Usage of cookies
By using the web page, you agree to have performance/analytical cookies used to improve the web page quality, complying with Article nr.10 set by the public administration office, , stating that the public administration office must create administration tools and services which are easy to use and available to citizens (part 8 of article 10) and improve the quality and functionality of tools and services already available.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files which are sent to your computer memory when browsing a web page. Every subsequent visit to the web page, cookie is sent back to the web page or origin or another page which recognizes the cookie. Cookie acts like the websites memory, allowing the page to remember your computer every subsequent visit, including your personalized setting, improving the user experience. Additional information about cookies, including the ability to manage and delete them, can be gathered at www.aboutcookies.org.
Google Analytics
This web page uses software developed by “Google Inc.”. Text cookie created by “Google Analytics” and stored on the user’s computer helps analyze visitor usage patterns and activities on www.geolatvija.lv. For these purposes standard journaling information is gathered (connection time, duration, IP address) and anonymous data about users activities on the internet destination.
Information created by cookies is sent to “Google” servers abroad (outside of Latvia and European Union) and is stored there. According to Google Inc. terms of service (https://www.google.com/intl/lv/policies/terms/) and Google Analytics terms of service (http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html), Google will use the gathered information to analyze the usage patterns and activities of web page visitors.
Your IP address, using IP-anonymization (deleting the last octet if you Ipv4 address, as well as setting the last 80 bits of your IPv6 address to zero) in the European Union or European territories is shortened and can only be handed to Google servers in the US if exceptions are made.
VRAA will not use cookie to find or gather any personal information about the users of www.geolatvija.lv and will not permit any third party to do so.
You can disable Google Analytics data collection by download and activation Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on (https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/181881 or http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hj=de). This tools contacts Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js), to indicate that sending information about the current webpage to Google Analytics is not permitted.
Cookie types
Session and permanent cookies Both session cookies (exist until the internet browser is closed) and permanent cookies (exist for a longer, determined amount of time) are used. www.geolatvija.lv uses the following performance/analytical and functional cookies:
| Target | Description |
|---|---|
| Required cookies to navigate website, use provided services and identify. | |
| Performance/Analytical cookies | cookies, which gather information about user activities on webpage, for example to determine which webpages are most frequently visited and if users are receiving error reports. |
| Functional cookies | These cookies allow our webpage to remember information input by user (login, webpage language etc) and provide updates, personalized options. |
Performance/Analytical and functional cookies used on www.geolatvija.lv
| Name | Target | Category | Location (experiration date) | Origin |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ENG: _ga | Google Analytics (analytics.js) unikālo apmeklējumu uzskaite | Veiktspējas/analītiskās sīkdatnes | 2 gadi | geolatvija.lv |
| _ga | Google Analytics (analytics.js) request frequency regulating | performance/analytical cookies | 10 minutes | geolatvija.lv |
| __utma | Google analytics (ga.js) unique visitor accounting | performance/analytical cookies | 2 years | geolatvija.lv |
| ENG: __utmt | Google analytics (ga.js) pieprasījumu biežuma regulēšana | Veiktspējas/analītiskās sīkdatnes | 10 minūtes | geolatvija.lv |
| __utmb | Google analytics (ga.js) First visit identificaton | Performance/Analytical cookies | 30 minutes | geolatvija.lv |
| ENG: __utmz | Google analytics (ga.js) apmeklējuma izcelsmes identificēšana. | Veiktspējas/analītiskās sīkdatnes | 6 mēneši | geolatvija.lv |
How to manage and delete cookies
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Contact information
Improving www.geolatvija.lv service quality :
Valsts reģionālās attīstības aģentūra, 90001733697, Elizabetes iela 19, Rīga, LV 1010 Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA Google Inc, commitment regarding personal data processing: http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/dpa/dataprocessingamendment_20130906.htmlIn case of questions about using cookie or processing personal data, please email: geoportals@vraa.gov.lv
