1. What is a cookie?
A cookie is a text file that may be saved, depending on your choices, in a dedicated area of the hard drive of your device when you use an online service via your browser.
A cookie file allows its issuer to identify the device in which it is stored, during the period of validity.
Cookies are anonymous and do not allow user identification.
2. What are the purposes of the cookies issued on our site?
Only the issuer of a cookie is likely to read or modify the information contained therein.
The cookies used on our site www.hwl.lu identify the services and sections that the user has visited, and more generally their behavior in terms of visits. This information is useful to better personalize the services, content, and banners that appear on our site and to facilitate your navigation on our site. Cookies are also necessary for the proper functioning of some services or to measure their audience.
Cookies may be included in the advertising spaces of our site. These spaces contribute to the financing of the content and services that we make available to you.
2.1. The cookies we issue on our site:
When you connect to our site, we may, subject to your choices, install various cookies in your terminal allowing us to recognize the browser of your terminal during the validity period of the cookie concerned. The cookies we issue are used for the purposes described below, subject to your choices that result from the settings of your browsing software used during your visit to our site.
The cookies we issue allow us to:
- Adapt the presentation of our site to the display preferences of your terminal (language used, display resolution, operating system used, etc) during your visits to our site, according to the hardware and software of viewing or reading that your terminal includes, by storing information relating to a form that you have filled out on our site (registration...) or to services or information that you have chosen on our site (request for information, content consulted, etc).
- Allowing you to access reserved areas of our site, through identifiers or data that you may have previously provided by implementing security measures. These cookies allow us to establish statistics and volumes of frequency and use of the various elements making up our site (sections and contents visited, path) in order to improve the interest and ergonomics of our services.
- By counting the total number of advertisements displayed by us on our advertising spaces, identifying these advertisements, the number of users who clicked on each advertisement, and establishing statistics, by adapting our advertising spaces to the display preferences of your terminal (language used, display resolution, operating system used, etc), according to the hardware and software of viewing or reading that your terminal includes, by adapting the advertising content displayed on your terminal by our advertising spaces, according to your terminal's navigation on our site.
2.2. The cookies issued on our site by third parties
The issue and use of cookies by third parties are subject to the privacy policies of these third parties. We inform you of the purpose of the cookies of which we are aware and the means you have to make choices with regard to these cookies.
We may include on our site, computer applications from third parties, which allow you to share content from our site with other people or to let other people know about your consultation or opinion concerning a content from our site. This is particularly the case of the "Share" button from social networks such as LinkedIn, etc.
The social network providing such an application button may identify you with this button, even if you did not use this button during your consultation of our site. Indeed, this type of application button may allow the concerned social network to follow your navigation on our site,
merely because your account to the concerned social network was activated on your terminal (session open) during your navigation on our site.
We have no control over the process employed by the social networks to collect information related to your navigation on our site www.hwl.lu and associated with the personal data they have.
We invite you to consult the privacy protection policies of these social networks to learn about the purposes of use, including advertising, of the navigation information they may collect through these application buttons. These protection policies should notably allow you to exercise your choices with these social networks, in particular by setting your user accounts for each of these networks.
Advertising content may contain cookies issued by third parties: either the advertiser responsible for the concerned advertising content, or a third-party company to the advertiser (advertising consulting agency, audience measurement company, targeted advertising provider, etc.), which has associated a cookie with the advertiser's advertising content
Where applicable, the cookies issued by these third parties may allow them, during the validity period of these cookies:
to count the number of displays of the advertising contents distributed via our advertising spaces, to identify the advertisements thus displayed, the number of users who clicked on each advertisement, enabling them to calculate the sums due by virtue of this and to establish statistics,
to recognize your terminal during its subsequent navigation on any other site or service on which these advertisers or these third parties also issue cookies and, where applicable, to adapt these third-party sites and services or the advertisements they broadcast, to the navigation of your terminal which they may have knowledge of.
3. Your choices regarding cookies
Several options are available to manage cookies. Any setting you undertake may modify your Internet navigation and our site as well as your access conditions to some services requiring the use of cookies.
You can make the choice at any time to express and modify your wishes regarding cookies, by the means described below.
The choices offered to you by your navigation software:
- You can configure your navigation software so that cookies are saved in your terminal or, on the contrary, that they are rejected, either systematically or according to their issuer.
- You can also configure your navigation software so that the acceptance or refusal of cookies is offered to you punctually, before a cookie is likely to be saved in your terminal. For more information, see the section "How to exercise your choices, according to the browser you use?"
3.1 Consent to Cookies
The recording of a cookie in a terminal is subject to the will of the terminal user, which he can express and modify at any time and free of charge through the choices offered to him by his navigation software. If you have accepted in your navigation software the recording of cookies in your Terminal, the cookies integrated in the pages and contents that you have consulted may be stored temporarily in a dedicated space of your terminal. They will be readable only by their issuer.
3.2 Refusal of Cookies
If you refuse the recording of cookies in your terminal, or if you delete those that are stored there, you will no longer be able to benefit from a number of features that are necessary to navigate in certain spaces of our site. This would be the case if you tried to access our content or services that require you to identify yourself. This would also be the case when we -or our providers- could not recognize, for technical compatibility purposes, the type of browser used by your terminal, its language and display settings or the country from which your terminal seems to be connected to the Internet. In this case, we decline all responsibility for the consequences linked to the degraded operation of our services resulting from the impossibility for us to record or consult the cookies
necessary for their functioning and that you would have refused or deleted.
3.3 How to exercise your choices, according to the browser you use?
For the management of cookies and your choices, the configuration of each browser is different. It is described in the help menu of your browser, which will let you know how to change your cookie preferences.
- For Internet Explorer™
- For Safari™
- For Chrome™
- For Firefox™
- For Opera™
GDPR
In the context of organizing the Healthcare Week Luxembourg, Quinze Mai is committed to respecting the regulations in force applicable to the processing of personal data and, in particular, the stipulations defined in the regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of April 27, 2016, regarding the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (GDPR). Click here to access the GDPR notice of Healthcare Week Luxembourg.
Right to Image
Video captures and photos will be made during the event. To this end, by participating in this event you authorize the use of your image for communication and promotion purposes of Quinze Mai and its exhibitions.
