Privacy Policy

The UN Archives Geneva platform is designed to allow users to browse and search the fonds and collections managed by the United Nations Library and Archives in Geneva. Public users will not be asked to log in and will not be asked for any personally identifying information.

However, like many modern websites, the UN Archives Geneva platform collects cookies in order to enable browsing and loading of certain types of content. A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Visitors to the UN Archives Geneva platform who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies. However, certain features may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

The UN Archives Geneva platform supports integration with Google Analytics (https://www.google.com/analytics/) for the purposes of gathering statistics on page views, site usage, user location, and other data on site visits. All data collected by Google Analytics are stored and processed by Google, according to the Google Ads Data Processing Terms. (https://privacy.google.com/businesses/processorterms/)

None of the information gathered through the use of cookies or Google Analytics is used for any purpose other than the ones described above.