Cookie policy for ESMP

To ensure that the European Shortages Monitoring Platform (ESMP) operates efficiently and to enhance the user's experience, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) places small data files called cookies on your device. You can decide whether or not to be tracked by these cookies. You can delete the cookies at any time.
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About cookies

A cookie is a small piece of data that a website stores on the visitor’s computer or mobile device. At EMA, we use cookies to enable the technical functioning of the ESMP portal and its website. In addition, if you consent to it, we use cookies to collect your browsing experience on our website. This enables us to collect anonymous statistics to help us improve our website and services.

Different types of cookies exist:

  • First party cookies are set by the website you are visiting and only that website can read them. A website might use first party cookies from an external service to analyze how people use their site.
  • Third party cookies are set and stored by a different website in a manner that is outside the control of the site you are visiting.
  • Session cookies are temporarily saved in your web browser to enable a website to track your navigation, so you are not treated as a new user every time you go from page to page. They are deleted automatically when you close your browser.
  • Persistent cookies are saved on your computer for longer and are not deleted automatically when you close your browser.

For more information on different types of cookies, see: European Commission: cookies

ESMP portal and its cookies

The ESMP portal utilizes specific cookies crucial to its operation and enhancement of its user's experience. Disabling them may affect the performance and features available to you. Below is an overview of the cookies used in the ESMP portal.

Essential cookies

First party cookies

The ESMP uses a first party persistent cookie—cookieConsent—to track the user's consent on the usage of the cookies. This cookie has an expiration date of 365 days from its creation, after which it is automatically deleted from the user's device.

Power Pages cookies

The ESMP is built on Power Pages, which utilizes the cookies below. Except for Dynamics365PortalAnalytics—a first party persistent cookie with a 90-day expiration date—all other Power Pages cookies are first party session cookies, automatically deleted from the user's device when the web browser is closed.

  • __RequestVerificationTokenprotects against cross-site request forgery (CSRF).
  • .AspNet.ApplicationCookie Used to identify user sessions. A user session starts when a user first visits the site and ends when the session is closed.
  • adxPreviewUnpublishedEntities Stores preview ON/OFF mode in classic CMS systems for site administrators.
  • adx-notification Used in basic form actions to store alert messages for display on redirection.
  • ARRAffinity and ARRAffinitySameSite Automatically added by Azure websites to ensure load balancing across different sites. They do not store personal user information.
  • ASP.NET_SessionId Maintains a logged-in user's session to avoid repeated sign-ins.
  • ContextLanguageCode Stores the user's preferred language selection for the duration of their session. Deleted at session end.
  • Dynamics365PortalAnalytics Collects anonymous usage statistics for analysis and aggregated reporting.
  • isDSTObserved and isDSTSupport Indicate if the current time is within daylight saving time.
  • timeZoneCode and timezoneoffset Store time zone data related to the user's local time.
  • PrivateModeLoginCookie Identifies internal maker sessions when the site is in private mode. Remains after the site becomes public.
  • OpenIdConnect.nonce.xxxxxx Associates a client session with an ID token and mitigates replay attacks.
  • AspNet.ExternalCookie Used for identifying user sessions during external sign-in scenarios.
  • WebPageCaching Used when a Content Delivery Network (CDN) is enabled, helping determine if a page should be served from CDN cache or the web server with a 1 -day expiration date

Non-essential cookies

Azure Application Insights cookies

For web analytics and telemetry, the ESMP employs Azure Application Insights. This tool uses first party cookies to collect data about the user's interactions with this website, crucial for compiling aggregated statistics about website usage, contributing to the user's experience enhancement on this website.

The data collected is anonymized, and no personally identifiable information is captured unless explicitly provided by the user. For more information, consult the Microsoft Privacy Statement.

Azure Application Insights utilizes the cookies below:

  • ai_session tracks a user's session, allowing understanding of interactions within a single visit. This session cookie is automatically deleted from the user's device when the web browser is closed or within approximately 40 minutes of its creation.
  • ai_user identifies unique visitors to the portal by assigning a unique identifier, helping distinguish between new and returning users. This cookie has an expiration date of 365 days from its creation, after which it is automatically deleted from the user's device.

'Do not track' option

'Do not track' is a web browser function that prevents websites from tracking visitors. If you have enabled the 'do not track' option in your web browser, the ESMP will not process your browsing experience. Several web browsers have the 'do not track' option: