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Cookie Policy

This site uses 'cookies'. These are small information files that are automatically stored on the hard drive of your computer. This information makes your visit to the site faster and more efficient.

In this cookie statement, Puratos explains which cookies its website uses and why. You will also receive information on how to check this as a visitor. We would like to guarantee your privacy and the user-friendliness of our online services.

1. What are cookies?

A cookie is a small data element that the website stores in your web browser when you visit it with your computer, tablet or smartphone. It makes it possible to recognize you as a visitor. It stores your personal settings and preferences, such as language preference, so you don't have to select it every time. Most cookies increase your ease of use.

Some cookies can also be placed by a third party. If you do not want a website to place cookies on your device, you can change the settings of the browser. This is explained in more detail in the next section.

2. How do you disable cookies?

You disable cookies in the browser you use. Click on the name of your browser to find out more about how your browser works:

If you disable cookies, certain graphics or applications on the website may not work as well. We try to limit this as much as possible. However, certain elements of the website require the use of cookies.

3. Types of cookies

3.1. To the party that manages the cookies

3.1.1 First Party Cookies

First-party cookies are cookies that Puratos manages and that are specific to the online service visited or used.

3.1.2. Third-party cookies:

Third-party cookies are cookies that are managed and placed by a third party. This happens during your visit or use of our website. Third-party cookies ensure that certain data is sent to third parties when you visit the website. 

3.2. To the use of cookies

3.2.1. Necessary cookies

These cookies are indispensable to securely verify your identity, to give you access to a closed part or application and to remember your session.

3.2.2. Functional cookies

These are cookies that ensure that the website functions properly and guarantee faster and more efficient use. Examples include cookies for:

  • remembering your login details
  • ensuring the security of your login credentials
  • ensuring the uniformity of the layout of the website

3.2.3. Performance and analysis cookies

These cookies can be used to collect information about how visitors use a website. This is done to improve the content of the website and to increase the ease of use. A good example is the cookies for Google Analytics. This measures the number of visitors, the most popular pages, etc.

3.2.4. Marketing & advertisement cookies

A website can implement so-called embedded elements from other third parties such as YouTube and Facebook. These are used to integrate social media into the website via plugins. Your permission must always be requested for the use of these cookies.

4. Questions

This cookie statement has been drawn up by Puratos (with registered office at Industrialaan 25, Zone Maalbeek, B-1702 Groot – Bijgaarden, Belgium). For all questions and/or comments, please contact the postal address mentioned above or the e-mail address dataprivacy@puratos.be.