Cookie Policy
1. General information
As the Sustainable Procurement Pledge Community (“Sustainable Procurement Pledge”, “SPP”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) we are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. Compliance with data protection laws is not only a legal obligation for SPP, but also an important factor of trust.
This policy uses the term “cookies” to refer to cookies and similar technologies covered by law (e.g., local shared objects – commonly referred to as “flash cookies”, web beacons or bugs, including transparent clear gifs). Cookies help us to optimize your user experience, improve our website, personalize content and carry out usage analyses. This policy explains how and why we use these technologies and what options are available to you.
This document is an integral and essential part of the Privacy Policy and the information notice contained therein complies with applicable data privacy laws, including the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR“), in particular the requirements of Art. 6 GDPR, and the Telecommunications Digital Services Data Protection Act (“TDDDG“). We recommend that you also read our Privacy Policy to learn more about SPP’s general commitment to data protection.
2. What is a cookie?
Cookies are short pieces of information that the website stores on your end device. Cookies can be “persistent cookies” or “session cookies” from “first-party providers” or “third-party providers”. This website uses cookies to analyze the use of our website and to offer you the best possible user experience. Your web browser will notify you when you receive a cookie and let you decide whether or not to accept it.
If at any time you do not wish to give or withdraw your consent to non-essential cookies, you must change or delete your settings in the cookie settings and block or disable cookies via your browser settings. However, this may lead to functional restrictions or have a detrimental effect on the user-friendliness of our website.
3. Different Types of Cookies
3.1. Session and persistent cookies
Session cookies – allow websites to link a user’s actions during a browser session. They can be used for a variety of purposes, such as remembering the user’s language selections and location on the browser during their visit. These session cookies expire after a browser session.
Persistent cookies – are stored on a user’s device between browser sessions, allowing the user’s preferences or actions on a website (or in some cases across different websites) to be remembered. Persistent cookies can be used for a variety of purposes, including remembering users’ preferences and choices when using a website.
3.2. First-party and third-party cookies
We use third-party services or software on our website, for example for advertising analysis. We may allow selected third parties to use tracking technology, which will enable them to collect data about how you interact with our services over time. This information may be used to, among other things, analyze and track data, determine the popularity of certain content and better understand online activity. These services may store cookies on your device.
For certain content on our website, we integrate content from third parties into our website (so-called plugins). The respective third parties are responsible for providing the plugins. The details of which plugin providers are involved will be displayed on our website in direct connection with the respective content.
We do not control these third-party websites, plug-ins and applications and are not responsible for their privacy statements and the data that they collect. We encourage you to read and be aware of the privacy policy and any other policies of any website you visit. Please note that this privacy policy applies solely to the information collected by SPP.
The legal basis for the data processing associated with the use of the web analysis service and plugins is your consent in accordance with Article 6 para 1 lit. a GDPR and Section 25 para 1 TDDDG.
4. Cookies used by Us
These cookies allow us to distinguish you from other users of the website, which helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our website.
The cookies we use are “technical” and “analytical” cookies. They allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around the website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they need easily.
More specifically, this website https://spp.earth/ uses the following types of cookies:
5. Legal Basis
6. How to Accept, Control and Delete our Cookies
Some cookies are strictly necessary for the proper functioning of this website and do not require your consent, e.g. those that ensure that the content of a page is loaded quickly and effectively by distributing the workload over several computers, or those that provide security.
Other cookies are still reasonably necessary or essential, but they are not strictly necessary and therefore require consent. For these cookies (i.e. performance and functionality cookies), we ask for your consent (via the “Accept all cookies” button in our cookie banner or via your browser’s cookie settings) before we place them on your device.
If you wish to revoke your consent to non-essential cookies at any time, you can do so by clicking the round green icon that can be found in the bottom left hand corner of each page, or by clicking the button below.
If you do not give your consent or wish to revoke your consent to non-essential cookies at any time, you must delete and block or deactivate cookies via your browser settings. These settings can normally be found in the “Options” or “Settings” menu of your internet browser. Otherwise, you should use the “Help” option in your internet browser for further details or click on one of the links below to go directly to the operating instructions for your browser:
Please note that disabling or blocking some or all categories of cookies will affect the functionality of the website and may impact your access and experience of our website and the services we are able to offer.
7. Transfer and Storage of Data
8. Update of the Cookie Policy
We may need to update or amend this Cookies Policy from time to time.
9. Further information on Cookies
For more information about cookies installed through this website, you can contact us at: ambassador@spp.earth.
You can also visit www.allaboutcookies.org which contain general information about cookies and comprehensive information on how to change cookie settings in a variety of browsers and delete cookies from your computer.