Human Rights Book Award – Cookie and Privacy Policy
The HRBA is a non-profit organization that aims to disseminate knowledge of human rights and their violations through literature. In 2016, the European Union approved the new General Personal Data Regulation (GDPR), in force since May 2018, which imposes extensive information obligations on managers of online pages, including NGOs like HRBA.
On this page we inform you what cookies are and how we use them, which personal data is processed when using this site and for which purposes this data is used. This privacy policy implements the requirements of the EU GDPR.
You should read this policy also to understand how to control the cookie preferences. You can at any time change or withdraw your consent from the Cookie Declaration o our website.
Your consent applies to the following domains: www.hrba.eu
What are cookies ?
Cookies are text files that websites place on your device. The browser stores them, but the user can easily view and delete them. Cookies store enough data to identify you by tracking your online activity.
Cookies are used for different purposes, such as for aloud you to navigate – strictly necessary and essential – or to remember your previous preferences, to collect statistic information on your navigation’s habit (strictly anonymous), and to adapt advertisements in a targeted manner. The latter kind of cookies can be shared with third parties.
Below, you can find more information on the kind of cookies we use.
How do we use cookies ?
As most of the online services, our website uses cookies first-party and third-party cookies for a number of purposes.
The 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 websites are used 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 ?
Essential: Some cookies are essential for you to be able to experience the full functionality of our site. They allow us to maintain user sessions and prevent any security threats. They do not collect or store any personal information. For example, these cookies allow you to log-in to your account and add products to your basket and checkout securely.
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 analyze how well the website performs and where it needs improvement.
Marketing: Our website displays advertisements. These cookies are used to personalize the advertisements that we show to you so that they are meaningful to you. These cookies also help us keep track of the efficiency of these ad campaigns.
The information stored in these cookies may also be used by the third-party ad providers to show you ads on other websites on the browser as well.
Functional: These are the cookies that help certain non-essential functionalities on our website. These functionalities include embedding content like videos or sharing contents on 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.
How can I control the cookie preferences ?
Should you decide to change your preferences later through your browsing session, you can click on the “Privacy & Cookie Policy” tab on your screen. 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 out more on how to manage and delete cookies, visit wikipedia.org, www.allaboutcookies.org.