Cookies

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files stored on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies serve a number of purposes. They help the website remember your settings, e.g. language, font size or other settings that you set up on your computer to view our website, so that when you visit the website again you don’t need to set them up again. This way websites can remember your preferences and settings, information that you have already completed the web survey or simply the fact that you have already logged in.

Some cookies are necessary for website functioning (e.g. the login cookie, cookie for the web store shopping cart content), some are intended to improve the user experience (e.g. storing of user’s preferences) and some are used for monitoring website visits, which helps the website administrator improve the website and the user experience with it. Some cookies enable user tracking across several websites.

Cookies used by our website

Provider Expiry Purpose Cookie name
Statistical Office Five daily cookies, five persistent, five annual and one biennial. These are SURS’s own cookies that are necessary for optimal functioning of the website stat.si. They are used for security reasons, e.g. cookies RequestVerificationToken and AntiXsrfToken, for own analytics (Piwik tool) and for recording users’ decision whether they accepted the cookies (e.g. vimeo_agreement) or not. __RequestVerificationToken_, .AspNet.Cookies, .AspNet.Cookies, SF-TokenId, sf_site, sf_timezoneoffset, __AntiXsrfToken, _pk_id, _pk_ref_, _pk_ses, surs_analitics_cookie, piwik_agreement, google_agreement,  twitter_agreement, vimeo_agreement
Google Between one month and two years, one cookie is an exception and expires in 18 years.  The cookies are served by Google Custom Search, which is the search engine used by stat.si. These cookies are intended for storing user’s settings in the search engine, for advertising and for analysing the use of the search engine recorded by Google for its purposes. 1p_jar, anid, apisid, consent, hsid, nid, sapisid, sid, sidcc, ssid, __utma, __utmz
Vimeo Between one day and two years, but no longer than ten years (three nine years and one ten years). The cookies are served by Vimeo, which is the player used by stat.si. These cookies are intended for storing user’s settings in the player, for identifying users (e.g. if they are logged in the user account at Vimeo.com), for advertising and for analysing the use of the video player. Analytics is recorded with own analytics and with Google Analytics. _gads, __qca, __ssid, _abexps, _derived_epik, _fbp, _ga, _gcl_au, _gid, continuous_play_v3, has_logged_in, has_uploaded, is_logged_in, player, vuid
Infogram Between one day and one year, one cookie (_initial_referrer) is persistent.  The cookies are served by Infogram, a tool used for interactive visualisation of statistical data. These cookies are intended for advertising and for analysing users’ interaction with visualisations. Analytics is recorded with Google Analytics.  OptanonConsent, __hstc, __zlcmid, _fbp, _ga, _gat, _gcl_au, _initial_referrer, hubspotutk
Twitter Between one day and two years, one cookie for language set-up (lang) is persistent.  The cookies are served by the Twitter plug-in, which is used for presenting releases from our Twitter account.  These cookies are intended for identifying Twitter users, for advertising and for analysing interaction with the plug-in (e.g. likes). Analytics is recorded with Google Analytics. _ga, _gid, eu_cn, external_referer, guest_id, mbox, personalization_id, tfw_exp, lang
Hotjar Five annual cookies, ten session cookies, three half-hour cookies, and one cookie with a lifespan of 100ms. Cookies are set by Hotjar. Hotjar is an analytical tool that uses cookies for monitoring user behavior and interaction with SURS's website, collecting user feedback, and distinguishing between new and returning users. _hjid, Intercom-id-cke8zbr, _scid, OptanonConsent, __zlcmid, _hjKB, _uetvid, _hjIncludedInPageviewSample, _hjIncludedInSessionSample, _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress, _hjClosedSurveyInvites, _hjDonePolls, _hjMinimizedPolls, _hjShownFeedbackMessage, _hjSessionTooLarge, _hjSessionRejected, _hjSessionResumed, _hjRecordingLastActivity, _hjTLDTest, _hjUserAttributesHash, _hjLocalStorageTest, _hjFirstSeen, _hjViewportId, _hjRecordingEnabled

The Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia uses cookies for website functioning, for improving the user experience and for analysing website visits. Some cookies we use are session cookies and exist only until the browser is closed, while others are persistent and remain in the computer longer. The data are not collected in a way that would enable identification of individual website users.

Management of cookies

Cookies used by our website are stored on your computer or mobile device only if you select “Agree”. If you select this option, all cookies stated in the table will be stored on your computer. You can change your selection and delete the cookies any time or you can accept them again. If you do not agree with cookies, some website functionalities (video, infographics, etc.) will not be available and your visit will not be recorded.

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Your cookie settings

You can change your decision about cookies at any time at the Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia website.