Privacy Policy for residents of the EEA

This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) sets out how Japan Local Government Centre (Council of Local Authorities for International Relations (CLAIR), London branch) (“we”, “us” and “our”) will process as a data controller the personal data of the users of our websites and the participants of our programme and other events (“you” and “your”) who reside in the European Economic Area (the “EEA”) and the measures and processes we have put in place to ensure its adequate protection. Providing such information is one of the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (“GDPR”).

This Policy does not form any contractual relationship between you and us, and we may amend it from time to time.

1.Direct Marketing

If you tell us that you do not wish us to provide you with information about our seminars and events and other marketing materials, we will not contact you further for the purpose of direct marketing. You can contact us using the contact details set out below.

E-mail: mailbox@jlgc.org.uk
TEL: 020-7839-8500

2.Use of Cookies

A “cookie” is a small text file that is stored on a user’s hard drive or mobile device. Cookies are generated by web servers when the user enters an internet page, and are passed to the user’s computer or mobile device and stored for subsequent future access. They perform a number of functions associated with browsing websites and are used for a variety of different purposes, such as tracing users from page to page on an internet site. This can enhance a user’s experience on a website, enabling the site to be personalised according to e.g. a user’s preferences and browsing activities.

For more information about how we use cookies, please read our cookie policy.

Date Updated: 15 May 2018

Our use of cookies and other information-gathering technologies

We only use cookies in certain areas of this website and the purposes for which they are used are detailed below. You are not obliged to accept a cookie and you can modify your browser so that it will not accept cookies. However, if you do so this may affect your browsing experience and certain functions within the website may not work.

This website uses the following cookies:

Forms related cookies
When you submit data to through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.

Third party cookies

Cookie
Performance/analytics cookies (Google Analytics)
the time of writing cookies (Google Maps)
track visitors cookies (Facebook, LinkedIn)

Google Analytics
Used to track visitors
Collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and pages visited.

Purpose
These are third party cookies called “Google Analytics” and used to collect statistical information concerning site visits (e.g. which pages are most frequently visited, whether users receive any error messages, how the website was found). Neither we nor third party analytics organisations associate your IP address with any information that can identify the user personally. These cookies enable analytics organisations to determine whether you are a return visitor to the site, and to track the pages that you visit during your session.

Further information
Please follow this link for more information on the privacy policies of the third party sites.
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245

Google Maps
Google uses these cookies for their Google Maps service, but does not provide details on what these cookies are used for at the time of writing.

Facebook
Used to track visitors
Features for sharing via Facebook. Does not set a cookie by itself, but if one is present it will read it. Used to remember if a visitor has used Facebook Connect to log into your site. This is required for Facebook Connect to work, but will remain empty unless someone logs in.

Twitter
Used to track visitors
Features for sharing via Twitter, and viewing tweets by other people.

LinkedIn
Used to track visitors
Features for sharing via LinkedIn, and viewing updates by other people.

Privacy Policy for residents of the EEA

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