The KU Leuven website uses cookies that facilitate navigation through our website.

Cookies are small text files that record your preferences during browsing and are saved on your own computer or device.

Cookies can be functional. These cookies record some of your choices and settings made while visiting our websites to allow you to navigate more efficiently, quickly and simply on subsequent visits. For example: some cookies record log-in names, preference settings, etc.

On the other hand, cookies can also be used to record visit and click activity. This makes it possible to gauge the popularity of a web page.

Some of the cookies that the KU Leuven uses on the centrally managed websites are:

You can enable or delete cookies on your computer through your browser settings. The way in which this works varies from browser to browser. Consult your browser’s help function if necessary. You must always make this adjustment per browser and per computer!

Not accepting, disabling or deleting cookies may result in certain functionalities of the KU Leuven website being no longer accessible or not operating as expected. This may make your website experience unsatisfactory.

Many social media (such as, Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, Google+, Tumblr, etc.) receive a lot of information on your browsing habits through social plug-ins on their websites (for example by way of the Like or Share buttons).

These buttons are also to be found on the web pages of the KU Leuven.

If you want to protect yourself from these, then you are advised (by, among other agencies, the Commission for the Protection of Privacy) to take one of the steps below.

Privacy Badger (http://www.eff.org/privacybadger)

Ghostery (https://www.ghostery.com)

Disconnect (https://disconnect.me/disconnect)

This function forces your browser to erase all tracks of your browsing activity (cookies, history, etc.) after you have closed the window and therefore protects you from being tracked by third parties (please note: this function does not make you anonymous on the web). There are also special browsers that protect privacy, such as Privacy Browser (www.epicbrowser.com).

Social media and other websites use information about the browsing activity of its users to provide them with targeted advertising. If you no longer want to be tracked by targeted advertising, you can choose to opt out of targeted advertisements via the opt-out website of the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance (www.youronlinechoices.eu).

Opting out of targeted advertisements does not mean that information is no longer collected on your browsing activities. If you also want to protect yourself from the collection of this information, you are advised to also use the incognito mode of your browser or one of the above-mentioned browser add-ons.

You will find more information on the following websites: www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.com/be-nl