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Who are we?

PROTEQ NV
Pathoekeweg 15
8000 Bruges, Belgium
BE0477 695 306
[email protected]
+32 50 799 265

1. What are Cookies?

A web cookie is a small piece of data sent by a website which is stored by your browser on your computer or mobile device and reused for recurrent visits to the website. They are used to improve the service on the website. Cookies do not carry viruses and cause no harm. The information stored in the cookies can, for example, be used to remember your username and preferences you have selected, or to recognize you when you visit the website again. Certain cookies may contain personal information, e.g. if you choose to check the “remember me” box when logging in, a cookie will store your login data (your email address).

2. Why do we use cookies ?

PROTEQ NV uses cookies across the website in order to improve its performance and enhance your user experience. We do not use cookies to store personal information or to disclose information to third parties.

Thanks to cookies we can:

  • Constantly optimize our website
  • Save your preferences, so you don’t have to give or download the information every time you visit our website;
  • Improve the safety and speed of our website;
  • Make our marketing more efficient, in order to offer a better service. 

This policy explains how cookies function. Please also see the Privacy Statement for more information on data protection and details of the data processing activities of DASSY EUROPE.

3. Which types of Cookies exist and for what purpose?

  • Necessary Cookies These cookies are essential for the operation of the website and for instance enable you to navigate the website and to use certain services, e.g. to access secure areas.
  • Functional Cookies These cookies are used to remember the choices you made on previous visits to the website or online store such as selected language, your location,... The information collected by these cookies is only related to your visits to the website so it cannot be used to track your browsing activity on other sites.
  • Analytics cookies Collect information on visitor behaviour (e.g. the pages you view most often) to optimise the website experience. They also track your online journey to the site. These cookies are not used to store any personal information that could reveal your identity and all data remains anonymous.
  • Marketing cookies Follow browsing behaviour over a longer period of time across various websites. These cookies build individual user profiles according to their interests. The information then allows advertising networks to tailor online advertising to match these interests, making it more relevant.

4. What cookies do we use on our website?

A. First-party Cookies
Cookies can be used by PROTEQ NV (first-party cookies) or by carefully selected business partners (third-party cookies). To use our website, we specifically request to accept cookies. We would like to point out that, in order to use certain functions of the website cookies need to be enabled by your browser.

SUMMARY: 

Necessary cookies
PHPSESSID:

  • Lifespan: Session
  • Purpose: This cookie is used to identify your browsing session. It does not itself contain any information about you, but is used by some parts of the site to maintain a login to an application. If you reject it, then you may find that some parts of the site requiring a log in will not work, or will log you out unexpectedly. The majority of pages on the site will not set this cookie and do not need it. This cookie will be deleted automatically at the end of your browsing session.

Sid:

  • Lifespan: 2 years
  • Purpose: saves preferences and information of the user, when he visits pages that have a Youtube or Google Maps integration.

Functional cookies
BOAsoft169lang[lang]

  • Lifespan: 29 days
  • Purpose: Used to recall the last selected language

BOAsoft169lang[langnum]

  • Lifespan: 29 days 
  • Purpose: Used to recall the last selected language

Resolution

  • Lifespan: session
  • Purpose: used to check if we need to take into account retina-screens

Cookieconsent_status

  • Lifespan: 1 year
  • Purpose: Used to recall if the cookie consent banner was already accepted

Analytics cookies
_ga

  • Lifespan: 2 years
  • Purpose: These cookies enable us to anonymously track how visitors access and browse our website, thereby enabling us to optimise and improve our service.

_gat

  • Lifespan: session
  • Purpose: used to throttle request rate

_gid

  • Lifespan: session
  • Purpose: used to distinguish users


Marketing cookies
Collect

  • Lifespan: session
  • Purpose: is used to send data to Google Analytics about the device and behaviour of a user. Follows the user in device and marketing channels.

B. Third-party Cookies

When you visit the website, cookies may be used which are sent by a third party such as YouTube, when you view an embedded video, or by Facebook or Twitter, when you send content from a webpage to a social media account. DASSY EUROPE also uses third-party cookies to collect statistics in aggregate form in analysis tools such as Google Analytics. Please check the third party websites for more information about their cookies and how they are used.

Parties who most likely use cookies:

5. How to deactivate cookies?

You have the right to request to view, correct and/or delete your information. Please use our contact page for this. To avoid abuse, we may ask you to identify yourself properly. With regard to granting access to personal records connected to a cookie, please send a copy of the cookie in question alongside your request.

If you do not wish to give permission you can turn them off in your browser. Just click on the relevant link below to find out how.

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6. Changeability

PROTEQ NV has the right to adapt the cookie policy. This cookie policy was last reviewed on 19 April 2018.