Governing document
Cookie Policy
What is stored on your device when you use this website, why it is stored, how long it remains, and how you change your mind.
This Policy should be read together with our Privacy Notice, which describes more broadly how personal data is handled. Where the two touch on the same subject, the Privacy Notice governs the treatment of personal data and this Policy governs what is placed on, or read from, your device.
1. The law that applies
Storing information on a user’s terminal equipment, or gaining access to information already stored there, is regulated separately from the general law on personal data. The rule derives from the European framework on privacy in electronic communications and is implemented in Sweden through the Electronic Communications Act. It applies to cookies, and equally to any other technique having the same effect, regardless of whether the information involved is personal data.
The rule admits two narrow exemptions. The first is where storage or access is carried out for the sole purpose of transmitting a communication over an electronic communications network. The second is where it is strictly necessary in order to provide a service that the user has explicitly requested. Anything falling outside those two cases requires consent.
Where consent is required, it must meet the standard set by the General Data Protection Regulation: freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous, signified by a clear affirmative action. Continued use of a website is not consent. Pre-ticked boxes are not consent. Consent must be as easy to withdraw as it was to give.
How we apply that here. Items that are strictly necessary are set without asking, because the exemption applies to them. Everything else is set only after a clear affirmative action on your part, and not before. Declining is presented as plainly as accepting, and carries no penalty beyond the loss of the function concerned.
2. What a cookie is, and what else we use
A cookie is a small text file placed on your device by a website and returned to that website on subsequent requests. It allows a site to recognise that a sequence of requests comes from the same browser. Cookies vary in lifespan: a session cookie is discarded when the browser closes, while a persistent cookie remains until it expires or is deleted.
Equivalent effects can be achieved without cookies, and the law treats those techniques the same way. localStorage and sessionStorage hold data in the browser under comparable conditions. This site does not use advertising technology, tracking pixels, cross-site identifiers, device fingerprinting, or any mechanism intended to follow visitors between unrelated websites. Nothing stored by this site is used to build a profile of you or to target advertising.
3. The categories we use
Items are grouped by function. The tables below describe the categories and the role each item plays. Names and durations reflect ordinary operation and may vary where a platform component is updated.
3.1 Strictly necessary
These are set without consent, on the basis of the exemption described above, and cannot be switched off through the site. They carry no analytical or commercial function.
| Name | Type | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
cloudoptly-consent | Cookie | Records the choice you expressed, so that it is honoured and not asked again | 12 months |
| Session identifier | Cookie | Maintains continuity of a request sequence and supports load distribution | Session |
| Security token | Cookie | Protects form submissions against cross-site request forgery | Session |
3.2 Preferences
Set only after acceptance. These remember a choice you have made about how the interface behaves, and have no other function.
| Name | Type | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
co-prefs | Local storage | Retains interface preferences between visits | 12 months |
3.3 Statistics
Set only after acceptance. Measurement is aggregated, addresses are truncated before storage, and the result is not used to identify individuals or to construct profiles.
| Name | Type | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
co-stats-id | Cookie | Distinguishes one browser from another for aggregate counting | 13 months |
co-stats-session | Cookie | Groups a sequence of page views into a single visit | 30 minutes |
4. Third-party content
Typefaces used on this site are loaded in a manner that causes your browser to issue a request to an external domain. That request necessarily discloses your network address and user agent to the operator of that domain, as any web request does. No cookie is set by us in connection with it, and the content is static.
If you prefer to avoid such requests entirely, browser extensions and privacy settings exist that block them. The site remains usable where they are blocked, with a fallback typeface in place of the intended one.
We do not currently embed video, maps, social widgets or comparable third-party components. Should any be introduced, they will be placed behind consent and this Policy will be updated before they are enabled.
5. Server logs, which are not cookies
Our servers record technical details of the requests they receive, as web servers ordinarily do. This happens at the network level, involves no storage on your device, and therefore falls outside the rule described in section 1. It remains subject to the general law on personal data, and is described in our Privacy Notice. Such records are retained for a limited period for security and diagnostic purposes.
6. How to change or withdraw your choice
Your choice is not final and may be revisited at any time, by any of the following routes.
- The preference control. Reopen the cookie preferences from the site footer and set a different option. The change takes effect immediately.
- Your browser. Every major browser allows stored items to be inspected and deleted for an individual site. Removing ours resets the position to the state before any choice was made.
- Browser privacy settings. Browsers can be configured to refuse categories of storage generally, or to clear them on exit. Settings of that kind apply across all sites and override anything expressed here.
7. What happens if you decline
Declining prevents anything beyond the strictly necessary items from being set. The site continues to function. Pages load, content is readable, and forms submit. What is lost is the retention of interface preferences between visits, and our ability to count visits in aggregate.
A record of the decision itself is kept, because without it the question would be asked again on every page. That record is listed in the strictly necessary table above and contains nothing beyond the choice expressed and when it was made.
8. Your rights
Where information stored on or read from your device constitutes personal data, the rights described in our Privacy Notice apply to it in full, including access, erasure, objection and the withdrawal of consent. Those rights are exercised through the routes set out in that document.
You may also lodge a complaint with the Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection, Integritetsskyddsmyndigheten, Box 8114, 104 20 Stockholm, or with the supervisory authority of your own Member State.
9. Changes to this Policy
This Policy is versioned, and the version in force appears at the top of this page. Where a new category is introduced, or an existing one is put to a materially different use, consent is sought afresh rather than inferred from a choice made under an earlier version.
10. Contact
Questions about this Policy may be directed through the contact route published on this website.