1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on your device to store data. They help improve your browsing experience by remembering preferences and enabling certain functionalities.

2. Types of Cookies We Use

• Essential Cookies: These cookies are necessary for the website to function properly. They enable basic features such as page navigation and access to secure areas of the site. Without these cookies, certain functionalities cannot be provided.
• Performance Cookies: These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website by collecting and reporting information. They allow us to improve the performance and design of our website.
• Functional Cookies: These cookies enable the website to remember choices you make and provide enhanced, more personal features. For example, they can remember your language preferences or other settings.
• Targeting/Advertising Cookies: These cookies are used to deliver advertisements relevant to you and your interests. They also help us measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns.

3. Third-Party Cookies

We may use third-party services (e.g., Google Analytics) that place cookies on your device. These cookies collect information to analyze website traffic and enhance user experience.

4. Cookie Consent

When you first visit our website, you will see a cookie consent banner. You may accept or refuse cookies, or customize your preferences. You can change your consent at any time via the browser settings.

5 .Managing Cookies

You can manage or disable cookies via your browser settings. However, doing so may impact your browsing experience and limit access to certain features.

6. User Rights

You have the right to request access to, or deletion of, any personal data collected through cookies, as per GDPR regulations. Please contact us at info@sewaeurope.org for any data-related queries.

7. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy occasionally. Please review this page regularly for any changes. The Sewa Europe website utilizes cookies primarily to enhance user experience and track website performance. It uses cookies to store user preferences and track how visitors interact with the website. This allows the site to remember your actions and customize your future visits accordingly. Specifically, it employs cookies for:

• Tracking User Preferences: Cookies remember user choices to tailor website interactions, such as remembering login details.
• Monitoring Browsing Behavior:To gather metrics on site usage, these cookies track which sections are most visited.
• Managing User Sessions:For volunteers and donors who interact with the site, cookies help manage their sessions and forms.

Essential Cookies:

• Authorization Cookies (wa) : Used to authenticate user sessions.
• Session Management Cookies : Such as lap, ppa, and returnURL, which help track user sessions and actions, like switching between views or processing payments.
• CSRF Protection (cs) : Protects the site from cross-site request forgery attacks.

Performance and Functional Cookies:

• mdasau : Used in the member directory to store advanced search parameters for logged-out users.
• sk and wb : Handle session persistence for event registration, application forms, and similar wizards.

Third-Party Cookies:

• Google Analytics : Tracks site traffic and visitor behavior.
• Other Widgets: : Facebook or other social media widgets may place cookies to enhance user experience and customize content.
• rc::f : Used to track and analyze user behavior to distinguish humans from bots or automated software. United States
• rc::a : Used to track and analyze user behavior to distinguish humans from bots or automated software. United States
• _GRECAPTCHA : Stores a value used to verify that the user is not a bot United States NID Set by Google to set a unique user ID to remember user preferences. Persistent cookie that stays for 182 days United States