ECHO Website Cookie Policy
Core Policy
A cookie is a small text file that is downloaded onto ‘terminal equipment’ (e.g. a computer or a smartphone) when you access a website. It allows the website to make user’s experience more efficient by recognising your device and by storing some information about your preferences or past actions. Cookies allow websites to remember your preferences and play an important role in making the site work better for you. To some extent, cookies can be seen as providing a “memory” for the website, enabling it to recognise a user and respond appropriately.
In accordance with law, we can store cookies on your device only if they are strictly necessary for the operation of this website. For all other types of cookies, we need your permission. This means that cookies which are categorized as necessary are processed based on Art.6.1(f) of the GDPR, i.e. our legitimate interest.
All other cookies, that is those from the category’s preferences and marketing, can be processed only based on your consent i.e. Art. 6.1 (a) of the GDPR. Please note that you can at any time change or withdraw your consent via our Cookie Management Tool that is available on our website.
How Do We Use Cookies?
This website uses different types of cookies. Some cookies are placed by third party services that appear on our pages (i.e. “third-party” cookies).
We use the following cookies and similar technologies:
Necessary Cookies
These cookies enable core functionality such as security, verification of identity, and network management, as well as ensuring that they make the website work. You may disable these by changing your browser settings, but this may affect how the website functions since the website cannot function properly without those cookies.
Non-necessary cookies
- Functional cookies
Preference cookies collect data to remember choices users make to improve and give a more personalised experience. They enable a website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or what it looks like, your preferred language, text size, or the region that you are in. The information these cookies collect may be anonymised and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.
- Marketing Cookies
These cookies are normally used to track advertising effectiveness to provide a more relevant service and deliver better advertisements to suit your interests. However, since ECHO is a research project, we DO NOT use any marketing cookies.
- Analytics Cookies
These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website or to discover errors. We use these cookies for internal research and analysis of our performance. The cookies simply assess how you interact with our website as an anonymous user (the
Also, this data is not shared with any third parties or used for any other purpose. The anonymised statistics will be included in a report analysing communication efforts on the ECHO project.
However, you are free to refuse these types of cookies via the cookie management tool that you will see on the first page you visit.
We need your consent for the use of analytics cookies.
How Do I Manage My Cookie Preferences?
Our cookie management tool will allow you to specify your preferences for those cookies that are placed on your device by this website, and which are not strictly necessary for the functioning of it.
Just adjust the available sliders to ‘On’ or ‘Off’, then click ‘Save and close’. You may need to refresh your page for your settings to take effect.
Alternatively, most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:
To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer’s website.
We regularly review this cookie policy and will post any updates to it on this webpage. This cookies policy was last updated on 16th October 2025.