How are cookies used on the DOST web platform?



Cookies are small files placed on your computer when you browse the web or use web applications. We use cookies to administer our services, learn how our services are used, understand how to optimize them, and more.

How we use Cookies

Cookies, pixels and local storage help manage and fund our business, and provide you with an improved experience and measure the effectiveness of your advertising. They are used in the following categories:

Cookie management

You can manage Cookies on your web browser by performing the following two actions: You will often find the same terms (“prohibit cookies”, “delete browsing data”), but the procedure to follow will often differ from one browser to another.

Data sharing

We (and third-party companies) use these technologies on the DOST Web Platform Services, including our websites, applications, and services, and on other sites, applications, and services that have integrated with our Services, including sites third parties who use our advertising technology. This includes the websites of our advertising partners and sites using our integrations, such as embedded feeds. These technologies may also be used by third parties, including when you click on links from the DOST web platform services, when you view or interact with third-party content from the DOST web platform services, or when you visit sites third parties that integrate our advertising technology.

Google Analytics and Privacy

This website uses a web analysis service provided by Google Inc (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, text files stored on your computer which allow an analysis of the use of the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. Google uses this information to evaluate your use of the site, in order to compile reports on site activity for site operators and to provide other services relating to use of the site and use of the Internet. Google will also transmit this information to third parties if required by law or if this data is processed by third parties on behalf of Google. Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activities for its operators and to provide other services relating to the use of this website and the Internet. Google will also transmit this information to third parties if required by law or if this data is processed by third parties on behalf of Google. Under no circumstances will your IP address be associated with other Google data. You can disable cookies by changing your browser settings; however, we draw your attention to the fact that you will then not be able to use all the functions of the DOST web platform. You can at any time cancel the collection and storage of data by Google Analytics for the period following the moment of cancellation, by downloading a Browser-Add-on to deactivate Google Analytics and installing it for your browser. You can find the add-on for deactivation at http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.

Policy update

In the event of modification of this Policy by SAS DOST or if the law requires it, it will be published on our sites and will be effective as of its publication. Consequently, we invite you to refer to it during each visit in order to read its latest version, which is permanently available on our websites. For all information on the protection of personal data, and to guide you in the process of limiting your traces on the web, you can also consult the site of the National Commission for Computing and Liberties (CNIL).