Like most web pages the websites of Ideas Factory Association (https://ideasfactorybg.org/, https://ideasfactorybg.org/baba-residence/, http://empatheast.ideasfactorybg.org/ and https://ideasfactorybg.org/social-innovation-challenge/) are using cookies in order to work properly and to be handy and useful.

What are cookies, how do they work and why are they used? 

The cookies are small text files with information on your activity as a user and your preferences when visiting a website. These files are being exchanged between the server of the website you are visiting and your browser, and are being stored on the computer and mobile device you are using.

The information carried by the cookies is used to monitor its seamless functioning, to make it more user-friendly and to look for opportunities for improving its performance.

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What types of cookies are we using and what for?

Our websites are using the following types of cookies:

• Strictly necessary cookies (without which the functioning of the website is impossible or very restricted): We use cookies, which support you in navigating through the website, as well as cookies, which monitoring the connection’s security (SID, __cfduid, __Secure-3PSID, __Secure-3PAPISID).
• Functionality cookies (serving to make the website easy to use and corresponding to the individual preferences of the users): We use a cookie, which saves your language preferences (pll_language).
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The cookies we use on our websites do not store personal data, which could be used to reveal your identity.

How to manage the cookies on your device? 

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