3.2 We collect information about you via parameter tracking
We also use Scripts and components (such e.g. JavaScript code) used to generate Web pages and to automate computer processes. You can disable the Scripts, such as JavaScript, through your browser (see your browser's settings).
We may also use ETag, which is an HTTP protocol header field mainly used to validate web caches and allow more efficient browsing. It has also been used for cookie-like purposes.
3.3 We collect information about you via third parties
We use Google Analytics’ 3rd-party audience data such as age, gender and interests to work with companies that collect information about your online activities to provide advertising targeted to suit your interests and preferences. For example, you may see certain ads on this website or other website because we contract with Google and other similar companies to target our ads based on information we or they have collected, including information that was collected through automated means (such as cookies and web beacons). These companies also use automated technologies to collect information when you click on our ads, which helps track and manage the effectiveness of our marketing efforts.
You may opt in for or opt out of the automated collection of information by third-party ad networks for the purpose of delivering advertisements tailored to your interests, by visiting the consumer opt-out page for the Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioural Advertising at https://www.aboutads.info/choices/ and edit or opt-out your Google Display Network ads’ preferences at https://www.google.com/ads/preferences/. Because those opt-out and preference control pages are specific to the individual browser used to visit it, and because that page is not operated by Eurofins, we are unable to perform the opt-ins or opt-outs on your behalf.
Google reCAPTCHA
We use “Google reCAPTCHA” (hereinafter referred to as “reCAPTCHA”) on this website. The provider is Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.
The purpose of reCAPTCHA is to determine whether data entered on this website (e.g., information entered into a contact form) is being provided by a human user or by an automated program. To determine this, reCAPTCHA analyzes the behavior of the website visitors based on a variety of parameters. This analysis is triggered automatically as soon as the website visitor enters the site. For this analysis, reCAPTCHA evaluates a variety of data (e.g., IP address, time the website visitor spent on the site or cursor movements initiated by the user). The data tracked during such analyses are forwarded to Google.
reCAPTCHA analyses run entirely in the background. Website visitors are not alerted that an analysis is underway.
Data are stored and analyzed on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the protection of the operator’s websites against abusive automated spying and against SPAM. If appropriate consent has been obtained, the processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR, insofar the consent includes the storage of cookies or the access to information in the user’s end device (e.g., device fingerprinting). This consent can be revoked at any time.
For more information about Google reCAPTCHA please refer to the Google Data Privacy Declaration and Terms Of Use under the following links: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en and https://policies.google.com/terms?hl=en.
The company is certified in accordance with the “EU-US Data Privacy Framework” (DPF). The DPF is an agreement between the European Union and the US, which is intended to ensure compliance with European data protection standards for data processing in the US. Every company certified under the DPF is obliged to comply with these data protection standards. For more information, please contact the provider under the following link: https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/participant/5780.
Originally established as the United Nations (UN) International Children's Emergency Fund by the member states of the UN in 1946, UNICEF has spent many years providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children in need throughout the world, carrying out crucial work in various fields, including health, nutrition, and education. Eurofins has been proudly supporting UNICEF for a decade.
With a Group Service Centre location in Brussels, Eurofins has built a particularly strong partnership with UNICEF Belgium. Since 2012, Eurofins companies and the Eurofins Foundation have contributed to numerous UNICEF projects, especially those focused on improving nutrition – a topic very closely aligned with Eurofins’ mission to contribute to a healthier world.
UNICEF’s initiatives to improve nutrition and combat child malnutrition and illness have made a significant difference to local communities in Angola, Bangladesh, Uganda, and more, by providing the best medical attention to children and to pregnant and breastfeeding mothers. In 2013, when Angola suffered its worst drought in over three decades, leaving 1.5 million people in food insecurity, UNICEF opened more than 500 therapeutic programme centres, with Eurofins’ financial support. These centres provided screening for malnutrition to over one million children, 59,000 of whom then received ready-to-use emergency food packets (designed specifically for children suffering from severe acute malnutrition), helping them to make significant recovery within a few weeks or even days.
Of course, there is more value in prevention than in cure, and UNICEF also works to stop health crises before they happen, wherever possible. Their work in Bangladesh is exemplary of this approach. Undernutrition in young children often starts in the womb with foetal growth restriction, when a baby doesn't grow to a normal weight during pregnancy because the mother is suffering from malnutrition. Together with Eurofins and other donors, UNICEF provided iron-folic acid supplementation to a total of 91,500 pregnant and breastfeeding women and teenage girls in Bangladesh. As a result, anaemia rates among these women dropped by 12%, helping them to carry a healthy baby to term and improving the child’s overall health outlook.
Similarly, in 2018, Eurofins also supported UNICEF’s efforts to supply over 517 million vitamin A tablets to children in vulnerable communities across 58 countries. Vitamin A contributes to stronger immune systems, reducing mortality rates in children under five and providing them with better defences against various diseases and disabilities caused by vitamin A deficiency, such as blindness.
In 2022, the Eurofins Foundation continued its partnership with UNICEF Belgium through support for the ‘Indonesia's support for Girls' Education and Empowerment through STEM skills’ project.
Christèle Devos, Executive Director at UNICEF Belgium, looks back on how their partnership with Eurofins has helped them to scale up their efforts around the world:
“On behalf of UNICEF, a sincere thank you to Eurofins for their valuable support over these past 10 years. Our partnership has helped us to bring significant change to the health and nutrition of children worldwide. We look forward to continuing to join forces with Eurofins in our efforts together to make a difference for every child in need.” Centrally managed content