Cookies Policy

The Lisbon Council for Economic Competitiveness and Social renewal asbl, a Belgium-registered non-profit association, maintains a website https://www.lisboncouncil.net. The organisation uses a variety of technologies to learn about how people use the website. These technologies only collect non-personal data as explained in the Privacy Policy. Both the Cookies Policy and Privacy Policy form part of the https://www.lisboncouncil.net User Agreement.

Definitions

Terms are defined in this Agreement as follows: Terms of Use = “User Agreement” or “Terms of Use;” https://www.lisboncouncil.net = “the website;” User = user of this website. Cookies/HTML5 Local Storage = a cookie (sometimes referred to as local storage object or LSO) is a data file placed on a device. Cookies can be created through a variety of web-related protocols and technologies, such as HTTP (sometimes referred to as “browser cookies”) and HTML5.

Cookies and Tracking Technologies on the Website

The Lisbon Council does not use any kind of commercial cookies or tracking technologies. The list of cookies currently used is as follows (NB: the list is subject to change):

PHPSESSID

This cookie is generated by applications based on the PHP language. This is a general purpose identifier used to maintain user session variables. It is normally a random generated number.

cb-enabled

This cookie is associated with a free script which shows a cookie alert notice on a website. It is used to record when the user has dismissed the notice to prevent it re-appearing on return visits.

__utma

This cookie is used to distinguish users and sessions. It is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utma cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.

__utmb

This cookie is used to determine new sessions/visits. It is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utmb cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.

__utmc

Not used in ga.js. Set for interoperability with urchin.js. Historically, this cookie operated in conjunction with the __utmb cookie to determine whether the user was in a new session/visit.

__utmt

This cooking is used to throttle request rate.

__utmz

This cookie stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached your site. It is created when the javascript library executes and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.

Your Cookie Choices

If you do not want us to collect this information, you can set your browser settings accordingly. However, we want to remind all users that, if you do not want to use cookies, we cannot guarantee that the website will always work properly.

Contact Details

For any queries in relation to this Cookies Policy, please contact:

The Lisbon Council asbl
IPC-Résidence Palace
155 rue de la Loi
1040 Brussels, Belgium
info [@] lisboncouncil.net

Applicable Law and Competent Authorities

Subject to the rules of international public and private law governing the User’s rights, Belgian law applies for the relations between the Lisbon Council for Economic Competitiveness and Social Renewal asbl and the User. The courts of Brussels shall have sole jurisdiction.

Last Updated: 30 August 2021