Cookies policy

Cookies Policy

Our Website https://www.tradeandinvest.lu/ uses cookies. This cookie policy forms a part of our Privacy Policy. It is intended to inform our Visitors (“You”) how our Website manages cookies, how they are used and how you can monitor them.

1. CONTROLLER’s IDENTITY Controller’s identity

The website https://www.tradeandinvest.lu/ (the “Website”) is operated by Luxinnovation GIE incorporated under the laws of the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg and registered with the Luxembourg Trade Register under number C16, whose registered office is at 5, Avenue des Hauts Fourneaux L-4362 Esch-sur-Alzette (“Luxinnovation”, “LXI” or “we“).

2. ABOUT COOKIES

Cookies are small text files placed and/or read and/or stored on your device (PC, tablet, smartphone, etc.) by your browser (Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Apple Safari, Opera, etc.). A cookie usually contains the name of the website from which it originates, the “lifetime” of the cookie (the retention period) and a unique identification value – usually a number.

They are used by websites to ensure their efficient operation, optimise their ergonomics and functionality and to provide information to the publisher of the for many things, such as remembering whether you have visited our site before, matching content to your preferred interests or to help us work out how many new website visitors we get each month.

Depending on the purpose pursued, cookies can be grouped into two categories: “essential cookies” and “non-essential cookies”. While the former do not require consent, the latter require your consent prior to their deposit on your terminal.

Essential cookies include cookies that:

• record the user’s choice regarding cookies;
• are essential for the proper functioning of the website and its functions;
• allow and facilitate navigation on the site, in particular by memorizing the user’s preferences (such as language settings or display format) or by preventing him from having to re-enter his personal information in a form, thus providing the user with an enhanced and personalized experience.

These cookies do not identify you as an individual. If you do not accept these cookies, it may affect the performance of the Website or reduce its functionality. The website operator can assert a legitimate interest in storing cookies in order to optimize its services and to ensure that they are technically flawless.

Non-essential cookies include cookies that:

• collect data relating to user behaviour on the site;
• measure the statistical audience of the site (analytical cookies); Or
• allow the installation of social plugins on the site.

These cookies do not identify you as an individual. All data is collected and processed anonymously.

There is also a distinction between “internal cookies” or “own cookies” (created by our Website) and “external cookies” or “third party cookies” (created by external services used by our Website).

Internal cookies: Luxinnovation uses cookies to allow you to navigate efficiently on its Site, secure your connection, access reserved and personal areas of its Site using identifiers that you have previously entrusted to us. These are cookies that are essential for browsing our Websites. Without these cookies, our Websites cannot function normally. It is not recommended to delete them.

Luxinnovation also generates cookies which are not essential for navigation on its Websites but which allow them to optimize their operation and, in general, improve your experience. Cookies may indicate, among other things, whether you have visited our Website before or whether you are a new Visitor. They can facilitate your navigation and bring you more comfort (memorization of services or offers, the language used, etc.).

Third-party cookies: Luxinnovation collaborates with third-party companies (marketing companies, for example) who may also place cookies on your device when you visit our Site or third-party sites accessible via our Site. These third-party cookies make it possible to identify your centres of interest through the content consulted and to personalize the advertising offer that is proposed to you.

These cookies are necessary for the providers to provide their services. Luxinnovation these cookies before they are used so that you can decide whether you want to accept them. For more information, please refer to the table in point 3 of this Cookies Management Policy.

Matomo. In addition to the aforementioned cookies, Luxinnovation uses the open source web analysis platform “Matomo”. A web analytics platform is used by a website owner to measure, collect, analyze and report visitor data for the purpose of understanding and optimizing their website.

The processing of personal data by Matomo is based on explicit consent. We will therefore not process any personal data with Matomo unless you give us clear, explicit consent.

In principle, cookies do not identify you by name, but recognize certain identifiers issued by the browser of the device you use to visit the website. We do not associate the information collected by cookies with your personal data.

To learn more about Matomo: https://matomo.org/gdpr-analytics/

Lifetime. On our website, first-party cookies are either “session cookies” or “permanent cookies”. Session cookies expire as soon as Visitors close their browser. Permanent cookies remain on the computer and any device with which the consultation of our Site took place, even if the browser has been closed. They may identify Visitors for more than one visit to our website, for example to remember preferences for a future session. It is possible to delete them by cleaning the History section, in the settings of the device used (please refer to point 4 of this Cookies Management Policy).3.    WHAT COOKIES DO WE USE? The types of cookies used by Luxinnovation in relation to the Website are described in the table below:

Déclaration relative aux cookies mise à jour le 25/06/2023 par Cookiebot (Hyper lien : https://www.cookiebot.com/en/) et concernant le nom de domaine : – Trade & Invest

1- Strictly Necessary: These cookies are essential to allow users to move around our website. These cookies do not collect information about you that could be used for marketing purposes and do not remember where you have been on the internet. This category of cookies cannot be disabled. The table below provides more information about these cookies.

2- Statistics: Statistical cookies help Luxinnovation, by collecting and reporting information anonymously, to understand how visitors interact with websites. These cookies make it possible to establish statistical analyzes relating to the use that users make of our websites, helping us to constantly improve the quality of our services, solve access difficulties and provide more functionalities, in order to offer you the best possible user experience.

3- Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites, subject to their consent, based on their browsing habits and to store the data thus obtained.

4- Preference cookies: any cookie or any other form of local storage that cannot be considered statistical-anonymous, statistical, marketing or functional, and whose technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing data. preferences.

5- Unclassified: under specification

Please send an email to dpo@luxinnovation.lu  if you need the complete list.

4.COOKIE SETTINGS: your rights[1]

Most browsers accept cookies automatically, but you can change the settings of your browser to erase cookies or prevent automatic acceptance if you prefer. During your first visit to the Website, a cookie banner appears to allow you to make a choice (3 buttons: Accept, Refuse, Manage cookies) between internal and persistent cookies used by Luxinnovation.

You can disable cookies at any time from your browser settings. If you wish to delete the cookies stored on your device and configure your browser to refuse them, you can do so via the preferences of your internet browser. These settings are usually found in the ‘options’ or ‘preferences’ or ‘tools’ menu of your internet browser. In order to understand these settings, the following links may be helpful. Otherwise, you should use the ‘Help’ option in your internet browser for more details.

• Cookie settings in Internet Explorer
• Cookie settings in Firefox
• Cookie settings in Chrome
• Cookie settings in Safari

Please remember if you turn off cookies in your browser then the settings would apply to all other websites as well, and not just this one.

To find out more information about cookies, including information about how to manage and delete cookies, please visit http://www.allaboutCookies.org/ (or https://www.youronlinechoices.com/lu/ written in German and French languages.

5. UPDATES TO THIS POLICY

We may make changes to the way in which we use cookies. If these changes require us to update this Policy, we will notify you and notably endeavour to display it on our cookie banner, should this be required.

6. CONTACT

If you would like to receive any further information about this cookie policy, please send an email to dpo@luxinnovation.lu

Last modified date: April 2023

[1] You have also rights described in Privacy notice