Cookies
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files stored on your computer or mobile phone by your web browser when you visit a website. The website uses cookies to save information about your activities and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a certain period, so that you do not have to enter them when you return to or browse through the website.
How do we use cookies?
Croatian Standards Institute, Ulica grada Vukovara 78, HR-10000 Zagreb (hereinafter: “HZN”) collects, uses and manages your personal data contained on the website repository.hzn.hr.
HZN uses cookies and similar technologies for several purposes, depending on the context or product, including:
- user input cookies - session and/or persistent cookies limited to a few hours — we use them to store your preferences and settings on your device and to improve your user experience;
- authentication cookies, used for authentication services, for the duration of a session — we use them to verify visitor identity; this cookie allows you to navigate from page to page without having to log in again on each page;
- user centric security cookies, used to detect authentication abuses, for a limited duration — we use them to process information that allows us security and to identify fraud and abuse;
- multimedia content player cookies, for the duration of a session;
- user interface customization cookies, for the duration of a session, to store your preferences (such as language).
HZN has no influence on the processing of personal data by third parties.
HZN does not use cookies for any purpose other than as described in its Privacy Policy and this Policy.
List of Cookies
Below is a list of the cookies we use on this site, which is dynamically updated whenever new cookies are encountered and classified by our website team.
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site may not work then.
| Cookies used | |
|---|---|
| repozitorij.hzn.hr | accept_cookies, font_size, invert_colors, language, open_dyslexic, pf, user_id, user_key, qkey, PHPSESSID |
Performance Cookies
These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources, so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies, we will not know when you have visited our site.
| Cookies used | |
|---|---|
| YouTube | @@History/@@scroll|# |
Targeting Cookies
These cookies are set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant ads on other sites. They work by uniquely identifying your browser and device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will not experience our targeted advertising across different websites.
| Cookies used | |
|---|---|
| YouTube | CONSENT, GPS, PREF, VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE, YSC |
Cookies used on this website
| NAME | TYPE | DURATION | BRIEF DESCRIPTION |
|---|---|---|---|
| accept_cookies | essential | 1 month | Storing the decision about the use of cookies |
| language | essential | 1 month | Storing the decision about the selected language |
| user_id | essential | 1 month | PStoring the information about the user logged-in |
| user_key | essential | 1 month | Storing the key of the user logged-in |
| qkey* | essential | 1 month | Cookies starting with qkey are used to store survey data. |
| PHPSESSID | essential | 1 month | PHP system cookie |
| pf_* | essential | 1 month | Cookies starting with pf_ are used to store advanced standards search parameters. |
| @@History/@@scroll|# | statistical | for the duration of a session | Used by YouTube to record the position of the vertical scroll bar (History Scroll). |
| CONSENT | marketing | 5969 days | Used by YouTube to detect if a visitor has accepted cookies. This cookie is essential for the website’s compliance with the GDPR. |
| GPS | marketing | for the duration of a session | A YouTube cookie used to store location data |
| PREF | marketing | 8 months | Used by YouTube to store data such as the user’s page configuration preferences and playback settings, such as automatic playback, random playback and player size. For YouTube Music such settings include volume, repeat mode, and automatic playback. |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | marketing | 6 months | Used to detect and resolve issues with the service. |
| YSC | marketing | for the duration of a session | Used by YouTube to remember user input and associate a user's actions. |
Transfer to third countries
HZN uses tools and services of companies and social networks outside the European Union. We are obliged to inform you that third parties such as Google LLC may transfer your personal data to the U.S. where it may become available to U.S. government services in accordance with their legal regulations currently in force.
We care about the protection of your data and therefore we have put in place mechanisms that will provide an even higher level of protection.
We will inform you of any measures taken and amend this policy accordingly. If you are interested in how third parties amend their data protection policies, visit https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US.
The website repository.hzn.hr uses certain Google Analytics services on the basis of which Google LLC (hereinafter: Google) collects certain personal data through cookies.
What cookies are used by Google LLC and its affiliates?
Google services mean the following:
- Google apps
- Google sites
- search, YouTube and Google Home platforms such as Chrome browser and Android operating system
- products integrated into third-party applications and websites such as ads; and
- built-in Google Maps.
When you are logged in and interact with some Google services, e.g. post a video comment on YouTube, your name and picture will be displayed next to your activities. Google may also display this information in ads, depending on your settings.
Google may share certain categories of data publicly and with its partners, e.g. advertisers or developers. Google also allows certain partners to collect information from your browser or device for advertising and measurement purposes through its own cookies or similar technologies.
Google uses cookies for many purposes, e.g. to remember your secure search settings, display only ads that are relevant for you, count individual site visitors, help you register for specific Google services, protect your information or remember your ad preferences.
Below is a list of cookie types used by Google.
1. Preferences cookies
These cookies allow Google sites to remember information that affect their behaviour or appearance, e.g. the selected language or your location. Once a site remembers your location, it can offer local weather or traffic news. These cookies can also help you change the text size, font and other parts of a website that can be customized.
If information stored in a settings cookie are lost, the website may lose some of its functionalities but this should not prevent its operation.
Example:
Most Google users have a preferences cookie called ‘NID’ in their browsers. A browser sends this cookie with requests to Google’s sites. The NID cookie contains a unique ID Google uses to remember your preferences and other information, such as your preferred language (e.g. English), how many search results you wish to have shown per page (e.g. 10 or 20), and whether or not you wish to have Google’s SafeSearch filter turned on.
2. Security cookies
Google uses security cookies to authenticate users and protect user data.
Example:
Cookies called ‘SID’ and ‘HSID’ contain digitally signed and encrypted records of a user’s Google Account ID and most recent sign-in time. The combination of these cookies allows Google to block many types of attack, such as attempts to steal the content of forms submitted in Google services.
3. Process cookies
Process cookies help a website to react correctly and provide the expected services, e.g. navigating through web pages and accessing protected website areas. Without these cookies, a website will not function properly.
Example:
A cookie called "lbcs" in Google Docs allows multiple documents to be opened in one browser. If this cookie is blocked, Google Docs will not be able to run properly.
4. Advertising cookies
Google uses these cookies to make ads more appealing to users and more valuable to publishers and advertisers. They are typically used to select user-relevant ads, improve campaign performance reporting or to prevent a user from seeing the same ads more than once.
Example:
Google uses cookies such as the NID or SID to personalize ads in Google products such as Google Search, e.g. to record your most recent searches, your previous interactions with an advertiser's ads or search results, and your visits to an advertiser's website. This allows Google to provide you with personalized advertising.
Google also uses cookies for ads it serves across the web. One of the most important ad cookie for non-Google sites is called an "ID". It is stored in browsers under the domain doubleclick.net. Another such cookie, ANID, is stored under the domain google.com.
Google uses other cookies, too, such as DSID, FLC, AID, TAID and exchange_uid. Other Google products, such as YouTube, may also use such cookies to serve more relevant ads.
Sometimes a cookie is set for the domain of the website you are visiting. In case of ads served by Google across the web, a cookie named "__gads" "__gac” may be set for the domain of the website you visit.
Google cannot read these cookies when you visit sites where they are not set.
Their purpose is to measure interactions with ads on this domain and prevent excessive display of the same ads to users.
Google also uses conversion cookies, primarily to help advertisers determine how many of the people who click on their ads end up buying their products.
5. Session cookies
Websites often collect information about how users interact with them. This includes which pages users visit most often and whether they receive error messages from certain pages. Google uses these so-called "session cookies" to optimize its services and give users a better browsing experience.
Blocking or deleting these cookies does not affect the use of the website.
These cookies can also be used to anonymously measure the effectiveness of PPC (pay per click) and affiliate advertising.
Example:
For example, a cookie called "recently_watched_video_id_list" is used to help YouTube track the videos last viewed in a particular browser.
6. Analytics cookies
Google Analytics is Google's analytics tool that gives website and app owners, including repozitorij.hzn.hr, insights into how their users interact with the resources they offer. Google Analytics may use certain cookies to collect data and share website usage statistics without obtaining information that would make individual users personally identifiable to Google. The main Google Analytics cookie is "_ga". For more information on which analytics cookies are used by the Controller see the above table showing which cookies are used by repozitorij.hzn.hr.
In addition to sharing usage statistics, the Google Analytics pixel tag may, along with some of the advertising cookies described above, also help to deliver more relevant ads within Google products such as Google Search and across the web and measure interaction with such ads.
More info at https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage?hl=hr.
Exporting and deleting data collected through cookies when using Google services:
You can export a copy of your data or delete them from your Google account at any time.
If you wish, you can export a copy of the content from your Google account to back it up or use it on a service outside of Google.
To delete your data, you can:
• delete content from certain Google services;
• search for and then delete certain items from your account via My Activities page;
• delete certain Google products, including data related to them;
• delete the entire Google Account;
• request the deletion of your data.
A.1. Clearing all cookies from your computer:
If you remove cookies, you will log out of the sites and your saved settings could be deleted.
How to do it:
1. On your computer, open Chrome.
2. In the upper right corner, click More, and then click Settings.
3. At the bottom, click Advanced.
4. In the "Privacy and security" section, click Content settings.
5. Click Cookies.
6. Under "Cookies and other site data” click Delete all.
7. Confirm by clicking Clear all.
A.2. Deleting cookies of a specific website:
How to do it:
1. Open Chrome on your computer.
2. In the upper right corner, click More, and then click Settings.
3. At the bottom, click Advanced.
4. In the "Privacy and security" section, click Content settings.
5. Click Cookies.
6. Under "Cookies and other site data” look for the name of the site.
7. Next to the site click Delete.
A.3. Deleting cookies of certain periods::
How to do it:
1. Open Chrome on your computer.
2. At the top right, click More.
3. Click More tools, Clear browsing data.
4. At the top, tap the drop-down menu next to "Delete the following items".
5. Select a period, such as the past hour or the past day.
6. Check Cookies and other site data. Uncheck all the other items.
7. Click Clear Browsing Data.
B. Changing Google cookie settings
You can allow or block cookies stored by websites.
B.1. Allowing or blocking cookies by default
1. On your computer, open Chrome.
2. In the upper right corner, click More, and then click Settings.
3. At the bottom, click Advanced.
4. In the "Privacy and security" section, click Content settings.
5. Click Cookies.
6. Turn on or off Allow sites to save and read cookie data.
B.2. Blocking third party cookies
When you visit a website, you can allow cookies from that site and block those from other sites that own ads or images on that website. To block third-party cookies, turn on Block third-party cookies.
All cookies and website data from other sites will be blocked, even if the site is allowed in the exception site list.
B.3. Allowing or blocking cookies of a site
If you allow cookies by default, you can still block cookies from a specific website.
1. On your computer, open Chrome.
2. In the upper right corner, click More, and then Settings.
3. At the bottom, click Advanced.
4. In the "Privacy and security" section, click Content settings.
5. Click Cookies.
6. Next to "Block", "Delete on exit" or "Allow", click Add.
7. Enter the web address.
8. To make a domain-wide exception, insert [*.] before the domain name, e.g. [*.]google.com; this will include drive.google.com and calendar.google.com.
You can also specify an IP address or a web address that does not start with http://.
9. Click Add.
10. To remove an exception you no longer want, to the right of the site, click More, then click Remove.
Note: If you use your Chromebook at work or school, you may not be able to change this setting. If you need help, please contact your administrator.
B.4. Deleting cookies after closing Chrome
You can allow websites to remember information during a browsing session but to automatically delete cookies when you close Chrome.
1. On your computer, open Chrome.
2. In the upper right corner, click More, and then Settings.
3. At the bottom, click Advanced.
4. In the "Privacy and security" section, click Content settings.
5. Click Cookies.
6. Click Keep local data only until you quit your browser.
In case of questions you can contact Google and their privacy protection office or the Croatian Personal Data Protection Agency (AZOP).
How do I manage cookies?
You can choose to delete cookies.
You can delete all cookies already stored on your computer and the settings of most browsers allow you to block the storage of cookies.
If you block cookies, you may have to manually adjust some preferences each time you visit a site and certain services and functions may not be available.
HZN allows you to update your cookie settings at HRN4You - Hrvatski zavod za norme (hzn.hr) at any time.
How to delete cookies?
If you do not want to manage your preferences on our website, there are currently several websites where you can disable the storage of cookies for specific services.
| More info at: |
| developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage |
| www.addthis.com/privacy/privacy-policy |
| European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance (EU) | Safari (Desktop) |
| Internet Advertising Bureau (US) | Safari (Mobile) |
| Internet Advertising Bureau (EU) | Android Browser |
| Google Chrome | Opera |
| Internet Explorer | Opera Mobile |
| Mozilla Firefox |
Other questions
If you wish to contact us in connection with this Policy or the way the website uses your data, please contact us at:
Hrvatski zavod za norme
Ulica grada Vukovara 78
10000 Zagreb, Croatia
OIB: 76844168802
or our data protection officer at: szop@hzn.hr.
Resetting cookies
At each visit to our website, you can decide to reset cookies and you can delete and/or modify them at any time.
HZN reserves the right to modify this Policy from time to time.
In the case of changes to cookies specified in this Policy or the introduction of new ones, HZN will amend this Policy and, if necessary, ask for a new consent from data subjects no later than 7 days after the occurrence of the circumstances that have led to the modification of this Policy.