Central Information & Technology
Cookie Notice

Last Update: July 2019

When you visit CIT websites, information is stored on your terminal device in the form of a data named as "cookie."

Cookies are small bit of files that are stored on your terminal device and save certain settings and data to exchange with our websites via your browser.

For example, cookies enable us to tailor a website to better match your interests or to store your password so that you do not have to re-enter it every time.

As a general rule, we never collect personal data via cookies, unless you have given us your express permission to do so.

Types of cookies

Cookies can be assigned to four categories, depending on their function and intended purpose: absolutely necessary cookies, performance cookies, functional cookies, and cookies for marketing purposes.

Please note that certain functions of our website may no longer work, or not correctly without cookies.

If you do not want us to recognise your terminal device, please configure your Internet browser to erase all cookies from your device, to block all cookies or to receive a warning before a cookie is stored.

Types of cookies

Cookies can be assigned to four categories, depending on their function and intended purpose: absolutely necessary cookies, performance cookies, functional cookies, and cookies for marketing purposes.

Absolutely necessary cookies

are needed for you to navigate within CIT websites and operate basic website functions, such as the issuance of anonymous Session IDs for bundling several related queries to a server.

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These cookies do not store any information that would make it possible to personally identify the user.

The information collected with the aid of these cookies is aggregated and is therefore anonymous.

Performance cookies serve the purpose of improving the user friendliness of a website and therefore enhancing the user’s experience.

Functional Cookies

Enable a website to store information the user has already entered (such as user ID, language selection, or the user’s location), in order to offer improved, personalised functions to the user. Functional cookies are also used to enable requested functions such as playing videos and to make a user’s decision to block or disable a certain function (e.g. web analysis) - “opt-out cookies”.

Performance cookies

collect information on the usage of our websites, including for example the Internet browsers and operating systems used, the domain name of the website which you previously visited, the number of visits, average duration of visit, and pages called up.

Cookies for marketing purposes

are used to offer more relevant content to users, based on their specific interests.

They are also used to limit the display frequency of an ad and to measure and control the effectiveness of advertising campaigns.

They register whether users have visited a website or not, and which contents were used. This information may possibly also be shared with third parties, such as advertisers, for example. These cookies are often linked to the functions of third-party websites.

You can block the use of such cookies by creating an opt-out cookie (see “Managing cookies” below).

Managing cookies:
(*Please note: Not all of the cookies mentioned below will necessarily be used when you browse our website using a mobile terminal device.)

Performance cookies: Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics on our website for the purpose of constantly improving the website and/or detecting errors.

For this purpose, Google Analytics anonymously stores and analyses various kinds of data, including the visited website and the website’s metadata, websites that link to CIT, the time of the visit, and the browser used.

By disabling this feature, you will create a so-called exclusion cookie in your browser. It contains no personal data, but technically enables Google Analytics to permanently recognise your preference.
*If you delete this exclusion cookie or if you change your computer or web browser, you will need to create the exclusion cookie again.

Cookies for marketing purposes

We use Google Target to provide content that is specifically tailored to the interests of users. For this purpose, Google Target analyses anonymous information about your previous visits to our website.

Google Ads

We sometimes run online advertisement campaigns that display advertisements (“ads”) to you based on your likely interests.

We may learn your likely interests based on your use of our websites and applications,  or from other companies and websites that we work with to help us understand your likely interests.

These types of ads are often called “online behavioural advertising.” We use Google Ads to display our ads on websites across the Internet.

For this purpose several cookies will be set in your browser allowing both Google Ads and so-called ad exchanges to recognise your terminal device based on anonymous identifiers and to thus show you ads tailored to your likely interests.

If you opt out, you may still see our ads on other companies’ websites, but they will not be specifically tailored to you based on your activity on our websites and online services. In addition you may also opt out from the collection of web viewing data for interest-based advertising
by some or all of the companies participating in the Digital Advertising Alliance on the Digital Advertising Alliance Consumer Choice page.