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Cookie Policy

1. General

  1. This is the cookie policy of European Development Finance Institutions ASBL with registered offices in Belgium at Rue de la Loi 81, registered in the Crossroads Bank for Enterprises under number 0862.014.254, phone: +32 2 230 23 69, e-mail: edfi@edfi.eu (“EDFI”). The purpose of this cookie policy is to provide you with information on the use of cookies on the website of EDFI https://www.edfi.eu  (the “Website”).
  2. EDFI exploits the Website and acts as the controller of your personal data when you visit the Website. EDFI will hereby respect the Privacy Legislation and its privacy policy.
  3. EDFI can modify this cookie policy at any time. Please consult it therefore regularly.

2. What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are stored on the hard drive of the device you use to visit a website. Cookies are generally used to enable websites to operate, to make site navigation easier and more user-friendly. For instance, cookies can make it possible for a website to recognize your browser in order to speed up and customize the use of the website as you revisit that site. They can also remember your personal settings and preferences. For instance, if you revisit a website, you will not have to reselect language. Some cookies can be placed by a third party, for example Google Analytics, to help analyze the use of the Website (third party cookies).

Even if the Website is only visited, information on the use of the Website will be collected by means of cookies.

There are different types of cookies which can be distinguished according to their origin, function and duration. The cookies used by EDFI are described under “What kind of cookies do we use?” More information about the different types of cookies can be found at https://www.gegevensbeschermingsautoriteit.be/faq-themas/cookies and www.allaboutcookies.org.

3. Why do we use cookies?

EDFI uses cookies to:

  • Improve the use and functionality of the Website;
  • Analyze how the visitors of the Website use the Website (e.g. how many times a page is visited…); and/or
  • Compile statistics.

The information collected via cookies is not used by EDFI to identify individual visitors of the Website.

4. What kind of cookies do we use?

 EDFI uses only the following cookies on the Website:  performance cookies, that collect data on the performance of the Website, such as the number of visitors, the time spent by visitors on the web page and error messages. These performance cookies are session cookies (this means that these are automatically deleted when shutting down your browser) or persistent cookies (these files stay in one of your browser’s subfolders until you delete them manually or your browser deletes them based on the duration period contained within the persistent cookie’s file).

Below follows an overview of the specific cookies EDFI uses on the Website, with its purpose and legal ground.

5. How can you manage cookies?

 Most browsers automatically accept cookies. You can set your browser to notify you before a cookie is set or to reject cookies. More information on how your browser can be set can be found via the ‘Help’ button on your browser.

If you use multiple devises to access the Website, you should make sure that your cookie preference is set on each device’s browser. The cookies can also easily been deleted at any time via the browser settings. You can also refuse our cookies.

More information on managing cookies can be found at http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies.

Depending on your browser, you can change your cookie preferences via one of the links below:

                    Name cookie                Purpose cookie     Type of cookie   First/third     party cookie    Storage period cookie
_gat_UA-39864327-1  This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to.       Persistent      Third            1 minute
_gaThis cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in the Website and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports.        Persistent        Third                2 years
_gidThis cookie appears to store and update a unique value for each page of the Website visited.       Persistent        Third                 1 day

Internet Explorer:

http://Windows.Microsoft.com/nl-nl/Windows7/Block-Enable-or-Allow-cookies;

Google Chrome:

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en-GB;

Firefox:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences;

Safari:

http://support.Apple.com/KB/PH5042.

If you have any further questions about the Website or about this cookie policy, please contact EDFI at edfi@edfi.eu.