Information on the cookies used by the OTP Portals

Cookie management

As almost all website, the OTP Portals use cookies on their websites.

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small file, which is transferred to your computer when you visit a website. The cookies have a number of functions. They collect information, remember the individual settings of the visitor and in general make the use of the website easier to the user.

What cookies are used by the OTP Portals and what is their purpose?

The OTP Portals use the cookies for the following purposes:

• to collect information on how you use the website to survey which parts of our website you visit or use the most, which helps us providing you a better user experience when you visit our website next
• to develop our website
• to make your navigation easier on our website and during the use of its functions, thus providing a seamless user experience

Mandatory (session) cookies

These cookies are required to enable users to browse our website and use its functions, e.g., to remember the transactions performed by you on particular places during one visit. These cookies are valid only while you are actually visiting the website and this type of cookie will be automatically deleted from your computer when the sessions end or the browser is closed.
Do not forget that without using these cookies, we cannot guarantee you the use of our website.

Targeting and promotional cookies

The purpose of these cookies is to present promotions that may be interesting for you or that you may be interested in on the website. These cookies cannot identify you personally. They collect information such as the pages visited by the visitor, the parts of the website clicked on by the user, the number of pages visited and how many pages were searched for. All the above is done to learn more about the contents that may be interesting to you.

Our website also uses codes monitoring the Google AdWords remarketing service, in order to reach the visitors of the website later with personalised adverts on the websites belonging to the Google Display network. You can block these cookies in your Google promotion settings manager by following the instructions included there. You can find out more about the Goggle data protection guidelines relating to promotion by clicking here.

Cookies assisting use

These cookies allow us to remember your choices relating to our website.

Performance-supporting cookies

Google Analytics cookies are used to collect information on how our visitors use our website. These cookies cannot identify you personally (and record only part of the IP address in use) and collect information such as the pages visited by the visitor, the parts of the website clicked on by the user, the number of pages visited the length of viewing time in each session and potential error messages. The above are tracked in order to facilitate the development of our website and improve the experience provided to users.

If you wish to know more about the Google Analytics cookies, please click here.

How can you control and switch off cookies?

Every modern browser allows you to modify its cookie settings. The majority of browsers automatically accept cookies by default, but in general they can be altered to prevent automatic acceptance and instead offer you a choice on whether to allow or disallow specific cookies. Please remember that, because the purpose of the cookies is to make the use of our website and its processes easier (or even possible), by preventing the use of cookies or deleting them, users may not be able to use all the functions of our website and the website may function differently in your browser from what it was originally designed for.