1. Introduction
Our website, https://healthy-cities.org/ (hereinafter: “the website”), uses cookies and other related technologies (for convenience, all technologies are referred to as “cookies”). Cookies are also placed by third parties we have engaged. In the document below, we inform you about the use of cookies on our website and provide specific details about the Healthy Cities for Adolescents Phase II Programme (HCA-II).
2. What are cookies?
A cookie is a small simple file that is sent along with pages of this website and stored by your browser on the hard drive of your computer or another device. The information stored therein may be returned to our servers or to the servers of the relevant third parties during a subsequent visit.
3. What are scripts?
A script is a piece of program code that is used to make our website function properly and interactively. This code is executed on our server or on your device.
4. What is a web beacon?
A web beacon (or a pixel tag) is a small, invisible piece of text or image on a website that is used to monitor traffic on a website. In order to do this, various data about you is stored using web beacons.
5. Cookies
5.1 Technical or functional cookies
Some cookies ensure that certain parts of the website work properly and that your user preferences remain known. By placing functional cookies, we make it easier for you to visit our website. This way, you do not need to repeatedly enter the same information when visiting our website.
5.2 Statistics cookies
We use statistics cookies to optimize the website experience for our users. With these statistics cookies, we gain insights into the usage of our website. We ask your permission to place statistics cookies.
5.3 Marketing/Tracking cookies
Marketing/Tracking cookies are cookies or any other form of local storage used to create user profiles to display advertising or to track the user on this website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
6. Placed cookies
| Name | Expiration | Function |
|---|---|---|
| borlabs-cookie | 6 Months | Store Cookie Content |
| _pk_id.5.4162 | 1 Year | Store and track a visitor’s usage |
| _pk_ses.5.4162 | Session | Store a unique session ID |
7. Consent
Our website uses the Borlabs consent technology to obtain your consent to the storage of certain cookies in your browser or for the use of certain technologies and for their data privacy protection compliant documentation. The provider of this technology is Borlabs – Benjamin A. Bornschein, Rübenkamp 32, 22305 Hamburg, Germany (hereinafter referred to as Borlabs).
Whenever you visit our website, a Borlabs cookie will be stored in your browser, which archives any declarations or revocations of consent you have entered. These data are not shared with the provider of the Borlabs technology.
The recorded data shall remain archived until you ask us to eradicate them, delete the Borlabs cookie on your own or the purpose of storing the data no longer exists. This shall be without prejudice to any retention obligations mandated by law. To review the details of Borlabs’ data processing policies, please visit https://borlabs.io/kb/what-information-does-borlabs-cookie-store/
We use the Borlabs cookie consent technology to obtain the declarations of consent mandated by law for the use of cookies. The legal basis for the use of such cookies is Art. 6(1)(c) UK GDPR.
Cookies do not identify you personally, and we do not use cookies to acquire personal information about you or others. Any personal information that you provide us with via the Heathly Cities For Adolescents website is securely stored and is used in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
7.1. Manage your consent settings
When you visit our website for the first time, we will show you a pop-up with an explanation about cookies. As soon as you click on “Save preferences”, you consent to us using the categories of cookies and plug-ins you selected in the pop-up, as described in this Cookie Policy. You can disable the use of cookies via your browser, but please note that our website may no longer work properly.
- Functional
- Statistics
- Marketing
8. Social sharing and analytics
We use Matomo Analytics to help understand how you use the website. Through the use of non-personally identifying information, Matomo Analytics records information such as pages visited, time spent on a page, and if you have been to the website before. We use this data to help us improve the website.
9. Your rights with respect to personal data
You have the following rights with respect to your personal data:
- Right to know why your personal data is needed, what will happen to it, and how long it will be retained for.
- Right of access: You have the right to access your personal data that is known to us.
- Right to rectification: You have the right to supplement, correct, have deleted, or blocked your personal data whenever you wish.
- Right to revoke consent and delete personal data: If you give us your consent to process your data, you have the right to revoke that consent and to have your personal data deleted.
- Right to transfer your data: You have the right to request all your personal data from the controller and transfer it in its entirety to another controller.
- Right to object: You may object to the processing of your data. We comply with this unless there are justified grounds for processing.
10. Enabling/disabling and deleting cookies
You can use your internet browser to automatically or manually delete cookies. You can also specify that certain cookies may not be placed. Another option is to change the settings of your internet browser so that you receive a message each time a cookie is placed. For more information about these options, please refer to the instructions in the Help section of your browser. Please note that our website may not work properly if all cookies are disabled. If you do delete the cookies in your browser, they will be placed again after your consent when you visit our websites again.
11. Contact details
For questions and/or comments about our Cookie Policy and this statement, please contact us at [email protected] and the Ecorys Data Protection Officer [email protected]