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Cookies have many applications, but they are basically used to store information about user behaviour on the Net or to ensure that a site or a solution functions technically as it should. Cookies are stored on the user’s computer. A cookie is not dangerous as it is a passive file that cannot spread computer virus or other harmful programmes. It helps to analyse, among other things, how the website is used in order to enable web editors to improve the user experience. In several cases, cookies can be necessary to supply a service.

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All Danish websites are obliged to tell users which cookies they store on the user’s equipment. The information must be in accordance with the Executive Order on Information and Consent Requiring in Case of Storing and Accessing Information in End-user Terminal Equipment.

The Executive Order requires that informed consent is obtained from the user when websites wish to store cookies on the user’s IT equipment.

Technically necessary cookies
ProviderNamePurposeExpiration time
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