Cookie policy

When you visit any website, it may store or retrieve information on your browser, mostly in the form of cookies. This information might be about you, your preferences or your device and is mostly used to make the site work as you expect it to. The information does not usually directly identify you, but it can give you a more personalized web experience. Because we respect your right to privacy, you can choose not to allow some types of cookies. Click on the different category headings to find out more and change our default settings. However, blocking some types of cookies may impact your experience of the site and the services we are able to offer.

Use of cookies and analytical services

IEC uses software to monitor its websites and IT tools for operational purposes. We use cookies to help us understand how you engage with our websites and IT tools so that we can improve them. Our analytics providers collect information anonymously and allow us to look at trends without identifying individual users. None of the information we collect could be used to personally identify you or for advertising or other commercial purposes. Nevertheless, you can choose to change your browser settings to reject or delete any cookies. We use cookies that are essential to the operation of our services or to provide you with a better experience. Deactivating them may affect the functionality you enjoy on our websites and IT tools. We do not use them for advertising or other commercial purposes.

We use the following list of cookies:

- user-input cookies (session-id) such as first-party cookies to keep track of your input when filling online forms, shopping carts, etc.;

- authentication cookies, to identify you once you have logged in, for the duration of a session;

- user-centric security cookies, used to detect authentication abuses, for a limited persistent duration;

- multimedia content player cookies, used to store technical data to play back video or audio content, for the duration of a session;

- load-balancing cookies, for the duration of session;

- user-interface customization cookies such as language or font preferences, for the duration of a session (or slightly longer); and

- anonymous first-party cookies to report on user interactions with our websites.

In addition to our use of cookies, IEC websites contain links to other sites. If you access other sites using the links provided, the operators of those sites may collect information from you which will be used by them in accordance with their own privacy policies. IEC is not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites including SNS provider sites. We encourage you to become familiar with the privacy policies of any other sites which you visit.

Furthermore, IEC collects your usage data when you access IEC websites. This data includes, for example, information about which browser you are using, when you accessed IEC websites, which operating system you use, etc. This data is stored together with the IP address of the device you are using to access IEC websites. They serve to optimize IEC websites and to personalize your user experience. IEC only evaluates usage data anonymously.