Cookies Policy
Effective January 1, 2025

The International Institute for the Promotion of Science in Organizations and its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively, “IIPSO,” “we,” “us”) understand that your privacy is of utmost importance and are committed to being transparent about the technologies they use. This Cookies Policy explains how and why Cookies, web beacons, pixels, clear gifs, and other similar technologies (collectively, “Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies”) may be stored and accessed on your device when you use or visit any website or application that contains a link to this Policy (collectively, “Sites”). This Cookie Policy should be read in conjunction with our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.

1.- What are Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies? A cookie is a small text file that may be stored on your device and accessed from your device when you visit one of our Sites, to the extent you consent. Other tracking technologies function similarly to cookies and place small data files on your devices or monitor your website activity to allow us to collect information about how you use our Sites. This allows our Site to differentiate your device from that of other Site users. The information below about cookies also applies to these other tracking technologies. You can find more information at www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.eu.

2.- How does our Site use Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies?  IIPSO uses Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies to identify you and your interests, to remember your preferences, and to track your use of our Sites. We also use Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies to control access to certain content on our Sites, to secure the Sites, and to process requests you make to us.To administer our Sites and for research purposes, Scienness has also contracted with third-party service providers to track and analyze statistical information about the usage and volume of users of our Sites. These third-party service providers use persistent Cookies to help us improve the user experience, manage the content of our Sites, and analyze how users navigate and use the Sites.

3.- First-Party and Third-Party Cookies  “First-Party Cookies” are cookies belonging to Scienness that are placed on your device by Scienness. “Third-Party Cookies” are cookies that a third party places on your device through our Sites. IIPSO may contract with third-party service providers to send emails to users who have provided us with their contact information. To help us measure and improve the effectiveness of our email communications, or to determine whether messages have been opened and links clicked on, third-party service providers may place cookies on these users' devices.

For more information about how these companies collect and use information on our behalf, please see their privacy policies as described below.

Depending on the Site, we use the following types of cookies:
 

• Persistent Cookies. We use persistent cookies to enhance your experience using the Site. This includes recording your acceptance of our Privacy Policy and removing the cookie message that initially appears when you use the Sites.Session Cookies.

 

• Session cookies are temporary and are deleted from your computer when you close your web browser. We use session cookies to help us track internet usage as described above.

You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting, you may not be able to access certain portions of the Sites. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Sites.

The data collected by the Sites and/or through cookies that may be placed on your computer will not be kept longer than necessary to fulfill the aforementioned purposes. In any case, such information will not be kept for longer than one year.

Our cookies are used for the following purposes:
 

• Strictly necessary/technical: These Cookies are necessary to allow us to operate our Sites so that you can access them as you have requested. These Cookies, for example, allow us to recognize that you have created an account and logged into that account to access content on the Sites. This also includes Cookies that allow us to remember your previous actions within the same browsing session and protect our Sites.

 

• Data/Performance Analytics: These Cookies are used by us or by third-party service providers to analyze how the Sites are used and how they are performing. For example, these Cookies track which pages receive the most visits and where visitors arrive. If you subscribe to a newsletter or otherwise register on the Sites, these Cookies may be associated with you. These Cookies include, for example, Adobe Analytics cookies.
   

• Functionality: These Cookies allow us to operate the Sites in accordance with the choices you make. These Cookies allow us to "remember" you between visits. For example, we will recognize your username and remember how you have customized the Sites and services. We may do this by adjusting text size, fonts, languages, and other parts of the web page that can be altered, and provide you with the same customization settings during future visits.
   

• From third-party advertising: These Cookies collect information about your activities on these and other sites to deliver direct advertising to you. We may also allow our third-party service providers to use Cookies on the Sites for the same purposes identified above, including collecting information about your online activities over time and across different websites. The third-party service providers that generate these Cookies, such as Adobe, LinkedIn, and Facebook, have their own privacy policies and may use their Cookies to deliver direct advertising to you on other websites based on your visit to our Sites.

4.- How do I opt out or withdraw my consent to the use of Cookies?
If you do not wish to have Cookies placed on your device, you can adjust your internet browser settings to refuse the setting of all or some Cookies and to warn you when a Cookie is placed on your device. For more information on how to do this, please consult the “Help”/”Tools” or “Edit” section of your browser or visit www.allaboutcookies.org. Please remember that if you use your browser settings to block all Cookies (including strictly necessary Cookies), you will not be able to access or use all, parts, or features of our Sites.

If you wish to remove previously stored Cookies, you can delete them manually at any time. However, this will not prevent the Sites from placing further Cookies on your device unless you adjust your internet browser settings, as described above.

For more information about user profiling and the use of direct advertising cookies/advertising cookies, please visit www.youronlinechoices.eu if you are located in Europe or www.aboutads.info/choices if you are located in the United States.

5.- How do we use other tracking technologies in our communications?
Scienness may collect information about whether you open or click on any links in the knowledge, research, or event communications we send you via web beacons.

A web beacon is a graphic image placed on a website or in an email that, alone or in conjunction with cookies, collects information about your use of or interaction with a Scienness website or email. For example, we may add web beacons to the knowledge, research, or event communications we send to you to determine whether you opened our email or clicked on a link. The analytics collected help us improve the effectiveness of the content and format of our websites and our email communications.

6.- How do I deny or withdraw my consent to the use of web beacons?
You can avoid web beacons by setting your email reader to disable the feature that allows remote images to load and by refraining from clicking on links in email messages.
 
Contact Us
If you have any other questions about our Cookie Policy, please contact us at:
 
International Institute for Promotion of Science in Organizations - IIPSO
Legal Department
23 Rue Ferdinand-Hodler
Geneva · Switzerland
privacy@iipso.org