Cookie Policy
latest update: September 2016
Swiftinstitute.org is registered by SWIFT. SWIFT with registered office at Avenue Adèle 1, B-1310 La Hulpe, Belgium is committed to protecting your privacy needs. This Cookie Policy explains which cookies (and other similar devices) are used by SWIFT when using www.swiftinstitute.org.
1 Cookies – What and why?
Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive or in your browser memory. When using www.swiftinstitute.org, it enables SWIFT to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time. You do not have to keep re-entering these whenever you return to the site or browse from one page to another. For www.swiftinstitute.org, SWIFT mainly uses the following cookies:
- ‘Strictly necessary’ cookies: these are essential for you in order to be able to use www.swiftinstitute.org;
- Functionality cookies: these are used to provide you with the requested services and to remember your settings to improve your use of www.swiftinstitute.org;
- Authentication cookies: these are essential to allow you to authenticate yourself when using www.swiftinstitute.org and gain access to authorized content (for example to access a restricted area of www.swiftinstitute.org;
- Performance cookies: these collect information about how you use www.swiftinstitute.org in order to allow SWIFT to improve our tools and to understand what interests you. SWIFT is however not able to identify you when using this type of cookies. All information collected by means of these cookies is processed and stored in an anonymous way;
- Third party analytics cookies: these are set by a third party that does not operate www.swiftinstitute.org in order to collect statistics on the use of the website (e.g. to estimate the number of unique visitors, to detect the most preeminent search engine key words that lead to a certain webpage or to track down website navigation uses).
In addition, a distinction needs to be made between session cookies and persistent or permanent cookies:
- A session cookie is a cookie that will be automatically deleted from your computer’s hard drive or in your browser memory when you log out or you close your browser;
- A permanent cookie is a cookie that remains stored on your computer’s hard drive or in your browser memory for a limited period of time (minutes, days or years) after you have logged out or closed your browser.
2 List of cookies when using www.swiftinstitute.org
Below, you find a detailed list of all cookies used by SWIFT on www.swiftinstitute.org. By using www.swiftinstitute.org and accepting the SWIFT Institute Cookie Policy by means of the OK button in the cookie banner, you agree that these cookies are stored on your computer’s hard drive or in your browser memory for the duration indicated in the list.
When you visit www.swiftinstitute.org :
| Cookie/ interceptor | Purposes | Type | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| __utma | Used to distinguish users and sessions. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utma cookies exist. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. | Third party cookie (google.com) | 2 years |
| __utmb | Used to determine new sessions/visits. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utmb cookies exist. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. | Third party cookie (google.com) | 30 minutes |
| __utmc | Not used in ga.js. Set for interoperability with urchin.js. Historically, this cookie operated in conjunction with the __utmb cookie to determine whether the user was in a new session/visit. | Third party cookie (google.com) | Session |
| __utmt | Used to throttle request rate. | Third party cookie (google.com) | 10 minutes |
| __utmz | Stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached your site. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. | Third party cookie (google.com) | 6 months |
3 Deleting or blocking cookies
For more information on deleting or blocking cookies, please check http://www.allaboutcookies.org. Under the section “Manage your cookies”, you will find a clear explanation on how to delete or block cookies for each browser (Netscape, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Safari and Opera).
To provide users with the ability to prevent their data from being used by Google Analytics, Google Analytics has additionally developed the “Google Analytics opt out browser add-on” for the Google Analytics JavaScript. If you want to opt out, you need to download and install the add-on for your web browser via https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout and follow further the instructions provided by Google Analytics.
You can thus delete or block all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.
4 Miscellaneous
www.swiftinstitute.org contains links to other websites not owned or operated by SWIFT. SWIFT is not responsible for the cookie practices of these websites.
This SWIFT Insitutute.org Cookie Policy will be updated each year and without prior notice to you. SWIFT will indicate at the top of this innotribe.com Cookie Policy when it was most recently updated.
For a detailed description on the processing of your data via www.swiftinstitute.org and your data protection rights, please consult the SWIFT Institute Privacy Statement