Cookie Policy for KfW DEG Sustainability Training

What are cookies?

As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies and session, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or 'break' certain elements of the sites functionality.

How we use cookies

We use cookies, to deliver, measure, and improve our services in various ways. We use these cookies both when you visit our site and services through a browser.

Both session cookies, which expire after a short time or when you close your browser, and persistent cookies, which remain stored in your browser for a set period of time are used to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. We use session cookies to identify you during a single browsing session and are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features. Without these cookies, services you have asked for cannot be provided. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site might not work . We use persistent cookies where we need to identify you over a longer period, like when you request that we keep you signed in.

Disabling Cookies

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of the this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.

The Cookies We Set

  • Account related cookies
    If you create an account with us then we will use cookies for the management of the signup process and general administration. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out however in some cases they may remain afterwards to remember your site preferences when logged out.
  • Login related cookies
    We use cookies when you are logged in so that we can remember this fact. This prevents you from having to log in every single time you visit a new page. These cookies are typically removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features and areas when logged in.
  • Forms related cookies
    When you submit data to through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.
  • Site preferences cookies
    In order to provide you with a great experience on this site we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page is affected by your preferences.

Third Party Cookies

In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.

Several partners advertise on our behalf and affiliate tracking cookies simply allow us to see if our customers have come to the site through one of our partner sites so that we can credit them appropriately and where applicable allow our affiliate partners to provide any bonus that they may provide you for making a purchase.

We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect and share your experience with your social network in various ways. For these to work the following social media sites including;

  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Break down of the cookies used on this site

Service Name Purpose
Authentication and security
  • XSRF-TOKEN
  • _cfduid
  • csrftoken
  • edinstancexid
  • edxloggedin
  • sessionid
  • To log you into the website
  • To protect your security
  • To help detect and fight spam, abuse, and other activities that violate website's agreements
Preferences
  • sustainabilitytraining_session
  • openedx-language-preference
  • To remember data about your browser and your preferences
  • To remember your settings and other choices you’ve made
Personalized content
  • sessionid
  • edinstancexid
  • To customize sustainability.training with more relevant content

What are my privacy options?

You have a number of options to control or limit how we and our partners use cookies:

  • Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can change your browser settings to decline cookies by consulting your browser’s support articles.
  • For general information about targeting cookies and how to disable them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.