This Cookie Policy applies only to the website of Novo Nordisk Education Foundation (“NNEF”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) and describes how and why we use cookies.

1. What are Cookies?
   A cookie is a text file that is placed by the server of a website in the browser of your computer or on your mobile device when you visit the website.

The cookie contains a unique code that allows NNEF to recognize your browser during your visit to our website (called a “session” cookie), or later at repeated visits (called “persistent” cookie).

Each cookie is unique to your web browser. Cookies may be placed by the server of the website you are visiting or by partners that cooperate with the website, so called “third party cookies”.

Cookies generally make the interaction between the user and the website easier and faster and help the user to navigate between the different parts of a website. Cookies may also be used to make the content of the website more relevant for the visitor and to adapt it to his personal tastes and needs.

2. Use of Cookies

 The owner of https://nnef.co.in/ is:Novo Nordisk Education Foundation

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NNEF uses cookies to enhance the functionality of the website by storing your preferences. On https://nnef.co.in/, we use necessary cookies, functional/preference cookies, statistical cookies and marketing cookies.

Cookies can be used for a variety of purposes but are mainly used to store information about your activity on the internet. Cookies contain information that can later be read by a server on the Internet domain that issued the cookie. This means that the relevant website will remember you the next time you visit it. We use cookies on the website for the purposes of improving your user experience, providing and improving functionality, generating statistics, analysing the performance of the website, compiling statistics, remembering your preferences, marketing our services, personalizing content and advertisements, analyzing traffic, and to provide access to social media features. The advantage for you is that you will save time the next time you visit the website as you will not have to enter the same information again, and the content will be adapted to your preferences.

Necessary cookies

These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in this website. They are usually only set in response to a request made by you, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling out forms. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.

Analytical/statistical cookies

We use analytical cookies to collect information about the use of our website, with the intention to improve the content, to match it to the wishes of the visitors, and to increase the serviceability.

Data we collect:

• First-party cookie support (whether you allow us to place a cookie on your computer)
• Visitor ID (provided by a cookie we place on your computer when possible)
• Referrer (i.e. where you came from, e.g. google.com)
• Date and time of visit
• Regional and language settings (to determine which country you are in)
• Operating System (Windows, OS X, Linux, iOS, Android etc.)
• Browser & Browser Version (Chrome, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Safari etc.)
• Screen Resolution (1280×1024, 1024×768, etc.)
• JavaScript support
• Java support
• IP address (computer address on the internet for statistical purposes only – no personally identifiable information is collected)
• The title of the page you are viewing
• The URL of the page you are viewing
• Time spent on the page
• Device type (Tablet, Mobile, Desktop), manufacturer, Operating system, mobile carrier
• Country, region, city, state, zip code
• Keywords used in the website search field
• Search keywords resulting in a page view
• Reloads, clicks on pages, return frequency
• Entry, exit points page flow
• File downloads
• Content shared on social media or other available platforms (share buttons)

Marketing cookies

We use marketing cookies to offer you personalized and more relevant advertisements, to determine how many times a specific ad has already been shown, to calculate the effectiveness of a particular advertising campaign, to track data about previous visits and to share collected data with third parties involved, such as advertisers. They are used on the website and placed on your device by third parties.

3. Third-Party Cookies

We may use third party cookies, which are cookies that are placed in the user’s browser by a third party that is not NNEF.

The data, which is collected using third party cookies will not be available to NNEF but will only be collected and used by the third party for their own purposes. NNEF may e.g. embed photos and video content from websites such as YouTube. As a result, when you visit a NNEF website with content embedded from other websites, you may be presented with cookies from these websites. NNEF does not control the dissemination of these cookies. You should check the relevant third-party website for more information about their use of cookies.

https://nnef.co.in/. uses “share” buttons to enable users to easily share our content with friends through a number of popular social networks. These sites may set a cookie when you are also logged in to their service. NNEF does not control the dissemination of these cookies and you should check the relevant third-party website for more information about their use of cookies.

4. Cookies used on our Websites
   
   The first time you visit our website, you will be asked to consent to the use of cookies or to reject the use of some or all cookies. Please note that the use of functionality cookies does not require your consent as such cookies are necessary to ensure the functioning of our website. We encourage you to accept the use of cookies on our website as it helps us improve yours and other website users’ experience on the website. If you reject the use of cookies, certain website features may not be available to you.
   
   

   When you use our website, we do not record any information that can directly identify you, such as your name and address. We do, however, record information about how you navigate the website so that we may learn more about how our website is used, and we also record your IP address, which may indirectly identify you.

    

5. Cookie Management

 You must indicate if you allow cookies to be placed on your device or disable the use of certain types of cookies.

If you do not accept the use of certain cookies, some features of the site may not work, or you may not be able to use certain services on the websites.

If you wish to restrict or block the use of cookies, you must indicate your preferences via the cookie banner shown on the website. You may also restrict the use of cookies through your browser settings. The Help function within your browser should tell you how.

Cookies delete themselves after periods of varying lengths but are automatically updated when you visit our web- site again – see the Cookie Declaration at https://nnef.co.in/.

Opting out of cookies You can always refuse or opt out of having cookies placed on your computer by changing your browser settings or by visiting our cookie banner. However, please note that if you do so there will be many features on our website that you will not be able to use because they require that the website remembers the choices you make. Cookies that you have previously accepted can be easily deleted afterwards. If you are using a computer with a new or fairly new browser, you can delete your cookies using shortcut keys CTRL + SHIFT + Delete.

Please note that you must delete cookies in all your browsers if you are using more than one browser to visit our website.

6. Data Privacy

 When you accept cookies for analytics, we collect data such as for example general information about your computer and its location as well as the website you came from.

This information cannot be used to identify you as an individual. This information is only used in aggregate form to inform us where our visitors come from, what they look at and act on, and where the most time is spent.

Whenever we ask you for any personally identifiable information that can be used to identify you as an individual, we will ask for your consent and we will always provide an explanation as to why we collect the information, how we collect it, how we store it and how we plan on treating and using it.

We will only collect and store personally identifiable information for the purpose stated during the collecting process. When we finish processing your information for the stated purpose(s), we will erase and destroy it to ensure your privacy.

Some data are collected by using cookies based on our legitimate interest in and for the purpose of improvement of our website and your user experience, statistical purposes for our website, functional purposes for use of our website and to enable us to optimise the use of our website for marking and retargeting purposes.

For each type of cookie used to collect personal data for specified purposes, NNEF will only process the personal data collected via cookies for the specific purposes for which you have provided your consent in the cookie banner.

All your personal data will be treated in confidence and will only be used in compliance with the purposes stated above.

Where necessary for the purposes described in this privacy notice, we may share personal data with our founder i.e. Novo Nordisk India Private Limited and/or its affiliated entities, its holding company, and its associate or group companies  (hereinafter collectively referred to as “Novo Nordisk”) with whom we collaborate for the purposes of implementing healthcare programmes, fulfilling regulatory obligations, and improving disease management and patient support initiatives. Such sharing is undertaken in accordance with applicable data protection laws and pursuant to appropriate legal bases, including consent or legal obligations. NNEF and Novo Nordisk act as separate legal entities.

NNEF may engage third party service provider, and they will have access to and process your personal data, and we may transfer personal data to other Novo Nordisk group entities.

According to the data protection rules you have the following rights:

• You can get an overview of what personal data we have about you
• You can get a copy of your personal data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and to have that data transmitted directly to another data controller where technically feasible
• You can get an update or correction to your personal data
• You can have your personal data deleted or destroyed
• You can have us stop or limit processing of your personal data
• If you have given consent for us to process your personal data (see Section 5), you can withdraw your consent at any time. Your withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out before you withdrew your consent
• You can submit a complaint about how we process your personal data to a Data Protection Authority

Under applicable law, there may be limits on these rights depending on the specific circumstances of the processing activity. Contact us as described below with questions or requests relating to these rights.

Who To Contact

Contact us if you have any questions about this policy or other notices/policies on this website, want to obtain insight in any personal data held about you, or have any concerns regarding NNEF’s use of your personal data.

You can contact NNEF at info.nnef@novonordisk.com.