What is a cookie?
Cookies are small data files that can be placed on a device connected to the Internet, such as a computer, a phone, a tablet or even a smart TV. Cookies can be used to collect or store information about how you behave on a website and/or on your device, such as your language choice. Reading these cookies allows the websites which placed them to retrieve the information stored.
Cookies usually have an expiry date. Session cookies are automatically deleted when you close your browser, while persistent cookies remain stored on your device (computer, smartphone, tablet, etc.) up to a predefined expiration period (which can be expressed in minutes, days or years).
Cookies can be placed by the owner of the website you are visiting, these are first party cookies or direct cookies, or by third parties, typically when the website adds elements from other websites such as images, social media plug-ins (such as the Facebook ‘Like button) or advertisements, these are known as third party cookies. When these elements are extracted by the browser or by another software from other websites, these other websites may also place themselves cookies that can then be read by the websites which placed them. These third party cookies enable these third parties to follow the behaviour of Internet users over time and across numerous websites and to create, from this data, profiles of people (profiling), in particular for implementing a more precise and targeted marketing during the future browsing of these Internet users who are tracked this way.
Which cookies do we use on our website and why?
skeyes, administrator of the website www.atcoskeyes.be (the ‘Site’), uses four types of cookies:
- essential cookies;
- functional cookies;
- analytics cookies;
- marketing cookies.
To manage the content of the Site, skeyes places essential cookies. These cookies are necessary for the proper functioning of the Site. It is not possible to refuse these cookies if you want to visit our Site.
The use of functional, analytics and marketing cookies is subject to your prior consent. These cookies will therefore only be installed on your device after your agreement. Please note that by disabling certain (functional) cookies, you will probably no longer be able to use the functionalities of this Site optimally.
As soon as you open this Site, you will be asked to choose your cookies preferences. Please note that you can change your preferences at any time by clicking on the icon at the bottom left of your screen.
