Cookie Policy

What are cookies?

Cookies are short text files downloaded to your device by a website. Cookies are normally used to provide a more personalised experience and to remember a user’s profile without the need for a specific login. Also, it can be placed by third parties (such as an advertising network) in end users’ devices and may be used to track users when surfing across different websites associated with that third party.

First-party cookies are cookies set by the website you are visiting. Only that website can read them. In addition, a website might potentially use external services, which also set their own cookies, known as third-party cookies.

Persistent cookies are cookies saved on your computer that are not deleted automatically when you close your browser, unlike a session cookie, which is deleted when you leave your browser.

For more general information on cookies please see https://ec.europa.eu/info/cookies_en.

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How do we use cookies?

ESMA’s website uses only first-party cookies. These are cookies set and controlled by ESMA, not by any external organisation.

The first-party cookies are used to:

store visitor preferences
make our website operational
gather analytics data (about user behaviour)

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Visitor preferences

Visitor preference cookies store information about user's specific preference selections. They remember if you have agreed to (or refused) this site's cookie policy.

Name	Service	Purpose	Cookie type and duration
eu_cookie_consent	Cookie consent kit	Stores your cookie preferences	First-party session cookie

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Technical cookies

Name	Service	Purpose	Cookie type and duration
has_js	Java IT platform	Informs the content management system whether you have JavaScript enabled in your browser settings. It can deliver content in a suitable way depending on your settings. It expires when you close the browser.	First-party session cookie, deleted after you quit your browser

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Analytics cookies

Analytics cookies are used internally for improving your website experience.

The cookies assess your interactions with the website – as an anonymous user (the data gathered does not identify you personally).

The data is not shared with any third parties or used for any other purpose.

The cookies can be either accepted or refused by you – either through selecting your preference in the bottom of this page or the site's cookie banner when you first visit the site

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Removing cookies from your device

You can delete all cookies that are already on your device by clearing the browsing history of your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). This will remove all cookies from all websites you have visited.

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Managing website-specific cookies

You can manage website-specific cookies directly through your browser. For more detailed control over website-specific cookies, check the privacy and cookie settings in your preferred browser.

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Blocking cookies

Most modern browsers have settings which allow you to prevent any cookies being placed on your device. There may be instances where you may then have to manually adjust some preferences when you visit a website.

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Important for you to know

Functional cookies required by the website; these cookies do not track or identify the user personally (e.g. session cookies).
Our website uses Europa analytics which is analytics solution to help us understand how you use the website and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content. For more information on Europa Analytics cookies, see their official page.
When sharing content published on our website by using the “Share” button, your browser will be directed to external platforms, which may collect certain cookies. Please consult the cookie policy of the external platform of your choice before sharing any content.
ESMA’s website currently has three active links (iframe image icons) leading to ESMA’s social media channels (LinkedIn, Twitter and YouTube). Please consult the cookie policy of the relevant social media before opening the social media channel of your choice.

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Consent to collecting your browsing experience for anonymised statistics

By default, the browsing experience of our website visitors is NOT tracked by Europa Analytics. You may, though, choose to consent to contributing your browsing experience on our website for us to produce anonymised statistics.

If you enable the Do Not Track option (see below for an explanation) in your web browser, we will respect your choice and your browsing experience on our website will not be tracked for our anonymised statistics.

If you have not enabled the Do Not Track option, we will prompt you a cookie banner for you to make your choice and install a cookie called "eu_cookie_consent" to keep track of your choice.

In case you have disabled all cookies, you will be prompted the cookie banner at each visit of our website.

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Third-party cookies

No third-party cookies are installed in your browser.

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More Information

For further information, you can contact us at dpo@esma.europa.eu

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