Privacy policy
Welcome to the Privacy Notice of the College of Oncology website.
This website is affiliated with Sciensano (www.sciensano.be), and its content is managed by people working on behalf of Sciensano. It is therefore covered by the privacy notice of this one, which you can consult at the address https://www.sciensano.be/en/responsibility-and-privacy
Cookies
The College of Oncology’s website uses cookies. A cookie is a small file that the College of Oncology’s website transfers to your device to allow it to remember specific information about your session while you are connected. This information is only used to make the College of Oncology’s website more useful for you. Your computer will only share the information in the cookie with the College of Oncology’s website, and no other website can request it.
There are two types of cookies, session and persistent. Session cookies last only as long as your Web browser is open. Once you close your browser, the cookie disappears. Persistent cookies are stored on your device and remain valid until their set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date. the College of Oncology’s website uses both session and persistent cookies.
Cookies may be set either by the website (first party cookies), or by a third party website (third party cookies). The names of the cookies that the College of Oncology’s website uses, and the purposes for which they are used, are set out below.
First party cookies
- COOKIE ID: cookie-agreed
- PURPOSE: Records the fact that you as a user have agreed to accept cookies from this site.
- LIFESPAN: 100 days
Third-party cookies
- COOKIE ID: _ga
- PURPOSE: Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users. google.com
- ORIGIN LIFESPAN: 2 years
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- COOKIE ID: _gid
- PURPOSE: Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users. google.com
- ORIGIN LIFESPAN: 24 hours
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- COOKIE ID: _gat_gtag_[gaID]
- PURPOSE: Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate google.com
- ORIGIN LIFESPAN: 1 minute