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Cookies Policy
ICOMOS informs you that, when browsing the ICOMOS website and all the pages of this domain, cookies are placed on the user's computer, mobile or tablet.
A cookie is a piece of information stored by a website on the user's computer and that the user's browser provides to the website during each user’s visit.
These cookies essentially allow ICOMOS to:
- facilitate the user’s browsing on the site and activate interactive modules present on the site (required cookies: it is not possible to refuse these cookies if you want to browse the site)
- to establish statistical analysis of the site’s usage (optional cookies).
You will find below the list of cookies used by our website and their characteristics:
- “Cookieaccept”: indicates that you have accepted the cookie policy via the notification which appears the first time you visit the website (1 year duration)
- “OctoShowModalPhotobank”: indicates that you checked the box "Do not show this information next time" when you visited our Photobank and viewed the message "Welcome to the ICOMOS Collaborative Image Bank!" (1 year duration)
- “joomla_remember_me_a12e1f90ec76162d7747594b6c19ffed“: indicates that you have ticked the "Remember me" box when you log in with your user account to log in automatically during your next visit (1 year duration)
- “joomla_user_state“: indicates that you have successfully identified yourself after login into your user account (lasts as long as your session, the cookie is deleted once your browsing is finished on the ICOMOS website)
- Session cookie: its name is composed of a chain of 32 characters, it is essential to the functioning of any website and identifies your session on the site which opens the first time you consult a page on the site (lasts as long as your session).
Cookies created by the use of a third-part service on the website:
- ”_utma, _utmb, _utmc, _utmz”: Google Analytics Service, used to collect anonymous data about visits on our website, such as the number of visitors per month, and to improve the quality of the site; it cannot be used for individual identification purposes (duration: see details on:
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage)
- “_atuvc youtube”: allows us to embed videos on our website from Youtube. YouTube will not store any personal data while playing the embedded video in extended privacy mode (duration varies, see Google site for more details:
https://policies.google.com/technologies/types?hl=en)
For information:
- the data collected is not cross-checked with other treatments;
- the cookie is only used for the production of anonymous statistics;
- the cookie does not make it possible to follow the user’s browsing on other sites.
You can set up your browser to alert you of the presence cookies and offer you to accept them or not. You can accept or refuse cookies on a case-by-case basis or refuse them once and for all. However, some features of the ICOM website cannot function properly without cookies activated.
The setting of cookies is different for each browser and generally described in the help menus. You will find more explanations on how to proceed via the links below.
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At the UN Climate Change Conference (COP22) in Marrakech from 7-18 November 2016, US/ICOMOS and ICOMOS Morocco will participate as co-hosts of two official side events on key issues of cultural heritage.
ICOMOS is pleased to announce that the first edition of the Thematic Study on The Cultural Heritages of Water in the Middle-East and the Maghreb is now available for download. 
On December 4th, at the international secretariat of ICOMOS near Paris, ICOMOS Netherlands organized a Round Table Water and heritage. In these times of climate change, it intended to highlight the importance of water management for the preservation of cultural and natural heritage under climate change