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We use different types of cookies to run FGRID website. Types of cookies we use:
Session Cookies:
- Detect the type of information the page user is searching for.
- Detect the pages users visit most often and whether users get error messages from certain pages.
- Help us improve our services, in order to improve our users’ browsing experience.
Google Analytics:
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses "cookies", which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by cookies about your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, by making your IP address anonymous on this website, Google will previously shorten your IP address within Member States of the European Union or other countries party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases the full IP address is transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there.
On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. Google uses pseudonyms for this purpose. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics is not combined with other data from Google. Anonymous or at most pseudonymous data is collected. The legal basis for this is Article 6 of the GDPR. Please refer to the Website Analytics Article below for more information.
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You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) and Google from processing this data by following the instructions of your browser.
