If you choose to browse our website, cookies will be stored on your computer unless you disable them in your browser (see guide below).
In order to improve your experience of our website and to ensure that it performs as you expect it to, we automatically collect statistical information in anonymous form on usage of our website. Part of that information is collected through the use of cookies. A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your computer or mobile device when you browse on our website. A cookie may also be placed temporarily on your computer in connection with a service, only to be deleted again when you leave the service.
A cookie may contain information such as language or user preferences and the information is only used by COWI to help improve the services it provides to our users of the site. A cookie cannot collect information from your computer and cannot carry any viruses or other damaging files.
Below please find information on how to reject or delete cookies on the most commonly used browsers.
COWI uses the following cookies:
Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to improve the users' experience of our website. Google Analytics processes IP addresses and information from cookies used on the COWI websites, so that we know how many page views these have, the number of users, which browsers users are using and in which city, region or country users are located. The statistics are used in an anonymous, summarised form. Data about the individual visitor’s use of the services is not sold to any third party.
Third party cookies: We embed video content from websites like Vimeo. As a result, when you visit a page with content embedded from other websites, you may be presented with cookies from these websites. COWI does not control the dissemination of these cookies. You should therefore check the relevant third party website for more information about their use of cookies.
Our website also use embedded "share" buttons to enable you to easily share information with friends through a number of popular social networks. These sites may also set cookies when you are logged in to their services. Be aware that COWI does not control the dissemination of these cookies and you should check the relevant third party website for more information about their use of cookies.
You may refuse the storage of cookies on your computer by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. As a cookie is stored on the client side, it is always possible for you to see, modify or delete these cookies.
If you do not wish to receive cookies from COWI's websites, in most new browsers you can select advanced cookie settings under Internet settings and add the relevant COWI website domain to the list of websites from which you want to block cookies. There, you can also delete individual cookies or all the cookies that your browser has stored.
On the websites below, you can see guides for deleting and enabling/disabling cookies in the most common browsers.
More about cookies and how to block or delete them in Microsoft Internet Explorer
If you have any questions about COWI's use of cookies, please contact COWI at dataprivacy@cowi.com.