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Privacy Policy and Cookies

The operators of the website www.buildingsandcities.org take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the legal data protection.

Personal data refers to information such as name, e-mail address, or other information regarding a specific person. The handling of personal data is regulated by the requirements of the Data Protection Act 2018. We employ technical and organisational measures to ensure that we, along with external service providers, comply with data protection requirements.

Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites.

Our cookies help us:

  • Make our website work as you'd expect
  • Allow you to share pages with the social networks Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter
  • Continuously improve our website for you

We do not use cookies to:

  • Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
  • Collect any sensitive information
  • Pass data to advertising networks
  • Pass personally identifiable data to third parties

When you visit our website, certain data is automatically stored in a log file each time a page is accessed:

  • the IP address of the computer sending the request
  • date and time of access
  • the name and URL of the page that is retrieved
  • the data volume that is sent when the page is transmitted
  • the access status (page transferred, page not found etc.)
  • data regarding the browser and operating system
  • the website from which the site was accessed

This data is stored for the purpose of assisting and securing operations. You can use our website for informational purposes without providing personal information. If personal data are collected on our pages, it is always done on a voluntary basis. These data will not be passed on to third parties.

Use of Google Analytics

This website uses features of the web analytics service Google Analytics. Provider is the Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Google Analytics uses cookies. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is generally transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. For more information about how to deal with Google Analytics user data, please visit Google's privacy policy: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245

How to stop data collection - Browser plugin

You can set your browser to inform you about the setting of cookies, to allow cookies in individual cases, to exclude the acceptance of cookies for specific cases or in general, and to activate the automatic deletion of cookies when the browser is closed. The functionality of this website may be limited when cookies are deactivated. In addition, you can prevent Google from collecting and processing the data generated by the cookie (including your IP address) related to your use of the website - as well as the processing of this data by Google - by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Consent or refusal of cookies

The consent or refusal of cookies - even for webtracking - can be given by the settings of your web browser. You can set your web browser to notify whenever new cookies are about to set, or generally decline cookies. However, it is possible that you will not be able to use all the features of our website as long as cookies are deactivated.

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