In general, you should be aware that you as an internet user leave electronic traces behind, and that this gives others the opportunity to follow your movements online. Below is an account of how Royal Danish Library uses the information you leave behind when you visit the library's websites.
Cookies are used today in connection with virtually all websites and are in many cases necessary to provide services on the website. A cookie is a small text file that is stored on the user's IT equipment (PC, tablet, smartphone, etc.) so that the equipment can be recognised. Cookies can be used, among other things, to compile statistics on users' use of the website and to optimise the content of the page. A cookie is a passive file and thus can not collect information from the user's computer or spread computer viruses or other malicious programmes.
Some cookies are placed by other parties (so-called third parties) and not the one in the address bar (URL) of the browser. It can be ordinary content, but also for example analysis tools or embedded comment fields. This means that cookies are stored by parties other than the owner of the website.
Some cookies are only stored on the user's IT equipment as long as the user has his browser open (session cookies).
Other cookies are stored for a longer period of time (persistent cookies). When the user revisits a website, session cookies will be set again, while persistent cookies are typically renewed.
At Royal Danish Library's websites, we use cookies to investigate how our websites are used. The information in the statistics cannot be attributed to named users.
We use both self-produced cookies and cookies from third parties.
Royal Danish Library uses the following types of cookies:
You can always reject cookies on your computer by changing the settings in your browser. Where you find the settings depends on which browser you use. However, you should be aware that if you do, there are many features and services on the Internet that you cannot use.
All browsers allow you to delete your cookies collectively or individually. How you do this depends on which browser you are using. Remember that if you use several browsers, you must delete cookies in all of them.
It depends on your browser how you delete or avoid cookies being placed on your IT equipment.
If you use a PC, cookies can be deleted in your browser history using the shortcut keys [CTRL] + [SHIFT] + [Delete].
All Danish websites are obliged to inform which cookies are placed on the user's IT equipment. The information must be in accordance with the "Executive Order on requirements for information and consent when storing and accessing information in end users' terminal equipment" (in everyday speech the cookie executive order).
The executive order can be found here: www.retsinformation.dk/Forms/R0710.aspx?id=139279 (in Danish)
Instructions for the executive order can be found here: www.retsinformation.dk/Forms/R0710.aspx?id=146417 (in Danish)
If you have questions about our use of cookies, you are welcome to write to us at kb@kb.dk
These websites are provided by:
Royal Danish Library
Søren Kierkegaards Plads 1
DK-1016 København K
Phone: (+45) 33 47 47 47
Email: kb@kb.dk
(This text was last updated 29 November 2021)