Why use cookies?
The living-in-belgium.be website uses cookies for analysis.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small, simple text files that we place on your computer, tablet or mobile phone when you visit our website. These cookies record information about your website visit. The information in these text files is retrieved so that we can recognize you on your next visit with the same device.
Safe and confidential
The information stored in the cookies is only used on this website. Of course, with the exception of Google Analytics, we will not pass this information on to third parties without your express consent. We will also not collect data without your permission if you visit another website.
Cookies
1. Google Analytics cookie is used.
Privacy legislation and Analytics
As described below in the official statement that Google Analytics users must place on their website, this website uses Google Analytics. This program provides important statistics on the number of visitors, the pages visited, the traffic sources and other essential information with which we can continually improve this website for the users. These statistics are anonymous and can not be traced back to a specific person or user. There is no use of ‘behavioral targeting’ that allows you to see special content based on your click behavior; your surfing habits remain completely anonymous. Data from contact forms are never processed or stored in Analytics.
Google Analytics uses a cookie, which is a small file that is stored on your computer. We have set up Google Analytics in accordance with the privacy legislation so that no prior permission from the user is required.
IP addresses are masked and data is not shared
The cookie from Google Analytics is a ‘first party cookie’, ie the cookie is officially owned by https://living-in-belgium.be/ and not from Google. This cookie is not used for advertisements or other commercial purposes. https://living-in-belgium.be/ has a processor agreement with Google. In addition, Google Analytics is set up so that IP addresses are made anonymous, so that data can never be traced back to you or your IP address. Furthermore, no information is shared with Google or other parties from the Analytics account of https://living-in-belgium.be/. This makes the Analytics cookie https://living-in-belgium.be/ a non-privacy sensitive first-party cookie that is necessary for the quality and safety of https://living-in-belgium.be/.nl to be able to guarantee. The Analytics cookie remains valid for 6 months.
Opt-out
If you prefer to block the Analytics script completely, you can download an opt-out plug-in for Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. With this plugin your visit no longer counts in the statistics of all websites using Google Analytics.
Google Analytics – Google’s statement
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies” (text files placed on your computer) to help the website analyze how visitors use the site. The anonymous information generated by the cookie about your use of the website is transferred to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google uses this information to keep track of how this website is used, to prepare reports on the website activity for the owner of this website (https://living-in-belgium.be/) and to offer other services with regarding website activity and internet use. Google may only provide this information to third parties if Google is legally obliged to do so, or insofar as these third parties process the information on behalf of Google. Google will not combine your IP address with other data held by Google. You can refuse the use of cookies by choosing the appropriate settings in your browser. However, we would like to point out that in that case you may not be able to use all the features of this website. By using this website you consent to the processing of the information by Google in the manner and for the purposes described above.
2. Google Tag Manager
This website uses the Google Tag Manager.
This service enables website tags to be managed via an interface.
Tags are small pieces of code that may a. serve to measure traffic and visitor behavior.
The Google Tag Manager only implements tags.
This means that no cookies are used and consequently no personal data is collected.
The Google Tag Manager triggers other tags, which in turn may collect data.
However, the Google Tag Manager does not access this data.
If deactivation has been carried out at the domain or cookie level, it remains in place for all tracking tags, provided that these are implemented with the Google Tag Manager.
3. Google AdWords
The website uses Google Conversion Tracking.
Google AdWords places a cookie on your computer if you have reached our website via a Google ad.
As part of its sales activities, living-in-belgium.be makes potentially interested parties through Google AdWords, i.e. ads e.g. attention to the offers of the website in the context of Google search results.
As part of this, there are some special features to know about the cookie that Google sets on your computer if you access the website via a Google ad: This cookie loses its validity after 30 days and is not used for personal identification.
If the user visits certain pages of the Adwords customer’s website and the cookie has not yet expired, Google and the customer can recognize that the user clicked on the ad and was redirected to this page.
Every AdWords customer receives a different cookie.
Cookies cannot, therefore, be tracked via the websites of AdWords customers.
The information obtained using the conversion cookie is used to create conversion statistics for AdWords customers who have opted for conversion tracking.
AdWords customers find out the total number of users who clicked on their ad and were redirected to a page with a conversion tracking tag.
However, you will not receive any information that can be used to personally identify users.
If you do not want to take part in the tracking process, you can also refuse the necessary setting of a cookie – for example via a browser setting that generally deactivates the automatic setting of cookies.
You can also deactivate cookies for conversion tracking by setting your browser so that cookies from the domain www.googleadservices.com are blocked.
The Google data protection declaration for conversion tracking can be found at https://policies.google.com/privacy?gl=de.
The legal basis for this processing is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR.