Cookies

What are cookies?

Why do we use cookies?

What types of cookies do we use?

Cookies and third parties

Deactivation and deletion of Cookies

What are cookies?

Cookies are small files containing letters and numbers that are stored on your device when you visit a website or application. We use cookies to improve your user experience within our Website by remembering your preferences. For example, in many online shopping websites, when you add a product to the virtual shopping cart without finalizing the order, the next time you visit the website, you will be able to see the same product still in the cart. This is one example of how cookies are used to remember your preferences. Without the use of cookies, your user experience on the Website will be significantly less personalized. Cookies are stored in your browser, taking up very little memory.

For more information about cookies, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

Why do we use cookies?

Cookies perform many functions, including facilitating navigation and storing your preferences in order to provide more personalized content and improve the overall user experience.

We use cookies:

  • To manage your preferences and improve certain features of the Website. This includes the collection of information about the date and time of your visit, your search history and your language preferences.
  • To maintain our security measures and detect abuse.
  • To analyze how our Website is accessed and used. We use this information to maintain, manage and continuously improve our services.
  • To provide you with personalized ads. Cookies help us manage ads and measure their effectiveness.

What types of cookies do we use?

This website uses the following categories of cookies:

  • Persistent cookies - these cookies are stored on the browser of your device (computer, smartphone or tablet) and come into use when you visit the Website. These cookies serve to remember users' settings and preferences in order to improve their subsequent visits. For example – ensure that users will not have to log into their accounts again. In addition, they remember users' language preferences on subsequent visits.
  • Session cookies – these are temporary cookies that are stored in the cookie archive of your browser until you leave the Website. The information we receive using these cookies helps us analyze web traffic, allowing us to detect and eliminate problems and provide better navigation.
  • Advertising cookies - these cookies ensure the delivery of personalized ads and help measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns by analyzing your interaction with ads. For example, they help us determine the number of clicks on an ad by users of the Website.

This Website may contain links to websites or applications of third parties, including our partners. You should be informed that these third party websites may also use cookies. We have no control over these third-party websites and are not responsible for the cookies they use or access. In case you choose any of these links or applications, you should be informed that they have their own cookie policies. Therefore, please familiarize yourself with the cookie policies of other websites or applications before accessing them.

Cookies and third parties

Third parties, such as advertising networks and providers of external services such as web traffic analysis, may use cookies, software development kits (SDKs) and other technologies to collect information about your visit to the Website. This information is used to provide more personalized advertisements within our Website or elsewhere on the Internet. We do not control the use of these third party cookies, which are subject to the privacy/cookie policies of those third parties.

In order to better understand how you use the Website, we allow Google analytics to use cookies and other applicable technologies.

This Website also uses third-party extensions in the form of a button to share, like or comment on Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin and other social networks. With the help of these buttons, you can share, like or comment on our content on third-party websites, provided that you are logged in to your respective accounts. They could make a connection between your interaction with our Website and your accounts with them. You should familiarize yourself with the privacy policies of these third parties before clicking or tapping the share button.

Deactivation and deletion of Cookies

Your browser usually provides information on how to delete, block or refuse the use of cookies. You can find more information about the more commonly used browsers at the following links:

To refuse access of third-party cookies from Google Analytics, use the analytics suite's ad settings or visit https://adssettings.google.com.

Each user can change the settings on their mobile device regarding when to see advertising content based on predefined interests.

Attention: If you block the cookies used by this Website, you may not be able to access all or part of our services, such as saving personalized settings, such as access information.

Local development, poverty reduction and improved inclusion of vulnerable groups
The Financial Mechanism of the European Economic Area (EEF) provides funds provided by the Kingdom of Norway, the Republic of Iceland and the Principality of Liechtenstein aimed at reducing economic and social disparities in the EEA and strengthening bilateral relations between donor and beneficiary countries. During the program period 2014-2021, Bulgaria will receive over 210 million euros to support projects in the field of social and territorial development and cohesion.
Learn more about the program