Everything you ever wanted to know about the use of cookies and cookie policy on ClusterExcellence.org

1. What are cookies?

Cookies are small data files which are downloaded onto your device by the website which you are visiting. The next time you visit the same website, cookies ensure that your device is recognised. By using cookies and similar technologies such as pixel tags/beacons and scripts ('cookies'), this website can save information about visits and visitors. We place some of the cookies on the websites ourselves, while other cookies are placed by third parties. Third-party cookies may collect data outside our websites as well.

Cookies can be utilised to make visiting a website more personal, by, for instance:

•    displaying relevant navigation settings;

•    remembering visitors’ preferences;

•    improving the overall user experience and;

•    limiting the number of advertisements shown.

2. Foundation for Clusters and Competitiveness’s use of cookies

By clicking ‘agree’ when the cookie notice is shown or by continuing to use the website, you thereby give consent for cookies to be placed and read out on ClusterExcellence.org and the associated sub-domains. The Foundation for Clusters and Competitiveness uses the information which it has collected through cookies for the purposes stated inFoundation for Clusters and Competitiveness’s privacy policy.

3. Our website & MOBILE APP use three types of cookies

a. Functional cookies. These are cookies which enable users to view ClusterExcellence.org, use the functions on the websites and gain access to secured portions of them. The information collected through these cookies is not used for marketing purposes. If use of this type of cookie is not allowed, this will have the following consequences:

•    using various parts of ClusterExcellence.org will become impossible;

•    the Foundation for Clusters and Competitiveness can provide less support to users;

•    the Foundation for Clusters and Competitiveness will be unable to remember your preferences for not using or displaying a specific function.

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•    show relevant, personalised advertisements or offers through every type of medium (such as e-mail, social media and banner ads) based on your visit to and click behaviour on ClusterExcellence.org;

•    limit the number of times each advertisement is displayed;

•    measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign;

•    make a link with social media, so you will be recognised when you wish to use social media through ClusterExcellence.org.