Cookies Policy

The website www.gaia-x.lu (the “Website”) is provided by Luxinnovation GIE, a Groupement d’Intérêt Economique 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” or “we”).

We use cookies on the Website. This cookie policy outlines our use of cookies, how they are used on the Website, and how to manage them.

1. ABOUT COOKIES

Cookies are files stored on your device (PC, tablet, smartphone, etc.) by your browser (Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Apple Safari, Opera, etc.). They are used 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.

2. WHAT COOKIES DO WE USE?

We only use the open source web analytics platform “Matomo”. A web analytics platform is used by a website owner in order to measure, collect, analyse and report visitors data for purposes of understanding and optimizing their website.

The processing of personal data with Matomo is based on explicit consent. That is why we will not process any personal data with Matomo unless you give us clear explicit consent.

Name of cookie	Purposes	Duration of storage
Behavioural cookies	Analyse the behaviour of the website visitors to identify potential pitfalls; not found pages, search engine indexing issues, which contents are the most appreciated… Once the data is processed (number of visitors reaching a not found pages, viewing only one page…), Matomo is generating reports for website owners to take action, for example changing the layout of the pages, publishing some fresh content.	We are keeping the personal data captured within Matomo for a period of no more than 13 months.

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 the cookies with your personal data.

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

3. COOKIE SETTINGS

Most browsers accept cookies automatically, but you can change the settings of your browser to erase cookies or prevent automatic acceptance if you prefer.

These settings are usually found in the ‘options’ or ‘preferences’ 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.

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/.

4. 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 endeavor to display it on our cookie banner, should this be required.

5. 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: 11 March 2022