Cookie Policy

  • This cookie statement was last updated on September 7, 2022 and applies to residents of the European Economic Area.

    1. Introduction

    Our website, http://eco-metal.be (hereinafter: “the website”) uses cookies and other related technologies (for convenience, all technologies are referred to as “cookies”). Cookies are also placed by third parties that we have engaged. In the document below we inform you about the use of cookies on our website.

    2. What are cookies?

    A cookie is a simple small file that is sent along with pages from this website and stored by your browser on the hard drive of your computer or other device. The information stored therein can be sent back to our servers or those of the relevant third parties on a subsequent visit.

    3. What are scripts?

    A script is a piece of program code that is used to make our website function properly and to make it interactive. This code is executed on our server, or on your equipment.

    4. What is a web beacon?

    A web beacon (also pixel tag) is a small, invisible piece of text or image on a website that is used to map traffic on a website. To do this, various information about you is stored using web beacons.

    5. Consent

    When you visit our website for the first time, we show a pop-up with an explanation about cookies. As soon as you click on ‘All cookies’ you give us permission to use all cookies and plugins as described in the pop-up and this cookie statement. You can disable the placing of cookies via your browser, but keep in mind that our website may no longer work optimally.

    6. Cookies

    6.1 Technical or functional cookies

    Some cookies ensure that certain parts of the website work properly and that your user preferences remain known. By placing functional cookies we ensure that you can visit our website more easily. In this way, for example, you do not have to enter the same information every time you visit our website and it is possible, among other things, that the items in your shopping cart are kept until you have paid. We may place these cookies without your consent.

    6.2 Analytical cookies

    We use analytical cookies to ensure that our website matches the wishes of our visitors as closely as possible. We gain insight into the use of our website by means of analytical cookies. We ask for your permission to place analytical cookies. We ask for your permission to place statistics cookies

    6.3 Marketing cookies

    We do not use advertising cookies on this website.

    6.4 Social media buttons

    Our website includes buttons from Facebook and WhatsApp to promote web pages (e.g. “like”, “pin”) or share (e.g. “tweet”) on social networks such as Facebook and WhatsApp. These buttons work by means of pieces of code that come from Facebook and WhatsApp themselves. Cookies are placed through this code. The social media buttons can also store and process certain data, so that personalized advertisements can be shown to you.

    Read the privacy statement of these social networks (which can change regularly) to read what they do with your (personal) data that they process using these cookies. The data that is retrieved is anonymized as much as possible. Facebook and WhatsApp are based in the United States.

    7. Cookies placed

    Google Analytics

    We use Google Analytics for website statistics.

    Name Retention Function
    Statistics (anonymous)
    _ga 2 years Storing a unique user ID
    _gid 1 day Tracking and collecting pageviews
    _gat 1 minute Filter requests from bots
    Share

    For more information, read the Google Analytics Privacy Statement.

    Facebook

    We use Facebook to display recent posts and/or social share buttons.

    Name Retention Function
    Marketing/Tracking
    _fbp 3 months Tracking visits across different websites
    actppresence 1 year Controlling the frequency of displayed ads
    fbm_ 1 year Saving account details
    _fbc 2 years Stores last visit
    fbm_* 1 year Saving account details
    xs 3 months Store a unique session ID
    fr 3 months Ad delivery
    datr 2 years Fraud prevention
    sb 2 years Saving browser specifications
    *_fbm_ 1 year Saving account details
    Functional
    wd 1 week Determining screen resolution
    act 90 days Keep users logged in
    c_user 90 days Storing a unique user ID
    csm 90 days Fraud prevention
    presence session Track if the browser tab is active
    Share

    For more information, read the Facebook Privacy Statement.

    Google Fonts

    We use Google Fonts to display web fonts.

    Name Retention Function
    Marketing/Tracking
    Google Fonts API none Requests the user’s IP address
    Share

    For more information, read the Google Fonts Privacy Statement.

    8. Your rights with regard to personal data

    You have the following rights with regard to your personal data:

    • You have the right to know why your personal data is needed, what happens to it and how long it is kept.
    • Right of access: you can submit a request to view the data we process about you.
    • Right to rectification and completion: You have the right to supplement, correct, delete or block your personal data whenever you want.
    • If you give us permission to process your data, you have the right to withdraw that consent and have your personal data deleted.
    • Right to data portability: you have the right to request all your personal data from the Controller and to transfer it in its entirety to another Controller.
    • Right to object: you can object to the processing of your data. We will comply with this, unless there are valid reasons for processing.

    Please contact us if you wish to exercise these rights. Consult the contact details at the bottom of this cookie statement. If you have a complaint about how we handle your data, we would like to hear from you, but you also have the right to file a complaint with the supervisory authority (the Dutch Data Protection Authority).

    9. Enabling/Disabling and Deleting Cookies

    You can delete cookies automatically or manually via your internet browser. You can also indicate that certain cookies may not be placed. Another possibility is that you set your internet browser in such a way that you receive a message when a cookie is placed. More information about these options can be found in the instructions of the Help function of your browser.

    Please note: our website may not work optimally if all cookies are disabled. If you do delete the cookies in your browser, they will be placed again after your permission when you visit our websites again.

    10. Contact Details

    For questions and/or comments about our cookie policy and this statement, please contact us at:

    Eco metal
    Pickardstraat, 3570 Alken
    0495/54.38.72
    info@eco-metal.be