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Ownership Claim
All materials on this website, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the property of the Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven) and the Cronos Group (Kontich), or the materials on this website are claimed to be the property of KU Leuven and the Cronos Group. By using this website, users agree to respect the copyright and any other intellectual property rights of this website and the materials it offers. However, any person or institution who believes their rights are being violated by the use of materials on this website is kindly requested to contact the promoter of this website, Prof. Dr. Didier Pollefeyt (Catholic University of Leuven).
Terms of Use
The information and materials on this website may only be used in the manner described in this legal statement. You may not use the information and materials for commercial purposes. However, you may download, print, and reproduce the information and materials on this website in their unmodified form, and solely for your personal use or for research, educational, and non-commercial use within your organization, provided that the copyright of the materials used is attributed to KU Leuven. Unless otherwise permitted, you may not copy, modify, publish, distribute, or sell the information and materials on this website, including the photos, images, and diagrams that it contains, without the explicit permission of KU Leuven.
Accuracy of Information
KU Leuven has taken all reasonable steps to ensure that all information available on this website is accurate at the time of publication, based on knowledge available at that time. If necessary, KU Leuven may correct inaccurate, incomplete, or erroneous information and update.
Internet Security
This website does not use a secure system for sending data over the internet. Each user must be aware of the risks associated with sending data over the internet.
Availability and Reliability
Internet services are not necessarily available and reliable. KU Leuven does not guarantee that this website and the information and materials it contains will be available at all times, nor that the information and materials on these pages are free from computer viruses, interception, and modification by third parties, or other defects.
Liability
In the event that the law allows, KU Leuven disclaims all liability for any damage caused to any person or organization as a result of the direct or indirect use of this website or the information and materials it offers. KU Leuven's liability, unless otherwise determined by law, is limited to restoring the service or providing the material again.
User Responsibility
The user accepts all risks and responsibility for losses, damages, costs, and other consequences that result directly or indirectly from the use of this website or any information and materials it offers.
Privacy and Anonymity
Your personal privacy will be respected at all times. Anonymized use can be made of all empirical instruments on this website. Entering personal names or sensitive personal information into this website is never necessary to use the services. Individuals will never be identifiable in the graphs or tables that display the results of the empirical research.
Personal email addresses may be stored by the system, but are only used for the purposes explicitly mentioned on these pages.
KU Leuven will not undertake any attempt to trace the internet behavior of individual users. However, in the unlikely event of a legal investigation, a competent service or government agency may exercise its legal authority and inspect the log files of our Internet Service Provider.
For statistical purposes, this website records the total number of times the empirical instruments are accessed. However, the website does not record the number of times an individual user accesses the empirical instruments.
Cookies
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Explanation. Cookies are either persistent or session based. Persistent cookies are stored on your computer, contain a expiration date, and can be used to track your internet behavior when you visit the website that created the cookie. Session cookies, on the other hand, are short-lived, are only in use during your visit to the website that created the cookie, and are deleted when you close your internet browser.
Hyperlinks
Hypertext links to or from this website may be incomplete or inaccurate and may not function properly. They are provided solely for your convenience. Furthermore, it cannot be concluded from a Hypertext link that KU Leuven supports or approves the websites to which it is linked or from which it is linked, the content or materials of these websites, or the views and opinions of the people who manage these websites. With the prior permission of KU Leuven, Hypertext links to this website can be created. However, KU Leuven reserves the right to prevent linking to this website or placing this website in a frame by giving notice.
Authorization
This website is authorized by Prof. Dr. Didier Pollefeyt, Catholic University of Leuven.