We use cookies to enable the technical functioning of this website.

In addition, if you consent to it, we use cookies to collect your browsing experience on our website. This enables us to collect anonymous statistics to help us improve our website and services.

Cookies will not be used for any purpose other than the ones stated above.

Different types of cookies exist in Eurofound’s website:

• First-party cookies. These are set by Eurofound’s website you are visiting and only this website can read them. These cookies are strictly necessary for the provision of the web service requested by you. A website might use first-party cookies from an external service to analyse how people use their site, such as Europa Analytics (see below).

• Third-party cookies. These are set and stored by a different website in a manner that is outside the control of Eurofound.

• Session cookies. Cookies which are temporarily saved in your web browser to enable a website to track your navigation, so you are not treated as a new user every time you go from page to page. They are deleted automatically when you close your browser.

• Persistent cookies. Cookies which are saved on your computer for longer and not deleted automatically when you close your browser.

Europa Analytics is the service that monitors your browsing experience on Eurofound’s website. We use it to evaluate the website's effectiveness and efficiency.

Europa Analytics is configured for use by the websites of European Union institutions, bodies and agencies. It uses first-party cookies to collect data.

Europa Analytics is based on an open-source analytics platform controlled fully by the European Commission which, therefore, retains full control of the data collected through these first-party cookies, by storing these data on its own servers. This platform enables the protection of personal data of users thanks to features such as the de-identification of IP addresses.

Europa Analytics uses cookies to track the following information about visitors:

• IP address (de-identified)

• Location (country, region, city, approximate latitude and longitude)

• Date and time of the visit

• Title of the page being viewed

• URL of the page being viewed

• URL of the page that was viewed prior to the current page

• Screen resolution of the user's device

• Time in the visitor's local time zone

• Files clicked and downloaded

• Links to another website that were clicked

• Time for webpages to be generated by the server and then downloaded by the visitor

• Main language of the visitor's web browser being used

• Browser version

• Browser plugins

• Operating system version

• Device identifier

• Language of the visited page

• Campaign information

• Site search information

• Events

We use this information to prepare aggregated, anonymous reports on visitor activity. To improve the accuracy of these reports, a first-party cookie stores the following information from this website, which Europa Analytics collects:

• Random unique visitor ID

• Time of the first visit for the specific visitor

• Time of the previous visit for the specific visitor

• Number of visits for the specific visitor

Europa Analytics generates a random ID persistent cookie that allows it to identify when a user returns to the site. However, it uses an IP de-identification mechanism to automatically mask a portion of each visitor's IP address. This effectively makes it impossible to identify a particular visitor using the IP address. For statistical purposes, the city and country of origin are determined from the full IP address, then stored and aggregated before the anonymisation mask is applied.

The ID persistent cookie has an expiration date of 13 months, after which it is automatically removed from the user's device. Note, nevertheless, that the European Commission stores anonymised and aggregated data for an indefinite period for analysis purposes. These data are not personal data, though.

Only authorised European Commission staff dealing with Europa Analytics and Eurofound’s staff and duly authorised external sub-contractors who analyse, develop and maintain this website can access the analytical reports generated by Europa Analytics. 

This website does not use any third-party cookies that are stored by a different website, but it does contains links to audiovisual content from other websites that may use these cookies.

• To view this content, you need to accept the specific terms and conditions for the external website, which includes its cookie policies. Eurofound has no control over the cookie policies of external websites.

• If you do not view the content, the external provider will not install any third-party cookies on your device.

Details about the cookie policies of other websites are provided on their own cookie notice pages. For example, if you choose to watch one of our videos on YouTube, you will be asked for explicit consent to accept YouTube(opens in new tab)This link opens in a new tab cookies.

You may choose not to have a unique web analytics cookie identification number assigned to your computer to avoid the aggregation and analysis of data collected on this website. To make that choice, please click below to receive an opt-out cookie.

'Do not track' is a function that allows visitors not to be tracked by websites. 'Do not track' options are available in a number of browsers.

Should you require any additional information on the cookies and similar technology we use, please send your request to the Data Protection Officer. Contact details can be found on the page below.