Cookie Policy

CME Media Enterprises B.V., with its registered office at Strawinskylaan 933, 1077 XX Amsterdam, The Netherlands, together with its subsidiaries ("CME", "we", "us", "our" or the "Company") as data controller provides you with this Notice to explain how cookies are used on our website at www.cme.net (“website”). We provide this Notice to you at the commencement of our interaction through our website.

We use cookie technology in order to distinguish you from other users of our website and to offer you a better and more personalised web service. Data stored by cookies used on the Company’s website never show personal details from which an individual identity can be established.

A cookie is a small text file that is stored and/or read by your web browser on the hard disk of your end device (e.g. computer, laptop or smartphone) by websites you visit. Cookies also make your interactions with websites more secure and faster by sending the information they contain back to the originating website ( first-party cookie) or to another website to which it belongs ( third-party cookie), when you revisit the respective website using the same end device.

You can block or remove cookies through your internet browser or by using third party software, but there may be issues using certain parts of the website if you do.

In some cases, we directly ask for your cookie consent via our cookie banner.

Cookies used on the Company’s website

Based on the function and purpose for which cookies are used, they are typically divided into the following categories, which the Company uses on its website:

Strictly necessary cookies enable you to move around the website and use its basic functions. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services. These cookies are indispensable for the use of our website.
Functionality cookies are used to recognise you when you return to our website and enable us to offer you improved and more personalised functions like remembering your preferences. These cookies collect anonymous information and cannot track your movements on other websites. The expiration period of these cookies is no more than two years.
Analytical and performance cookies allow us to recognise and count the number of users and to gather information about how the website is used (e.g. which pages a user opens most often and whether the user receives error messages from some pages). This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that you can find what you are looking for easily. The expiration period of these cookies is no more than two years.
Other types of cookies which may be used at a later date. We will notify you in our updated policies if any other types of cookies are used.

Please note that the Company uses the services of Google Analytics to learn about your usage of our website in order to optimize your user experience. See further below under "Google Analytics".

You can withdraw your cookie consent at any time. In order to do so, please see the provisions below.

If you want to delete the cookies stored on your devices and configure your web browser to refuse cookies, you can do it by using the preference settings of your web browser. You can usually find the navigation settings relating to cookies in the "Options", "Tools" or "Preferences" menus of the web browser you use to access our website. Depending on the existing web browsers, various means can be used to disable cookies. To get more information, please visit your web browsers’ relevant website.

Cookies used for statistics and website traffic monitoring

Google Analytics

Our website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google. Google Analytics uses cookies to help the website analyse how you use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties such as where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.

You can opt out of Google Analytics without affecting how you visit our website.

Detailed information about Google Analytics and privacy (including how you can control the information sent to Google) can be found at https://policies.google.com/privacy/partners and https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage

To prevent tracking, you can install an add-in to your web browser
http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Last update: 29th June 2021

We may update this Notice from time to time and will notify you of any changes by posting the new Notice on the website.