• INTRODUCTION

    When you visit the Fabo Learning Platform, we collect some of your personal data through cookies. A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the website. Cookies are read by the originating website on each subsequent visit, or by another website that recognises that cookie. Cookies may be set by the Fabo Platform by a third-party.

    Cookies help us enhance your experience when using the website. They also help us understand how people use our website, such as which pages are most popular, so that we can better serve our website users. The explanation below provides more information about these cookies.

    • 1. Essential Cookies

      These cookies are essential for enabling user movement around our website. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing purposes and do not remember where you have been on the internet. This category of cookies cannot be disabled. Following essential cookies are used on the Fabo Platform:

      Cookie name

      Source

      Expiry

      Purpose

      MoodleSession

      fabo.org

      Session (when you close your browser)

      Preserves your session state across page requests.


      Our legal basis for processing your personal data by using essential cookies is our legitimate interest in making our website work as intended. This legal basis may be found in Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”).

      • 2. Analytics Cookies

        Google Tag Manager is a script (tool) that facilitates the installation of non-essential Google Analytics Cookies. This is not a cookie, however, it is essential to the proper functioning of our website, and it does not have an expiration date.

        We use Google Analytics cookies to collect information about your use of our website. These cookies collect information in an aggregate way to give us insight into how our website is being used. We anonymize IP addresses in Google Analytics, and the anonymized data is transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.

        Google has access to anonymized or pseudonymized network traffic on the basis of an EU-US Privacy Shield Certification. Privacy Shield is an arrangement enacted by the European Commission regarding transfer of personal data to certified US-based companies. You can read more about Privacy Shield by going here: https://www.privacyshield.gov/Program-Overview

        The following table has more information about analytics cookies:

        Cookie name

        Source

        Expiry

        Purpose

        _ga

        Google

        2 years

        Originate from Google Analytics and are used to keep a record of visitor statistics

        _gat

        Google

        Session (when you close your browser)

        Originate from Google Analytics and are used to keep a record of visitor statistics

        _gid

        Google

        1 day

        Originate from Google Analytics and are used to keep a record of visitor statistics


        To view an overview of the privacy of your Google Analytics cookies please go here: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245.

        Our legal basis for processing your personal data by using analytics cookies is your consent. This legal basis may be found in Article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR.

        • 3. Personalised Cookies and Marketing Cookies

          The Fabo Platform does not use personalised cookies or marketing cookies.


          • 4. How to Control and Delete Cookies

            The first time you visit our website, you will be asked to accept or reject our use of analytics cookies on the Fabo Platform. If you have accepted (given your consent) to the use of analytics cookies and you wish to withdraw your consent, you can do this in two ways:

            • 5. Your Rights When We Collect Your Personal Data

              You can read about your rights under the GDPR when we collect and process your personal data in our Privacy Notice.