1. This policy explains how EUTC - European Tourist Centre created by RD Centre LLC based in Delaware, US, 19901 use cookies and similar tracking technologies (cookies) on our digital platform.
2. This policy applies to EUTC - European Tourist Centre digital platform and all product that we use like part of our platform.

What Cookies Are

1. Cookies are small data files that are created when you browse a platform, and which are sent to your computer or mobile device where they are stored by your web browser. Cookies serve a variety of functions enabling you to stay logged into a platform, or tracking web browsing activity and recording which buttons a user has clicked or which websites they have recently visited.
2. Clear gifs, pixel trackers and web beacons work similarly to cookies. They are tiny graphics that are embedded invisibly on web pages, with a unique identifier that can track a user’s activity on and between web pages and websites that they visit.
3. All references to cookies in this policy also include references to clear gifs, pixel trackers, web beacons and similar tracking technologies.

Types of Cookies that we use

1. EUTC uses the following categories of cookies:
   1. Necessary cookies: Necessary cookies help make a platform usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation, platform security, and access to information that requires authentication.
   2. Preferences: These cookies enable storage of information that changes the way a platform behaves or looks, like language settings for your country.
   3. Statistics and Performance: These cookies help us to understand who visits our platform, including using anonymised and aggregated audience profiling analytics, and how visitors interact with our platform, including which parts of the platform are visited more or less frequently than others, so we can improve the way that information is available on those sites.

Information that cookies collect and share

1. The information that cookies on EUTC platform collect includes, but is not limited to:
   1. The way that you use our platform, including the pages you visit, the buttons and items that you click on, how long you spend on different sections of the platform and the items that you view and download;
   2. Search terms and filters that you use;
   3. Information about the device, operating system and web browser you use to visit our platform; including the type of device, your browser type and version, session identifiers;
   4. Text entered into forms such as your EUTC username;
   5. Language preference; and
   6. Location.

How to manage your preferences and settings

1. You can choose your preferred cookie settings by using our cookie banner, which will either open automatically when you visit our platform.
2. You can choose which categories of cookies will be used by toggling the on/off switches in the banner.
3. Your cookie setting choices will not be tracked across different web browsers, e.g. between Chrome and Firefox, so if you choose your cookie settings in one browser, you may receive a cookie banner the first time you visit the same website using a different web browser.
4. Please keep in mind that cookies can change the way our platform works, so the quality of your experience on our platform may be affected if you turn off performance and preference cookies.
5. The use of ad blockers or similar tools may interfere with our cookie banner, preventing it from appearing.
6. You can also make changes to the way that your web browser uses cookies directly in your web browser’s settings.
7. Further information about the way we use your personal information is set out in our Privacy Policy.