Effective since: 1 January 2025
EUROCROWD operates a strict privacy policy. We are committed to being transparent about the technologies we use, and we’ve outlined below how we use cookies when you visit our Website. Insofar as the information collected using cookies constitutes personal data, the provisions of the EUROCROWD Privacy Policy shall apply and supplement the EUROCROWD Cookie Policy.
Acceptance: By accessing the website (https://www.eurocrowd.org, hereinafter “Website”), users agree to our Privacy Policy (“Policy”), alongside the general Terms of Service (“Terms”), Use of Materials Policy and the Cookie Policy.
1. What Are Cookies? Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit a website. They are used to improve your experience and provide functionality. A cookie is a small snippet of text that a website asks your browser to store. All cookies have expiration dates in them that determine how long they stay in your browser. Cookies can be removed in two ways: automatically, when they expire, or when you manually delete them. We’ve included more details below to help you understand what kind of cookies we use.
2. Types of Cookies We Use
- Essential cookies (strictly necessary) – These cookies are essential for browsing our Website or strictly necessary for the provision of a service specifically requested by a user. The removal of this type of cookies can lead to navigation difficulties and is therefore strongly discouraged.
- Session cookies – these are temporary cookies that expire (and are automatically erased) whenever you close your browser. We use session cookies to grant access to content and things you have to log in for.
- Persistent cookies – these usually have an expiration date of maximum 13 months and thus stay in your browser until they expire, or until you manually delete them. We use persistent cookies for functionalities like remembering login details, which makes it possible for registered users to return to the Website without having to log in. We also use persistent cookies to better understand usage patterns so we can improve the Website for our customers. This information is anonymized – when we look at the data, in other words, we look at patterns, but we do not see individuals’ personally identified information (PII).
- Analytics cookies (statistics) – These cookies are used to gather information about your use of the Website, in order to improve the content, make it more suitable to your needs and increase its usability. For example, these cookies show us the most visited pages of the Website or help to identify difficulties that may be encountered during navigation.
- Preference cookies (performance) – These cookies collect information about your choices and preferences and make your navigation more pleasant and personalized. These cookies make it possible to memorize the language chosen during your first visit to our Website in order to personalize it accordingly.
3. How We Use Cookies
The primary purpose to make our Website work more effectively and to memorize various information in order to facilitate your navigation on a website/a mobile application, to ensure the smooth functioning of these or to make them more effective, for example by memorizing your language preferences. Cookies help us:
- Monitor website performance.
- Understand user preferences.
- Ensure security and compliance.
4. Managing Cookies You can control cookies through your browser settings. Please note that disabling cookies may affect website functionality. Each browser (such as Opera, SeaMonkey, DuckDuckGoGo, Firefox or ones such as Microsoft Edge, Apple Safari, Google Chrome, etc.) has its own cookie configuration mode. To learn about the procedure to follow concerning your navigator, visit the site: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/.
5. Third-Party Cookies We may use third-party services like Google Analytics. These third parties have their own privacy policies. These cookies might be session or persistent type and are set by entities other than EUROCROWD. To ensure compliance with our policies, we restrict the use of third-party cookies to trusted partners of EUROCROWD. For example, we currently allow:
- Social sharing – it allows you to share our articles through various social sharing networks like LinkedIn. Social networks providing a sharing button are likely to identify you with this button, even if you did not use this button when visiting our Website. We invite you to consult the privacy policy of these social networks by visiting their respective websites to learn the purpose of using the information collected through these sharing buttons.
- Audience measurement and validation – We use services such as Google Analytics to better understand our audiences and what type of content interests them. It helps to improve the quality of our Website. No personally identifiable information (PII) is stored and site usage is always looked at on an aggregate (and anonymous) level.
- EUROCROWD may also use cookies, web beacons and similar technologies, and/or a third-party ad serving software, to collect non-personally identifiable information about users of our Website and about activity that occurs within our Website, and we may use this information to, among other things, serve targeted advertisements on our Website. The collected information allows us to analyze how users use the Website and to track user interests, trends and patterns. We also may use third-party advertising companies to target and serve some of the advertisements that appear on our Website, and these companies likewise may use their own cookies, web beacons and similar technologies to collect non-personally identifiable information from users of our Website. The information collected by these companies does not identify you personally and does not include your name, address, email address or telephone number. These companies may use that information, sometimes in conjunction with similar non-personally identifiable information gathered from other websites, to deliver advertisements on this Website, and possibly on other websites (if the third-party advertising company operates an advertising network), tailored to match the perceived interests of consumers. The collection and use of information by these companies is governed by the relevant third party’s privacy policy and is not covered by our privacy policy.
6. Consent By continuing to use our website, you consent to our use of cookies. You can withdraw consent at any time via your browser settings.
7. Updates to the Cookie Policy We may update this policy periodically. Changes will be posted on this page.
8. Other questions?
If you have other questions, contact us:
- by sending an email to the following address: privacy@eurocrowd.org
- by writing to the following postal address:
EUROCROWD BV, SQ North, BD Roi Albert II 4, 1000 Brussels, BELGIUM
Belgian business registry (BCE) number: BE 0525.640.723