About us

Cookies and technique

Diakonia's websites use cookies. The information that the cookies gather is very general. You can disable the cookies-function in your browser, to make sure your visit is not registered.

What is a cookie?

As many other sites, Diakonia's websites use so called cookies. These are small files stored on your computer, as the result of an automatic request from our website. In most cases the cookie contains information about your settings on the web site. The files are limited to the size of 4 kB.

How are cookies used on the Diakonia web site?

Our websites use cookies to keep track of your visiting time (session) on our sites. When you visit and read a page on our site your computer automatically sends our website its ID to our web server. This number is automatically registered the first time you visited the web site. Thanks to this ID, the programme that creates the website can save and get settings that you have made during earlier visits. However, the information we gather can never be used to track you as a web visitor on the individual level.

For what does Diakonia use cookies?

Thanks to the ID left by each visitor in the cookie, Diakonia can collect statistics on for example the amount of visitors. This is very important to us, since it gives us the possibility to evaluate and improve our online communication.

The statistics are also an input on how interesting and relevant each web page within the site is to our visitors. We only analyse data from the cookies on a very general and overall level.

Can anyone else see my cookie?

No. No one else has access to the information stored in cookies from our website. We do not share information from the cookies with anyone else.

How do I turn off cookies?

In the software you are using to browse the internet, you can choose how to handle cookies. In most browsers you can decide from which sites you want to accept cookies. Normally, you can also choose to disable cookies from all sites. Read how to do in the help section of your browser software.

What happens if I turn off cookies from the Diakonia web site?

If you choose not to accept the use of cookies while visiting Diakonia's websites you will not be able to use services on or site that demands a log in. Of course you can still read all other information and visit our site anyway.

Swedish law about information about cookies

According to the Swedish law on electronic communication (dated July 25th 2003) everyone visiting a website using cookies should be able to get information about this and how the cookies are used, and how they can be avoided.

Technical information

Diakonia's sites are administered through a content management system (CMS) called SiteAdmin. The web sites work well in most browsers, but best in Internet Explorer.

The current verison of the sites were launched in September 2009, and are optimized for Internet Explorer 7, 8 and Firefox 3+.

If you are using an older browser, we recommend that ypu update it to a more recent one.

Revised
09/08/2012 Ingela Karlsson ingela.karlsson@diakonia.se

Diakonia P O Box 14038, SE-167 14 Bromma, SWEDEN

Bank Account 90 33 04-4 (Plusgiro)

Phone: +46 8 453 69 00
Fax: +46 8 453 69 29
diakonia@diakonia.se
Visiting address: Gustavslundsvägen 18, Alviks torg, Bromma, Sweden (head office)

Org. nr: 802017-3517

Diakonia is an international development organization with Christian values that works together with local partner organizations for sustainable change for the most vulnerable people in the world.

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For back-donors and financiers

IBAN:
SE23 3000 0000 0406 2103 2200

BIC/SWIFT:
NDEASESS

For private donors

IBAN:
SE30 9500 0099 6034 0903 3044

BIC/SWIFT:
NDEASESS

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