European laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and the e-Privacy Directive 2002/58/EC, create obligations for digital publishers such ARTIALIS to give visitors of their sites and apps information about how they will use and share their personal data, as well as about the use of cookies, mobile ad IDs, and other forms of local storage.
Since ARTIALIS is using cookies on its website, clear and mandatory information must be mentioned in this Cookies notice, as set out below.
INFORMATION ABOUT COOKIES
1. What are cookies?
A cookie is a text file, normally consisting of letters and numbers, sent by a web server to a web browser and stored by the browser on the user’s device (e.g., computer, telephone, tablet). These cookies can be used to identify or to collect information about you.
2. What types of cookies are there?
Cookies can be classified as follows, depending on the owner:
- First-party cookies: They are created, sent to your device and stored by the website you are visiting directly. They allow ARTIALIS to collect customer analytics data, remember language settings, and carry out other useful functions that help provide a good user experience.
- Third-party cookies: They are created and placed by third parties other than the website you are visiting directly. They are not managed by ARTIALIS, but by the third party that processes the data obtained from the cookies.
Cookies can also be classified depending on the purpose of their placement. Main categories are:
- Strictly necessary cookies (also called “technical cookies”): they allow you to browse a website, a platform or an app, and to use the various options or services on it (e.g., control traffic, identify data or session, access to restricted access sections or content, etc.).
- Preference cookies: they help ARTIALIS to make the website usable by providing you some basic features and by remembering your preferences and choices of using ARTIALIS’ website (e.g., language, the region from where the service is accessed, etc.). Not accepting cookies may cause slow website performance or poorly adapted recommendations.
- Statistics cookies: they allow ARTIALIS to have a better understanding of how you interact with the website (e.g., which pages are visited the most) in order to optimize the functioning of the website.
- Marketing cookies: they enable ARTIALIS to monitor your behaviour on the website. The aim is to display advertisements that are meaningful and attractive to you and therefore more useful to third party publishers and advertisers, as well as to make promotional and specific information available to you on the website.
Cookies may also be divided into two categories depending on the period for which they are stored:
- Session cookies: they allow ARTIALIS to recognize and link your actions during a browsing session. When you go to the login page, these temporary cookies will be created to determine whether or not your browser accepts cookies.
- Persistent cookies: they are placed on your device between sessions. They can be used to remember your preferences or actions on ARTIALI’s website.
3. How to use cookies?
Cookies in no way give ARTIALIS access to your device or any information other than the data you choose to share with ARTIALIS.
Concretely, these cookies help to improve the functioning of the website of ARTIALIS and can be used for several purposes:
- Help you connect to a website;
- Analyze traffic to a website;
- Monitor your browsing behavior;
- Recognize your device;
- Make the website more efficient;
4. How to manage cookies?
You are able to accept or decline cookies when you enter ARTIALIS’ website for the first time. Alternatively, you can manage you cookie preferences at any time by clicking on the icon on the bottom left.
5. Who placed cookies?
The information stored through cookies is only used by ARTIALIS, except those identified in section II as “Third-party cookies”, which are used and managed by external entities aiming to improve ARTIALIS’ services and your experience when browsing on the website.
ARTIALIS' collaborates with the following third-parties:
- Google.com
- YouTube
- Google Tag Manage
Please note that ARTIALIS' do not have any control over how the information in these cookies is used nor do ARTIALIS' have access to it. Please refer to the cookies policies of the relevant provider for more information.
6. How to contact us?
For any question regarding this Cookies notice, you may contact ARTIALIS', who, if required, will contact its Data Protection Officer ("DPO"), using the information below:
Physical address: 5 Avenue Hippocrate, 4000 Liège, BELGIUM.
Email:
dpo@artialis.com
Last Edited on the 15
th of September 2023.