What's a cookie?

Cookies are small text files that are sent to your computer's memory while visiting your home page. At each subsequent visit, cookies are sent back to the home page of origin or to another home page that recognizes the cookie. Cookies act as a locally stored memory for a particular home page, allowing this page to remember your computer in the next few visits, including remembering your settings or improving user comfort.

Types of cookies

Sessions and persistent cookies

Both session cookies (which only exist until you close your web browser) and persistent cookies (which exist for a longer, specific period of time) are used.

Technologically necessary and statistical cookies

Cookies used on this website can be classified into two categories: technologically non-technological cookies without which the performance of the e-service is technologically impossible or significantly burdensome, and analytically statistical cookies:

 

 

Objective
 

Description
 

Technologically required

 

 

 
 

Introductory cookies – saves the information entered in form fields for its re-entry.

Identity cookies – retain the acquired identity for its re-use as part of the Single-sign-on process.

Functional cookies - lets our home page remember your choices (e.g. user name, language used, etc.) and provide improved, more personalized capabilities.

Cookies that are required to move on the home page use the capabilities they provide and identify. In accordance with Article 29 of the opinion of the Personal Data Protection Group of 7 June 2012, these cookies shall be considered to be relevant to the characteristic B, https://ec.europa.eu/justice/article-29/documentation/opinion-recommendation/files/2012/wp194_en.pdf
 

Analytically statistical cookies

 
 

Cookies, which accumulate information about how visitors use this website, for example, to determine which pages are most frequently visited, as well as to see if visitors receive error notices.

 

A series of regulatory enactments (Section 23 of Cabinet Regulation No. 399 of 4 July 2017, Procedures for Accounting for Public Administration Services, Provision of Quality Control), Sub-paragraphs 23 of Cabinet Regulation No. 400 of 4 July 2017, Regulations on the Portal of State Administration Services, Sub-paragraphs 12.3, 12.5, 12.6, 12.7 and 12.8, State Administration, section 10 of the Installation Law) defines the responsibility of the Agency in providing access to e-services on the portal www.latvija.lv, store and analyze information about the presence of these e-services at the same time (see in detail Privacy Policy)

You have the right to disagree with the production, stockpiling and processing of such statistics, and you can manually unlock the use of such a cookie processing mechanism in your browser.

For more information about managing cookies, see:

How you can control and delete cookies.

 

Details of cookies used

Technological cookies

 

content within the Session
 Name  Action Purpose  Life (Action) Duration)  Cookie Curator
ASP.NET. SessionId

 

 

 
Keeps session identifier, occurs when the portal uses a session object to store information.
During the session

 

 

 Agency
LVP_ABC_BM Keeps information about the selected low vision mode. During the session Agency
LVP_ABC_CW Keeps a sign that the user has agreed to the cookie terms and does not need to display a notification. During the session Agency
LVP_ABC_SE Keeps the time when the user session ends to show the time report before turning off. During the session Agency
LVP_ABC_UF The selected content filter (companies/individuals) is then applied to the selection During the session
 Agency
Startpageshowautocategorylistpopup

 
Maintain cms configuration parameter - or display the category on the popup Start page.
During the session
 Agency
Ts014b0b4d, TS0161b916 Providing a firewall connection. During the session Agency
LVP #lang Storage the language of the selected interface. During the session Agency
lvlv_font Interface text size for e-forms. During the session Agency
lvlv_theme-fashion Visit mode for e-forms. During the session Agency
LVP_ABC_FS Interface text size for LVP portal. During the session Agency

 

 

Analytical statistical cookies:

 

 Name  Action Purpose  Life (Action) Duration  Cookie Curator
_ gat_gtag

 
Logs user actions.
1 minute

 

 Google Analytics
_ gat

 
Determines the frequency of updating information.
1 minute

 

 Google Analytics
_ ga

 
Determines the status of the session.
2 years

 

 Google Analytics
_ gid

 
Identifies the user.

 

 
24 hours

 

 Google Analytics
dc_gtm

 

 
Provides access to GA services when using the Google Tag manager code.
1 minute

 

 Google Analytics

 

 

Cookie control

Google Analytics

This home page uses Google Analytics, which uses cookies stored on your computer and lets you analyze how you use the website. Information from these cookies about how you use this website is sent to the Google server in the U.S. and stored there. Your IP address through IP-anonymisation is truncated within the territory of the European Union or the European Economic Area and may only be released for processing on Google servers located in the United States in exceptional cases. “Google” uses this information to assess how you use the relevant website to produce reports on activities on relevant websites to website providers and to provide other services related to the use of Internet pages and the Internet. Google does not in any way associate the IP address received here with any other information available to Google. If necessary, Google may provide this information to third parties if it is statutory or if it is processed on behalf of Google by a third party.

In addition to the opt-out option (in case of non-consent), you can turn off the Google Analytics statistics collection option by downloading and activating the browser optionhttps://hugo.lv/lv/Translate/Website?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftools.google.com%2Fdlpage%2Fgaoptout%3Fhj%3Dde(To have the contents of the page in Latvian, select “English” from the “Select a language” menu and press the “Translate” button).

 

 

How you can control and delete cookies

You can usually change your browser settings to opt out of new cookies, exclude existing cookies, or simply inform you about sending new cookies to your computer. To do this, you must activate the instructions in your browser (usually under Help, Tools, or Editing).

 

You can read more in Latvian.

Information about managing cookies -https://hugo.lv/lv/Translate/Website?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aboutcookies.org%2Fhow-to-control-cookies(Press the “Translate” button to make the contents of the page in Latvian.)

Learn about deleting cookies -https://hugo.lv/lv/Translate/Website?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aboutcookies.org%2Fhow-to-delete-cookies %2F(Press the “Translate” button to make the contents of the page in Latvian.)

Note, however, that if you opt out or exclude cookies, some website functionality may be lost.

 

Contact details

National Regional Development Agency, 90001733697, Albert Street 10, Riga, LV 1010.

Personal data controllers for improving the quality of e-services.

Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

Google Inc, obligations on the processing of personal data:

https://policies.google.com/privacy#enforcement

https://privacy.google.com/businesses/processorterms/

https://privacy.google.com/businesses/compliance/#!? modal_active = none

 

 

In case of questions, please email: portals@vraa.gov.lv.

The user may contact the Agency's data protection specialist on matters relating to the processing of personal data, including withdrawal of consent, requests, use of data subjects' rights and complaints about the use of personal data, using the following contact information: vdar@vraa.gov.lv or personasdati@vraa.gov.lv.