Network Innovation is using COOKIES including on the pages where you can enter your own data. This way you don't have to re-enter all information each time you are visiting our web site.

We thus use cookies only to make it easier for you.

According to Swedish law on electronic communication, (which came into force on the 25 july 2003), the visitor of a website should be advised that the site uses cookies. The user should also be able to prevent cookies.

The cookie contains no personal information, but helps us keep track of your browser so that it is unique to our statistics.

It also prevents you from popup-windows.

Cookies help you to keep track on your login information.

If you do not want cookies stored on your computer, you can turn it off in your browser settings. Then no cookies will be stored, but you will not be able to use several parts of ni.se. Moreover some parts of ni.se will not function correctly without cookies.

According to Swedish Law a user have to be informed that a website contains cookies.

In the information the following information must be clear:

• That the website contains cookies

• What purpose these cookies are used for,

• How the user turns cookies off.

General information on cookies

A cookie, also known as a web cookie, browser cookie, and HTTP cookie, is a piece of text stored on a user's computer by their web browser. A cookie can be used for authentication, storing site preferences, shopping cart contents, the identifier for a server-based session, or anything else that can be accomplished through storing text data.

A cookie consists of one or more name-value pairs containing bits of information, which may be encrypted for information privacy and data security purposes. The cookie is sent as a field in the header of the HTTP response by a web server to a web browser and then sent back unchanged by the browser each time it accesses that server.

Cookies may be set by the server with or without an expiration date. Cookies without an expiration date exist until the browser terminates, while cookies with an expiration date may be stored by the browser until the expiration date passes. Users may also manually delete cookies in order to save space or to avoid privacy issues.

As text, cookies are not executable. Because they are not executed, they cannot replicate themselves and are not viruses. However, due to the browser mechanism to set and read cookies, they can be used as spyware (see zombie cookie and ever cookie for more details). Anti-spyware products may warn users about some cookies because cookies can be used to track computer activity—a privacy concern, later causing possible malware.

Most modern browsers allow users to decide whether to accept cookies, and the time frame to keep them, but rejecting cookies makes some websites unusable.

Session cookie

A session cookie only lasts for the duration of users using the website. A session cookie will expire if a user closes his/her browser, or if a user hasn't visited the server for certain period of time (called session idle timeout), and the server would expire/invalidate the user session.

Persistent cookie

A persistent cookie will outlast user sessions. If a persistent cookie has Max-Age set to 1 year, then, within the year, the initial value set in that cookie would be sent back to server every time the user is visiting the server. This could be used to record a vital piece of information such as how the user initially came to this website. For this reason, persistent cookie is also called tracking cookie.

Secure cookie

A secure cookie is only used when a browser is visiting a server via HTTPS, that will make sure that cookie is always encrypted when transmitting from client to server, and therefore less likely to be exposed to cookie theft via eavesdropping.

Http Only cookie

Http Only cookie is still in IETF draft[8], though most of the modern browsers support it. On a supported browser, a Http Only cookie will only be used when transmitting HTTP (or HTTPS) requests, but the cookie value is not available to client side script, hence mitigate the threat of cookie theft via Cross-site scripting.

Third-party cookie

First-party cookies are cookies set with the same domain or its subdomain in your browser's address bar. Third-party cookies are cookies being set with different domains than the one shown on address bar.