Cookie Policy
The website
www.cop28.com. (in the following “the website”] uses cookies to enhance your browsing experience and provide personalized content. Further, in case the user gave his/her consent, cookies are also able to analyze for example the user’s surfing behavior on a website and to display behavior-based advertising.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They help us improve the functionality and performance of our website, allowing us to tailor content to your preferences.
What Types of Cookies Are There?
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Differentiation according to domain
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First-party cookies: are sent and read exclusively by the website provider’s domain.
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Third-party cookies: are sent and read by domains of other service providers.
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Differentiation according to storage period
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Session cookies (session-id): Temporary cookies that are automatically deleted when the browser is closed. Session cookies allow the recognition of the user's movements on the website so that information is retained. Without such cookies, websites have no "memory".
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Persistent cookies: Permanent cookies that can be manually deleted or are deleted after a certain period of time. These cookies help the website to remember certain users and settings; e.g. language selection, menu preferences, internal bookmarks or favorites.
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Differentiation according to type of use
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Technically essential cookies: these cookies are needed to ensure the functionality of the website and web application and cannot be deactivated for this reason (e.g. a shopping cart cookie, a cookie that stores the information on the submission/non-submission of your consent).
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Analytics cookies: These cookies collect information to create statistics to better understand user behavior on the website and in the web application and to improve the application.
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Marketing cookies: These cookies store information about websites visited in order to display personalised advertising.
Which Cookies Do We Set?
Name: Google Analytics cookies: _ga, _gid, _gat;
Storage period and purpose: _ga: 2 years to distinguish individual users; _gid: 24 hours to distinguish individual users; _gat: 1 minute to throttle the number of requests.
Legal basis: On the legal basis of your consent, your personal data is processed to analyse your surfing behavior on the website.
Categories of data processed: Dwell time on the website; Dwell time on each individual page and the order in which individual pages are visited; Which internal links are clicked on the website; Previously accessed web page; First page accessed; IP address; Geographical location; Browser (including plug-ins) and operating system; screen resolution and whether Flash or Java is installed in the user's browser.
Name: Windows Azure cookies: ARRAffinity, ARRAffinitySameSite.
Storage period and purpose: Session.
Legal basis: Technically essential cookies.
Categories of data processed: Not applicable.
Name: Microsoft ASP-NET cookies: ASP.NET_SessionId.
Storage period and purpose: Session; stores session data during a user's website visit.
Legal basis: Technically essential cookies
Categories of data processed: Not applicable.
Name: Sitescore cookies: SC_ANALYTICS_GLOBAL_COOKIE.
Storage period and purpose: 2 years to distinguish individual users.
Legal basis: On the legal basis of your consent, your personal data is processed to analyse your surfing behavior on the website.
Categories of data processed: Number of visits to the website.
Managing Cookies
You can control and manage cookies through your browser settings. You can opt to block or delete cookies, but this may affect the functionality of certain parts of our website.
Changes to This Policy
We may update this cookie policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices and services. Please check this page periodically for updates.