This cookie usage policy establishes the basis on which we use cookies and similar technologies on or in connection with our websites, https://insidepeace.podia.com/ and www.insidepeace.net.
“Essential” cookies are automatically placed on your computer or device when you access our website or perform certain actions on our site. “Non-essential” cookies and other technologies are placed on your computer or device only if you have given consent. For information on the difference between essential and non-essential cookies, see the section below titled About Cookies.
For information on how to give consent and how you can withdraw your consent for non-essential cookies and other technologies on your computer or device, see the section below titled Accepting or Rejecting Cookies.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small data files sent from a website server to a web browser, memory processor, or hard drive and stored there. They can be used for various purposes, such as personalizing a website for a specific user, facilitating a user’s navigation on a website, improving user experience, and storing user preferences and login information.
Cookies can be classified as “essential” or “non-essential.”
Essential cookies: These are cookies that are either:
Used exclusively to carry out or facilitate the transmission of communications over a network; or
Strictly necessary to provide an online service (for example, our website or a service offered on our website) that you requested.
Non-essential cookies: These are cookies that do not fall under the definition of essential cookies, such as cookies used to analyze your behavior on a website (“analytical” cookies) or cookies used to display advertisements (“advertising” cookies).
Cookies can also be classified as “session” or “persistent,” depending on how long they are stored after being placed in your browser.
Session cookies: Session cookies last only as long as your browser is open. They expire when you close the browser.
Persistent cookies: Persistent cookies expire after a specific period or if you manually delete them from your browser, whichever occurs first.
Cookies can be classified as “first-party” or “third-party.”
First-party cookies: These are cookies placed on your device by the domain of our website.
Third-party cookies: These are cookies placed on your device by the domain of a third-party website.
For more general information about cookies, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
These are cookies strictly necessary for our website to operate or provide a service on our site that you requested.
Legal basis for processing: We process information about you contained in or obtained from essential cookies in our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).
Legitimate interests: Ensuring the proper functioning of our website and providing online services you have requested.
How to opt out of essential cookies:
Most browsers allow you to block all cookies, including essential cookies. Note that if you block all cookies, some parts of the website may not function properly or display correctly.
You can delete existing cookies from your browser by clearing your browsing data and ensuring that the option to delete cookies is selected.
For more detailed information on how to accept or reject cookies, including guidance for specific browsers, see the section below titled How to Accept or Reject Cookies.
Third-party cookies:
Third parties use cookies to analyze your use of our website and/or to display advertisements (including third-party ads) to you, as part of our social sharing tools and embedded videos.
Processing information contained in or obtained from third-party cookies
Legal basis for processing: We process information about you contained in or obtained from third-party cookies in our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR).
Legitimate interests: The purposes for which we use third-party cookies as described above.
Legal basis for processing: Consent (Article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR).
Consent: You give your consent for the purposes for which we process information using third-party cookies. For more information about how we use information obtained through third-party cookies, including automated decision-making, see our Privacy Policy.
Browser settings:
You can accept or reject some or all cookies (e.g., block all third-party cookies) by changing your browser settings. If you are unsure how to do this, the links below provide guidance on modifying browser settings for the most commonly used browsers:
Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=ro
Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/delete-browsing-search-download-history-firefox?redirectlocale=en-US&redirectslug=Clear+Recent+History
Microsoft Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/278835/how-to-delete-cookie-files-ininternet-explorator
Apple Safari: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH5042?locale=ro_US
Some browsers, such as Chrome and Firefox, allow you to modify settings and browse in “incognito” mode, limiting the amount of data placed on your device and automatically deleting any persistent cookies after you end your session. There are also various third-party applications you can use by adding them to your browser to block or manage cookies.
Existing cookies:
To delete cookies already placed in your browser, select the option to clear browsing history and ensure the option to delete cookies is included.
You can manage and opt out of personalized Google ads by visiting the Google Ads Settings page here: https://adssettings.google.com/ and by:
Deselecting the button titled “Use your Google Account activity and information to personalize ads on these websites and apps and store data in your Google Account”;
Modifying the “Ad Personalization” option (i.e., ensure the top-page toggle is set left/gray, not right/blue).
Alternatively, you can install a free browser plugin here: https://support.google.com/ads/answer/7395996
You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking by installing the browser extension available here: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
You can opt out of interest-based ads served by Facebook or other companies in the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance by visiting http://www.youronlinechoices.com, selecting your country, clicking “Your Ad Choices,” then selecting Facebook (and any other companies you wish to block) and choosing the “Off” option.