This Cookie Policy explains how WORLDEF uses cookies and similar technologies on its websites, landing pages, event pages, registration forms, digital platforms, and other online services that link to this Policy.
This Cookie Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy, which explains in more detail how we process personal data.
1. What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files placed on your computer, mobile device, or browser when you visit a website. They help websites work properly, remember your preferences, understand how visitors use the site, improve performance, and, where permitted, support advertising and measurement activities.
In addition to cookies, we may use similar technologies such as pixels, tags, SDKs, local storage, and server-side identifiers. In this Policy, we refer to all of these technologies collectively as “cookies” unless otherwise stated.
2. Why do we use cookies?
We use cookies for the following purposes:
- to ensure the Website functions securely and properly;
- to remember your settings and preferences;
- to provide services you request, such as registration, login, form submission, or language preferences;
- to measure Website traffic and performance;
- to understand how users interact with our content, pages, campaigns, and event-related services;
- to improve user experience, Website design, and service quality;
- to support marketing, advertising, and remarketing activities, where permitted by law;
- to detect fraud, misuse, technical issues, and security incidents.
3. What types of cookies do we use?
3.1. Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential for the operation of the Website and for providing services you expressly request. They may include cookies used for security, load balancing, session continuity, form submission, consent preference storage, login authentication, and similar core functions.
Because these cookies are necessary for the operation of the Website or for providing a service requested by you, they do not always require consent under applicable law.
If these cookies are disabled, some parts of the Website may not function properly.
3.2. Functional / Preference Cookies
These cookies remember choices you make, such as language, region, cookie settings, display preferences, and similar customizations. They help us provide a more personalized experience.
Where required by applicable law, these cookies are used only with your consent.
3.3. Analytics / Performance Cookies
These cookies help us understand how visitors use the Website. For example, they may show which pages are visited most often, how users move around the Website, whether campaigns perform effectively, and whether users encounter errors.
We use this information to measure performance, improve content, enhance navigation, and optimize the Website.
Where required by applicable law, these cookies are used only with your consent.
3.4. Advertising / Targeting Cookies
These cookies may be used to understand your interests, measure the effectiveness of campaigns, limit how often you see an advertisement, and show you more relevant WORLDEF-related content or advertising on our Website or on third-party platforms.
These cookies may be set by us or by advertising and technology partners acting on our behalf or for their own purposes, subject to their own privacy and cookie notices.
Where required by applicable law, these cookies are used only with your consent.
3.5. Social Media and Embedded Content Cookies
If we embed content or features from third-party services such as video players, maps, social media widgets, or event tools, those services may place their own cookies on your device.
We do not control third-party cookies directly. Please review the relevant third party’s privacy and cookie information for more details.
4. First-party and third-party cookies
Some cookies are placed directly by WORLDEF. These are called first-party cookies.
Other cookies are placed by third-party service providers or partners, such as analytics providers, advertising networks, social media platforms, video providers, CRM tools, event registration systems, or website infrastructure providers. These are called third-party cookies.
Third-party providers may process personal data collected through their cookies in accordance with their own privacy notices and, where applicable, as our service providers under contract.
5. What information may be collected through cookies?
Depending on the cookie and the purpose, the following information may be collected or inferred: Cookie ID or unique online identifier, IP address, browser type and version, device type, operating system, screen settings, language, approximate location derived from IP address, referring website or campaign source, pages viewed, clickstream data, page interactions, time spent, preferences, consent choices, session information, interactions with forms, registration pages, ticketing pages, event-related content, marketing and campaign performance information.
In general, cookies are not used by us to intentionally collect special category personal data through the Website.
6. On-site targeting
Where permitted by law and based on your preferences, cookies may be used to better understand what types of pages, events, sectors, services, or content interest visitors. This helps us improve the relevance of the content, communications, and promotions shown on the Website.
7. Retargeting / remarketing
With your consent where required, WORLDEF and its advertising partners may use cookies or similar technologies to show you WORLDEF-related advertisements after you leave our Website. For example, if you visit an event page, a ticket page, or a sponsorship-related page, you may later see advertisements related to those services on other websites, apps, or social media platforms.
This activity helps us measure campaign effectiveness and present more relevant marketing content.
8. Legal basis and consent
Where required by applicable law, we obtain your consent before placing or activating non-essential cookies.
Strictly necessary cookies may be used without consent where they are required to provide the Website or a service expressly requested by you, or to ensure security, integrity, or compliance.
For non-essential cookies; you can accept all cookies, reject all non-essential cookies or customize your preferences by category.
9. Cookie duration
Cookies may remain on your device for different periods depending on their purpose. Session cookies remain only while your browser sessiom is active and are usually deleted when you close your browser. Persistent cookies remain on your device until they expire automatically or are manually deleted.
10. How can you manage or block cookies?
Most browsers also allow you to block, delete, or control cookies through browser settings. Please note that if you disable strictly necessary cookies, certain parts of the Website may not function properly.
You can also consult your browser provider’s help pages, such as those for Apple Safari, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Mozilla Firefox.
11. Log files
When you visit the Website, our servers may automatically create log records. These log files may include information such as IP address, date and time of access, requested page or file, referring URL, browser type and version, operating system, device or network information, HTTP status codes and technical diagnostics.
We use log data to maintain system security, detect misuse, investigate incidents, prevent attacks, troubleshoot technical problems, manage capacity, and improve performance.
12. International transfers
Some of the service providers whose cookies we use may process data outside the country in which you are located. Where required by applicable law, WORLDEF implements appropriate safeguards for such transfers and provides the relevant information in its Privacy Policy and related disclosures.
13. Changes to this Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect legal, technical, or operational changes. Any updates will be published on this page together with the revised “Last Updated” date.
Where required, we will also provide additional notice or renew your choices.
14. Contact us
If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy or our use of cookies, please contact us.