Cookie policy/Site usage information
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.
How to control cookies
Every time you visit ECDC’s websites, you will be prompted to either accept all cookies or only essential cookies. Essential cookies are necessary for the website to function properly.
How do we use cookies?
We use both first-party and third-party cookies. First-party cookies are set and read only by our websites. Third-party cookies are set by domains other than ours and are used for analytics or to integrate external services, such as embedded videos.
To view some of our pages, you will have to accept third-party cookies from external organisations, such as YouTube. This is specified on the relevant pages where you have to accept the specific terms and conditions of the third parties.
Essential cookies
These cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.
| Website | Domain | Cookie Name | Service | Purpose | First-Party/ Third Party |
Duration |
| antibiotic.ecdc.europa.eu | ecdc.europa.eu | cck1 | Content delivery network (CDN) | Cookie consent preferences done by the user | Third-party | 180 days |
| antibiotic.ecdc.europa.eu | gisco-services.ec.europa.eu | gisco-waf-prod-affinity | GISCO | Maintain session continuity and stable performance across infrastructure | Third-party | Session |
| antibiotic.ecdc.europa.eu | gisco-services.ec.europa.eu | gisco-waf-prod-affinityCORS | GISCO | Maintain session continuity and stable performance across infrastructure | Third-party | Session |
| antibiotic.ecdc.europa.eu | gisco-services.ec.europa.eu | unique_user_id | GISCO / Mapping Service | Maintains a unique session identifier to support map and GIS service functionality. | Third-party | Session |
Optional cookies
These cookies enable the site to remember your preferences (such as user name, language, etc.) for a certain period of time. That way, you don’t have to re-enter them when browsing around the site during the same visit.
| Website | Domain | Cookie Name | Service | Purpose | First-Party/ Third Party |
Cookie Policy | Duration |
| antibiotic.ecdc.europa.eu | antibiotic.ecdc.europa.eu | _pk_id.* | Corporate web analytics service | Anonymous visitor analytics | First-party | 393 days | |
| antibiotic.ecdc.europa.eu | antibiotic.ecdc.europa.eu | _pk_ses.* | Corporate web analytics service | Identifies pages viewed during the same visit | First-party | 30 minutes | |
| antibiotic.ecdc.europa.eu | Vimeo | The video is behind a shield. The user has to first accept Vimeo cookies before the video plays. The cookie collects data on the users’ visits to the website, such as which videos were watched. Vimeo collects data that may include the visitor’s IP address, technical information about the users’ device (browser type operating system, etc), web page visited and search terms (within the Vimeo website). |
Third Party | Cookie Policy | |||
| antibiotic.ecdc.europa.eu | YouTube | ECDC uses the YouTube video embed to play video content on its websites. The video is behind a shield. The user has to first accept YouTube cookies before the video plays. The cookie collects data on the users’ visits to the website, such as which videos were watched. YouTube collects data that may include the visitor’s IP address, technical information about the users’ device (browser type operating system, etc), web page visited and search terms (within the YouTube website). |
Third Party | Cookie Policy | |||
| antibiotic.ecdc.europa.eu | Spotify | ECDC uses the Spotify embed application to play audio content for its podcasts. The application is behind a shield. The user must first accept Spotify cookies before the podcast plays. The cookie collects data on the users’ visits to the website, such as which podcasts were listened. Spotify collects data that may include the visitor’s IP address, technical information about the user’s device (browser type operating system, etc), web page visited and search terms (within the Spotify website) |
Third Party | Cookie Policy |