Welcome to the website footnotes.zrc-sazu.si, which is created as part of a project: »Route biographies: walking and writing as methods for researching border regions«, funded by the Slovenian Research Agency.
This website was created to collect reflections on walking-writing meditations, following different routes, with the desire to grow beyond the original Route Biographies project, from which it emerged. We ask you, as a visitor (hereinafter: visitor, user or you) to this website, to observe the following Terms and Conditions.
By viewing or using this website, you acknowledge that you have read and understood these Terms and Conditions, understood them and accept them in their entirety.
Legal Notice
The owner of this website (ZRC SAZU) endeavours to ensure that the information on this site is accurate and up to date by adhering to proper web design standards and taking the necessary precautions. At the same time, ZRC SAZU reserves the right to modify the content of this website or to stop updating it at any time without prior notice and assumes no responsibility for its restoration. The owner of the website may therefore change the products, services or programmes described on this website at any time and without prior notice.
Trademark protection
Unless otherwise indicated by ZRC SAZU, all brand names and trademarks on this website are registered and protected. This also applies to all logos of the owner and associated organisations (logos of products and companies) and trademarks. The use of these brands and trademarks is only permitted with the prior authorisation of the owner of this website.
Limitation of liability
All texts, images and other contents of this website have been selected and edited by the owner of this website and are intended as informative data. Despite their informative character, the owner is not liable for the thoroughness and correctness of the published data or for printing errors in the event of co-operation with the data on a commercial level.
The owner, any legal entity or individual person who has participated in the creation and development of this website shall not be liable for any indirect, direct, personal or incidental damages resulting from the misunderstanding or misuse of the contents of this website by the user, except for the direct infliction of damages resulting from the wilful misconduct of the owner and its employees or from their negligence.
This website and its entire content, including patents, brands and trademarks as well as the works of the authors, are protected by intellectual property regulations. It is strictly forbidden to copy, reproduce, republish, transfer to a remote computer, publish, transmit, distribute for commercial purposes or use to create derivative works any part of this website without the express prior written permission of the owner of this website.
Business Relations
This website may contain links or references to third party websites, resources and information. However, the owner of this website is not familiar with the content of the information on third-party websites and therefore accepts no liability for this information. Accordingly, a visitor to the footnotes.zrc-sazu.si website acknowledges and agrees that the owner is not responsible for the availability of such external websites or resources, nor is the owner liable for or can guarantee any content, services, products or other materials available on third party websites. Although a third party website may contain the logo of one of partners (or the owner of this website), the content of that website is independent from the project partners and the project partners have no control over the content of that website. In this case, visitors must take precautions to protect themselves from viruses, worms, Trojan horses and other malicious programmes and protect their information as they deem best.
Protection of privacy
ZRC SAZU collects contact information and some personal data from visitors to the website who wish to receive further information and contact the owner of the website for this purpose (by leaving their contact details via the contact form). Visitors to the website assume sole responsibility for the credibility of the personal and contact information they provide. The contact information is used to contact the visitor if this is necessary or requested by the visitor. The user can revoke the authorisation to process personal data at any time. In this case, the owner of the website will do everything necessary to fulfil these wishes without delay.
Personal data and contact information will only be used for the purposes for which they were transmitted in accordance with your consent. Personal data will not be passed on to third parties. Your IP address will only and exclusively be used to diagnose problems with our server and to administer the website.
COOKIES
In order to optimise the website in terms of system performance, usability and the provision of useful information about its services, ZRC SAZU automatically collects and stores information in log files on the user’s computer. This information includes data about the user’s Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type and language settings, operating system, Internet Service Provider (ISP) and the date/time of the visit.
ZRC SAZU uses this data to effectively administer the website, learn more about user behaviour on the web pages, analyse trends and collect broad demographic information about users. The data collected may be used for marketing and advertising purposes and for communication (e.g. to optimise and improve the user experience in order to ensure more attractive services).
If data that is not personal data is used together with personal data, this data is treated as personal data as long as it is used together.
The declaration on the protection of personal data from these terms and conditions also applies to the data collected by cookies and other comparable techniques.
What is a cookie?
Websites and web pages, emails, web services, advertising and interactive applications may use “cookies” to optimise services.
A cookie is a small file, usually containing a sequence of letters and numbers, which is loaded into the user’s terminal equipment (computer, mobile device, etc.; in these General Terms and Conditions generally referred to as: “computer”) when you visit the website footnotes.zrc-sazu.si (ZRC SAZU sends the cookie file from its web server to the hard drive of the user’s computer). This allows the website, for example, to identify the user’s devices when a connection is established between the web server and the web browser. The main purpose of a cookie is to enable the web server to provide the user with customised web pages in order to personalise the visit to this website and to better respond to the needs and requirements of individual users. Cookies allow ZRC SAZU to obtain more information about how users use the website and also serve as a means of improving a user’s experience during their visit to a particular web page.
What kinds of cookies are used on the website footnotes.zrc-sazu.si?
The footnotes.zrc-sazu.si website may use the following types of cookies:
Session cookies: These are temporary cookies that are stored in the log file in the user’s browser for the entire duration of the user’s session (i.e. for the duration of browsing and then deleted at the end of the session). These cookies are necessary for the proper operation of specific applications or functionalities on the footnotes.zrc-sazu.si website.
Permanent cookies: footnotes.zrc-sazu.si uses these permanent cookies to improve user experience (e.g. to store information about registration, the language settings of the website and similar). These cookies remain in the cookies file in the user’s browser for a longer period of time until they are deleted. The period depends on the choice made by the user in the settings of their Internet browser. Persistent cookies can be used to transmit information to the website server each time the website is visited. Persistent cookies are also known as tracking cookies.
First-party cookies: These are cookies from the footnotes.zrc-sazu.si website that the user sees and that can be permanent (persistent) or temporary (session). The website uses these cookies to store information that it can reuse the next time the user visits the website;
Third-party cookies: These cookies come from other partner websites (e.g. those that measure web traffic). In this way, the third-party site can collect data about users from different websites and use it for various purposes, from advertising or analytics to improving its products.
Further information about cookies can be found at http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
Whenever the user’s consent is required for the use or setting of cookies, the owner of the website footnotes.zrc-sazu.si will ask for the user’s consent before using them or installing them on the user’s device (computer).
Tracking and analysis
In order to continuously optimise its marketing communications on its website, the owner of the footnotes.zrc-sazu.si website uses the analytic software from Google Inc. which uses cookies to analyse traffic (counting visitors, identifying browsers and keywords leading to the site’s location, navigation issues). The website or the owner of the website footnotes.zrc-sazu.si informs the user about the cookies and installs them on the user’s device (computer) and gives the user the option to reject the cookies.
This enables the tracking of online behaviour; in the collection stage, cookies store information about how users use the website, including the number of pages viewed, where the user is from (geographical location), the time of the visit and the number of visits, in order to improve the website and ensure a good experience for the user. This data is collected via tracking cookies. The data obtained through cookies is anonymous and is not linked to personally identifiable information. The owner of the website footnotes.zrc-sazu.si does not share this data with third parties for their independent use. If the user does not accept cookies, no information is stored.
Cookies of the website and external websites/services:
| Cookie name | Purpose | Type | Duration | Description |
| cookie_notice_accepted | footnotes.zrc-sazu.si | Required cookies | 1 year | It is used to save user decisions via cookies. The validity of the cookie is determined by the user. |
| _ga | Google Analytics | Statistics tracking cookies | 2 years | Performs a unique identity registration (ID) that is used to generate statistics about how a visitor uses the website. |
| _gat | Google Analytics | Statistics tracking cookies | Session | Google Analytics uses a cookie to manage the number of requests. |
| _gid | Google Analytics | Statistics tracking cookies | Session | Performs a unique identity registration (ID) that is used to generate statistics about how a visitor uses the website. |
Enabling or disabling of cookies and similar technology
The technical storage of or access to data is authorised exclusively for the sole purpose of transmitting a communication over an electronic communications network or when this is strictly necessary to provide the information society service explicitly requested by the user, in compliance with the regulations. The owner of the website footnotes.zrc-sazu.si uses the following cookies for these purposes, namely own session cookies and cookies for counting the number of visitors to the website; the cookies are only stored for as long as is necessary to fulfil their purpose, but for no longer than the duration of the user’s browsing session, and are deleted at the end of the session.
The user has the option of accepting or rejecting all cookies on all websites visited, bearing in mind that most browsers automatically accept cookies; or that their use is blocked by changing the settings of your Internet browser. If you as a user wish to change your browser settings or delete cookies for other Internet browsers, you must follow the instructions for the browser in question. (For example, a user using a version of Internet Explorer 8.0 must perform the following steps: 1. Select Tools and then Internet Options. 2. Click on the Privacy tab. 3. Use the slider to select the desired setting)
If cookies are disabled, some of the functions and the entire functionality of the website may no longer be available or may no longer work properly.