Cookies Policy
The present Cookies Policy describes the processing of information collected during your visits to the website of the ISREC Foundation (the “Foundation”) and allows you to configure these cookies according to your wishes.
This Cookies Policy does not cover links within the website of the Foundation that direct users towards any other third-party websites.
- What is a cookie?
A cookie is a text file placed on your computer, smartphone or other device when you visit a website. For the duration of the validity or registration period of a given cookie, the cookie allows its issuer to identify the terminal in which it is registered.
- Why does the Foundation use cookies?
Cookies are used for various purposes. They help to make certain pages of a website work or work more efficiently, and provide information to the owners of a website on how their site is used.
Some of the cookies used on the website of the Foundation are essential for proper functioning of the website, but the Foundation also uses non-essential cookies that help improve the overall performance of the website. Cookies also allow you to choose your connection preferences (e.g., the language of the website).
The cookies issued by the Foundation also make it possible:
- To establish statistics and volumes of frequentation and use of the various elements composing the website of the Foundation (sections and contents visited, source, last time a digital content was accessed), thus enabling the Foundation to improve the interest and ergonomics of its services;
- To personalize preferences in terms of authorizing cookies.
- Which cookies does the Foundation use?
- Technical cookies
Technical cookies are essential to the functioning of the Foundation’s website. These cookies make it possible for you to browse the Foundation’s website and to peruse its content.
| Name of cookie | Usage reference (see Ch. 2 above) | Data retention period | Purpose of the cookie |
| tarteaucitron | b) | 1 year | Registers the user’s preferences regarding the authorization or non-authorization of other cookies (GDPR) |
- Analytical cookies
These cookies collect information on how visitors use a website (e.g., number of visits, most visited pages or content). They enable the Foundation to know the use and the performances of its website, to establish statistics and to measure volumes of frequentation in order to improve the interest and the ergonomics of its services.
The data collected is not passed on to third-parties or used for any other purposes than those stated above. Analytical cookies are for internal use only and allow the Foundation to measure certain audiences on its website. Furthermore, all IP addresses in this analytical data are anonymized.
| Name of cookie | Usage reference (see Ch. 2 above) | Data retention period | Purpose of the cookie |
| __utma | a. Google Analytics | 2 years | Google Analytics: distinguishes users and sessions |
| __utmb | a. Google Analytics | 30 minutes | Google Analytics: determines new sessions / visits |
| __utmc | a. Google Analytics | End of the browser session | Google Analytics: used with __utmb to determine whether user is in a new session / visit |
| __utmt | a. Google Analytics | 10 minutes | Google Analytics: throttles request rate when traffic on the site is high |
| __utmz | a. Google Analytics | 6 months | Google Analytics: stores the traffic source or campaign (determines how the user reached the site, when this information is available) |
| _ga | a. Google Analytics | 2 years | Google Analytics: distinguishes the users |
| _gat | a. Google Analytics | 1 minute | Google Analytics: throttles request rate when traffic on the site is high |
- Social media cookies
The Foundation’s website contains data hosted or shared to other websites, that allows the user to view content on the Foundation’s website. When you consent to the use of such social media services, third-party cookies relating to the relevant social network are installed.
The Foundation uses Youtube to publish content on its website.
If you follow a link to other websites, please note that these websites have their own independent privacy and cookies policies, for which the Foundation does not accept any responsibility. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
- How can I configure cookies?
The recording of a cookie in a terminal is in principle subject to the consent of the terminal user. Several possibilities are available to configure cookies. Also, you can choose, at any time, to express and modify your choices regarding cookies.
The configuration of each browser is different, and is described in your browser’s help menu, which will instruct you on how to manage your cookie preferences.
If you have enabled cookies in your browser software, cookies embedded in pages and content you have viewed may be temporarily stored in a dedicated area on your device.
You may accept/reject/delete cookies on the website of the Foundation by clicking on “Manage cookies” in the footer, then on the tab “Preferences for all services”.
You can find more information on cookies and on how to control their use through your browser settings at http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
You can also consult the Foundation’s Data Protection Notice to learn how the Foundation processes personal data.
- Is this Cookies Policy subject to change?
The Foundation may need to modify the present policy. Any changes or new versions of the Cookies Policy will be published on the Foundation’s website. We therefore invite you to visit this page regularly, in order to take note of modifications or updates. The date of the latest version of the policy can be found at the bottom of this page.
August 2021