COOKIE POLICY

1. WHO WE ARE

1.1. “We”, “us” or “our” means HELS CVBA, with its registered office at Industrieweg 122/G - 9032 Wondelgem, Belgium and with company number BE 0651 808 227. We act as controller for the personal data we gather as set out in this Privacy Policy.

1.2. Our website, www.hels.be, is owned by us and operated by Wix.com (Wix.com LTD.; PO box 40190 San Francisco, CA United States; VAT ID: EU442008451). Our website is hosted by Wix.com (Wix.com LTD.; PO box 40190 San Francisco, CA United States; VAT ID: EU442008451).

1.3. Our website makes use of “cookies”. This Cookie Policy sets out to inform you about the different types of cookies, which cookies we use and which cookies our service providers use and how you can manage and block cookies.

1.4. If you have any questions, concerns or complaints regarding this Cookie Policy, you can contact us:

(a) By post, using the aforementioned address, to the attention of our Privacy Officer;

(b) By sending an e-mail to our e-mail address info@hels.be, to the attention of our Privacy Officer.

1.5. This Cookie Policy was revised last on 03/05/2019.

2. COOKIES

What are cookies?

2.1. Our website makes use of cookies. Cookies are small pieces of data that a website asks your browser to store on your computer or mobile device when you visit the website or certain pages. The cookie allows the website to “remember” your actions or preferences over time.

2.2. Cookies will usually contain the name of the website where the cookie has come from, how long the cookie will remain on your device, and a value which is usually a randomly generated unique number.

2.3. Cookies can be divided into several categories:

(a) On the basis of storage time: some cookies will be deleted as soon as you leave the website or as soon as you close your browser (the so-called “session cookies”), other cookies will remain stored on your computer or mobile device and will help us identify you as visitor of our website (the so-called “permanent cookies”).

(b) On the basis of origin: cookies created by our own website (the “first party cookies”) and cookies created and stored by our (social media) partners (the “third party cookies”).

(i) “Necessary cookies”: These are required for the operation of our website. They include for example cookies that enable you to log in.

(ii) “Analytical/performance cookies”: These cookies allow us to analyse our web traffic, to see the number of users of our website and how the users navigate through our website.

(iii) “Functional cookies”: These cookies ‘remember’ the choices you made on our website (e.g. language preference.) making the website more user-friendly and enhancing your user experience.

2.4. Cookies will not always contain personal data, but may contain information that may lead to your identification, in which case such cookie shall be treated as personal data. In such case, our Privacy Policy, which you can consult at here will apply.

Cookies used by us

2.5. We use cookies for the following purposes:

(a) Identification: we use cookies to identify you as you visit the website and to see which pages you visit.

(b) Preferences: we use cookies to store information about your preferences, e.g. language preferences.

Cookies used by our partners

2.6. Our website makes use of social media plugins. These social media partners use third party cookies. The following social media partners are used: Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google+, Vimeo and Pinterest. We refer to article 5.4 of the Privacy Policy for how we use these social media plugins. For your information, we will also provide you the links to the relevant cookie policies:

(a) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/;

(b) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/legal/cookies/;

(d) Twitter: https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-cookies;

(e) Google+: http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/cookies/;

(f) Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/cookie_policy;

(g) Pinterest: https://policy.pinterest.com/en/cookies.

2.7. We also make use of Google Analytics. Google Analytics gathers information about your use of our website by means of cookies. The gathered information is used to create reports. For further information relating to the use by Google of cookies, see the Google cookie policy as listed in 2.6(e).

Managing and blocking cookies

2.8. You can at any time manage or delete cookies using the settings on your internet browser, allowing you to refuse some or all cookies. Turning off cookies will limit the service that we are able to provide and may affect your user-experience. Deleting cookies may result in manually adjusting preferences every time you visit our website.

2.9. For more details about controlling and/or deleting cookies, visit the page corresponding to your browser for more information:

(a) https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en (Chrome);

(b) https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411 (Safari);

(d) https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences (Firefox);

(e) http://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/cookies/ (Opera);

(f) https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy (Edge);

(g) or visit, http://aboutcookies.org/how-to-delete-cookies/.

3. AMENDMENTS TO THE COOKIE POLICY

3.1. We reserve the right to make amendments to this Cookie Policy. As, however, any amendment will affect you directly, we will resubmit the amended Cookie Policy to you and, where necessary, request your consent.