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What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by the websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. The use of cookies is now standard for most websites. If you are uncomfortable with the use of cookies, you can manage and control them through your browser, including removing cookies by deleting them from your ‘browser history’ (cache) when you leave the site.

Types of cookies

‘First party cookies’ are cookies set by the domain name that appears in the browser address

‘Retargeting cookies’ allow us to understand your interests by using information you make available to us when you interact on our website. As such we can tailor and provide you with more useful and relevant publications.

These cookies register your searches on our website and detect what your preferences are by collecting the following information: (i) the content you view, (ii) the date and time that you view this content and (iii) your location information associated with you IP address. The cookies collect information about your activities that do not personally and directly identify you when you visit our website. These cookies furthermore allow to (i) track which publications you have already seen, (ii) track how many times you have seen a publication, (iii) prevent you getting the same message, (iv) track whether you click to a publication and (v) determine your publications interests by combining the above information.

We use third party suppliers to offer these publications. For more information in relation to the cookies these parties use for publication purposes, we refer to the statements on their website.

‘Third party cookies’ are cookies set by another domain name than the one that appears in the browser address bar.

‘Session’ cookies remain in your browser during your browser session only, i.e. until you leave the website.

‘Persistent’ cookies remain in your browser after the session (unless deleted by you).

‘Performance’ cookies collect information about your use of the website, such as webpages visited and any error messages; they do not collect personally identifiable information, and the information collected is aggregated such that it is anonymous. Performance cookies are used to improve how a website works.

‘Functionality’ cookies allow the website to remember any choices you make about the website (such as changes to text size, customised pages) or enable services such as commenting on a blog.

Use of Cookies by PMI Belgium website

When first entering this website, you agreed to the use of cookies in order for us to provide you with a personalised browsing experience. The following table explains the way in which we use cookies on this website and why.

Provider	Name	Purpose	Type	Duration
Pmi-belgium.be	2b4e8383afd360ae901746de195c4973( or any similar sequence)	Maintain your unique Identifier during your logged-in session on the website	First Party Session	When the browsing session ends
Google Analytics	_ga	Google Universal Analytics sets a unique ID that is used to calculate data for analytics reports.  More information about Google privacy policy	Third Party Persistent	2 years
Google Analytics	_gid	Used to distinguish users from one another.	Third Party Persistent	1 day
Pmi-belgium.be	Joomla_user_state	Maintain your user status during your logged-in session on the website	First Party Session	When the browsing session ends
PMI.org	.ASPXAUTH	Single sign-on authentication on Pmi.org	First Party Session	When the browsing session ends
PMI.org	AMCV_###@AdobeOrg	Unique visitor IDs used by Experience Cloud Solutions.	First Party Session	When the browsing session ends
PMI.org	com.silverpop.iMA.page_visit	Watson™ Campaign Automation - One 'per session' cookie created for each page visited in the session. Used to distinguish the first visit to a webpage by an individual from subsequent visits.	Third Party Persistent	30 minutes
PMI.org	com.silverpop.iMA.session	Watson™ Campaign Automation - The Unique Identifier for the current browsing session. Used to associate a series of individual events to a single functional browsing session.	Third Party Persistent	30 minutes
PMI.org	com.silverpop.iMAWebCookie	Watson™ Campaign Automation - The Unique Identifier for the visitor. Used to pass individual identity along with specific actions.	Third Party Persistent	28 months
PMI.org	gpv_pn	Adobe - Internal workings of Adobe	Third Party Persistent	30 minutes
PMI.org	S_cc	Adobe - Stores if cookies are enabled or not	Third Party Session	When the browsing session ends
PMI.org	S_fid	Adobe - Contains unique ID for visitor identifier	Third Party Persistent	5 years
PMI.org	S_nr	Adobe - Stores date of visit and if visitor is new or returning	Third Party Persistent	1 month
Sso.pmi.org	gig_hasGmid	Gigya.com - It is a temporary cookie used by Gigya to determine whether a user has a persistent user gmid cookie.	Third Party Persistent	15 years
Sso.pmi.org	glt_3_RdFlwWTObu9LoG6FyH8xskIvBEKO7Q2tqdS96swmZ41P4Gzqvo9JKCB3CslG2k2T		First Party Session	When the browsing session ends
Sso.pmi.org	sc_rid		Third Party Persistent	1day
Sso.pmi.org	sessionStartTime		First Party Session	When the browsing session ends