Cookies

A cookie is a small text file, containing information, which is stored on your computer and your mobile phone. The option whether to accept cookies or not is not part of the settings when you use riksdagen.se. There are some functions for which cookies are stored on your device, but only after you have given your active consent.

According to the Electronic Communications Act (SFS 2022:482), all visitors to a website that has cookies should be informed that the website contains cookies and why they are used. Visitors should also be given the opportunity to agree to the use of cookies.

On the Riksdag website, cookies are used for a small number of functions for purely technical reasons. Cookies are only used where necessary. If you do not wish to use a function that requires cookies, there are alternative ways. Information on this is available in connection with each function.

The Riksdag Administration reviews the website continuously to see whether any of the cookies used on the website can be removed. If a function can be used without cookies and it is possible to remove cookies without this resulting in unreasonable costs or poorer functioning for the user, this should be done.

How cookies are used on the Riksdag website

Cookies are stored on your computer when you use the following functions:

book visits
order publications
apply for media accreditation
register as a new Library user
apply to courses
play a YouTube video which is embedded on the website

Cookies are activated and stored when the function they are needed for is activated. All functions that use cookies are activated when you as the user take a specific measure, for example, when you click a button. Information about cookies is available on the pages containing the functions that use cookies. When you activate the function in question, you automatically give your consent to using cookies.

The Riksdag Administration does not store any personal information via cookies. Information about a visitor cannot be traced.

If you wish to avoid cookies

If you do not wish to receive cookies, you can adjust the settings in your web browser. However, this may mean that you will not have access to all the pages on the website.

You can adjust your web browser so that you automatically refuse all storage of cookies, or are informed every time a website asks to store a cookie on your computer. You can also delete cookies that have been stored earlier via your web browser. See the web browser's help pages for further information.

If you have any questions or need help, you are welcome to contact the Riksdag Information Service by email: riksdagsinformation@riksdagen.se or by phone: 020-349 000 (national calls only).

Information about the rules for cookies

The Swedish Post and Telecom Authority, PTS, is the public authority responsible for monitoring the field of electronic communications in Sweden. More information about cookies is available on its website.

Information about cookies on PTS (In Swedish)

Cookies on the Riksdag website

Book visits

Name: ASP.NET_SessionId
Domain: gruppbokning.riksdagen.se
Purpose: Booking selected visits.
Third party: No
Flash/normal: Normal
Lifespan: Session
Consequences without cookie: Visitors cannot book visits on the website.
Tracks the visitor: No

Order publications / Apply for media accreditation / Register as a new Library user / Apply to courses

Name: FormCookie
Domain: www.riksdagen.se
Purpose: Order publications, apply for media accreditation, register as a new Library user or apply to courses
Third party: No
Flash/normal: Normal
Lifespan: 1 year
Consequences without cookie: The visitor cannot order publications, apply for media accreditation, register as a new Library user or apply to courses
Tracks the visitor: No

Play embedded YouTube video

Name: __Secure-3PAPISID
Domain: google.com
Purpose: Improve YouTube’s functions
Third party: Yes
Flash/normal: Normal
Lifespan: 18 months
Consequences without cookie:
Tracks the visitor: Yes

Name: __Secure-3PSID
Domain: google.com
Purpose: Improves YouTube’s functions
Third party: Yes
Flash/normal: Normal
Lifespan: 13 months
Consequences without cookie:
Tracks the visitor: Yes

Name: __Secure-3PSIDCC
Domain: google.com
Purpose: Improves YouTube’s functions
Third party: Yes
Flash/normal: Normal
Lifespan: 1 year
Consequences without cookie:
Tracks the visitor: Yes

Name: NID
Domain: google.com
Purpose: Improves YouTube’s functions
Third party: Yes
Flash/normal: Normal
Lifespan: 6 months
Consequences without cookie:
Tracks the visitor: Yes

Name: CONSENT
Domain: .youtube-nocookie.com
Purpose: Improves YouTube’s functions
Third party: Yes
Flash/normal: Normal
Lifespan: 13 months
Consequences without cookie:
Tracks the visitor: Yes