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The Slovenian Technology Forum website is free to use and accessible to all internet users. The user agrees to use the website and its services in accordance with the applicable legal provisions and the rules of use of the Slovenian Technology Forum website.
Some cookies are necessary for the operation of the website, some are aimed at improving the user experience (e.g. storing user preferences), and some are also used to monitor the visit to the website, which helps its administrator to continuously improve the website and the user experience with it.
The website www.tehnoloski-forum.si allows selected third parties to place other cookies on the user's equipment (3rd party cookies). By giving consent to the use of cookies, the user gives consent to the administrator of the Slovenian Technology Forum, GIZ and third parties (Google, Google Analytics). For all other cookies, it is considered that their storage is not under the control of the operator of this website.
Some other cookies are temporary or session cookies and some are permanent or stored cookies as shown in the table below. Depending on the following characteristics, cookies are distinguished:
1. temporary and session or permanent cookies(a session cookie is a cookie that is automatically deleted when we close the browser, while a permanent one remains stored in the browser until a certain period of time has elapsed, which can be several minutes or several years.)
2. own cookies or third party cookies(first-party cookies are cookies of the website you are visiting, and third-party cookies are set by an external web service that is integrated into the website for the desired functionality)
In the European Union (EU), the use of cookies is governed by Directive 2002/58/EC on the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the field of electronic communications and the transposition of its provisions into the national legislation of each Member State. In Slovenia, the use of cookies is regulated by Article 225 of the Electronic Communications Act (Act on Electronic Communications — “ZEkom-2”).
- Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential for the proper functioning of the website. Without these cookies, the website would not function properly. Necessary cookies cannot be turned off.
- Preferential cookies
Preferential cookies or functional cookies are used to provide functionality that is not strictly necessary but allows you to use our website more comfortably and customised, e.g. by storing and analysing your choices and preferences, such as your region, language, etc. - functionalities that determine how the website behaves or looks. If you do not allow functional cookies, these functionalities may not be available or may not work properly.
- Analytical cookies
Analytical cookies are used via Google Analytics technology provided by Google Ireland Ltd. (Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland) and Google LLC (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA) (“Google”) for the purpose of analysing the use of our website. For this purpose, a cookie is placed on your device that collects information about how visitors came to our website and how they use it, including browser and device information, your IP address, websites visited and the date and time of the server request, for the purposes of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services related to the activity of the website and the use of the Internet, for the provider of the website. Cookies allow us to improve the user experience and the web content itself. The information is collected in an anonymized form. Some analytics cookies are automatically removed when you leave the website, others remain for up to 24 months from your last visit to our website.
You can opt out of tracking via the link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Our website uses an online analytics service Google Analytics 4provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (“Google Analytics 4”). If you have not given your consent to the use of analytical tools, your data will not be collected within the framework of Google Analytics 4.
Google Analytics 4 uses JavaScript and pixels to read information on your device and cookies to store information. This data is used to analyze your behavior when using the website and improve our website. At our request, Google combines the access data into pseudonymised user profiles and transmits them to a Google server in the USA. We process the information obtained to evaluate your use of the website and to prepare reports on website activities.
The data collected as part of the analysis of the use of Google Analytics 4 is supplemented by data from the Google Search Console.
Google may process the following data:
1. ip address
2. user id and device id
3. Visited pages
4. technical information (operating system, browser language version, device model and resolution...)
5. Approximate location (country region, city, if possible, based on anonymized ip address)
If you wish to complain about our use of cookies, you can contact the relevant supervisory authority. The supervisory authority in Slovenia is Information Officer of the Republic of Slovenia.
You can also control and change your cookie settings in your web browser. For information about cookie settings, select the web browser you are using.
For more information, you can contact us through one of our contact details:
SLOVENIAN TECHNOLOGY FORUM, GIZ
Dunajska cesta 5, 1000 Ljubljana
E-mail: info@tehnoloski-forum.si
Privacy Policy Last Updated: March 13, 2025