Introduction

 

This Cookie Policy applies both to Portal users and to those who use online or mobile applications. The information presented below is intended to inform the users of this application about the placement, use and administration of cookies by the Agency for the Financing of Rural Investments in the context of the use of this application.

What are cookies?

 

This application uses cookie technology to provide you with a better and personalized web service. An "Internet Cookie" (term also known as "browser cookie" or "HTTP cookie" or "cookie") is a small file that is stored by the browser and read from the hard drive of the end device (for example , computer, laptop or phone), depending on the websites you visit. Cookies are installed by the request issued by a web server to a browser (eg: Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera, etc.) or an application.

 

Once installed, cookies have a fixed lifetime, remaining "passive" in the sense that they do not contain software, viruses or spyware and will not access information on the hard drive of the user on whose equipment they were installed.

 

A cookie consists of two parts: the name of the cookie and the content or value of the cookie. From a technical point of view, only the web server that sent the cookie can access it again when a user returns to the web page associated with that web server.

 

The purposes for which cookies are used through this website

Cookies are used to provide users of this application with a better browsing experience and services adapted to the needs and interests of each individual user, namely for:

 

• improving the use of this application, including by identifying any errors that occur during users' visit/use;
• providing anonymous statistics to the Rural Investment Financing Agency about how this application is used;
• anticipation of possible services that will be made available to users through this application in the future, depending on the services / products accessed.

Based on the feedback sent through cookies in relation to how the application is used, the Agency for Financing Rural Investments can adopt measures to make this application more efficient and accessible to users. Thus, the use of cookies allows memorization of certain settings/preferences established by the users of this application, such as:

• facilitating access to users' accounts
• measuring and recording website traffic (Google Analytics)

Lifetime of cookies

 

The lifetime of cookies can vary significantly, depending on the purpose for which they are placed. There are the following categories of cookies, which also determine their lifetime:

- Session cookies – is a cookie that is automatically deleted when the user closes the browser/application;

- Persistent or fixed cookies – is a cookie that remains stored in the user's terminal until it reaches a certain expiration date (which can be several minutes, days or several years) or until it is deleted by the user at any time, through through browser/application settings.

What cookies are used through this application?

 

 

 

 

By using this application, the following cookies may be placed:

 

• ARRAffinitySameSite, expires when the user closes the browser
• ARRAffinity, expires when the user closes the browser
• .AspNetCore.Identity.Application, used to authenticate external users, expires when the user closes the browser
• External, used to authenticate external users, expires when the user closes the browser
• ExternalC1, used to authenticate external users, expires when the user closes the browser
• ExternalC2, used to authenticate external users, expires when the user closes the browser
• cookie-consent, used to record that the visitor or external user has been informed about the cookie policy, expires when the user closes the browser
• .AspNetCore.Antiforgery. This cookie is necessary to prevent falsification of requests between websites.
• .AspNetCore.OpenIdConnect.Nonce. This cookie is a security cookie that helps prevent response attacks.
• .AspNetCore.Correlation. This cookie is a security cookie that allows users to access all areas of the application where they have access permissions.

 

Analytical and performance cookies allow us to recognize and count users and collect information about how the website is used (for example, the pages a user opens most often and whether the user receives error messages from certain pages). This helps us improve the way our website works, for example by making sure you can easily find what you're looking for. As long as you are not registered on this site, these cookies cannot be used to identify individuals, they are used only for statistical purposes. If you are registered, we may also know the details you have provided to us, such as your email address and username, the use of which is subject to the Terms and Conditions and the Personal Data Processing Terms. The expiration period of these cookie files is a maximum of 30 days.

Regarding third-party cookies, the expiration period may vary and in some cases may exceed 2 years. For more details on this category of cookies, see the Section below.

What are cookies placed by third parties?

Certain sections of content within this application may be provided through third parties, i.e. not by the Rural Investment Financing Agency, in which case these cookies are called third party cookies ("third party cookies"). .

These cookies may come from the following third parties: Google Analytics, social networks.

1. Google Analytics. The AFIR.INFO application uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google. Google Analytics uses cookies to help the owner of the application analyze how it is used. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the application (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers that may be located in the EU, EEA and/or the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the application, compiling reports and providing other services related to its activity. Google may also transfer this information to third parties if it is required to do so by law or if these third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with other data held by Google.

 

You can opt out of Google Analytics without affecting how you can visit the "AFIR.INFO" App.

Detailed information on Google Analytics and the protection of personal data (including how you can control the information sent to Google) can be found at: https://policies.google.com/privacy/partners.

1. Social media cookies. Within the "AFIR.INFO" application, third parties who in turn provide applications through this website may place their own cookie files in order to monitor the performance of their applications or to customize these applications for you. For example, when you share an article using a share button on social networks (Facebook, Twitter), the social network platform associated with that button will record this. On some websites, there may also be embedded content, for example video content from third parties such as YouTube; and in this case, these third parties may place their own cookies.

 

Such cookie files cannot be accessed by the Rural Investment Financing Agency.