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Cookie Policy
Cookie and Privacy Policy
The controller of this website is the Education, Culture and Sports Department of Riga City Council, email address: iksd@riga.lv.
Please be informed that this website uses cookies. A cookie stores data about visits to the website. The stored cookies may also be accessible to our verified and trusted cooperation partners (third parties). By continuing to use this website, you agree that we may store and use cookies on your device. You may withdraw your consent at any time by deleting the stored cookies; however, please note that if you disable strictly necessary cookies, the website may not function properly.
Purpose and Legal Basis for the Use of Cookies
Like many other websites, this website uses cookies to help improve the user experience and ensure that the website functions properly. For more detailed information about the purposes for which cookies are used, please refer to the table listing the cookies.
When visiting this website, users are shown a notification informing them that the website uses cookies. If you consent to the use of cookies, the legal basis for their use is your consent, and you confirm that you have read and understood the information about cookies, the purposes for which they are used and the circumstances in which information may be transferred to third parties.
Data Protection Officer
The Data Protection Officer is the Data Protection and Information Technology Security Centre of Riga City Council.
Address: Krišjāņa Valdemāra iela 5, Riga, LV-1010
Email: dac@riga.lv
Information About Cookies
You have accessed our website using a web browser such as Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, Opera or another browser.
Cookies are pieces of information that your browser receives and stores when you use our website. The next time you visit our website, your browser will remember your previous actions and perform some of them for you, for example, selecting your preferred language or controlling the display of the cookie notification. Cookies enable the website to save individual browser settings, recognise them and respond accordingly.
Types of Cookies and Their Use
Types of Cookies
There are two types of cookies: session cookies, also referred to as strictly necessary cookies, and persistent cookies. Cookies are also classified as first-party or third-party cookies. These terms are explained below to help you better understand what cookies are and why we use them.
Session or Strictly Necessary Cookies
Session or strictly necessary cookies make it possible to recognise your browser and device and the Internet Protocol (IP) address assigned to your device when you visit a particular website. They also make it possible to remember changes or choices you make on a particular website so that they can be applied to other sections of the website.
For example, these cookies may provide you with access to other restricted sections of the website after you have successfully logged in and until you actively log out (Logout). These cookies allow you to use multiple pages of the same website quickly and conveniently without having to log in again each time you visit a protected section of the website.
Session cookies are not permanent. They expire when you close the browser in which you viewed the website or when you end your session on the particular website.
Persistent Cookies
Persistent cookies are cookies stored on the device you use to access the website for a specific, predefined period of time following the end of your browsing session. Stored cookies allow your preferences or actions on the website to be applied each time you visit the website.
First-Party Cookies
First-party cookies are cookies created by our website. They can be identified by our website’s domain name.
Third-Party Cookies
Third-party cookies are cookies originating from websites that do not belong to us. The domain names of such websites differ from the domain name of our website. Third-party cookies may also be stored on the device you use to browse our website.
List of Cookies Used on Our Website [www.baltanakts.lv]
Information About a Person’s Consent to the Use of Cookies
Our website technically stores information (IP address, date, time, etc.) about your consent to the placement of website cookies on your device, as well as information (IP address, date, time, etc.) about the withdrawal of your consent to the placement of website cookies on your device.
Withdrawal of Consent and Restriction of the Use of Cookies
You can change your cookie settings at any time in your device’s web browser. For example, you can withdraw your consent to the storage of cookies by enabling a browser function that allows you to reject all requests to store cookies.
These settings can usually be found under “Options” or “Preferences” in your web browser. More information about configuring your device’s web browser can be found on the browser support websites listed below:
- Chrome: Google Chrome Help Center
- Firefox: Cookies – Information that websites store on your computer
- Safari: Safari for macOS Sierra: Manage cookies and website data using Safari
- Edge: Microsoft Edge, browsing data, and privacy
- Opera: Security and Privacy in Opera (Referrals, redirections, and cookies)
