Cookie Policy ESHRE
Date of last revision: March 2024
ESHRE® (as defined below) uses cookies to improve browsing experience on its “Website” (i.e. ) . Therefore, this policy will provide you with the necessary information about the use of these cookies by ESHRE® (“Cookie Policy”). Please read this Cookie Policy together with our Privacy Policy (published here).
You can find our archived Cookie Policies in pdf format here.
1 COOKIE CONTROLLER
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Legal entity:
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European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (“ESHRE®”) |
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Address:
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Nijverheidslaan 3, 1853 Strombeek-Bever (Belgium) |
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Enterprise number:
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BE0-0430.069.888 |
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To have access to our policies you can visit the Website.
2 WHAT ARE COOKIES?
Cookies, also known as ‘HTTP cookies’, ‘web cookies’ or ‘browser cookies’, are small text files that are sent to and stored on your computer or mobile device through your browser when you visit a website, especially when using a mobile application. When you surf the same website later on, the data stored in that cookie can be retrieved by the website in order to notify the website of the last activity.
Cookies were designed as a reliable mechanism for websites to remember the status of the website or the previous activity of a certain user. They help us to optimise your visit to the Website, to remember technical choices (e.g. choice of language, newsletter, etc.) and to offer more relevant services and offers.
If you wish to consult/use the Website to its full potential, ESHRE® encourages you to enable cookies (See Section 5 on how to enable/disable cookies).
3 WHAT KIND OF COOKIES ARE USED?
There are different types of cookies, based on their (i) duration, (ii) provenance or (iii) processing purpose:
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Based on duration
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Session cookies:
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these cookies allow a user's actions to be simplified and linked to each other during a browser session. A browser session starts when a user opens the browser screen and ends when the user closes the browser screen. Session cookies are placed temporarily. As soon as you close the browser, all session cookies are deleted. Most functional cookies are session cookies;
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these cookies remain on your hard drive until you or your browser erase them, depending on the cookie’s expiration date.
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Based on provenance
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First-party cookies:
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these cookies are placed by the owner of the visited website;
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Third-party cookies:
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these cookies are placed by a domain name other than the one of the website visited by the user. If a user visits a website and a third party places a cookie through that website, then this is to be considered a third party cookie (e.g. cookies placed by Google, Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook).
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Based on processing purpose
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Strictly necessary cookies:
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these cookies are essential for you to browse a website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the site. These cookies will generally be first-party session cookies;
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Functional cookies
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these cookies allow a website to remember choices you have made in the past, like what language you prefer, or what your user name and password are so you can automatically log in;
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Analytical cookies
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these cookies collect information about how you use a website, like which pages you visited and which links you clicked on. None of this information can be used to identify you. It is all aggregated and, therefore, anonymised. Their sole purpose is to improve website functions. This includes cookies from third-party analytics services as long as the cookies are for the exclusive use of the owner of the website visited;
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Targeting cookies
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these cookies track your online activity to help advertisers deliver more relevant advertising or to limit how many times you see an ad. These cookies can share that information with other organizations or advertisers. These are persistent cookies and almost always of third-party provenance.
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4 OVERVIEW OF THE COOKIES ESHRE® USES ON THE WEBSITE
You can consult the cookies that are used by ESHRE® here:
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Strictly Necessary Cookies
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Name
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Type
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Provider
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Description
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Retention
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cookieconsent_status
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Eshre.eu
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Stores the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain
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1 day
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FUNCTIONAL COOKIES
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Name
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Provider
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Description
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Retention
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shell#lang
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Eshre.eu
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Store’s the users preferred language, login status and session login status
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Session
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ANALYTICAL COOKIES
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Name
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Provider
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Retention
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_ga
_ga_<container-id>
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Google
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helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.
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2 years
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5 MANAGING AND DISABLING COOKIES
5.1 Your cookie preferences
When you visit our Website, you will be prompted via our cookie pop-up to indicate whether you agree to enable non-strictly necessary cookies. You have the possibility to access this Cookie Policy before doing so.
Please keep in mind that limiting or blocking the use of cookies may negatively impact your experience with respect to our Website.
5.2 Via browser settings
You can also modify your browser settings to decline certain cookies and/or to delete cookies that are already installed on your computer or mobile device. There are several possibilities to avoid the storage of cookies. Please visit the websites of the different browsers to learn how you can block the storage of cookies. Here you can find such websites regarding the most common browsers:
Please note that when you decide to delete all your cookies, you probably will have to fill in all your usernames and passwords again on the websites you visit, where before the cookies stored your passwords for you. As already mentioned, cookies have benefits to your surfing experience on the web.
5.3 More information?
If you want to know more about cookies, please visit the site: What are cookies? | Cookies & You (cookiesandyou.com). This website provides more information on cookies, explains in detail how to delete the cookies, and shows you how you can allow familiar websites to store cookies on your device.
6 MODIFICATIONS TO THIS COOKIE POLICY
ESHRE® may alter, amend, or update this Cookie Policy as deemed necessary to accommodate the use of new/different cookies, changes in technology, industry practice and legal or regulatory development, etc. Any changes to the Cookie Policy will be published on the Website.
When publishing a new version on the Website, ESHRE® will indicate the revision date at the beginning of this Cookie Policy. The date of the last revision is also included in the cookie pop-up.
Once an updated Cookie Policy is implemented, your consent regarding the use of cookies (except for strictly necessary cookies) will be requested again in the cookie pop up.
7 COMPLAINTS
Note that you also have the right to lodge a complaint with the authorized supervisory authority (either the Belgian Data Protection Authority or the data protection authority of (i) your residence or (ii) your workplace) should you consider that the processing of your Personal Data infringes the Privacy Legislation. You can send an email to the Belgian Data Protection Authority at contact@apd-gba.be or any other email address provided by the Belgian Data Protection Authority (https://www.dataprotectionauthority.be/contact-us).
8 QUESTIONS?
If you have any further questions about this Policy or its implementation, please contact ESHRE via e-mail at privacy@eshre.eu.