Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.

We use the following cookies:

• - Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
• - Analytical or performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
• - Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
• - Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests.

Cookie Name / Prefix	Expires	Category	Purpose
XSRF-TOKEN	365 days, if the user chooses 'Remember me'. Otherwise per user browser session	Strictly necessary cookies	Security: Cross-site request forgery, also known as one-click attack or session riding and abbreviated as CSRF (sometimes pronounced sea-surf) or XSRF, is a type of malicious exploit of a website where unauthorized commands are transmitted from a user that the web application trusts.
columbus_session	365 days, if the user chooses 'Remember me'. Otherwise per user browser session	Strictly necessary cookies	These cookies help the Columbus platform work and are essential in order to enable you to move around the Wikimedia site and use their features. These cookies are useful for remembering your login details, maintaining your identity and remembering previous actions, keeping you logged in (if selected), and more
remember_web_{cookie_unique_code}	365 days, if the user chooses 'Remember me'. Otherwise per user browser session	Functionality cookies	Functionality: Helps identify you to the Columbus platform, and keeps you logged in.
marinus_consent	365 days	Functionality cookies	Helps identify if the user has consented to allow third-party cookies

Please note that the following third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These named third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. These third party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies or targeting cookies:

• - Google Analytics

To deactivate the use of third party advertising cookies, you may visit the consumer page to manage the use of these types of cookies by clicking on the name above.

You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.

Updated May 2019