COOKIE POLICY
Last updated: July 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how ICA Institutional Capital Associates GmbH, operating the website
www.ic-icf.com under the Institutional Capital Forum brand, uses cookies and similar technologies on this website.
For further information on how we process personal data, please see our Data Protection Declaration.
1. What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device when you visit a website. They can help websites function properly, remember certain settings, protect forms from misuse, or provide information about how visitors use a website.
Similar technologies, such as local storage, session storage, pixels or scripts, may also be used for comparable purposes. In this Cookie Policy, we refer to these technologies collectively as “cookies”.
2. How do we use cookies?
We use cookies and similar technologies only where they are useful for operating our website, protecting our online forms, improving website functionality, or understanding how our website is used.
Some cookies are technically necessary for the website to function properly. Other cookies, if used, are only set with your consent.
3. Categories of cookies we may use
Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are required for the technical operation, security and basic functionality of our website. They may be used, for example, to remember your cookie preferences, maintain website security, enable forms to work properly, or protect the website against misuse and automated spam.
These cookies cannot usually be disabled through our cookie banner, as the website may not function properly without them.
Functional cookies
Functional cookies help us provide enhanced website functionality. They may be used, for example, to remember certain settings or to enable embedded functions. These cookies are only used where they are actually required for such functions and, where legally necessary, only with your consent.
Analytics or statistics cookies
Analytics or statistics cookies help us understand how visitors use our website, for example which pages are visited and how visitors interact with our content. We only use such cookies if they are listed in the cookie table below and, where legally required, with your consent.
Marketing cookies
We do not use marketing cookies for advertising purposes unless they are expressly listed in the cookie table below. If such cookies are used in the future, they will only be set with your consent.
4. Google reCAPTCHA
We may use Google reCAPTCHA to protect our website forms against spam, misuse and automated submissions. reCAPTCHA helps us assess whether a form submission is made by a human user or by an automated system.
The provider of reCAPTCHA is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.
When reCAPTCHA is used, technical information and interaction data may be processed, such as the IP address, browser and device information, referrer URL, date and time of access, and interaction data with our website. The purpose of this processing is website security, fraud prevention, abuse prevention and protection of our online forms.
Google may set or use the cookie “_GRECAPTCHA” for this purpose.
The legal basis for the use of reCAPTCHA is our legitimate interest in protecting our website, our forms and our IT systems against misuse, spam and automated attacks. Where consent is legally required, reCAPTCHA will only be used on the basis of your consent.
5. Cookie consent and changing your preferences
When you first visit our website, you may be asked to choose which categories of cookies you wish to allow. You can change or withdraw your consent at any time by reopening the cookie settings on our website.
Withdrawing your consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
You can also control or delete cookies through your browser settings. Please note that disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality of the website.
6. Cookies used on this website
The table below provides an overview of the cookies and similar technologies used on our website. The actual cookies may vary depending on which pages you visit and which preferences you select.
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7. Updates to this Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time, for example if we change the technologies used on our website or if legal requirements change. The current version is always available on this website.
