Use of Cookies
The policy of the Government Offices is to make limited and responsible use of cookies.
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About cookies
Cookies are text files placed on a user’s computer to collect information. We use cookies to improve your experience on our website.
First-party cookies originate from the same domain (government.is). We only use strictly necessary first party cookies on our website and make no attempt to further analyse them.
Third-party cookies are placed by other websites. We use them sparingly and responsibly. In addition to cookies that are necessary for the functionality on this website, Government Offices use Siteimprove for web analytics, such as counting the number of visits to individual pages. This information is used for web development. Individual users are not monitored, and no attempt is made to link information to personally identifiable details.
Cookies from the following sites may be stored on your computer when you use the government website:
- We sometimes embed videos that are hosted on YouTube or Vimeo.
- News and other pages frequently make use of graphical solutions from Infogram and PowerBI (Microsoft).
- Content from Twitter is embedded on a handful of pages.
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| nmstat | .government.is | Siteimprove | 400 days |
| This cookie is used to help record visitors' use of the website. It is used to collect statistics about site usage such as when the visitor last visited the site. This information is then used to improve the user experience on the website. This Siteimprove Analytics cookie contains a randomly generated ID used to recognize the browser when a visitor reads a page. The cookie contains no personal information and is used only for web analytics. | |||
| cookiehub | .government.is | CookieHub | 365 days |
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Preferences
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| lang | .linkedin.com | LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company | Session |
| Session-based cookie that remembers the user's selected language version of a website. | |||
| li_gc | .linkedin.com | LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company | 180 days |
| Stores user consent preferences for LinkedIn cookies to comply with privacy regulations. | |||
| lidc | .linkedin.com | LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company | 1 day |
| Maintains session routing for reliable LinkedIn service performance. |
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| bcookie | .linkedin.com | LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company | 365 days |
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| Used by LinkedIn to store information about the time a sync with the lms_analytics cookie took place for users in the Designated Countries | |||
| UserMatchHistory | .linkedin.com | LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company | 30 days |
| Contains a unique identifier used by LinkedIn to determine that two distinct hits belong to the same user across browsing sessions. |
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