Cookie policy

This cookie policy regulates how your personal data are processed when you visit our website (farys.be). On your first visit to our website, we will assess your preferences to ensure that we place cookies on your device only with your permission or for legitimate reasons. This is explained in greater detail under Point 2.

Farys ov, of registered address Stropstraat 1, 9000 Ghent, Belgium, registered with the KBO (Central Belgian Database for Companies) under number 0200.068.636 (“Farys”, “we”, “our”), acts as the responsible party in the context of this process.

Farys operates in accordance with the provisions of Belgian and European regulations with respect to data protection, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Farys considers the protection of privacy extremely important and attaches great value to the proper protection of your personal data. 

By means of this cookie policy, Farys would like to provide you – as visitor to and user of our website – with information and control as far as possible over the collection, processing and use of your personal data. Please read this cookie policy through carefully, and read it together with our privacy policy. Not only your rights are set out below, but also the way in which you can exercise those rights.

Farys has appointed a Data Protection Officer (DPO), to whom you can always apply for questions regarding your privacy and the processing of your personal data. The DPO can be reached at the following email address: dpo@farys.be.

What are the personal data that are processed and for what purposes?

To clarify this in full, we will first explain in general what cookies are and what they do (a). We will then run through the cookies, subdivided into categories in our cookie list (b). We will strive in this way to be as transparent as possible.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small and simple text files that are saved in the browser or on the hard drive of your computer(s) or mobile device(s) when you visit a website. Then you can, for example, be identified as a visitor to our website(s) during a subsequent visit, so that we will be better able to adjust our website(s) to your wishes, preferences and convenience.

Cookies do not execute any actions on your computer(s) or mobile device(s), they merely provide your browser with extra information. So, our functional cookies operate as reminders or prompts for website(s). They are able to recall user settings and other data (choice of language, login data etc.), but do not save names, addresses, ages or other personal data (apart from your IP address in certain cases).

Have you surfed to our website? Then our website, on condition you give permission, is able to place cookies automatically on the hard drive of your computer(s) or mobile device(s). If you do not give your permission, we will only place cookies that are strictly necessary. These essential cookies are there to allow the website to function properly. The cookies that we request your permission for are there to improve your user experience on the website and/or to display targeted adverts, and this only to attune the website better to your needs, wishes and preferences. 

Apart from cookies, there are also other technologies included in this policy. This concerns for example JavaScripts, web beacons, SDKs and pixels. These are technologies that along with cookies allow a system to gather information, to save it in small and simple text files, and then to send it. Cookies and other technologies are used on virtually all existing websites and apps. 

Our cookie list

This cookie list subdivides the cookies into different categories according to origin, functionality and lifetime. We make use of a subdivision by category of cookies, i.e. essential cookies, statistical cookies, functional cookies and marketing cookies. 

On our cookie list we also include at the same time the parties that are linked to the cookie and so receive data from you. In this way, it is immediately clear whether the cookie has been placed by us (first party or internal cookies) or by an external or third party. Third party cookies are cookies from a domain other than the website that you are on – they are used for marketing or advertising purposes. 

We cannot influence how the recipients process the information from these cookies. For further information, we refer you to the privacy statements of these parties. However, we have no influence on their privacy statement, or on the content of the cookies of these parties.

• Essential cookies (always active)

Essential cookies are required to allow our website to function properly and are always active. No permission is needed for this type of cookie. They are there for example to navigate through the pages, to record the privacy settings or to screen off access to the secure sections of our website. We never make use of the data that we collect with them for other purposes, and we do not pass them on to third parties. 

Cookie category	Host	Name	Description	Duration
Essential cookies (First Party)	www.farys.be	OptanonAlertBoxClosed	This cookie is set by websites using certain versions of the cookie law compliance solution from OneTrust. It is set after visitors have seen a cookie information notice and in some cases only when they actively close the notice down. It enables the website not to show the message more than once to a user. The cookie has a one year lifespan and contains no personal information.	365 Days
Essential cookies (First Party)	www.farys.be	OptanonConsent	This cookie is set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust. It stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. This enables site owners to prevent cookies in each category from being set in the users browser, when consent is not given. The cookie has a normal lifespan of one year, so that returning visitors to the site will have their preferences remembered. It contains no information that can identify the site visitor.	365 Days

 

• Statistical cookies

We would like to know how many visitors we receive to our website and the pages that these visitors find the most interesting. We learn a great deal from this and are able to improve our website and services based on it. Statistical cookies are really important for us and in fact for you too as visitor. Nevertheless, we never place statistical cookies without your permission and never use the data that we collect for other purposes, and certainly do not pass the information on to third parties.

Cookie category	Host	Name	Description	Duration
Statistical cookies (First Party)	farys.be	_dc_gtm_UA-xxxxxxxx	This cookie is associated with sites using Google Tag Manager to load other scripts and code into a page. Where it is used it may be regarded as Strictly Necessary as without it, other scripts may not function correctly. The end of the name is a unique number which is also an identifier for an associated Google Analytics account.	A few seconds
Statistical cookies (First Party)	farys.be	_gid	This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This appears to be a new cookie and as of Spring 2017 no information is available from Google. It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited.	A few seconds
Statistical cookies (First Party)	farys.be	_ga	This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners.	729 Days
Statistical cookies (Third Party)	nr-data.net	JSESSIONID	This domain is controlled by New Relic, which provides a platform for monitoring the performance of web and mobile applications.	Session

 

• Functional cookies

These cookies allow the website to provide additional functions and personal settings. They can be configured by us or by external providers of services that we have placed on our pages. If you do not permit these cookies, these services or parts of them may not function properly.

Cookie category	Host	Name	Description	Duration
Functional cookies (Third Party)	vimeo.com	__cf_bm	This is a CloudFoundry cookie	A few seconds
Functional cookies (Third Party)	vimeo.com	vuid	This domain is owned by Vimeo. The main business activity is: Video Hosting/Sharing	729 Days

 

• Marketing cookies

These cookies may be configured on our website by our advertisers. They are used by these companies to compile a profile of your interests and to display relevant adverts on other websites. They do not save any direct personal information, but are based on unique identifiers from your browser and internet device.

Cookie category	Host	Name	Description	Duration
Marketing cookies (Third Party)	youtube.com	VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE	This cookie is used as a unique identifier to track viewing of videos	179 Days
Marketing cookies (Third Party)	youtube.com	YSC	YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites.	Session
Marketing cookies (Third Party)	youtube.com	CONSENT	YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites.	729 Days

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Use of Google Analytics

Our website makes use of Google Analytics, a web analytics service from Google Inc. Google Analytics places a cookie to evaluate your use of the site and allows us to create reports on the activity on our website. This assists us in understanding how visitors use our website. Before a Google cookie is placed on your device, you will always be asked for permission. You will also find the cookies from Google on our cookie list. In the settings, we also always indicate that the visitor’s IP address is anonymised, including the pseudonymisation of identifiers.

Google saves the data gathered by the cookies on its servers. In the settings, we have selected the option ‘Europe West’, so that the data should remain within the EEA, but as this is a US player, data may go outside the EEA.

Would you like to know more about cookies?

If you require further information on cookies and their use in general, please go to the following website: www.allaboutcookies.org. 

You will find further information on online behavioural advertising and online privacy here: www.youronlinechoices.eu.

Managing and Removing Cookies

On your first visit to our website, you will be requested to accept our cookies. You will subsequently be able to manage your options at any time in the preferences menu via the “cookie preferences” button.

You can remove all the cookies on your device by deleting the browsing history on your browser. All the cookies from all the websites that you have visited are removed in this way.

Realise however that you could also lose certain saved information (for example saved login data, site preferences).

Remarks and/or Complaints

If you find out that other cookies are being placed through our website, we would appreciate your informing us immediately about this, so that we can make the necessary adjustments.

If you have any reason to believe that Farys has not handled your request or has not handled it properly, please first of all take this up with our DPO via dpo@farys.be so that we can investigate the options in consultation with you.

You can also request mediation through our internal ombudsperson. The internal ombudsperson ensures an objective and independent approach along with broad knowledge of Farys. You can make contact via this webform.

If Farys fails to react to your request, refuses to do so, or if our response does not meet your expectations, you always have the right to submit a complaint to:

• The Vlaamse Toezichtcommissie (Flemish Supervisory Committee – VTC) (https://overheid.vlaanderen.be/vlaamse-toezichtcommissie) 
  This can be done by means of the complaints form to be found on the VTC website, to be returned filled in to the VTC via email (contact@toezichtcommissie.be) or by mail (Koning Albert II-laan 15, 1210 Brussels). 
  The VTC will then act in terms of its mediation procedures. 
• The Belgian Data Protection Authority (Gegevensbeschermingsautoriteit – GBA) (www.dataprotectionauthority.be/citizen) 
  The GBA can be reached via email (contact@apd-gba.be) or by mail (Drukpersstraat 35, 1000 Brussels).

Changes to our Cookie Policy

We keep this cookie policy up to date. This page always shows the latest version.

Last update: January 12, 2024