on the official website of the Grodno Oblast Executive Committee
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Cookies do not pose a threat to the user's device because they are text files and not executable programs.
Users have the ability to control cookie settings in their browser, including blocking or deleting existing cookies.
2. The purpose of processing the cookies is to ensure the convenience of the users of the website and to improve the quality of the website operation. Cookies store information about the user that can be used to improve the user's experience of interaction with the website. Cookies may contain various kinds of data such as user preferences, history of visits to the website, and other things.
We do not transfer cookies to third parties and do not use them to identify personal data owners.
3 The following types of cookies are processed on the website:
strictly necessary cookies are used for the correct operation of the website as well as to ensure its security;
performance files are used for internal analysis and optimization of the website, for storing auxiliary information;
analytical and target cookies help analyze the popularity of the website, identify the pages users visit the most, find out how much time users spend on the website, how they navigate around the website, find out possible failures they may have encountered. The information obtained can be used to improve the user experience and increase the efficiency of the website;
functional cookies (including the choice of the website version for the visually impaired) are stored on the user's device between browser sessions, allowing the user's preferences or actions on the website to be remembered, and allowing additional website features to be used and customized according to the user's preferences;
miscellaneous cookies are currently not categorized as other types of cookies, are in the process of classification.
4. Cookies are divided into two categories according to their storage period:
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5. Cookies used on the website are categorized by affiliation into primary and third-party cookies:
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6. To collect analytical information on the website of the Grodno Oblast Executive Committee, cookies of the web analytics platform Google Analytics are used. The website of the Grodno Oblast Executive Committee cannot affect the operation of cookies used by this service. All the necessary information about their use can be found by visiting the relevant resource:
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The disabling of functional cookies may result in restrictions of the user's access to certain functions of the website. For example, if they are disabled, it may be necessary to re-select cookie preferences, embedded videos in news articles may not play, and the visually impaired pages may be incorrectly displayed.
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