Cookies

According to the Electronic Communications Act (2003:389), every visitor of a website using cookies shall have available information about which cookies the website uses as well as the purpose of them. The visitor shall also give his or her consent to the usage of cookies.

A cookie is a little text file that the website you visit saves on your computer. Cookies are then used by the website to give you as a visitor access to different functions. The information in the cookie can also be used to monitor your web browsing on other websites using the same cookie. There are two kinds of cookies:

• The first kind of cookie, persistent cookie, stores a file on your computer for a period of time with an expiration date. It is used, for example, for functions that tell you as a visitor what has changed or been added to the website since you last visited it.  After the expiration date, the cookie is deleted automatically, when you revisit the website where it was created.
• The second kind of cookie, session cookie, disappears as soon as you close down your web browser. The cookie is stored temporarily whilst you browse a website to, for example, keep track of what language you have chosen to use.

Cookies on Konkurrensverket.se

The Swedish Competition Authority’s website uses cookies that contain a session identity code. They are used to handle your choices on the website, for example subscriptions of press releases, reports, and information material. The cookie disappears when you close down your web browser.

Statistics and analysis tools on our website

We base our development of our website on statistics and analysis of how visitors use our website. This is done with a tool called Vizzit which uses cookies. The cookies collect information on how visitors use the website, for example number of visitors at different webpages and the pattern of what pages different visitors visit. If you as a visitor don’t accept cookies in your web browser, no information will be collected.

How to avoid cookies

If you don’t want to accept cookies, your web browser can be set so that you automatically deny cookies to be stored or information to be collected, every time you visit a website that requests to store a cookie. Through your web browser, you are also able to erase cookies that have been stored earlier. Please visit your web browser’s information section to find out more.