# Analytics without Cookies

## What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit a website. Cookies can store certain preferences that help with the operation of the website. The Global Fund website only stores cookies required for the proper functioning of the website and for collecting anonymized statistics on website use.

## Data collected by analytics and similar technologies

When you browse https://www.theglobalfund.org, https://data.theglobalfund.org, [data-service.theglobalfund.org,](https://data-service.theglobalfund.org) https://archive.theglobalfund.org, https://files.theglobalfund.org, https://resources.theglobalfund.org, and https://impact.theglobalfund.org anonymized analytics data is collected by the web analytics service provided by Matomo to help analyze the use of the website.

## Analytics without Cookies

The https://www.theglobalfund.org, https://data.theglobalfund.org, [data-service.theglobalfund.org,](https://data-service.theglobalfund.org) https://archive.theglobalfund.org, https://files.theglobalfund.org, https://resources.theglobalfund.org, and https://impact.theglobalfund.org subsites do not use cookies for collecting analytics data. Instead, we use a randomly-seeded, privacy-enabled, time-limited hash and a limited set of visitor settings and attributes via the visitor config\_id. As a result, we can only collect analytics on the number of views, downloads on pages, types of browsers, operating systems and resolutions without being able to track location or other personally identifiable information.