COOKIE POLICY

GENERAL

Van de Velde cares about your privacy. That is why we want to provide you with as much information as possible about what happens to your personal data once you provide it to us. Within this Cookie Policy (“Policy”) you will find all information you need to know about cookies. Please read this Cookie Policy in conjunction with our Privacy Policy, which sets out additional details on how we use personal data and the rights you have.

WHO ARE WE?

Your personal data collected through cookies on the Van de Velde websites (“Website”) is administered by Van de Velde NV, a company incorporated under Belgian law with registered office at Lageweg 4, 9260 Schellebelle, and with company registration number 0448.746.744 (“Van de Velde” or “we” or “us”). Any reference to this Policy to Van de Velde does also include the European subsidiaries from Van de Velde NV, which can be consulted here

WHAT ARE COOKIES?

We use cookies if you open our e-mails and/or visit our Website. A cookie is a small piece of text sent by your web browser to our Website upon your visit. This cookie-file is stored within your web browser and allows the Website or a third party to recognize you. Web beacons are small graphic files linked to our servers that allow us to track your use of our Website. Cookies and web beacons allow us to provide you with faster, personalized and more efficient access upon your return to our Website and make the Website more useful to you.

WHY DO WE USE COOKIES?

When you use and access our Website, we may place a number of cookies in your web browser. We use cookies and web beacons to improve the use and functionalities of our Website; analyse how users use our Website; and compile statistics. Furthermore, we use cookies to show the users of our Website personalized information and advertisements. For example, you can be identified as a visitor to our Website on a second visit, so that we can increase the user-friendliness by better tailoring the Website to your wishes and preferences. Cookies can be placed by Van de Velde as well as by other parties. If we allow third parties to place cookies on our Website, then these parties must provide a secure connection on which the data is exchanged.

OUR USE OF SOCIAL PLUGINS

As we are present in social networks, there are some social plugins on our Websites which we would like to inform you about.

When you would wish to avoid connecting to plugins used on our Websites, you may install privacy-enhancing browser plugins, such as Ghostery (https://www.ghostery.com/), NoScript (https://noscript.net/) or DoNotTrackMe (https://www.abine.com/index.html) etc.

Facebook Inc.

Our Website uses social plugins (“Plugins”) of the Facebook social network, as operated by Facebook Inc. (“Facebook”). These Plugins are accompanied by the Facebook logo or the words “Soziales Plug-in von Facebook” / “Facebook Social Plugin”.

If you visit our Website containing one of these Plugins, your browser connects directly to the Facebook server. The content of the Plugin is forwarded directly to your browser and embedded in the Website.

By embedding the Plugin, Facebook obtains the information that you access on our Website, even if you do not have a Facebook account or are not logged in to your Facebook account. This information (including your IP address) is transferred to a Facebook server in the United States of America, where it is stored. If you are logged in to your Facebook account, Facebook is able to register the visit to our Website on your Facebook page. If you interact with the Plugins, for example by clicking the “Like” button or leaving a comment, that information will also be transferred to a Facebook server, where it is stored. That information will also be published on Facebook and displayed to your Facebook friends.

Facebook may use this information for the purposes of advertising, market research and personalisation of the Facebook pages. To this end, user, interest and relationship profiles are created by Facebook, for example to analyse how you use our Website with regard to the advertisements displayed to you on Facebook to inform other Facebook users about your activities on our Website and to provide other services related to the use of Facebook. If you do not want Facebook to link the data collected about our Website to your Facebook account, you must log out of Facebook before visiting our Website.

For the goals and scope of data collection and the further processing and use of personal data by Facebook as well as your rights and the settings you can change to protect your privacy, please refer to Facebook’s data protection policy at http://www.facebook.com/policy.php.