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Cookie policy

This privacy policy concerns the “Open Research Europe publishing platform”, referred to as “ORE” in the following.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed by your browser on your device when you visit a website to store certain information. Using the stored information, a website can recognize that you have previously accessed and visited it using the browser on your end device.

How do we use cookies?

ORE uses strictly necessary cookies to make our website operational such as:

Login/logout of your user account.
Grant access to restricted content when using a secret links.
Ensure secure browsing of the website.
Load balancing incoming traffic across backend servers.

ORE uses only first-party cookies (i.e cookies set by our site itself), and the cookies we set are only accessible by the ORE website.

Which cookies do we use?

Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies are necessary for the functioning of the website.

Name	Duration	Purpose
`OJSSID`	1 day	Used for logging into your user account, granting access to restricted content via secret links, and ensuring secure browsing of the website.
`csrftoken`	1 week	Maintain a secure session for you during your visit by preventing Cross-site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks.
`ore_ocp_lb`	End of browser session	Used for load balancing to distribute incoming traffic across backend servers.

How can you manage cookies?

Removing cookies from your device

You can delete all cookies that are already on your device by clearing the browsing history of your browser. This will remove all cookies from all websites you have visited.

Be aware though that you may also lose some saved information (e.g. saved login details, site preferences).

See aboutcookies.org for further details of how to control/delete cookies.

Managing site-specific cookies

For more detailed control over site-specific cookies, check the privacy and cookie settings in your preferred browser

Blocking cookies

You can set most modern browsers to prevent any cookies being placed on your device, but you may then have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site/page. And some services and functionalities may not work properly at all (e.g. profile logging-in).