Cookies inventory 

Which technical and session cookies do we use?
These cookies are only stored during a browsing session.

JSESSIONID

Purpose: Used to maintain your session secure during your whole visit.

Duration: Deleted after the closure of the browser

LFR_SESSION_STATE_20120

Purpose: Used to maintain your session secure during your whole visit.

Duration: Deleted after the closure of the browser

SERVERID

Purpose: Used to maintain your session secure during your whole visit.

Duration: Deleted after the closure of the browser

[cms+name_of_the_website]route

Purpose: Used to guarantee a good load balancing on our servers.

The name of this cookie varies according to the website concerned. However, most of the time, it respects the following format “cms+name of the website+route”

Duration: Deleted after the user quits its browser

Which preferences cookies do we use?
These cookies are permanent.

Europarlcookiepolicysagreement

Purpose: Used to record your choice on our analytics cookies.

Duration: 13 months

COOKIE_SUPPORT

Purpose: Used to record your choice on our analytics cookies.

Duration: 13 months

europarl_cookies_accepted

Purpose: Used to record your choice on our analytics cookies.

Duration: 13 months

PRIVACY_REFUSED20143

Purpose: Used to record your choice on our analytics cookies.

Duration: 13 months

PRIVACY_READ20143

Purpose: Used to record your choice on our analytics cookies.

Duration: 13 months

[name_of_the_website]language

Purpose: Used to keep the language in which the site is displayed.

The name of this cookie varies according to the website concerned. However, most of the time, it respects the following format: “name of the website + language”.

Duration: 12 months

GUEST_LANGUAGE_ID

Purpose: Used to keep the language in which the site is displayed.

The name of this cookie varies according to the website concerned. However, most of the time, it respects the following format: “name of the website + language”.

Duration: 12 months

ep_easy_feedback

Purpose: Stores information on whether you have already replied to a survey pop-up – so you won't be asked again.

Duration: 100 days

epmp_media_selection

Purpose: Used to remember the different media you selected.

Duration: Deleted after you have saved your media selection

audioPlayer

Purpose: Used to record the listening time of your audio media.

Duration: Removed by clearing and deleting the cookie in the browser

Which analytics cookies do we use?
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

atuserid (new method) & pa_vid (old method)

Purpose: Used to store the visitor anonymous ID on the 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

pa_privacy & _cookie_test (old method)

Purpose: Used to record the privacy mode chosen by the user

Duration: 13 months

pa_user (old method)

Purpose: used to record your choice to be tracked or not on the European Parliament website

Duration: 12 months

bitmovin_analytics_uuid

Purpose: cookie anonymously tracks user interactions with video content to analyze and improve playback performance and user experience.

Duration: 12 months

Which cookies do we use for the webstreaming?

As part of our democratic work, we ensure the live streaming and the recording of all debates, such as plenary and committee meetings, but also of specific events taking place within our walls.

Two companies have been selected to develop and support our webstreaming platform.

We have selected those two companies after a strict process during which they had to provide guarantees regarding IT security but also data protection.

Those two companies place some cookies, which are mandatory for the smooth functioning of the service.

They are listed here below.

EmbedPlayer.UserBandwidth

Purpose: Used to adapt the quality of the video according to the bandwidth available on the multimedia centre website.

Duration: Deleted after the closure of the browser

EU_CART_ID

Purpose: Used to keep the media selected by a non-logged user, during its login phase.

Duration: 12 months

media_pref_format_* (all)

Purpose: Used to remember your last media format and the quality you selected.

Duration: 12 months