COOKIE POLICY PROBE COST ACTION
This document informs you as User about the technologies active on this Website to achieve the website’s goals. The content is organized in the following structure:
1. What are cookies
2. Usage of cookies
3. Type of cookies
4. User’s consent
5. Validity and expiration period of cookies
6. Manage consent preferences and retrieve consent
7. Manage cookies in the most diffused browsers
8. Data controller
1) What are cookies: Cookies are small text files that your browser stores on your computer and sends to our server when you visit our pages. Cookies do not cause any damage to your computer and do not contain any viruses. They make our website more user-friendly, effective, and secure. You have full control over the use of cookies: By changing the settings in your Internet browser, you can deactivate or restrict the use of cookies. Cookies that have already been saved can be deleted at any time. This can also be done automatically. If cookies are deactivated for our website, it may no longer be possible to use all functions in full.
2) Usage of cookies: By using a cookie, you allow us to access and store information. Cookies can be used on both web and mobile browsers, and we refer to cookies also in the context of mobile apps that are browser-based trackers.
3) Type of cookies: This Website uses cookies managed directly by us (so-called “first-party” cookies) and cookies that enable services provided by a third-party (so-called “third-party” cookies, see the plugins section). Unless otherwise specified within this document, third-party providers may access the cookies managed by them.
Necessary cookies: Necessary cookies help make the website usable by enabling basic functionality such as page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies. No necessary cookies are present on this website.
Preference cookies: Preference cookies allow a website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks, such as your preferred language or the region you are in.
Name | Type | Duration | Aim | Provider |
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NID | Marketing | 6 months | The cookie is used to show Google ads in Google services to users who have logged out after logging in. Google uses cookies for advertising purposes, such as serving and displaying ads, personalizing ads, limiting the number of views of an ad for a user, disabling ads that the user has opted out of receiving, and evaluating the effectiveness of ads. | |
SID, HSID | Marketing | 10 years | Google sets a number of cookies on every page that includes a YouTube video. They appear to include a variety of information to measure the number and behavior of YouTube users, including information that links your visits to our website with your Google account, if you are signed into one, and your use of this website. This cookie does not identify you personally unless you are logged into Google, in which case it is linked to your Google account. | |
LBCS | Marketing | unknown | Google Docs allows you to open multiple documents in a browser. If this cookie is blocked, Google Docs will not work properly. |
Statistical cookies: Statistical cookies help us understand how visitors interact with the website by collecting and transmitting information in an anonymous form.
Name | Type | Duration | Aim | Provider |
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_ga, _gat, _gid | statistic/technical | persistent | These cookies make it possible to monitor and analyse traffic data and are used to track User behaviour in order to improve the user experience. | Google Analytics (Google Inc.) |
_utma | statistic | 2 years | It is the cookie that distinguishes the Visitor. through a unique code. Google Analytics, to measure the number of people (Unique Visitors) who have visited a site, counts the number of utma. | Google Analytics (Google Inc.) |
_utmb, _utmc | Marketing | Session duration | These are the two cookies that identify the session (Visit). Google Analytics uses them to calculate time-based metrics, such as length of Visit or time on Page. | Google Analytics (Google Inc.) |
_utmz | Marketing | 6 months | This is the cookie that identifies the Traffic Source. It makes it possible to collect information about where the visit came from (organic search, link to another site, online campaign, etc.). | Google Analytics (Google Inc.) |
_utmv | Marketing | variable depending on customization (page, session, visitor) | This is the cookie involved in data movement, which transfers details about the user's browser and computer into log files. | Google Analytics (Google Inc.) |
rur, urlgen | Marketing | These are the cookies used for integration with Instagram. For more info: https://www.instagram.com/developer/ | Google Analytics (Google Inc.) | |
uuid, uuidc | Marketing | 1 year | This cookie collects information about how the end user uses the website and about advertisements the end user may have seen before visiting that website. | www.probe-cost.eu |
Marketing cookies: Marketing cookies are used to track visitors on websites. The purpose is to present advertisements that are relevant and engaging to the individual user and therefore of greater value to third-party publishers and advertisers.
Name | Type | Duration | Aim | Provider |
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IDE | Marketing | 1 year | Used by Google DoubleClick to record and produce reports on user actions on the site after viewing or clicking on one of the advertiser's advertisements in order to measure the effectiveness of an advertisement and present targeted advertising to the user. | doubleclick.net |
ANID | Marketing | 2 years | The cookie is used for advertisements promoted on the Web and stored on google.com. | |
DSID | Marketing | 5 years | The cookie is used by Google to store user preferences and information from Google Maps. | |
FLC | Profiling | This cookie is used for the limit quota of online advertising and to prevent duplicate ads on a page, i.e. to prevent a user from viewing the same ad over and over again. | DoubleClick Ad Services | |
AID | Technical | 2 years | Cookies used to collect information about visitors' use of the site whenever they visit web pages containing Google services. | |
AID | Technical | 2 years | Cookies used to collect information about visitors' use of the site whenever they visit web pages containing Google services. | |
TAID | Technical | 1 year | If you signed in with your google account on another device, the TAID cookie links activity on your devices. This way, ads that appear are coordinated to avoid repetition. | |
exchange_uid | Profiling | 10 years | These cookies are used to manage the advertising offered by Google. | |
__gads | Profiling | variable | This cookie measures interactions with advertisements and prevents those advertisements from being shown to you too often. | |
__gads, __gac | Profiling | around 2 years | This cookie measures interactions with advertisements and prevents those advertisements from being shown to you too often. | |
Conversion | Profiling | 30 years | The cookie that Google adds to a user's computer when they view or click on an ad expires in 30 days. This measure, and the fact that Google uses separate servers for conversion tracking and search results tracking, protects the user's privacy. | |
NID | Marketing | 6 months | The cookie is used to show Google ads in Google services to users who have logged out after logging in. Google uses cookies for advertising purposes, such as serving and displaying ads, personalizing ads, limiting the number of views of an ad for a user, disabling ads that the user has opted out of receiving, and evaluating the effectiveness of ads. | |
SID | Marketing | 10 years | Google sets a number of cookies on any page that includes a Youtube video. They appear to include a mixture of pieces of information to measure the number and behaviour of Youtube users, including information that links your visits to our website with your Google account if you are signed in to one and your use of this website. This cookie does not identify you personally unless you are logged into Google, in which case it is linked to your Google account. | |
fr, tr | Marketing | 3 months | Third-party cookies (Facebook) - They allow you to control the "Follow us on Facebook" feature of the "Like" button, collect language settings, and allow you to share the page. | |
uuid, uuidc, uuid2 | Marketing | 1 year | This cookie collects information about how the end user uses the website and about advertisements the end user may have seen before visiting that website. | www.probe-cost.eu |
MUID | Marketing/Tracking | 1 year | This cookie is widely used by Microsoft as a unique identifier of the user. It can be set by embedded Microsoft scripts. Widely believed to synchronize across many different Microsoft domains, allowing user tracking. | Microsoft Clarity |
MUIDB | Marketing/Tracking | 1 year | This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertisements that the end user may have seen prior to visiting the said website. | bat.bing.com |
4) User’s consent: Some of the purposes for which cookies are used may also require your consent, as User. Whenever you give consent, it can be freely withdrawn at any time following the instructions provided in this document.
5) Validity and expiration period of cookies: The validity and expiration periods of Cookies may change depending on the lifetime set by the Owner or the relevant provider. Some of them expire upon termination of your browsing session. You may find more precise and updated information regarding lifetime specification in the tables reported above or in the privacy policies of the respective third-party providers or by contacting the Owner.
6) Manage consent preferences and retrieve consent: You can prevent the use or storage of cookies. You can also provide or withdraw your consent by setting your preferences in the cookie notice. It is also possible to review and eventually delete old stored cookies including those regarding the initial consent you might have given. Cookies stored in the browser local memory could be removed by clearing the browsing history. With respect to any third-party cookies, you can manage your preferences and withdraw your consent via the related opt-out link (where provided), by using the means indicated in the third party's privacy policy, or by contacting the third party.
7) Manage cookies in the most diffused browsers: The cookies management for the most diffused browsers can be modified at the following addresses:
▪ Google Chrome
▪ Mozilla Firefox
▪ Apple Safari
▪ Microsoft Internet Explorer
▪ Microsoft Edge
▪ Brave
▪ Opera
8) Data Controller: Your personal data are processed by the University of Cologne. If you have any queries about the process or how we handle your information please contact us at:
Address: Pohligstr. 3, 50969 Cologne
Email:
Data Protection Officer (if any): PROBE CORE group
Last update: Sunday 9 January 2022.