Privacy and cookies notice

Privacy notice for United Nations websites

Your privacy and the protection of personal data are important to the United Nations (UN). The UN has a privacy notice that applies to all UN websites, including the OHCHR global public website, www.ohchr.org. The UN privacy notice describes the UN’s policy concerning the gathering and sharing of personal data through UN websites. By visiting www.ohchr.org, you are accepting the practices described in this policy.

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Cookies notice for www.ohchr.org

By visiting or using this website, a cookie will be created which OHCHR may use to provide statistics that help us to give you the best experience of our site.

If you do not agree with any of the following information, you can switch off the cookies. However, by continuing to use our site without changing settings, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.

A cookie is a small piece of text that is stored by the browser on your computer or mobile device, so that a website can 'remember' things about your previous and current visits. Cookies cannot be used by themselves to identify you.

Every time you visit www.ohchr.org, web analytics software provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”) generates an anonymous analytics cookie. These cookies can tell us whether you've visited the site before. Your browser will tell us if you have these cookies, and if you don't, we generate new ones. This allows us to track how many individual unique users we have, and how often they visit the site. This information is used for statistical purposes and only to improve the operation of our website.

You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. All modern browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. These settings will typically be found in the 'options' or 'preferences' menu of your browser.                                                                                                                         

We use web beacons on some of our website pages in conjunction with cookies to compile statistics about site usage. Web beacons are small pieces of code that are embedded on the pages of websites so we can detect when they have been viewed.

We use Google AdWords, which uses a conversion tracking cookie (also called a "conversion pixel") whenever you click on an OHCHR ad delivered by Google. These cookies become ineffective after 30 days and are not used for personal identification. If you visit specific pages of our website, Google and OHCHR can track whether you were forwarded to that page by clicking on one of our ads.

Data obtained through use of conversion cookies are used for statistical reporting only: these statistics tell us the total number of users who clicked on the ad delivered by Google and opened a webpage having a conversion tracking tag. We do not however receive any information allowing personal identification of users from Google. We are unable to cross-reference the data obtained to any specific user.

Information about how to opt out of Google Adwords can be found on the Google Ads Settings web page.