Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture

Cookies

What are cookies?​

Cookies are small text files that websites install on the computer or mobile device of users who visit them. Every time you visit our website, you will be asked whether you accept or reject cookies. The purpose is to save your preferences (e.g. language) for a certain period of time. Cookies may also be used to compile anonymous statistics about the browsing experience on our website.

First-party cookies​

These are generated by the website you are visiting and can only be read by that website. Websites may also use external services that generate their own cookies, and these are known as third-party cookies.

Persistent cookies​

These are stored on your computer and are not automatically deleted when you exit the browser (unlike session cookies, which are deleted when you exit the browser).

Analytical cookies​

We use them for internal research purposes to determine how we can improve the service we offer to our users. The sole purpose of these cookies is to anonymously evaluate how users interact with our website (the data obtained does not allow the user to be identified).

Furthermore, this data is not shared with third parties nor used for any other purpose.

Third-party cookies​

Some of our pages display content from external providers such as YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Vimeo, SoundCloud. If you access such content, third-party cookies will be installed on your device.

Manage cookies​

How can you manage cookies?

Removing cookies from your device

You can delete all cookies that are already on your device by clearing the browsing history of your browser. This will remove all cookies from all websites you have visited.

Be aware though that you may also lose some saved information (e.g. saved login details, site preferences).

Managing site-specific cookies

For more detailed control over site-specific cookies, check the privacy and cookie settings in your preferred browser.

Blocking cookies

You can set most modern browsers to prevent any cookies being placed on your device, but you may then have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site/page. And some services and functionalities may not work properly at all (e.g. profile logging-in).