Cookie Policy
We use cookies on our flight emissions website(hereinafter referred to as "the website"). A cookie is a small piece of data that a website stores on the visitor’s computer or mobile device.
We use cookies for the technical functioning of the website and, if you consent to it, to collect your browsing experience on our website for aggregated statistics, whose purpose is to improve our communication and the service we offer.
The website, after consent, will install first-party cookies and third-party-cookies(social media cookies). More details are provide below
Manage your consent
By default, the browsing experience of our website visitors is NOT tracked by the Analytics service and social media embeds don’t start automatically.
By managing your consent you can decide to allow the following:
- Aggregated analytics: support EASA to improve the browsing experience of our website by allowing the creation of aggregated statistics.
- Social media embeds (i.e. YouTube): allow social media embeds to load automatically. For example this will allow YouTube video player to set a third party cookie and start playing automatically when you visit a page with social media embeds.
If you wish to change or withdraw your consent click on
Manage your consent.
Required cookies
Required cookies are essential to ensure that our website functions correctly. They also allow us to improve the performance of our website.
| Cookie name | Placed by | Description | Expiration time |
|---|---|---|---|
| cookie-agreed, cookie-agreed-version, cookie-agreed-categories | EASA | These cookies are set when a visitor agrees to the cookie terms. They are used to not show the banner again after the visitor saved the cookie preferences. | 3 months |
Statistical cookies
We use these cookies to collect information about the use of our website. They are used to record the performance and loading times of the website and specific pages.
| Cookie name | Placed by | Description | Expiration time |
|---|---|---|---|
| _pk_id* | Matomo (used by EASA, see "Analytics service") | This cookie is installed by Matomo, a tool we use to analyse the website performance. This specific cookie is used to recognize new and returning visitors. | 13 months |
| _pk_ses* | Matomo (used by EASA, see "Analytics service") | This cookie is installed by Matomo, a tool we use to analyse the website performance. It shows the visitor's active session. | Session |
| _pk_ref* | Matomo (used by EASA, see "Analytics service") | Stores attribution information (the referrer that brought the visitor to the website). | 6 months |
Marketing cookies
These cookies can be used for marketing purposes, for example by showing you relevant ads instead of generic ones.
| Cookie name | Placed by | Description | Expiration time |
|---|---|---|---|
| AEC, APISID, SAPISID, HSID, NID, SID, SIDCC, SSID, __Secure-1PAPISID, __Secure-1PSID, __Secure-1PSIDCC, __Secure-1PSIDTS, __Secure-3PAPISID, __Secure-3PSID, __Secure-3PSIDCC, __Secure-3PSIDTS, PREF, VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA, VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE, YSC | YouTube | Multiple cookies set by YouTube (embedded videos) used for multiple purposes. | Multiple durations |
Analytics service (Matomo)
It’s a service which monitors and evaluates the effectiveness and efficiency of the website. It uses an open-source analytics platform, Matomo (formerly Piwik), fully controlled by the EASA.
The type of data collected by the Matomo
- IP address (masked)
- Location: country, region, city, approximate latitude and longitude (Geolocation)
- Date and time of the request (visit to the site)
- Title of the page being viewed (Page Title)
- URL of the page being viewed (Page URL)
- URL of the page that was viewed prior to the current page (Referrer URL)
- Screen resolution of user's device
- Time in local visitor's time-zone
- Files that were clicked and downloaded (Download)
- Links to an outside domain that were clicked (Outlink)
- Pages generation time (the time it takes for webpages to be generated by the webserver and then downloaded by the visitor: Page speed)
- Main language of the browser being used (Accept-Language header)
- Browser version, browser plugins (PDF, Flash, Java, …) operating system version, device identifier (User-Agent header)
- Language of the visited page
- Campaigns
- Site Search
- Events
Restricted access to information
All analytics data communication is encrypted via HTTPS protocol. The analytical reports generated by Analytics can only be accessed through the EASA authentication service by EASA staff and by duly authorized external sub-contractors, who may be required to analyse, develop and/or regularly maintain certain sites.
Social media cookies
The EASA is active on social media platforms to strengthen our online presence and visibility.
The website does not set cookies when displaying links to our social media channels when you browse our website. When the website shows social media widgets, such as a YouTube video player, the website will ask for consent before loading the YouTube video player, which will then install a third-party cookie from YouTube or the social media widget used.
Contact
You can enquire us about the way we use cookies via dpo@easa.europa.eu.
Changes to our policy
This cookie policy supersedes all previous versions and is valid from June 19th, 2025. We reserve the right to make changes to and/or update this policy.
Version: 1.0