The Website Owner

This website is owned by Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small files that your browser saves to disk when you visit our website. This allows our website to recognize your computer the next time you visit us, to offer you a personalized surfing experience accordingly. Cookies are exclusively used to ensure the best possible use of the site and the quality of the content it offers to visitors. Also, cookies are not associated with spam, do not store passwords, and are not intended for advertising or publicity. Information such as your name or email address will not be saved – websites cannot access your personal information and files on your computer.

In order to use our website in an optimal way and in accordance with the Electronic Communications Act, the Personal Data Protection Act, EU Directives 2002/58 / EC and 95/46 / EC and the GDPR Directive, we recommend that you click “Accept” on your first visit.

If you have an account and log in to this website, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie does not contain personal information and is deleted when you turn off your browser.

When you sign in, we will also set a few cookies to save your login information and your screen settings. Login cookies last for two days, and display settings cookies last for one year. If you select “Remember me”, your login will be stored for 90 days. If you log out of your account, your login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be stored in your browser. This cookie does not contain personal information and only indicates the publication ID of the article you just edited. The cookie expires after 1 day.

Types of Cookies

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Privacy Protection

No cookie containing uniquely identifiable information will be accepted until you select the “Accept” option. The embedded video runs in a cookie-free mode.

Embedded content from other websites

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These websites may collect information about you, use cookies, have additional third-party tracking built-in, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to the website.

For website traffic statistics and analytics:
The website uses cookies (third-party cookies) to help us improve it by giving us aggregate statistics and analytics on user traffic, which parts of the site are most visited, the number of visits from different sources or organic search (for example, Google Search). The third-party cookies used by the website do not identify you personally and are completely anonymous.