Privacy Policy
Last updated: February 10, 2023
Your privacy is critically important to us and It is EURA's policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website.
We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Website.
We have adopted this privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties.
This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the Website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.
We use Your Personal data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, EURA collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. EURA's purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how EURA's visitors use its website. From time to time, EURA may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website. EURA also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for users leaving comments on https://eura.org/conversations/ blog posts. EURA only discloses commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below. To avoid the disclosure of your IP address, you can alternatively mail your comment to: secretariat@eura.org. Our team will then publish the comment on your behalf.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to EURA's website choose to interact with EURA in ways that require EURA to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that EURA gathers depends on the nature of the interaction.
- For example, we ask visitors who fill the membership form to provide a full name, email address, institutional affiliation, address, phone and any relevant additional informations.
- Visitors who subscribe to the EURA news mailing list are asked to provide a full name, email address and institutional affiliation.
- Visitors who use the Contact form on https://eura.org/contact/ are asked to provide a full name and email address.
- Visitors leaving comments on https://eura.org/conversations/ blog posts are asked to provide a full name, email address and personal URL link.
Security
The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Links To External Sites
Our Service may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy and terms and conditions of every site you visit. We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites, products or services.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
EURA discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on EURA's behalf or to provide services available at EURA's website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using EURA's website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. EURA will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, EURA discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when EURA believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of EURA, third parties or the public at large.If you are a EURA members or have subscribed to our mailing list and have supplied your email address, EURA will send emails to keep you up to date with what's going on with EURA and our community. We primarily use our website (https://www.eura.org) to communicate this type of information. EURA takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorised access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Aggregated Statistics
EURA may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. EURA may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, EURA does not disclose your personally-identifying information.
Twingle (online payment platform)
This website uses the "donation" form of twingle GmbH, Prinzenallee 74, 13357 Berlin, Germany. The twingle GmbH provides the technical platform for the "donation" process for this "donation" form. The data you enter when making a "donation" (e.g. address, bank details, etc.) will only be stored by twingle on servers in Germany for the purpose of processing the "donation". We have concluded a contract with twingle for order data processing and when using the twingle "donation" form we fully implement the strict requirements of the EU data protection basic regulation and the German data protection authorities. Your data will be transmitted on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO (consent) and Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b DSGVO (processing for the fulfilment of a contract). If you have given your consent for data processing, you can revoke your consent at any time. A revocation does not affect the effectiveness of past data processing operations.
Collection, processing and use of personal data for "donations"
In the case of a "donation", we collect and use your personal data only to the extent necessary to fulfil and process your "donation" and, if applicable, to process your enquiries. The provision of the data is necessary for the processing of the "donation" process. A non-delivery means that your "donation" cannot be received. Processing takes place on the basis of Art. 6 (1) lit. b DSGVO and is necessary for the processing of the "donation". Your data will not be passed on to third parties without your express consent. Excluded from this are only our service partners, which we need to process the "donation" or service providers we use in the context of order processing. In addition to the recipients named in the respective clauses of this data protection declaration, these are, for example, recipients of the following categories: Payment service provider, service provider for the dispatch of the "donation" receipt. In all cases we strictly observe the legal requirements. The scope of data transmission is limited to a minimum. You have the possibility to revoke your consent to data processing at any time. A revocation does not affect the effectiveness of past data processing operations.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, EURA may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in EURA's sole discretion. EURA encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
Cookie policy
Cookies
To enrich and perfect your online experience, EURA uses "Cookies". Cookies are small files that are placed/stored on the visitor's computer, mobile device or any other device by a website, containing the details of your browsing history on that website among its many uses. EURA uses cookies to help us identify and track visitors, their usage of https://www.eura.org, and their website access preferences. EURA visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using EURA's website. By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to EURA's use of cookies.
About this cookie policy
This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are and how we use them, the types of cookies we use i.e, the information we collect using cookies and how that information is used, and how to control the cookie preferences. You can at any time change or withdraw your consent from the Cookie Declaration on our website Learn more about who we are, how you can contact us, and how we process personal data in our Privacy Policy. Your consent applies to the following domains: https://www.eura.org
How do we use cookies ?
As most of the online services, our website uses first-party and third-party cookies for several purposes. First-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.
The third-party cookies used on our website are mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, providing advertisements that are relevant to you, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.
What types of cookies do we use?
- Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously.
- Statistics: These cookies store information like the number of visitors to the website, the number of unique visitors, which pages of the website have been visited, the source of the visit, etc. These data help us understand and analyse how well the website performs and where it needs improvement.
- Functional: These are the cookies that help certain non-essential functionalities on our website. These functionalities include embedding content like videos or sharing content of the website on social media platforms.
- Preferences: These cookies help us store your settings and browsing preferences like language preferences so that you have a better and efficient experience on future visits to the website.
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By email: secretariat@eura.org
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By visiting this page on our website: https://www.eura.org/contact
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By mail: EURA c/o European Planning Cultures (EPC), Faculty of Spatial Planning, August-Schmidt-Str. 6, GB I, Rm 420, D-44227 Dortmund, Germany.
List of the cookies used in our website
The below list details the cookies used in our website.
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| __cf_bm | 30 minutes | This cookie, set by Cloudflare, is used to support Cloudflare Bot Management. |
| _ga | 2 years | The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors. |
| _ga_8HW723R63G | 2 years | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. |
| _gat_gtag_UA_214261937_1 | 1 minute | Set by Google to distinguish users. |
| _gid | 1 day | Installed by Google Analytics, _gid cookie stores information on how visitors use a website, while also creating an analytics report of the website's performance. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. |
| COMPASS | 1 hour | No description |
| CONSENT | 2 years | YouTube sets this cookie via embedded youtube-videos and registers anonymous statistical data. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-advertisement | 1 year | Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie is used to record the user consent for the cookies in the "Advertisement" category . |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-analytics | 11 months | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-functional | 11 months | The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary | 11 months | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary | 11 months | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-others | 11 months | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-performance | 11 months | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". |
| CookieLawInfoConsent | 1 year | Records the default button state of the corresponding category & the status of CCPA. It works only in coordination with the primary cookie. |
| DEVICE_INFO | 5 months 27 days | No description |
| EDUWEBSESSID | session | No description |
| NID | 6 months | NID cookie, set by Google, is used for advertising purposes; to limit the number of times the user sees an ad, to mute unwanted ads, and to measure the effectiveness of ads. |
| S | 1 hour | Used by Yahoo to provide ads, content or analytics. |
| ugid | 1 year | This cookie is set by the provider Unsplash. This cookie is used for enabling the video content on the website. |
| viewed_cookie_policy | 11 months | The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. It does not store any personal data. |
| viewed_cookie_policy | 11 months | The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. It does not store any personal data. |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | 5 months 27 days | A cookie set by YouTube to measure bandwidth that determines whether the user gets the new or old player interface. |
| YSC | session | YSC cookie is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos on Youtube pages. |
| yt-remote-connected-devices | never | YouTube sets this cookie to store the video preferences of the user using embedded YouTube video. |
| yt-remote-device-id | never | YouTube sets this cookie to store the video preferences of the user using embedded YouTube video. |
How can I control the cookie preferences?
Should you decide to change your preferences later through your browsing session, you can check your status and click to Manage your consent. This will display the consent notice again enabling you to change your preferences or withdraw your consent entirely.
In addition to this, different browsers provide different methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. You can change the settings of your browser to block/delete the cookies. To find out more about how to manage and delete cookies, visit wikipedia.org, www.allaboutcookies.org.
European Urban Research Association Website is accessible from https://www.eura.org
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