Cookies

(Ver. 20190627)

1. Introduction

In this Cookie Policy, Regions4 Sustainable Development (“Regions4”) is referred to as “we/our/us”. This Cookie Policy informs you about how we use cookies on our website: www.regions4.org.

2. What are cookies

Cookies are small text files that may be stored on your computer or mobile device that contains data related to a website you visit. They may allow a website “remember” your actions or preferences over a period of time, or they may contain data related to the function or delivery of the site. Cookies can be classified by their lifespan or the domain to which they belong.

By lifespan, cookies are either:

  • Session cookies. They are erased when the user closes the browser; or
  • Persistent cookies. They remain on the user’s computer/device for a pre-defined period of time.

As for the domain to which they belong, cookies are either:

  • First-party cookies. They are set by the web server of the visited page and share the same domain; or
  • Third-party cookies. They are stored by a different domain to the visited page’s domain. This can happen when the webpage references a file, such as JavaScript, located outside its domain.

3. How we use cookies

First-party cookies. We set the following first-party cookies:

  • notShow: This cookie is used to hide the “nrg4SD is now Regions4” message after the first visit. Lifespan: 1 day.
  • viewed_cookie_policy: This cookie is used to prevent the cookie banner to show every time the user changes pages within the website during a visit, once the user has agreed to the use of cookies by clicking the button ‘Accept’. Lifespan: 1 day.

Third-party cookies. These are the third-party cookies you might encounter on our website:

  • _ga: This cookie is set by Google Analytics and used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. Lifespan: 2 years.
  • _gat: This cookie is set by Google Analytics and used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. Lifespan: 2 years.
  • _gid: This cookie is set by Google Analytics and appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited. Lifespan: 1 day.

4. Managing Cookies

Within your browser, you can choose whether you wish to accept cookies or not. Different browsers make different controls available to you, so we advise you to consult your browser Help section on how you can do this. Generally, your browser will offer you the choice to accept, refuse or delete cookies at all times, or those from providers that website owners use (third-party cookies), or those from specific websites.

Please note that if you disable or delete cookies that are already on your computer/device, or prevent cookies from being set on your computer/device, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit our website and some services and functionalities may not work.

5. More Information

For more general information on cookies, you can visit: http://ec.europa.eu/ipg/basics/legal/cookies/index_en.htm. And if you have a question for us, you can contact our Privacy Manager by email at: privacy@regions4.org marking the subject line, ‘For the attention of the Privacy Manager’.

 

Last update: 27 June, 2019.