Cookies policy

What are cookies?

Cookies are small bits of data sent by a website server to the browser on your computer. The browser informs the server when you next visit that particular website. Cookies help us to store user preferences, track usage trends on an aggregate basis, and improve the user experience.

When you first visit this website, you are asked whether you accept the use of cookies. If cookies are rejected, the website's functionality and user experience may be affected. Your preferences will not be saved (e.g.: preferred language). Your choice applies to all cookies on the website. Every 6 months we remove all first-party cookies and ask you to make your selection again. We do this to ensure that your preferences are still valid and up to date.

You can change your cookies preference at any time by using the button below:

What does this cookie policy cover?

This cookie policy covers the websites we publish and make available on the internet under:

What types of cookies do we use?

Functional cookies

Functional cookies enable us to improve the usability and performance of this website by allowing it to remember choices and customisations you make during your visit, such as your preferred language.

Your choices and customisations will not be saved if you do not accept the use of cookies.

Our website does not use strictly necessary cookies, as we do not have user sessions or features that require storing session-based information.

Analytics cookies

Analytics cookies collect information about how you use our website and help us, for example, to understand the interests of our users and measure the effectiveness of our communications. In this way, we can adapt the content of our website more specifically to our users’ needs and thereby improve what we offer you, for example, by ensuring that you can more easily find what you are looking for. Analytics cookies include those used by Piano Analytics – Data driven Customer Engagement Solutions to obtain statistics about the usage of the website. Piano Analytics provides the ECB with deep insights into user behaviour across digital platforms, like websites, mobile apps, and other digital touchpoints. It focuses on tracking and analysing customer interactions, enabling organizations to make data-driven decisions aimed at optimizing user experience, boosting engagement, and driving business growth.

Data are sent to servers operated by Piano (which are located in the EU) and are used to provide the ECB with aggregate statistics about the number and duration of visits, usage patterns, traffic sources, user demographics and searches performed on this website. These cookies are strictly dependent on user consent.

Piano Analytics has its own privacy policy:

Depending on your consent, Piano only stores the following personal data:

• Online identifiers (including cookie identifiers),
• internet protocol (IP) addresses,
• device identifiers
• client identifiers.

The ECB has opted for a 14-month retention period (starting from the moment the personal data is collected) at Piano. The ECB has also by default enabled IP anonymisation and disabled the User-ID. Your visit(s) to the website will not be tracked if you do not accept the use of cookies.

Myra Security GmbH, which is a Germany-based IT security provider, is responsible for the processing of limited categories of personal data (e.g. IP addresses). The storage of access logs (customer metadata - if activated for the respective subdomains), which contain the client IP addresses, is carried out in accordance with legal requirements for a specified period, maximum 6 months, which is reasonably related to the purposes of the collection.

If the purposes of the collection have been fulfilled and further storage is no longer necessary, the data will be deleted immediately.

Specifically, Myra logs contain the following information:

• Host
• Remote IP-address
• Local time
• Request method
• Requested URI
• Requested Port
• HTTP status code
• Bytes sent
• Upstream time
• Used TLS version
• User Agent
• Referrer
• MIME-Type
• Myra Status
  

This is necessary for the technical security of our website.More detailed information on Myra Security GmbH’s privacy policy can be found on Myra Security GmbH’s website.

Other third-party cookies

Certain third-party features on our website require cookies. For example, a video player, a map or social media content embedded in a page may set cookies. These features will be disabled if you do not accept the use of cookies.

These third-parties operate outside of the control of the European Central Bank and may be headquartered outside of the European Economic Area (EEA). Because of this, these third parties have their own privacy policies and procedures, independent of the ECB. The ECB therefore cannot predict the uses that these social media channels might have in place for the personal data. Third parties may, at any time, change their terms of service, purpose, and use of cookies, etc. Moreover, the social media channels may resort to service providers outside of the EEA and it cannot be guaranteed that users’ data will only be transferred to countries with the same safeguards as the EEA.