Welcome to Our Cookie Policy
At the Leitner Summer Human Rights Institute (SHRI), we believe that protecting your privacy and ensuring a transparent online experience is important. This Cookie Policy outlines what and how cookies and other tracking technologies we use on the website (https://leitnersummerhumanrightsinstitute.org/) of the SHRI. We use this policy to outline what information SHRI gathers through the use of cookies on the website and explain their use and your options in relation to these cookies. By using our website, you signify your consent to our use of cookies in accordance with this policy. All users, students, legal professionals, and international human rights advocates interested in furthering their knowledge with our help should read this document in full to enable them to make well-informed decisions about SHRI’s digital presence.
The Meaning of Cookies
Cookies are small files stored on your device (computer, tablet, smartphone) when you visit a website. They are transferred to the hard drive of your device and enable your device to recognize the website and remember the contents of a previous visit. Cookies are used to make our website operate with maximum usability, optimize your web experience, and collect analytical and marketing information. At SHRI, we use cookies to enable our site to work effectively, customize it according to your needs, and facilitate access to our human rights education resources.
Categories of Cookies We May Use
Our website uses different types of cookies to provide a functional and user-friendly web experience:
- Strictly necessary cookies. These enable you to move about our website and log into secure areas. Without these cookies, certain services, such as those that deliver applications or enable you to access program schedules, cannot be provided.
- Performance and analytics cookies. These collect information about how visitors use our website (for example, which pages visitors go to most often and whether users get error messages from web pages). We use reputable analytics providers (such as Google Analytics) to perform this function on our behalf and only use the anonymized data we get back to help us improve the performance of our site and greater relevance in content.
- Functional cookies. These allow our website to remember choices you make (such as the country or region you are in) and to provide enhanced and more personalized features. These may also be used to remember any changes you have made to text size, fonts, or other parts of web pages that you can customize.
- Targeting cookies. These are used to deliver content relevant to your interests. They may be set through our site by our third-party network advertisers. Alternatively, we can measure the effectiveness of our targeting activities (such as how many of you saw the specific call for participation for the Summer Human Rights Institute in Atlanta and then clicked through) in order to ensure that information is reaching those individuals who will benefit most from it.
- Third party cookies. In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-party cookies for services such as video embedding (for example, YouTube), social media integration, or for processing online applications for programs. These will be governed by the privacy policies of the third parties that set them.
How We Use Cookies
Cookies are an important part of fulfilling the mission of the Leitner Summer Human Rights Institute in enhancing your experience on the site and in helping us to expand our reach to prospective students globally. Specifically, we utilize cookies to:
- Power secure, seamless site navigation
- Allow for online application and registration process for our intensive certificate program
- Remember user preferences to customize your experience
- Gather anonymous analytical data to make enhancements to the site experience, our content, and our outreach
- Support media content (i.e. video lectures, faculty introductions)
- Customize communications and promotional material targeted to website visitors who have expressed interest in SHRI
All information gathered through cookies is processed pursuant to the governing data protection laws and is used solely for the purposes of furthering the educational mission and accessibility of the programs.
Your Consent and Choices
The moment you visit our site, you will see a cookie consent banner. By continuing, you agree that we can use cookies for analysis and personalized content. However, you are free to change your cookie preferences at any time.
You can manage and/or delete cookies if you wish. You can generally specify whether your web browser will accept cookies or not, in addition to deleting cookies which may have already been set. Please note that disabling some cookies may impair the use and user experience of our website (e.g. applying for program, being able to read a lecture). To learn how to manage cookies, visit your web browser’s help section. Common web browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge, have settings allowing you to view, block or delete cookies. You could also opt-out of Google Analytics for the web by installing Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
Third-party Cookies and Embedded Content
Our website may incorporate third-party content and features such as video embedded from sites like YouTube, share tools on social media platforms, and forms from outside applications. Third party providers may use cookies and other tracking technologies that we are unable to control. For instance, when you watch a video on YouTube that is embedded in our website or click on a Share button on a social media platform, cookies may be used by these sites.
You may review the third-party privacy and cookie policies to understand more about their data practices. SHRI does not receive or control the information that those third party cookies collect. However, SHRI looks to partner with third party providers who value privacy and/or transparency.
Cookies Used for Analytics, Optimization, and Improvement Purposes
To ensure the site works for a global audience and provides the best experience possible, we employ analytical cookies to capture anonymized information about site traffic, site usage, and interaction with the programmes offered on our website. These cookies enable us to learn how customers arrive at our site, how popular particular pages are, and whether site visitors experience any technical errors.
Data captured through analytical cookies helps us learn about the following:
- Navigation and information architecture
- Content quality and relevance, particularly for subjects such as human rights law
- Technical errors or slow-loading pages
- Engagement with core functionality (e.g. application forms and programme schedules)
We employ aggregate non-personally identifiable information to achieve the above. In no event is data obtained through analytical cookies used to identify individuals.
How to Manage Cookies: Practical Guidance
We respect your right to control cookies and how they are used when you visit our site. To help you manage cookies, we recommend all users take the following practical measures:
- Review and configure your web browser’s privacy settings to configure your cookie preferences.
- Use the cookie consent mechanism embedded in our site to consent to or refuse certain non-essential cookies.
- Delete your web browser’s cookies to unstore them.
- Take advantage of privacy enhancements such as internet-wide ‘privacy guards’ or web browser plug-ins (e.g., ad blockers, trackers blockers) which set restrictions on third party cookies.
Should you have questions about how cookies interact with the site or experience issues relating to our consent mechanism, please contact us at [email protected] or at (832) 939-9983 for assistance.
How We Safeguard Your Information
SHRI maintains data privacy and security as a core principle. Information collected by cookies is processed in compliance with data protection standards, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for users located in the European Economic Area (EEA) and in accordance with other applicable privacy laws.
We use security to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration, disclosure, or destruction of information stored through cookies. We train our employees on data privacy matters and regularly review our policies and technology to help ensure compliance. We do not sell or rent any personal information by cookies to third parties.
How Long We Keep Cookie Data
The duration of a cookie depends on its type and purpose:
- Session cookies are temporary and expire once you close your browser.
- Persistent cookies remain on your device for a predetermined period or until you manually disable cookies in your browser settings or delete them through the cookie management tool. These cookies help us remember your choices from visit to visit.
- Third-party cookies may have other retention policies and/or may be controlled by the third-party supplier.
We routinely examine the cookies we use on our site to ensure that we don’t retain data longer than required and that all our uses are consistent with our privacy assurances.
International Visitors and Cross-border Exchange Of Data
As the Leitner Summer Human Rights Institute website has an international reach, we welcome participants and website visitors from around the world. Note that information collected via cookies may be transferred to and processed in the U.S. where our servers are located and our administrative operations are run. Data protection laws in the U.S. may be different from those in your country; however, we take all appropriate steps to respect and protect your privacy rights no matter where you are located.
By using this particular website, you agree to the transfer, storing, and processing of personal information about you as described in this policy.
Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may from time to time update this Cookie Policy to reflect changes in technology, law, or our data practices. All changes will be reflected on this page in a revised effective date. Please check this page periodically to keep informed about our use of cookies and to understand how we protect your privacy.
In the event we make material changes, we may provide additional notice (for example, by placing a prominent banner on our home page) so that you are aware of those changes.
Your Rights and Additional Information
Site visitors have the right to request:
- Access to the personal data we collect and process about them
- Correction or erasure of their personal data
- Object to, or obtain a restriction on, some types of processing, including cookies
- Withdraw consent for cookies that are not required at any time
Individuals should contact us regarding the exercise of any of the above rights or for additional information regarding our data practices at [email protected] or by phone at (832) 939-9983. We strive to respond to all requests in a timely, transparent manner.
CONTACT US ABOUT COOKIES OR PRIVACY ISSUES
Your privacy is important to us at the Leitner Summer Human Rights Institute. If you have any comments, questions, or concerns about the cookies or otherwise about our privacy practices, we invite you to let us know. Our administration staff will be happy to outline the available options and provide additional details:
- Email: [email protected]
- Phone: (832) 939-9983
- Address: 1500 Louisiana St Ste 11, Houston TX 77002
Program details, our application process, or a link to the complete Privacy Policy are available at https://leitnersummerhumanrightsinstitute.org/.
Wrap Up: Openness Builds Trust
We at the SHRI value privacy, transparency, and autonomy, hallmarks of the international human rights law we teach. Our Cookie Policy was created to provide you with clear, detailed information about our use of cookies, so you can make an informed decision. We are deeply committed to continually improving our privacy practices for serving our broad, diverse, global community of human rights law students and professionals. We appreciate you trusting the Leitner Summer Human Rights Institute.