Legal · Cookie Policy (EU)
Which cookies this website places, what each one is for, and how you stay in control of them. Written for citizens and legal permanent residents of the European Economic Area.
Antwerp · Belgium
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Four things worth knowing before the clauses. No dark patterns, no consent theatre.
They keep the site working: your preferences, your session, the things you typed into a form. Without them the website simply does not behave the way it should, so they are placed as soon as you arrive.
We use statistics to see how the site is actually used — which pages help, which ones do not. We only place these after you have given permission.
Marketing and tracking cookies create user profiles for advertising, and can follow a visitor across this website and others. They are the most far-reaching of the four families.
Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, WhatsApp and Instagram supply the code behind their buttons — and that code places cookies of its own the moment you interact with it.
The policy
Our website, https://michelwiegandt.be (hereinafter: “the website”), uses cookies and other related technologies — for convenience, all of these technologies are referred to as “cookies”. Cookies are also placed by third parties we have engaged. In the document below we inform you about the use of cookies on our website.
A cookie is a small simple file that is sent along with pages of this website and stored by your browser on the hard drive of your computer or another device. The information stored therein may be returned to our servers, or to the servers of the relevant third parties, during a subsequent visit.
A script is a piece of program code that is used to make our website function properly and interactively. This code is executed on our server or on your device.
A web beacon (or a pixel tag) is a small, invisible piece of text or image on a website that is used to monitor traffic on a website. In order to do this, various data about you is stored using web beacons.
We group the cookies on this website into four families: technical or functional, statistics, marketing/tracking, and social media. Some may be placed without your consent; others only after you agree. Each family is described in detail below.
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Some cookies ensure that certain parts of the website work properly and that your user preferences remain known. By placing functional cookies, we make it easier for you to visit our website. This way you do not need to repeatedly enter the same information when visiting our website, and for example the items in a cart remain there until you have paid. We may place these cookies without your consent.
We use statistics cookies to optimize the website experience for our users. With these statistics cookies we gain insight into the usage of our website. We ask your permission before placing statistics cookies.
Marketing and tracking cookies are cookies, or any other form of local storage, used to create user profiles to display advertising or to track the user on this website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
On our website we have included buttons for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, WhatsApp and Instagram to promote webpages (e.g. “like”, “pin”) or share them (e.g. “tweet”) on social networks. These buttons work using pieces of code that come from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, WhatsApp and Instagram themselves, and that code places cookies. The buttons can also store and process certain information, so that a personalized advertisement can be shown to you. Please read the privacy statements of these social networks — they can change regularly — to read what they do with your personal data when you use these buttons.
Your choices
You can manage cookies from your own browser at any time — deleting what is already stored, blocking new ones, or setting a warning before a cookie is placed. Every mainstream browser does this from its privacy or security settings; the help pages of the browser you are using will show you exactly where.
Blocking or deleting cookies can affect how parts of this website behave. Disabling functional cookies in particular may stop preferences and forms from working as expected. Where statistics or marketing cookies have not been consented to, they are not placed at all.
Contact
Write to us and we will answer in plain language — which cookies are active, why they are there, and how to switch them off. This policy was last updated on 15 February 2022 and applies to citizens and legal permanent residents of the European Economic Area.