This ERTICO Cookie Notice (version 1.1) is effective as of 14 September, 2020.
Your privacy is important to ERTICO.
We have drafted this Cookie Notice in an easy and comprehensible way in order to help you understand who we are, what personal data we collect about you, why we collect it, and what we do with it.
Keep in mind that personal data (in this Policy also referred to as “data” or “your data”) means any information or set of information from which we are able, directly or indirectly, to personally identify you, in particular by reference to an identifier, such as IP addresses stored in cookies.
Learn more about who we are, how you can contact us and how we process personal data in our privacy policy or send us an email at privacy@mail.ertico.com. This latest version of the Cookie Notice, as well as the previous versions, are available
ERTICO is a public-private partnership of 120 companies and organisations representing service providers, suppliers, traffic and transport industry, research, public authorities, user organisations, mobile network operators, and vehicle manufacturers.
The services provided by ERTICO (EUROPEAN ROAD TRANSPORT TELEMATICS IMPLEMENTATION COORDINATION ORGANISATION SCRL, avenue Louise 326 at 1050 Brussels, RPM : 0445.743.506, hereafter also “we” “us”) consist of organising and coordinating events, seminars, workshops, courses, surveys, research, conferences, congresses, e-learning, and other forms of events, as well as providing logistical and organisational support for these services.
This Cookie Notice applies to the following ERTICO domain(s): tm20.org (hereafter “websites”).
ERTICO aims to make your online experience and interaction with its websites as informative, relevant and supportive as possible. One way of achieving this is to use cookies or similar techniques, which store information about your visit to ERTICO’s websites on your computer. The law considers the data that is stored in such cookies as “personal data” under applicable data protection legislation.
We believe that it is very important that you know what cookies ERTICO’s websites use and for what purposes. This will help protect your privacy, while ensuring ERTICO’s websites user-friendliness. Below you can read more about the cookies used by and via ERTICO’s websites and the purposes for which they are used.
Please keep in mind that since ERTICO is a company with international activities, this Cookie Notice may be replaced or supplemented in order to fulfil local requirements, as well as to provide you with additional information on how ERTICO processes your data through specific ERTICO products, services, systems or applications.
Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer’s hard disk when you visit certain websites. ERTICO may use similar techniques, such as pixels, web beacons etc. For consistency’s sake, all these techniques combined will be named ‘cookies’. As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience better, more efficient, retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping carts and provide anonymised tracking data to third party applications, such as Google Analytics. These indirect cookies are similar to direct cookies but come from a different (non-ERTICO) website to the one you are visiting.
ERTICO takes privacy and security very seriously, and strives to put its website users first in all aspects of its business. ERTICO uses cookies to help you get the most out of the ERTICO .
Please be aware that ERTICO currently does not make use of a technical solution that would enable to respond to your browser’s ‘Do Not Track’ signals. In order to manage your cookie preferences, however, you may alter the cookie settings in your browser settings at any time. You may accept all, or certain, cookies.
Essential cookies
By law organisations like ERTICO can store cookies on your device, if these cookies are strictly necessary for the operation of this website. For all other types of cookies ERTICO needs your permission. ERTICO’s websites use both types of cookies. Some cookies are placed by third party services that appear on ERTICO’s pages.
Such Essential cookies are mandatory, as they help ERTICO to make our websites usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. Our websites cannot function properly without these cookies. They are part of the terms and conditions of the ERTICO websites. If personal data is being processed, it is processed based on contractual execution for the following purposes:
Optional cookies
ERTICO uses Optional cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse its traffic. ERTICO also shares information about your use of ERTICO’s websites with its social media, analytics and advertising partners who may combine it with other information that you’ve provided to them or that they’ve collected from your use of their services. ERTICO will only process them if you grant your consent. ERTICO has identified three types of purposes for Optional cookies:
You can at any time change or withdraw your cookie consent via ERTICO’s website or by contacting ERTICO via privacy@mail.ERTICO.com.
In addition to the legal distinction between Essential and Optional cookies, both cookies may also be subdivided into categories according to their origin, function and lifetime:
Below you will find a detailed list of the cookies that ERTICO uses on its websites, together with the applicable third parties and retention times.
Category | Provider | Cookie name | Purpose | Expiration | |
Essential | This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website. | 1 day | |||
Used by the content network, to identify trusted web traffic. | 29 days | ||||
This cookie is a part of the services – Including load-balancing, deliverance of website content and serving DNS connection for website operators. | Session | ||||
Helps prevent Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks. | Session | ||||
Preserves users states across page requests. | Session | ||||
Tests whether the website user’s browser allows third party cookies. | Session | ||||
Used to distribute traffic to the website on several servers in order to optimise response times. | Session | ||||
Preserves the visitor’s session state across page requests. | Session | ||||
Identifies the user and allows authentication to the server. | Session | ||||
Registers whether the user is logged in. This allows the website owner to make parts of the website inaccessible, based on the user’s log-in status. | 1 year | ||||
Unique ID that identifies the user’s session. | Persistent | ||||
Remembers the user’s selected language version of a website. | 1 year | ||||
Enables our website to remember your choice of character font and so to personalise your browsing session. | 1 year | ||||
Optional: Statistics | Google Analytics | _utma | Cookie to enable us to observe how you use our website, see where you are based and to improve our website. | ||
_utmb | Cookie to enable ERTICO to observe how you use its website, see where you are based and to improve its website. | 30 minutes | |||
_utmc | Cookie to enable ERTICO to observe how you use its website, see where you are based and to improve its website. | Session | |||
_utmz | Cookie to enable ERTICO to observe how you use its website, see where you are based and to improve its website. | 6 months | |||
OTHER EXAMPLES | Registers the date and time for the user’s latest visit to the website.Unique ID that identifies the user on recurring visits.
Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. Registers statistical data on visitors’ behaviour on the website. Used for internal analytics by the website operator. |
||||
Optional: Marketing | Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user’s actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser’s ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user. | 1 year | |||
Optional: Social | Tries to estimate the users’ bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. | 179 days | |||
Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what content from YouTube the user has seen. | Session | ||||
Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube videos. | Session | ||||
Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what content from LinkedIn the user has seen. | Session | ||||
Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what content from Twitter the user has seen. | Session | ||||
Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what content from Facebook the user has seen. | Session | ||||
Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what content from Flickr the user has seen. | Session |
Cookie | Type | Duration | Description |
---|---|---|---|
cookielawinfo-checbox-analytics | 0 | 11 months | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". |
cookielawinfo-checbox-functional | 0 | 11 months | The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". |
cookielawinfo-checbox-others | 0 | 11 months | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. |
cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary | 0 | 11 months | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". |
cookielawinfo-checkbox-performance | 0 | 11 months | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". |
viewed_cookie_policy | 0 | 11 months | The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. It does not store any personal data. |
Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously.
Cookie | Duration | Description |
---|---|---|
cookielawinfo-checbox-analytics | 11 months | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". |
cookielawinfo-checbox-functional | 11 months | The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". |
cookielawinfo-checbox-others | 11 months | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. |
cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary | 11 months | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". |
cookielawinfo-checkbox-performance | 11 months | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". |
viewed_cookie_policy | 11 months | The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. It does not store any personal data. |
Functional cookies help to perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collect feedbacks, and other third-party features.
Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors.
Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.
Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with relevant ads and marketing campaigns. These cookies track visitors across websites and collect information to provide customized ads.
Other uncategorized cookies are those that are being analyzed and have not been classified into a category as yet.