Cookies consist of portions of code installed in the browser that assist the owner in providing the service according to the purposes described. Some of the purposes for which cookies are installed may also require the user’s consent.

Where the installation of cookies is based on consent, such consent can be freely withdrawn at any time following the instructions provided in this document.

Technical cookies and cookies serving aggregated statistical purposes

• Activity strictly necessary for the functioning of the service

EHF uses cookies to save the user’s session and to carry out other activities that are strictly necessary for the operation of EHF, for example in relation to the distribution of traffic.

• Activity regarding the saving of preferences, optimization, and statistics

EHF uses cookies to save browsing preferences and to optimize the user’s browsing experience. Among these cookies are, for example, those used for the setting of language and currency preferences or for the management of first party statistics employed directly by the owner of the site.

Other types of cookies or third parties that install cookies

Some of the services listed below collect statistics in an anonymized and aggregated form and may not require the consent of the user or may be managed directly by the owner – depending on how they are described – without the help of third parties.

If any third party operated services are listed among the tools below, these may be used to track users’ browsing habits – in addition to the information specified herein and without the owner’s knowledge. Please refer to the privacy policy of the listed services for detailed information.

This type of service allows user data to be utilized for advertising communication purposes displayed in the form of banners and other advertisements on EHF, possibly based on user interests.

This does not mean that all personal data are used for this purpose. Information and conditions of use are shown below.

Some of the services listed below may use cookies to identify users or they may use the behavioral retargeting technique, i.e. Displaying ads tailored to the user’s interests and behavior, including those detected outside EHF. For more information, please check the privacy policies of the relevant services.

In addition to any opt out offered by any of the services below, the user may opt out of a third-party service’s use of cookies by visiting the network advertising initiative opt-out page.

Google adsense (google inc.)

Google adsense is an advertising service provided by google inc. This service uses the “doubleclick” cookie, which tracks use of EHF and user behavior concerning ads, products and services offered.

Users may decide to disable all the doubleclick cookies by clicking on: google.com/settings/ads/onweb/optout.

Personal data collected: cookies and usage data.

Place of processing: united states – privacy policy – opt out. Privacy shield participant.

• Analytics

The services contained in this section enable the owner to monitor and analyze web traffic and can be used to keep track of user behavior.

Analytics collected directly (EHF)

EHF uses an internal analytics system that does not involve third parties.

Personal data collected: cookies and usage data.

Display advertising extension for google analytics (google inc.)

Google analytics on EHF might use google’s interest-based advertising, 3rd-party audience data and information from the doubleclick cookie to extend analytics with demographics, interests and ads interaction data.

Personal data collected: cookies and usage data.

Place of processing: united states – privacy policy – opt out. Privacy shield participant.

Facebook ads conversion tracking (facebook, inc.)

Facebook ads conversion tracking is an analytics service provided by facebook, inc. That connects data from the facebook advertising network with actions performed on EHF.

Personal data collected: cookies and usage data.

Place of processing: united states – privacy policy. Privacy shield participant.

Google adwords conversion tracking (google inc.)

Google adwords conversion tracking is an analytics service provided by google inc. That connects data from the google adwords advertising network with actions performed on EHF.

Personal data collected: cookies and usage data.

Place of processing: united states – privacy policy. Privacy shield participant.

Google analytics (google inc.)

Google analytics is a web analysis service provided by google inc. (“google”). Google utilizes the data collected to track and examine the use of EHF, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other google services.

Google may use the data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

Personal data collected: cookies and usage data.

Place of processing: united states – privacy policy – opt out. Privacy shield participant.

WordPress stats (automattic inc.)

WordPress stats is an analytics service provided by automattic inc.

Personal data collected: cookies and usage data.

Place of processing: united states – privacy policy.

• Content commenting

Content commenting services allow users to make and publish their comments on the contents of EHF.

Depending on the settings chosen by the owner, users may also leave anonymous comments. If there is an email address among the personal data provided by the user, it may be used to send notifications of comments on the same content. Users are responsible for the content of their own comments.

If a content commenting service provided by third parties is installed, it may still collect web traffic data for the pages where the comment service is installed, even when users do not use the content commenting service.

Facebook comments (facebook, inc.)

Facebook comments is a content commenting service provided by facebook, inc. Enabling the user to leave comments and share them on the facebook platform.

Personal data collected: cookies and usage data.

Place of processing: united states – privacy policy. Privacy shield participant.

• Content performance and features testing (a/b testing)

The services contained in this section allow the owner to track and analyze the user response concerning web traffic or behavior regarding changes to the structure, text or any other component of EHF.

Google website optimizer (google inc.)

Google website optimizer is an a/b testing service provided by google inc.

Google may use personal data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

Personal data collected: cookies and usage data.

Place of processing: united states – privacy policy. Privacy shield participant.

• Displaying content from external platforms

This type of service allows you to view content hosted on external platforms directly from the pages of EHF and interact with them.

This type of service might still collect web traffic data for the pages where the service is installed, even when users do not use it.

Google maps widget (google inc.)

Google maps is a maps visualization service provided by google inc. That allows EHF to incorporate content of this kind on its pages.

Personal data collected: cookies and usage data.

Place of processing: united states – privacy policy. Privacy shield participant.

Google site search (google inc.)

Google site search is a search engine embedding service provided by google inc. That allows EHF to incorporate content of this kind on its pages.

Personal data collected: cookies and usage data.

Place of processing: united states – privacy policy. Privacy shield participant.

Instagram widget (instagram, inc.)

Instagram is an image visualization service provided by instagram, inc. That allows EHF to incorporate content of this kind on its pages.

Personal data collected: cookies and usage data.

Place of processing: united states – privacy policy.

Youtube video widget (google inc.)

Youtube is a video content visualization service provided by google inc. That allows EHF to incorporate content of this kind on its pages.

Personal data collected: cookies and usage data.

Place of processing: united states – privacy policy. Privacy shield participant.

• Interaction with external social networks and platforms

This type of service allows interaction with social networks or other external platforms directly from the pages of EHF.

The interaction and information obtained through EHF are always subject to the user’s privacy settings for each social network.

This type of service might still collect traffic data for the pages where the service is installed, even when users do not use it.

Facebook like button and social widgets (facebook, inc.)

The facebook like button and social widgets are services allowing interaction with the facebook social network provided by facebook, inc.

Personal data collected: cookies and usage data.

Place of processing: united states – privacy policy. Privacy shield participant.

Linkedin button and social widgets (linkedin corporation)

The linkedin button and social widgets are services allowing interaction with the linkedin social network provided by linkedin corporation.

Personal data collected: cookies and usage data.

Place of processing: united states – privacy policy.

Twitter tweet button and social widgets (twitter, inc.)

The twitter tweet button and social widgets are services allowing interaction with the twitter social network provided by twitter, inc.

Personal data collected: cookies and usage data.

Place of processing: united states – privacy policy. Privacy shield participant.

Paypal button and widgets (paypal inc.)

The paypal button and widgets are services allowing interaction with the paypal platform provided by paypal inc.

Personal data collected: cookies and usage data.

Place of processing: see the paypal privacy policy – privacy policy.

• Interaction with online survey platforms

This type of service allows users to interact with third-party online survey platforms directly from the pages of EHF.

If one of these services is installed, it may collect browsing and usage data in the pages where it is installed, even if the users do not actively use the service.

Surveymonkey widget (surveymonkey inc.)

The surveymonkey widget is a service for interacting with the surveymonkey online survey platform provided by surveymonkey inc.

Personal data collected: cookies and usage data.

Place of processing: united states – privacy policy.

• Remarketing and behavioral targeting

This type of service allows EHF and its partners to inform, optimize and serve advertising based on past use of EHF by the user.

This activity is performed by tracking usage data and by using cookies, information that is transferred to the partners that manage the remarketing and behavioral targeting activity.

In addition to any opt out offered by any of the services below, the user may opt out of a third-party service’s use of cookies by visiting the network advertising initiative opt-out page.

Adwords remarketing (google inc.)

Adwords remarketing is a remarketing and behavioral targeting service provided by google inc. That connects the activity of EHF with the adwords advertising network and the doubleclick cookie.

Personal data collected: cookies and usage data.

Place of processing: united states – privacy policy – opt out.

Facebook remarketing (facebook, inc.)

Facebook remarketing is a remarketing and behavioral targeting service provided by facebook, inc. That connects the activity of EHF with the facebook advertising network.

Personal data collected: cookies and usage data.

Place of processing: united states – privacy policy – opt out. Privacy shield participant.

Twitter remarketing (twitter, inc.)

Twitter remarketing is a remarketing and behavioral targeting service provided by twitter, inc. That connects the activity of EHF with the twitter advertising network.

Personal data collected: cookies and usage data.

Place of processing: united states – privacy policy – opt out. Privacy shield participant.

Twitter tailored audiences (twitter, inc.)

Twitter tailored audiences is a remarketing and behavioral targeting service provided by twitter, inc. That connects the activity of EHF with the twitter advertising network.

Personal data collected: cookies and email address.

Place of processing: united states – privacy policy – opt out. Privacy shield participant.

• Spam protection

This type of service analyzes the traffic of EHF, potentially containing users’ personal data, with the purpose of filtering it from parts of traffic, messages and content that are recognized as spam.

Google recaptcha (google inc.)

Google recaptcha is a spam protection service provided by google inc.

The use of recaptcha is subject to the google privacy policy and terms of use.

Personal data collected: cookies and usage data.

Place of processing: united states – privacy policy. Privacy shield participant.

• Traffic optimization and distribution

This type of service allows EHF to distribute their content using servers located across different countries and to optimize their performance.

Which personal data are processed depends on the characteristics and the way these services are implemented. Their function is to filter communications between EHF and the user’s browser.

Considering the widespread distribution of this system, it is difficult to determine the locations to which the contents that may contain personal information user are transferred.

Cloudflare (cloudflare)

Cloudflare is a traffic optimization and distribution service provided by cloudflare inc.

The way cloudflare is integrated means that it filters all the traffic through EHF, i.e., communication between EHF and the user’s browser, while also allowing analytical data from EHF to be collected.

Personal data collected: cookies and various types of data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.

Place of processing: united states – privacy policy.

• EHTV

EHTV is supplied and supported by www.laola1.tv

laola1 uses cookies. Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers, which are temporarily stored in the working memory (“session cookie”) or permanently on the hard drive of the user’s computer (“permanent cookie”). This information particularly includes the ip address, login credentials, the user’s browser type and its version, email addresses, the date and time of the user’s visit on laola1.tv or the apps as well as a cookie number. The use of cookies enables laola1.tv to “recognise” a user at a new visit and to adjust the offer of laola1.tv and the apps to the user’s interests. Generally cookies are deleted as soon as the user is logging out of his personal area or expire with the cookies’ respective expiration dates. So-called language cookies, which “recognise” the user’s previously set language of a website or app, are not deleted after the user logged out. If the user is not logging out of his personal area, all cookies are deleted at latest after three months.

Cookies are used by öwa for a unified analysis of austrian media usage on the internet as well as by comscore for the ideal control and analysis of the site, whereby the gathered files are stored in anonymised form. Laola1 reserves the right to use cookies of other providers or to replace existing cookie applications, if the data generated by the new providers is also stored in anonymised form. In general cookies can be declined or deleted by specific browser settings. In this case maybe not all functions of the websites are working completely as intended anymore.

• Opinion stage widget

Provider: opinion stage ltd

Purpose: interaction with online survey platforms

Personal data collected: cookies, usage data

Privacy policy: the opinion stage widget is a service for interacting with the opinion stage online survey platform provided by opinion stage ltd

How to provide or withdraw consent to the installation of cookies

In addition to what is specified in this document, the user can manage preferences for cookies directly from within their own browser and prevent – for example – third parties from installing cookies.

Through browser preferences, it is also possible to delete cookies installed in the past, including the cookies that may have saved the initial consent for the installation of cookies by this website.

Users can, for example, find information about how to manage cookies in the most commonly used browsers at the following addresses: google chrome, mozilla firefox, apple safari and microsoft internet explorer.

With regard to cookies installed by third parties, users can manage their preferences and withdrawal of their consent by clicking the related opt-out link (if provided), by using the means provided in the third party’s privacy policy, or by contacting the third party.

Notwithstanding the above, the owner informs that users may follow the instructions provided on the subsequently linked initiatives by the edaa (eu), the network advertising initiative (us) and the digital advertising alliance (us), daac (canada), ddai (japan) or other similar services. Such initiatives allow users to select their tracking preferences for most of the advertising tools. The owner thus recommends that users make use of these resources in addition to the information provided in this document.

Owner and data controller

European Hockey Federation (EHF)

avenue des arts 1-2

1210 brussels, belgium

Owner contact phone: +32-22-17-05-64

Owner contact email: privacy@eurohockey.org

Since the installation of third-party cookies and other tracking systems through the services used within EHF cannot be technically controlled by the owner, any specific references to cookies and tracking systems installed by third parties are to be considered indicative. In order to obtain complete information, the user is kindly requested to consult the privacy policy for the respective third-party services listed in this document.

Given the objective complexity surrounding the identification of technologies based on cookies, users are encouraged to contact the owner should they wish to receive any further information on the use of cookies by EHF.

Definitions and legal references

Personal data (or data)

Any information that directly, indirectly, or in connection with other information — including a personal identification number — allows for the identification or identifiability of a natural person.

Usage data

Information collected automatically through EHF (or third-party services employed in EHF), which can include: the ip addresses or domain names of the computers utilized by the users who use EHF, the uri addresses (uniform resource identifier), the time of the request, the method utilized to submit the request to the server, the size of the file received in response, the numerical code indicating the status of the server’s answer (successful outcome, error, etc.), the country of origin, the features of the browser and the operating system utilized by the user, the various time details per visit (e.g., the time spent on each page within the application) and the details about the path followed within the application with special reference to the sequence of pages visited, and other parameters about the device operating system and/or the user’s it environment.

User

The individual using EHF who, unless otherwise specified, coincides with the data subject.

Data subject

The natural person to whom the personal data refers.

Data processor (or data supervisor)

The natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which processes personal data on behalf of the controller, as described in this privacy policy.

Data controller (or owner)

The natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data, including the security measures concerning the operation and use of EHF. The data controller, unless otherwise specified, is the owner of EHF.

EHF (or this application)

The means by which the personal data of the user is collected and processed.

Service

The service provided by EHF as described in the relative terms (if available) and on this site/application.

European union (or eu)

Unless otherwise specified, all references made within this document to the european union include all current member states to the european union and the european economic area.

Cookies

Small sets of data stored in the user’s device.

Legal information

This privacy statement has been prepared based on provisions of multiple legislations, including art. 13/14 of regulation (eu) 2016/679 (general data protection regulation).

This privacy policy relates solely to EHF, if not stated otherwise within this document.

Latest update: july 26, 2018