COOKIE POLICY OF THE WEBSITE www.agroecology-europe-hub.org

Like others, this website saves cookies on the browser used by the user intended for the transmission of information of a personal nature and to enhance the user experience. Cookies are small text strings that the sites visited by the user send to his terminal (usually the browser), where they are memorized, sometimes even with characteristics of wide temporal persistence, to then be re-transmitted to the same sites at the next visit.

As explained below, it is possible to choose whether and which cookies to accept, bearing in mind that refusing their use may affect the ability to carry out some transactions on the site or the accuracy and adequacy of some personalized contents offered, or the ability to recognize the user from one visit to the next. If no choice is made in this regard, the default settings will be applied and all cookies, only the necessary ones, will be activated: however, at any time, you can communicate or change your decisions in this regard.

The Site www.agroecology-europe-hub.org uses cookies to make its services simple and efficient for users who visit the pages of the site. Users who visit the site using a computer or mobile device will see minimal amounts of information placed into their devices in the form of small text files called "cookies" which are saved in the directories used by the User's web browser. There are various types of cookies, some to make the use of the site more effective, others to enable certain features.

We use cookies to personalize content and ads, provide social media features, and analyze our traffic. By analyzing them in detail, our cookies allow us to:

• memorize the preferences entered;
• avoid re-entering the same information several times during the visit such as username and password;
• analyze the use of the services and content provided by www.agroecology-europe-hub.org to optimize the browsing experience and the services offered.

The law states that we can store cookies on your device if they are strictly necessary for the operation of this site. For all other types of cookies, we need your consent.

At any time it is possible to modify or withdraw your consent as indicated below.

Find out more about who we are, how you can contact us, and how we handle personal data in our Privacy Policy.

Types of Cookies

Technical Cookies

This type of cookie allows certain sections of the site to function correctly. They are of two categories: persistent and session:

• persistent cookies: once the browser is closed these cookies are not destroyed but remain in your storage up to a preset expiration date.
• session cookies: they are destroyed every time the browser is closed.

In particular, the site uses so-called session cookies, which are not stored permanently on the user's computer and disappear when the browser is closed. Use of these cookies is strictly limited to the transmission of session identifiers (consisting of random numbers generated by the server) necessary to allow safe and efficient exploration of the site and these cookies avoid the use of other computing techniques potentially prejudicial to the user’s browsing privacy and do not allow the acquisition of personal identification data of the user.

These cookies, always sent from our domain, are necessary to view the site correctly and in relation to the technical services offered. They will therefore always be used and sent unless the user changes the settings in their browser (thus affecting the display of site pages).

METHODS OF MANAGING CONSENT AND DENIAL OF COOKIES

When the user accesses the website with the browser set to accept cookies, he/she can express his/her preferences regarding the various types of cookies through the pop-up banner displayed on the pages of the Site. These preferences will be recorded in a special cookie consent management platform, developed in accordance with the applicable standards of the legislation on the processing of personal data to allow the user to exercise his choices in a granular way. The consent management platform allows you to give or deny consent to various types of cookies, both issued directly by the Joint Controllers and by its partners and suppliers; this means that it is not necessary to express a preference for every single cookie or each third party. The different types of cookies are identified and classified based on the purposes for which the cookies are released and used, making their recognition simpler and more immediate.

In particular, when the user accesses the site, through the popup banner you can choose to:

• accept the installation of all the categories of cookies listed above by clicking on the "Accept All" button;
• refuse the installation of all the categories of cookies listed above, by clicking on the "Reject All" button;
• access the "Show details" link and choose which categories of cookies to accept or reject based on the purpose, or based on the third party;
• close the banner using the appropriate command marked by the "X" symbol positioned at the top right:
• Click here to access the consent management platform and manage your consent relating to cookies on the Site.

HOW TO CHANGE YOUR COOKIE CHOICES THROUGH THE SITE?

If the user has already selected his/her preferences and therefore does not see the popup banner when accessing the Site, he/she can access the consent management platform at any time and change his/her cookie preferences. In this regard, it is important for the user to know that the preferences selected on the Site will be valid for the entire second-level domain to which it belongs.

Disabling cookies

Almost all browsers offer the option of managing and disabling cookies to respect user preferences. In some browsers, it is possible to set rules to manage cookies site by site, an option that offers more precise control over user privacy. Another feature available on some browsers is the incognito mode, which deletes all the cookies created in this mode after closing the browser.

Consult the following instructions for managing cookies in the following browsers:

• Chrome
• Firefox
• Internet Explorer / Edge
• Safari