Cookies
How do we use cookies?
Cookies allow the website to recognise you, in order to improve your experience when using the site – for instance, by remembering your preferences (such as language) so that you don’t need to set these again during your visit.
In the Council, we use cookies for three main reasons:
- to ensure the security of our website
- to produce anonymous statistical reports on the website's audience
- to optimise the content functionalities and technical performance of the website
All information collected through cookies is anonymised and stored for a limited amount of time.
Necessary cookies
Necessary cookies are required to support essential features of the Council's website. They cannot be turned off.
Cookies to keep track of your language preference
| Cookie name | Purpose |
| consilium.language |
These help us track the language you have chosen on the Council's website. They expire after one year of continuous inactivity. |
Cookies to ensure web security
| Cookie name | Purpose |
| cf_bm |
These help Cloudflare identify and mitigate automated traffic to protect the Council's website from bad bots. They expire after 30 minutes of continuous inactivity. |
| cf_clearance |
These prove to Cloudflare that you are a verified human. They expire after 30 minutes of continuous inactivity. |
|
ASLBSA ASLBSACORS |
These help Microsoft Azure Front Door ensure the well-functioning of the video live streaming services. They expire upon closure of the browser. |
Optional cookies
The Council uses cookies from the web analytics tools Piano Analytics and Hotjar in order to collect aggregated and anonymous statistics. More specifically, these tools collect data about:
- metrics – visits, page views, time spent on page, new or returning visitors, video plays
- hardware and software – devices, browsers and operating systems
- location – limited to continents, countries, regions, cities (GPS geolocation is not used)
- sources of traffic to the Council's website – external websites, search engines, email, social media
- downloads – pdf files attached to press releases and Council e-books
- IPs (anonymised)
The cookies used by the Council for analytics purposes are set with your consent, meaning that you can reject them when you first visit a page.
The Council retains full control of the data collected.
Cookies to measure website use
| Cookie name | Purpose |
| hjSession |
These enable Hotjar to define a session and ensure that requests are attributed to the same session. They expire after 30 minutes. |
| hjSessionUser |
These are set by Hotjar when a user first lands on a page, ensuring that data from subsequent visits by the same user to the same site are attributed to the same user ID. They expire after 12 months. |
| pcid |
These enable Piano Analytics to assign an ID to a visitor. They expire after 13 months. |
| pctx |
These ensure the coherence of the information collected by Piano Analytics. They expire after 13 months. |
| pprv |
These enable Piano Analytics to register users' consent to the use of cookies. They expire after 13 months. |
Control your cookies
When you visit the Council’s website for the first time, you are asked to accept or refuse optional cookies.
By default, your browsing experience on our website is not tracked by Piano Analytics and Hotjar cookies. However, you may choose to consent to your browsing experience on our website being used in our aggregated statistics.
Your status
Your current status is: I accept all cookies I accept only necessary cookies
I understand that by enabling the "I accept only necessary cookies“ option, I will be counted as a user who does not wish to be tracked, and no cookies will collect my browsing data on this website.
I understand that by enabling the "I accept all cookies“ option, I will receive some new Piano Analytics and Hotjar cookies enabling the collection of audience data on this website.
Last review: 31 March 2026