sharingbox Cookie Usage Policy

Policy

This cookie usage policy (the “Policy”) describes how sharingbox SA/NV, a company existing and operating under Belgian law, with statutory seat located at Rue Saint-Denis 112 – 1190 Forest and registered at the Crossroads Bank for Enterprises under company number 817.422.859 (“sharingbox”, “we”, “us”, “our”) uses cookies on our websites (our “website”).

For more information on how sharingbox processes personal data, please read our Privacy Policy accessible through this link : Privacy Policy.

What are cookies ?

Cookies are text files that your web browser (for example Google Chrome, Firefox or Internet Explorer) places on your computer or mobile phone when you visit a website. Cookies allow our website to remember your actions and preferences and to recognize you when you come back, so that we can analyse trends, determine your interests, administer our website and remember your preferences (for example, your language choice) to speed up the browsing process and improve your user experience.

sharingbox uses cookies and similar technologies on our website to collect certain information about you as a visitor to our website (“you”, “your”). For example, we may collect information about the browser and operating system you use, your IP address, the pages you visit on our website, the links you click on, the websites you visited before coming to our website and the e-mails sent to you that you open or transfer. The collection of this information helps us to provide a website that best suits the interests and preferences of our users and to identify products and offers that may be of interest to you.

We use both session cookies and persistent cookies on our website. Session cookies are cookies that are automatically deleted when you close your browser. Persistent cookies are cookies that are stored on your device for a period of time.

We use both first-party and third-party cookies. First-party cookies are managed by sharingbox. Third-party cookies are cookies that are set by third parties. Third-party cookies belong to a different domain name than the one displayed in the browser address bar when you visit our website.

List of cookies used on our website

Please see below the list of cookies that sharingbox uses on our website:

1. Functional cookies

Purpose: these cookies are used to provide you with a more personalised service and to facilitate navigation on our website, to recognize your computer when you visit our website and to improve the user experience on our website (e.g. by ensuring appropriate load balancing on our servers).

Cookie owner: sharingbox.

Type of cookie: session cookies.

Examples:
240plan
240planBAK
PHPSESSID

2. Non-functional cookies

Purpose: these cookies help us to improve our products and services (e.g. by remembering your language preferences). This information helps us display our content more adequately to you.

Cookie owner: sharingbox.

Type of cookie: session and persistent cookies.

Examples:
_icl_current_language
bs_lang

3. Google Analytics

Purpose: Google Analytics is used to collect information about how visitors interact with our website. We use this information to compile reports and to help us improve our website. This information, collected in aggregate form, allows us to know the number of visitors to our website, how those visitors came to our website and the pages they visited.

Cookie owner: third party (Google).

Type of cookie: session and persistent cookies.

Examples:
_ga
_gid
_dc_gtm
_gat
NID
check
sharingbox_com
visitor_v2

4. Hotjar

Purpose: Hotjar is used to collect information about how visitors interact with our website. We use this information to compile reports and to help us improve our website. This information, collected in aggregate form, allows us to know the number of visitors to our website, how those visitors came to our website and the pages they visited.

Cookie owner: third party (Hotjar).

Type of cookie: session and persistent cookies.

Examples:
HotJarCookie
_hjIncludedInSample

The information generated by the cookies and related to your use of our website (including your IP address) is transmitted to and stored by Google and Hotjar.

For more information about the use of Google Analytics, please read the Google Analytics Privacy Policy accessible via this link:

Google Analytics

You can prevent Google from collecting information from cookies by downloading and installing a plug-in for your browser available at prevent Google from collecting information from cookies

You can prevent Hotjar from collecting your browser data via this link:

prevent Hotjar from collecting your browser data

How to Manage Cookies

Manage consent

You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you may configure your browser to refuse, accept or delete cookies from websites, including ours, at any time.

Cookie settings can vary from one browser to another. By way of example, the below hyperlinks provide further guidance on how to disable the use of cookies on certain browsers and/or on how to delete cookies:

Google chrome;

Internet explorer and Internet explorer;

Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla firefox

Please note that if cookies are disabled or removed, not all features of our website will operate as intended. For example, you may not be able to use all of the features we offer, you may not be able to store your preferences and some of our pages may not display properly.

To learn more about the behavioural advertising practice and to make choices regarding our use of targeting or advertising cookies, you can visit Youronlinechoices.eu.

Agreement with Our Use of Cookies

By continuing to use our website, you acknowledge that you have read the terms of this Policy and that you consent with our use of cookies as set out above (unless you expressly indicated otherwise).

Miscellaneous

sharingbox reserves the right to update this Policy from time to time. If we make any changes to this Policy, we will inform you so that you are always aware of how we use cookies on our website.

For more information about how sharingbox processes your personal data, please read our Privacy Policy accessible via this link: Privacy Policy.

In case of conflict or incompatibility between a provision of this Policy and a provision of the sharingbox Privacy Policy, the provision of the sharingbox Privacy Policy shall prevail.

If you have any questions about our use of cookies, please send us an email at gdpr@sharingbox.com.