ESSENTIAL COOKIES

We store and read essential cookies on your end device, in order to subsequently process the collected personal data. This takes place in particular to:

• Enable you to navigate between pages without losing your previous actions from the same browser session
• Provide you with multimedia content that meets your technical requirements
• Ensure our website is created error-free and to continue improving it
• Ensure an optimal load distribution when loading our websites
• Store your data for authentication purposes

Our website uses essential cookies to provide you with the best possible online experience.

The following paragraph provides detailed information on what essential cookies are used for.

Essential cookies ensure that you will be able to navigate our website and use the provided functionality as desired. They enable the website to save previously entered information such as the username, selected language and individual settings of, for example, a video player or the contents of a shopping cart.

In addition, essential cookies are used to display an error-free, efficient, and streamlined website. Cookies provide us with information on how often certain web pages are visited, how fast the pages load, and whether an error has occurred. This information, which cannot be traced back to you as an individual, helps us to continuously improve the online experience of our website.

We exclusively use essential cookies on our website, hence they're referred to as first-party cookies. The cookies are only saved/read when you visit our website, and generally deleted after 30 minutes unless otherwise stated below.

LANG

Purpose: The site uses this cookie to store your preferred language so that content is retrieved from the database and displayed in the correct language.

Who’s placing it: Dataflow Events

Expires after: 30 minutes

CMS

Purpose: This cookie stores content management preferences for the site, including draft data in form fields. This prevents data from disappearing when a page is navigated away from before all required fields are completed.

Who’s placing it: Dataflow Events

Expires after: 30 minutes

.AspNetCore.Identity.Application

Purpose: This is the primary authentication cookie. It securely identifies you after you log in, so that you can navigate between pages without having to re-enter your credentials on each page.

Who’s placing it: Dataflow Events

Expires after: End of browser session

.AspNetCore.Session

Purpose: This cookie links your browser to a server-side session, allowing the site to maintain your current state (such as which event you are registering for and your progress through the registration process) as you move between pages.

Who’s placing it: Dataflow Events

Expires after: 20 minutes of inactivity

stoken

Purpose: This cookie is used during the password creation and password reset process. It securely verifies that the password request is legitimate and has not been tampered with.

Who’s placing it: Dataflow Events

Expires after: 1 hour

inviteguestloginsent

Purpose: This cookie prevents the system from sending repeated one-time passcode (OTP) emails in quick succession. It ensures that if you request a new code, a minimum interval is observed before another can be sent.

Who’s placing it: Dataflow Events

Expires after: 9 minutes

.AspNetCore.Antiforgery

Purpose: This is a security cookie that protects against cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks. It ensures that form submissions on the site originate from the site itself and have not been forged by a malicious third party.

Who’s placing it: Dataflow Events

Expires after: End of browser session

.AspNet.Consent.guest

Purpose: This cookie records that you have acknowledged and accepted the cookie policy. It prevents the cookie consent pop-up from appearing on every page visit.

Who’s placing it: Dataflow Events

Expires after: 365 days

wscrCookieConsent

Purpose: This cookie is used by the cookie consent service to manage and record your cookie preferences.

Who’s placing it: Dataflow Events

Expires after: 365 days

COOKIES AND MODIFICATIONS

In the following paragraphs, we'll explain our purposes for using cookies and similar technologies on our websites, we also offer you the opportunity to modify your consent to our use or to revoke your consent at any time.

WHAT ARE COOKIES?

Cookies and web storage technologies, such as Local Storage and Session Storage, referred to as "cookies", facilitate your interaction with our websites. As soon as you visit our websites, cookies are downloaded by the internet browser to your end device, for example as a small text file. Third-party technologies, like scripts, pixels and tags, which we integrate into our websites for advertising purposes, also place cookies on your end device. In the following paragraphs, we'll explain to you what we use these technologies for, and how to adjust the settings to your needs.

PURPOSES OF COOKIES

Cookies take care of many different tasks that contribute to a seamless and interactive online experience. For this to work, you need to always use the same end device and the same browser. Some specific cookies are essential for the running and maintenance of our websites, because they enable us to:

• Provide you with the services of your preference at all times
• Present you with specific and relevant information
• Offer you a seamless and comfortable online experience

RECOGNITION AND RESPONSE

Cookies show us how you use and interact with our websites, for instance, when you save your settings and user ID. This helps us to:

• Provide you with a more personal experience by bringing you to the most important pages in a more efficient way
• Remind us of some of your personal preferences
• Guide you to useful content or pages

CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENTS

Cookies help us understand how visitors use our websites, and they enable us to make any necessary improvements. For example, cookies make it possible to analyse what type of content is popular, and create similar topics that could be equally relevant to our visitors. This, in turn, helps us to:

• Improve the design of our websites and provide you with a better online experience
• Try different approaches and present our visitors with content that is most relevant to them

COOKIE CATEGORIES

Both data processing and associated cookies may be deployed on our websites. Depending on function and purpose, we have divided data processing into different categories. The intended purpose of each respective category is described on this page, and your consent to said categories can also be modified here. Each category lists all related data processing, if any, as well as the cookies that are normally used for said data processing. Please find further information on the various cookie categories at the start of this page, under "Modifications and Details".

WHAT DO YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT COOKIES?

Cookies support a better and faster online experience. A cookie is a small text file that stores internet settings. Almost every website uses cookies. When you visit a website for the first time, the cookies are downloaded by your internet browser. The next time you visit this website using the same end device, the website recognises you and displays content that is tailored to your personal needs and interests. The cookies mentioned below are synonymous with HTML5 Session Web Storage and HTML5 Local Web Storage.

FIRST-PARTY COOKIES

First party cookies are cookies that we, or contracted service providers, place on the website and with which you interact if you continue to use our website.

COOKIE MANAGEMENT IN YOUR BROWSER

You can manage cookie settings via the aforementioned features on our website, and also through changing your browser settings (enable, disable and delete). Most browsers allow you to manage cookies by either accepting or rejecting all cookies. Go to the help section of your browser to learn more about how to manage and delete cookies. When you change your cookie settings, certain cookies will be blocked. In this case, you may not fully benefit from some features on our website. We may also be unable to provide you with certain content that you have previously seen or used.