To make openlaws work properly, we sometimes place small data files called cookies on your device. For more information about privacy and data protection, please read our Privacy Policy.

What are cookies?

A cookie is a small text file that a website stores on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site.

• First party cookies are cookies set by the website you’re 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 and that are not deleted automatically when you quit your browser, unlike a session cookie, which is deleted when you quit your browser.

When you visit openlaws, you will be prompted a notice about cookies.

The purpose is to enable the site to remember your preferences (such as user name, language, etc.) for a certain period of time. That way, you don’t have to re-enter them when browsing around the site during the same visit. Cookies can also be used to establish anonymised statistics about the browsing experience on our site.

How do we use cookies?

openlaws websites mostly tries to avoid cookies in general. If needed we will prefer first party cookies. However, to run openlaws, you will have to accept cookies from external organisations, in particular Google.

First-party cookies

The types of first-party cookie we use are to:

• make our websites operational
• gather analytics data (about user behaviour)

Operational cookies

There are some cookies that we have to include in order for certain web pages to function. For this reason, they do not require your consent. In particular:

• authentication cookies
• technical cookies required by certain IT systems

Analytics cookies

We use these purely for internal research on how we can improve the service we provide for all our users. The cookies simply assess how you interact with our website – as an anonymous user (the data gathered does not identify you personally).

Also, this data is not shared with any third parties or used for any other purpose. The anonymised statistics could be shared with contractors working on support of the openlaws website.

Opt-out complete; your visits to this website will not be recorded by the Web Analytics tool. Note that if you clear your cookies, delete the opt-out cookie, or if you change computers or Web browsers, you will need to perform the opt-out procedure again.

You may choose to prevent this website from aggregating and analyzing the actions you take here. Doing so will protect your privacy, but will also prevent the owner from learning from your actions and creating a better experience for you and other users.

You are not opted out. Uncheck this box to opt-out. You are currently opted out. Check this box to opt-in.

The tracking opt-out feature requires cookies to be enabled.

Third-party cookies

Some of our pages display content from external providers, e.g. Google, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube.

To view this third-party content, you first have to accept their specific terms and conditions. This includes their cookie policies, which we have no control over.

Since openlaws is mainly based on Google technology, openlaws will not work without Google. If you do not consent to the Google policies, please do not use openlaws.

However, there are certain cookie and advertising blockers available, which can help to protect your privacy. We strongly encourage you to use them (e.g. Ghostery).

Third-party providers on openlaws:

• Google (essential for the operation of openlaws)
• Twitter (no cookies, only link)
• LinkedIn (no cookies, only link)

Future development:

• You Tube
• Google Maps
• Vimeo
• Microsoft
• Facebook

These third-party services and their tracking are outside of the control of the openlaws. Providers may, at any time, change their terms of service, purpose and use of cookies, etc.

How can you manage cookies?

You can manage/delete cookies as you wish – for details, see aboutcookies.org.

Removing cookies from your device

You can delete all cookies that are already on your device by clearing the browsing history of your browser. This will remove all cookies from all websites you have visited.

Be aware though that you may also lose some saved information (e.g. saved login details, site preferences).

Managing site-specific cookies

For more detailed control over site-specific cookies, check the privacy and cookie settings in your preferred browser

Blocking cookies

You can set most modern browsers to prevent any cookies being placed on your device, but you may then have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site/page. And some services and functionalities may not work properly at all (e.g. profile logging-in).