Cookie statement

Cookie statement

We use cookies (small files that are placed on your computer) to log your use of the website: which pages you visit, how often and for how long. Cookies are also used to remember your preferences. You can disable the use of cookies, but it may be that not all functionality of the website will be accessible to you.

Cookies are used in five ways on this website.

1. Cookies necessary for the correct functioning of the website

Name of cookie Domain Description purpose cookie Exempted from the law yes/no with explanation
hv Football in Belgium (Voetbal in België) The current SessionID of the user to check whether they are allowed to be logged in Yes – It is a session cookie
cookiesAccepted Football in Belgium (Voetbal in België) This tracks whether you have already seen and accepted our cookie statement popup Yes – it is a functional cookie and no personal data is linked to it

All other found cookies are set by third parties, and are not directly read or processed by Football in Belgium (Voetbal in België) itself.

2. Cookies with which we can measure the use of the website

To determine which parts of the website are most interesting for our visitors, we try to continuously measure, among other things with the help of third-party software (Google Analytics), how many visitors come to our website and what is viewed most. For this we use cookies.
Statistics are made from the information we collect this way. These statistics give us insight into how often our webpage is visited, where exactly visitors spend most time, and so on. This enables us to make the structure, navigation and content of the website as user-friendly as possible for you. The statistics and other reports are anonymous and we do not trace them back to individuals.

We use cookies for:

  • Tracking the number of visitors to our web pages
  • To keep track of the length of time each visitor spends on our web pages
  • Determining the order in which a visitor visits the various pages of our website
  • Assessing which parts of our site need adjustment
  • Optimising the website

We use cookies from:

  • Google – Analytics / Adsense, CDN for jquery
  • (irregularly) Various parties whose content is embedded. Such as for example Google Maps.

Google Analytics gebruikt zelf ook cookies, en kent een eigen privacybeleid, zie http://www.google.nl/policies/privacy/.

3. Cookies to be able to show advertisements

Our website shows you advertisements. These advertisements are for us a necessary source of income, with which we finance our website.
Some advertisements (or video messages) use cookies. These advertisements are placed by us and by third parties on our website. Advertisements are offered based on information that has been collected about the internet behaviour of users.
The cookies make it possible that:

  • it can be tracked which advertisements you have already seen to prevent you from always seeing the same ones
  • it can be tracked how many visitors click on the advertisement for billing purposes with the advertiser
  • it can be tracked how many orders are placed via the advertisement for billing purposes with the advertiser

If such cookies are not used you will still see advertisements. After all, advertisements are also shown that do not use cookies. These advertisements can for example be adapted to the content of the website. You can compare this kind of content-dependent internet advertisements with advertising on television. If you watch a football match for example, you will often see in the accompanying commercial blocks an advertisement about football-related products.

4. Other / unforeseen cookies

Due to the way the internet and websites work, we may not always have insight into the cookies that are placed by third parties via our website. This is especially the case if our web pages contain so-called embedded elements; These are texts, documents, images or videos that are stored with another party, but that are shown on, in or via our website.

If you encounter cookies on this website that fall into this category and that we have therefore not mentioned above, let us know. Or contact the third party directly and ask which cookies they placed, what the reason for this is, what the lifespan of the cookie is and how they have safeguarded your privacy.

For the cookies that our third parties place for advertising purposes, we refer to the statements that these parties give on their own websites about this; see the names and links below. Note that these statements may change regularly. Football in Belgium (Voetbal in België) has no influence on this.

If you have any questions following this cookie statement please feel free to contact us via info@voetbalinbelgie.be.

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