Cookie

The short version

We set one cookie to remember your answer to the question below, and — only if you say yes — two more so we can measure how the site is used, plus Microsoft Clarity on the pages that are not about you. There are no advertising cookies. You can change your answer at any time, at the bottom of this page.

Cookies we set only if you agree

geuropia_vid identifies your browser, not you. It is a random string with no meaning outside our own database, and it lets us tell a returning visitor from a new one. It lasts one year from your last visit.

geuropia_vsid marks a single sitting and expires after thirty minutes of inactivity.

With these we record which pages you saw, how far down them you scrolled, which links and buttons you used, and where clicking produced no result — that last one is how we find things that look like buttons and are not. We also record which step of the application form people stop at, and which field reported an error.

We never record what you type. The application form asks for a passport number; a record of which field reported an error is useful to us, and a record of its contents would be an identity document sitting in an analytics table. The distinction is deliberate and it is enforced in the code, not just in this policy.

Microsoft Clarity sets its own cookies, in its own name, and records how a page was used closely enough that we can watch it back — where a mouse went, what was clicked, how far a page was read. It is loaded only if you agree, and only on pages that are not about you: never the application form, never your portal, never the page a sign-in link opens, and never the pages where you talk to us. Those pages are marked in the code so that their contents cannot be recorded even if the script somehow reached them, which is a second lock on the same door.

The cookie we set either way

geuropia_consent stores your answer — yes or no — for six months, so we do not ask again on every page. If you say no, it is the only cookie of the three that exists, and the other two are deleted.

If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track signal, we treat that as a no: we never show the banner, and we set nothing at all — not even this one, because there is no answer of yours to remember.

Email links

If you have agreed to measurement, the email links on this site open a message addressed to geuropia.edu+v… rather than plain geuropia.edu. Mail sent to either address reaches the same inbox; the tag tells us which visit led you to write, so that we know which pages actually help. The tag is the same random string as the cookie and contains nothing about you. You can delete it before sending, or type the plain address instead, and your message reaches us the same way.

How long we keep it

Individual events are deleted after twelve months. Visit and visitor records are deleted after twenty-four, unless they are attached to an application, in which case they follow the application's own retention rule in the privacy policy.

What is stored on your device without a cookie

A partly completed application is saved in your browser's local storage so that you can close the page and come back to it. It stays on your device until you submit the application or clear your browser data, and it is never sent to us before you submit. Documents you attach are never stored this way. This is not a cookie and is not covered by the choice above — it is how the form works.

Your language is part of the page address rather than a stored preference, so switching language changes the URL and nothing else.

Third parties

Fonts are served from our own domain, and our own measurement is stored in our own database on our own server.

Microsoft Clarity, if you agree to measurement, sets its own cookies in its own name and records how a page was used closely enough that we can watch it back. It is loaded only on our marketing pages — never the application form, never your portal, never the page a sign-in link opens, and never the pages where you talk to us. Those pages are marked in the code so their contents are masked if the script ever reaches them.

Who receives what, why, on what legal basis and for how long is on the privacy policy — this page is about what is stored on your device.

If you would rather involve none of them, email geuropia.edu@gmail.com instead and a person will answer.