1. What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files stored in your browser when you visit a website. They allow the site to remember information about your visit, which can make a site easier to use and more useful. Under the EU ePrivacy Directive and the GDPR, websites must be transparent about the cookies they set and obtain consent for any cookies that are not strictly necessary for the service.
2. The only cookies EUCompany.org sets
We set exactly two cookies, both strictly necessary under Art. 5(3) ePrivacy:
| Name | Purpose | Lifetime | Consent? |
|---|---|---|---|
eucompany_session |
Keeps you logged in across pages and stores your scan progress server-side. | Session (7 days if “remember me” is active) | No — strictly necessary |
csrf_token |
Prevents cross-site request forgery attacks on forms. | Session | No — strictly necessary |
3. Analytics without cookies
We use Matomo Cloud, hosted in France, to understand how visitors use the site (which pages are popular, how people navigate, how many scans are completed). We run Matomo in cookieless mode, which means:
- No identifier cookies are placed in your browser (no
_pk_id, no_pk_ses, no third-party trackers). - Your IP address is anonymised before being stored.
- We cannot reliably identify returning visitors — but that’s a trade-off we accept to respect your privacy.
- Your Do Not Track (DNT) browser setting is honoured: if DNT is enabled we do not collect any analytics data from your session.
Because no personal-data-level cookies are involved, no consent prompt is legally required under the ePrivacy Directive or GDPR recital 30. More information about Matomo: matomo.org/privacy.
4. What we do NOT use
Concretely, you will not find any of the following on EUCompany.org:
- Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, or any other Google tracking.
- Facebook / Meta Pixel, Instagram embeds, or TikTok tracking.
- X (Twitter) tracking or share-button pixels.
- Advertising cookies or retargeting pixels of any kind.
- LinkedIn Insight Tag.
- reCAPTCHA (Google) — we use alternatives that do not involve tracking.
- Chat widgets from third parties that rely on cookies.
We consider this a deliberate design choice: a platform about European digital sovereignty should not fund itself by feeding visitor data into non-European ad networks.
5. Third-party services during payment
When you pay for an Extended Scan, you are briefly redirected to Mollie to complete the transaction. On Mollie’s own site, Mollie may set cookies that are strictly necessary for processing the payment. Mollie’s cookie policy applies there; see mollie.com/privacy.
6. Managing cookies in your browser
Even though we set only two strictly-necessary cookies, you can always review or delete them via your browser settings:
- Firefox: Settings › Privacy & Security › Cookies and Site Data.
- Chrome / Chromium: Settings › Privacy and security › Cookies and other site data.
- Safari: Preferences › Privacy › Manage Website Data.
- Edge: Settings › Cookies and site permissions › Cookies and site data.
Note that disabling eucompany_session will prevent you from
logging in or saving scan progress; disabling csrf_token will
prevent forms from submitting successfully.
7. Changes to this policy
If we ever add a new cookie or change our analytics approach, we will update this page and, if legally required, ask for your consent before the change takes effect. The “last updated” date at the top of this page reflects the most recent substantive change.
8. Questions
Email info@eucompany.org if anything about our cookie approach is unclear.
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Chamber of Commerce (KvK): 96923954 · VAT: NL867834936B01
Contact: info@eucompany.org