted on this website. Contact In case of any question, you can contact ESA DPO, as first point of contact, by sending an email to: dpo@esa.int