Last updated: 17 September 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how i-HTScience V.o.G. uses cookies and similar technologies on the evidence.academy, available at https://evidence.academy.
The evidence.academy is hosted and managed by i-HTScience V.o.G., the not-for-profit scientific institute of EuroScan / international HealthTechScan (EuroScan/i-HTS).
For information about how we process personal data more generally, please read our Privacy Policy.
1. What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files stored on your device — such as a computer, tablet or smartphone — when you visit a website.
Cookies can help websites function properly, remember preferences, maintain secure login sessions, record shopping-cart activity, understand how visitors use a website and, where permitted, support communication or marketing activities.
We may also use similar technologies, including local storage, pixels, tags, scripts and software-development kits. For simplicity, this Cookie Policy refers to all such technologies as “cookies”.
2. Who is responsible?
The controller responsible for cookies used on the evidence.academy is:
i-HTScience V.o.G.
Scientific Institute of EuroScan / international HealthTechScan (EuroScan/i-HTS)
Hütte 79
B-4700 Eupen
Belgium
BCE / KBO No. 0798.299.013
Privacy contact: office(at)i-hts.science
3. Why we use cookies
We use cookies for the following purposes:
- To provide core website and learning-platform functions.
- To maintain secure login sessions and protect accounts.
- To remember technical settings and cookie-consent choices.
- To enable course enrolment, learning progress, certificates, shopping-cart functions or payment-related steps, where applicable.
- To understand how the website and learning platform are used, where you have given consent.
- To improve usability, performance and learning services, where you have given consent.
- To support optional marketing or communications activities, only where relevant tools are enabled and you have given consent.
4. Cookie categories
The evidence.academy may use the following categories of cookies.
| Category | Purpose | Consent required? |
|---|---|---|
| Strictly necessary cookies | Required for website operation, security, login, account sessions, consent-preference storage, shopping-cart functions and other services explicitly requested by you | No |
| Functional cookies | Remember choices, preferences or enhanced settings that are not strictly necessary for the basic service | Yes, unless strictly necessary in the specific context |
| Analytics cookies | Help us understand how visitors use the website or learning environment, such as pages viewed, navigation patterns or technical performance | Yes |
| Marketing cookies | May be used to measure campaigns, show relevant communications or enable social-media/advertising integrations | Yes |
| Third-party cookies | Set by external providers integrated into the website, such as payment, video, login, analytics, embedded-content or social-media services | Depends on purpose; normally yes unless strictly necessary |
5. Strictly necessary cookies
Strictly necessary cookies are required to provide the website or a service that you have explicitly requested. They cannot be switched off through the cookie-preference centre because the website, login area, course-access functions or checkout process may not work correctly without them.
These cookies may be used for:
- Maintaining secure user sessions after login.
- Preventing fraud, abuse and security attacks.
- Remembering cookie-consent choices.
- Operating WordPress, MasterStudy LMS and connected account functions.
- Maintaining shopping-cart, checkout or payment-session functionality, where applicable.
- Balancing server load or ensuring technical delivery of website content.
Strictly necessary cookies are used on the basis of our legitimate interests in operating a secure and functional website and, where applicable, performing a contract with you.
6. Functional cookies
Functional cookies allow the website to remember choices that improve your experience, such as language, interface preferences, display settings or other optional features.
We use functional cookies only where they are strictly necessary for a service you have requested or where you have given consent through the cookie-preference centre.
7. Analytics cookies
Analytics cookies help us understand how the evidence.academy is used. For example, they may show which pages are visited, how visitors navigate through the website, whether technical errors occur and how we can improve the accessibility, performance and relevance of content.
Analytics cookies are optional. They are activated only after you have given consent.
Current status: The evidence.academy does not currently use non-essential analytics or audience-measurement cookies.
8. Marketing cookies
Marketing cookies may be used to measure the effectiveness of communications, understand the performance of campaigns or display relevant information through third-party platforms.
The evidence.academy does not use marketing cookies unless clearly identified in the cookie-preference centre and you have actively consented to their use.
Current status: The evidence.academy does not currently use advertising, retargeting, behavioural-marketing or social-media tracking cookies.
9. Third-party services
The evidence.academy may use third-party services to operate specific functions. Depending on the configuration, these services may set or access cookies.
The following services may be relevant:
| Service or integration | Purpose | Cookie category | Only activate if actually used |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordPress | Website content-management system | Strictly necessary / functional | Yes |
| MasterStudy LMS | Course delivery, learning progress, user accounts and certificates | Strictly necessary / functional | Yes |
| WooCommerce | Shopping cart, checkout and order management | Strictly necessary / functional | Only if WooCommerce is active |
| [Payment provider] | Secure payment processing | Strictly necessary and/or third-party | Only if payments are enabled |
| Google Sign-In | Optional user authentication | Third-party / functional | Only if Google login is enabled |
| [SCORM provider or authoring tool] | Delivery and recording of SCORM learning content | Strictly necessary / functional | Only for relevant courses |
| [Video provider] | Embedded training or event videos | Third-party / functional or analytics | Only if embedded videos are used |
| [Analytics provider] | Website and platform analytics | Analytics | Only with consent |
| [Newsletter / CRM provider] | Subscription and communication management | Functional and/or marketing | Only if used |
| [Cookie-consent platform] | Store and manage cookie preferences | Strictly necessary | Yes, if a consent-management platform is used |
Where a third-party service is used, that provider may process personal data according to its own privacy notice. For more information, please consult the relevant provider’s privacy documentation and our Privacy Policy.
10. Cookie table
The table below should list every cookie and similar technology that is actually active on the evidence.academy.
Do not publish the following example table unchanged. Replace it with the results of a real cookie scan after the WordPress theme, MasterStudy, WooCommerce, Google Login, payment provider, analytics tools, video embeds and consent banner have been fully configured.
| Cookie or technology | Provider | Purpose | Category | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
[cookie_consent_name] | [consent-management platform] | Stores your cookie-preference choice | Strictly necessary | [insert actual duration] |
[wordpress_logged_in_*] | WordPress | Maintains login session for authenticated users | Strictly necessary | Session / [actual duration] |
[wordpress_sec_*] | WordPress | Security cookie for authenticated sessions | Strictly necessary | Session / [actual duration] |
[woocommerce_cart_hash] | WooCommerce | Helps maintain shopping-cart state | Strictly necessary | Session |
[woocommerce_items_in_cart] | WooCommerce | Indicates whether items are in the shopping cart | Strictly necessary | Session |
[wp_woocommerce_session_*] | WooCommerce | Stores a unique user/session reference for shopping-cart functions | Strictly necessary | [actual duration] |
[google login cookie, if applicable] | Supports optional Google sign-in | Functional / third-party | [actual duration] | |
[analytics cookie, if applicable] | [analytics provider] | Measures website use after consent | Analytics | [actual duration] |
| | Enables embedded video content | Functional / third-party | [actual duration] |
[marketing cookie, if applicable] | [provider] | Campaign measurement or advertising | Marketing | [actual duration] |
11. How to manage your cookie preferences
When you first visit the evidence.academy, you can choose whether to accept or reject non-essential cookies.
You can accept or refuse optional cookies by category. Strictly necessary cookies remain active because they are essential for providing the website and services you request.
You may change or withdraw your consent at any time by selecting:
12. Consent
Where consent is required, we seek it before placing or accessing non-essential cookies.
Your consent is:
- Freely given: You can refuse non-essential cookies without losing access to the general website.
- Specific: You can choose between different cookie purposes or categories.
- Informed: We provide information about the purposes, providers, cookie duration and how to withdraw consent.
- Unambiguous: Consent requires a clear affirmative action; continued browsing, inactivity or closing the banner does not constitute consent.
- Withdrawable: You can change or withdraw your choices at any time through Cookie Settings.
The cookie banner should show “Accept all” and “Reject all” options at the same level of visual prominence, alongside a clear “Manage preferences” option. Belgian guidance treats non-essential cookies as requiring prior, informed consent; an equal refusal option and granular categories are important elements of a compliant consent experience.
13. Data transfers outside the EEA
Some third-party cookie providers may process data outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”). Where this occurs, we use appropriate safeguards required by applicable data-protection law, such as an adequacy decision or the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses, where applicable.
Further information is available in our Privacy Policy.
14. Changes to this Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy when we change the cookies or technologies used on the evidence.academy, introduce a new service, change our consent-management tools or when legal requirements change.
The current version will always be available on this page. Where changes are material, we will update the date at the top of this Cookie Policy and, where appropriate, request new consent.
15. Contact
If you have questions about this Cookie Policy or how the evidence.academy uses cookies, please contact:
i-HTScience V.o.G.
Hütte 79
B-4700 Eupen
Belgium
Email: office(at)i-hts.science
You may also lodge a complaint with the Belgian Data Protection Authority. Contact details are provided in our Privacy Policy.
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