Cookie Policy
Published: 2025-02-06
This Cookie Policy describes how cookies and similar technologies are used on the Company newsroom to collect information from newsroom visitors and/or contacts who receive emails through the newsroom.
1. General
1.1 This Cookie Policy explains how cookies and similar technologies (e.g. web beacons) are used on the newsroom to collect information from newsroom visitors and/or contacts who receive emails through the newsroom. By using the newsroom or opting in to receive emails through the newsroom, the data subject acknowledges to have read and understood this Cookie Policy.
1.2 This Cookie Policy may be updated from time to time. When this happens, the “published” date given above will be changed. The most recent version of this Cookie Policy will become applicable, supersede an replace all earlier versions with immediate effect. The most recent version of the Cookie Policy can always be found on the newsroom.
Continued use of the newsroom after such changes have been published to the Cookie Policy will constitute acknowledgement that the data subject has read and understood such changes.
2. Roles and responsibilities
2.1 The company or organisation that uses the newsroom to make press articles available to the public is the responsible publisher of the newsroom (“Company”). The Company decides on the content that is published on the newsroom, to whom it is distributed and whether and how cookies may be used to check the success of such distribution (i.e. user and usage analytics).
The newsroom is facilitated for the Company by Prezly BV, a company incorporated under Belgian law, having its registered office at Tiensevest 100, bus 1, 3000 Leuven, with company registration number 0829.855.487 (“Prezly”). Prezly processes information captured via cookies or similar technologies on behalf and on instruction of the Company.
2.2 For any question relating to cookies you may contact Prezly via email at privacy@prezly.com.
3. What is a cookie?
In general, a cookie is a small text and number file that the newsroom can send and store in the web browser, on a mobile device and/or on the hard drive of a computer during a visit to the newsroom. Cookies help, for example, to remember visitor preferences when using the newsroom so that Prezly can immediately set these preferences as default when the visitor revisits the newsroom.
There are different types of cookies:
- Essential or strictly necessary cookies are (as their name indicates) necessary to be able to use a website. They ensure, for example, that a certain connection can be established. These cookies can be used without prior consent.
- Functional cookies are cookies that enable a website to offer certain functions that the website visitor has requested. They contain information about choices and preferences on the website (e.g. cookies for remembering log-in or registration details, language preference, products in shopping cart). These cookies can be used without prior consent.
- Non-functional cookies are cookies that can be placed for statistical, social, targeting and commercial purposes. They have nothing to do with the purely technical support of the website. These cookies can only be used with prior consent.
In some cases, but certainly not always, cookies also collect certain personal data, such as the identification number of a computer.
4. Information about the cookies used
4.1 The newsroom uses essential and functional cookies to ensure the newsroom’s functioning. When someone visits the newsroom, the following essential and functional cookies are used:
Name | Function | Validity |
|---|---|---|
XSRF-TOKEN | Essential cookie that ensures visitor browsing-security and website security by preventing cross-site request forgery | Session |
The cookies used do not allow the systematic gathering of data that could allow the identification of the users of the newsroom. They only help to ensure and improve the functioning of the newsroom.
5. Accepting cookies
A cookie banner will appear when visiting the newsroom for the first time. This cookie banner informs about the cookies used on the newsroom, and also asks for prior consent to use non-functional cookies (where applicable).
Newsroom visitors are free to agree to this or not. A visitor will not be denied access to the newsroom if he/she does not agree to the use of non-functional cookies, but there is a possibility that the newsroom may in such case not work like it was intended to.
6. Managing cookies (deleting or disabling)
Most browsers allow to prevent the browser from accepting new cookies, to be notified when a new cookie is used or to disable cookies. The newsroom visitor or Company contact can therefore control the use of cookies at individual browser level.
If the newsroom visitor does not want the newsroom to place cookies or wants to delete the cookies used, it can change the cookie settings in the web browser. These settings can usually be found in the ‘Options’ or ‘Preferences’ menu of the web browser. They can also adjust the settings so that the browser refuses all cookies or only cookies from third parties.
To better understand these settings, the following links may be helpful. If not, please consult the ‘Help’ function in the web browser for more details:
7. Applicable law
Any dispute in relation to this Cookie Policy must be interpreted in accordance with Belgian law.