Cookie policy

COOKIE POLICY

This website https://www.nrdcs.eu/ (hereinafter referred to as the Website) uses cookies. The Cookie Policy (hereinafter referred to as the Policy) explains what cookies are used on the Website that help ensure the proper functioning of the Website or monitor and analyze the behavior of visitors during their browsing sessions and how to control the cookie preferences.

WHAT ARE COOKIES?

Cookies are small text files that are used to store small pieces of information and are stored on your device (e.g., computer, mobile phone, etc.) when you visit the website and allow the website to recognize your device. This information may be about your preferences, your device, or may be used to make the website work the way you expect it to (e.g. cookies help us to remember a visitor’s login information, language preference, font size and other display options, so that you do not have to re-enter them each time you visit the website). Cookies also help us make the Website to function properly, make it more secure, provide better user experience, and understand how the Website performs and to analyze what works and where we need to improve to make better performance and the functionality of the Website. This information does not usually identify you directly, but it can be used to provide more personalized website features. They can also help to ensure that the advertisements you see online are more relevant to you and your interests.

WHAT ARE THE TYPES OF COOKIES?

The cookies can be different types depending on parties they belong to (the first-party or the third-party), their retention period or expiry time (session cookies or persistent cookies), and categories depending on purposes and functions they perform.

First-party cookies are set by the website you are visiting and only that website can read them (first-party cookies on our Website are managed by NRD CS only).

Third-party cookies are provided and managed by third parties (e.g. Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.)

Cookies are also classified according to the functions they perform:

  • Strictly necessary or essential cookies – these cookies are essential for the website to function properly, and they ensure essential functionalities and security features of the website. Without these cookies, the website will not work properly, and they are always enabled (visitor cannot disable or switch off these cookies).
  • Functional cookies – these cookies help to perform certain non-essential functionalities and provide enhanced performance for some website resources and services, as well as adopt a higher level of personalization to the user experience by remembering the visitor’s preferences and settings (e.g. language preference or visitor’s location).
  • Statistics (analytics) cookies – these cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website as they store statistical information like the number of visitors to the website, the number of unique visitors, which pages of the website have been visited, the source of the visit, etc. This data helps us understand and analyze how well the Website performs and where it needs improvements.
  • Advertising (marketing) cookies – these cookies, usually from third-party advertisers, are used to personalize the advertisements that are shown to website visitors that are meaningful to them. They also help us to keep track of the efficiency of ad campaigns.

WHY DO WE USE COOKIES?

Cookies can perform a lot of different tasks or functions, such as letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences and generally improving the user experience. They can also help to ensure that the advertisements you see online are more relevant to you and your interests. In addition, cookies can help us to analyze the use of our Website and online content (analytics cookies) and they can also facilitate or track visitors’ interaction on our Website and online content with social media (e.g. links to social media sites, like buttons, etc.). We mainly use cookies:

  • to ensure the proper functioning of our Website;
  • to improve our Website and make it more usable and tailored to your needs by analyzing your behavior or preferences;
  • to facilitate more effective and tailored advertisements.

INFORMATION ON THE TYPES OF COOKIES THAT ARE USED ON OUR WEBSITE

We use the following cookies on our Website:

Name Category Description Validity period Domain
butinieji Necessary Stores the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain 1 year nrdcs.eu
statistika Statistics Stores the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain 1 year nrdcs.eu
marketing_cookies_accept Marketing Stores the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain 1 year nrdcs.eu
_ga Analytics This cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and to keep track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors. 1 year and 1 month nrdcs.eu
_ga_* Analytics Used to store and track visits on websites 1 year and 1 month gcscc.ox.ac.uk

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_gcl_au Analytics This cookie tracks user interactions with the website and records these interactions for analysis 3 months nrdcs.eu
IDE Advertising Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user’s actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser’s ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user 1 year doubleclick.net
YCS Advertising Registers a unique ID to track views and keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. Until the end of session youtube.com
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE Advertising A cookie that YouTube sets that measures the user’s bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos determining whether the user gets the new or old player interface. 6 months youtube.com
VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA Advertising Stores the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain 6 months youtube.com

THIRD-PARTY SERVICES

We may periodically use the YouTube service to host video content and embed YouTube’s player in our webpages to allow you to watch the video without leaving our Website. We have no direct control over YouTube’s use of the data stored in this object. For more information, please read YouTube’s privacy policy.

Some of our pages display content from external providers and/or our Website has links with websites operated by third parties, such as the social networks (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter/X and Instagram), where we provide information about the company’s activities and websites of our partners and/or companies whose products we are representing (IBM, Splunk, Safetica, Delinea, One Identity, Senhasegura, Rapid7, Tenable, Acunetix, Invicti). To view this third-party content, you first must accept their specific terms and conditions, including their cookie policies, which we have no control over. These third parties act as separate data controllers. But if you do not view this content, no third-party owned cookies shall be installed on your device.

HOW CAN YOU MANAGE COOKIES?

For the Website to function properly, you do not have to accept all the cookies used but doing so will make browsing easier for you. You can block all but the necessary cookies, however, some features of the Website may not function as intended and you may need to reset some options each time you visit our website.

When you visit our Website, only strictly necessary (essential) cookies are placed on your device. All other cookies can only be placed if you have given your consent to do this, i.e. by choosing what cookies can be placed. You can change your mind any time and withdraw your consent or change your cookie preferences by opening cookie settings window at a lower left corner on our website (by clicking on settings icon). On the opened cookie settings window, you can adjust your cookie preferences by ticking or unticking boxes and clicking “Accept selected cookies” or to choose “Accept all cookies”.

Alternatively, most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. Most browsers allow you to:

  • check what cookies are stored and to delete cookies one by one;
  • block all third-party cookies;
  • block cookies from specific websites;
  • block all cookies (except strictly necessary) on the website;
  • delete all cookie preferences when closing the browser.

To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

If You have any questions about this Policy or cookies, please contact us at any time by email at info@nrdcs.lt or by phone +370 5 219 1919.

VALIDITY OF THE COOKIE POLICY

We regularly review the cookies used on the Website and have a right to change or update this Policy at any time by notifying on our Website. Any changes to the Policy shall take effect from the date of posting of the updated Policy on our Website or such other specified date. We suggest you to review the information and any changes to our Cookie Policy regularly.

The last update of this Policy: August 22, 2024.