What are cookies?

Cookies are small pieces of information that your browser stores on your computer's hard drive.  This website uses cookies to recognise you at your next visit and to remember information about your preferences (such as your language preferences), so that you do not always have to select them again when visiting the website.

Cookies allow us to collect information about the use of our services and to improve and adapt them to our visitors' wishes.  In addition, Cookies ensure a website appears on your screen quicker the next time you visit.  Cookies are therefore intended to facilitate browsing on this website but also on other websites.

 

Do cookies know who I am?

No. Your name, address, age and other personal data are not stored in the cookies.

 

Use of cookies on this website

We use different types of cookies on our website.

[a] Necessary cookies

These cookies are essential to visit our website and to be able to use certain components of it.  For example, these cookies allow you to navigate between the different components of the websites or to fill out forms.  Also when you want to log on with your personal account for example, cookies are necessary to check your identity in a secure way before we provide access to your personal data.  If you refuse these cookies, certain components of the website will not work or not optimally.

[b] Functional cookies

Functional cookies are the cookies that facilitate the functioning of our websites and make it more pleasant for visitors and ensure visitors have a more personalised browsing experience.  This includes the cookies that remember your language preference and your type of account, for example, as well as the cookie which remembers whether you were already asked to take part in a survey so that we don't always ask you to fill out the same survey.

[c] Performance cookies

Performance cookies collect information about the use visitors make of our websites with the intention of improving the content of our websites, adapting it more to the wishes of visitors and to increase the user-friendliness of our websites.  For example, a cookie helps us count the number of unique visitors and another cookie records which pages are the most popular.

Management of cookies

When you don't want to use cookies, you can disable them in your browser, with the knowledge that consequently you will not be able to use all functionalities of our website.  You can also remove the already installed cookies from your computer or mobile device at any time.

How you change your settings differs depending on the browser you use to visit our website.  Consult the help function of your browser for this, or click one of the links below for more information about each browser.