Cookie policy
The MeetinFlanders website is an initiative of Visit Flanders.
VISITFLANDERS is an agency of the Flemish government which has its headquarters in Brussels and has the following company registration number: 0225.944.375 and we are responsible for this cookie policy. For more information, general questions, remarks or suggestions about the way Visit Flanders processes your personal data, you can contact our data protection officer (DPO) through privacy@toerismevlaanderen.be. For more information on how we process your personal data, we refer to our privacy policy.
Visit Flanders believes it is important that you can watch, listen to, read or experience content at any place and any time through different media platforms. We therefore want to work on interactive services tailored to you. To make this possible, certain technologies are used, including cookies and scripts. These technologies are hereinafter referred to as "cookies" for simplicity. This document gives you more information about which cookies may be used on our website and for what purposes, so that you can set your own preferences regarding cookies.
This cookie statement applies to meetinflanders.be.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small data or text files that are installed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website or use a (mobile) application. The cookie file contains a unique code that allows your browser to be recognized when you visit the online service or during subsequent, repeated visits. Cookies may be set by the server of the website or application you are visiting, but also by third-party servers that may or may not work with that website or application.
Cookies generally make interaction between the visitor and the website or application easier and faster, and help the visitor navigate between different parts of a website or application.
What cookies do we use?
The following categories of cookies are possibly used on this website:
- Necessary cookies: these are necessary for the proper functioning and security of the website. Furthermore, they enable the website to provide enhanced functionality and personalization, such as remembering choices, users' preferred language or location. We inform you about the use of these cookies but cannot be disabled in our systems. analytical cookies: these allow us to count the number of visitors and traffic sources so that we can measure and improve the performance of our website. They allow us to know which pages are most and least popular and to see how visitors move around the website. All the information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies, we do not know when you have visited our website and cannot measure its performance.
- Advertising cookies: These may be placed by us or by our advertising partners. They are used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and to show you relevant advertisements about Visit Flanders services on other websites. They do not store personal information directly, but they do work by uniquely identifying your browser and device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will see less targeted ads on third-party channels.
- Social media cookies: these cookies are used to connect to a third-party social media platform. They remember data from a user if they have logged into a social media account from a website.
| Name of cookie | purpose | duration | owner |
Necessary cookies | cookie-agreed cookie-agreed-version cookie-agreed-categories | This cookie is set when a visitor agrees to the cookie terms. This is used to not show the banner again after the visitor has consented. | 3 months | Meet in Flanders |
AEC | Cookies used for securily authenticating users, prevent fraud and protect users as they interact with a service | 6 months | ||
Statistical cookies | _ga | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors. | 2 years | Google Analytics |
_gid | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visted in an anonymous form. | 1 day | Google Analytics
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_ga_XXXXXXXXXX | Contains campaign related information for the user. If you have linked your Google Analytics and Google Ads accounts, Google Ads website conversion tags will read this cookie unless you opt-out. | 4 months | Google Analytics
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OTZ | “OTZ” is a cookie used by Google Analytics that provides an aggregate analysis of Website visitors. | Session | Google Analytics
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mtc_sid mtc_id | These are third-party cookies used by Mautic that allow us to use the Mautic service. We use Mautic to support our marketing activities. | Session | Mautic | |
mautic_devide_id | These are third-party cookies used by Mautic that allow us to use the Mautic service. We use Mautic to support our marketing activities. | 1 year | Mautic | |
SIDCC | Cookies used for securily authenticating users, prevent fraud, and protect users as they interact with a service. | Persistent | YouTube | |
SSID | Google collects visitor information for videos hosted by YouTube | Persistent | YouTube | |
HSID | Cookies used for securily authenticating users, prevent fraud, and protect users as they interact with a service. | Peristent | YouTube | |
APISID | They are used by Google to store user preferences and information while viewing pages with embedded videos or Google Maps on them. | 2 years | YouTube | |
SID | Cookies used for securily authenticating users, prevent fraud, and protect users as they interact with a service. | Persistent | YouTube | |
PREF | Registers a unique ID that is used by Google to keep statistics of how the visitor uses YouTube videos across different websites. | 1 year | YouTube | |
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Tries to estimate the users' bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. | 180 days | YouTube | |
LOGIN_INFO | These cookies are set via embedded youtube videos. They register anonymous statistical data on for example how many times the video is displayed and what settings are used for playback. No personal data is collected unless you are logged in to your google account. | 2 years | YouTube | |
__Secure-YEC | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | 1 year | YouTube | |
CONSENT | Stores visitors’ preferences and personalizes ads. | Persistent | YouTube | |
DEVICE_INFO | These cookies are set via embedded youtube videos. They register anonymous statistical data on for example how many times the video is displayed and what settings are used for playback. No personal data is collected unless you are logged in to your google account | 2 years | YouTube | |
YSC | Cookies used for securily authenticating users, prevent fraud, and protect users as they interact with a service. | session | YouTube | |
Social media cookies | _Secure-3PSIDCC
_Secure-3PAPISID
_Secure-3PSID
| This cookie builds a profile of website visitor interests to show relevant and personalized ads through retargeting | 2 years | YouTube |
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__Secure-1PSIDCC
__Secure-1PSID | These cookies are intended for storing user’s settings in the search engine, for advertising and for analysing the use of the search engine recorded by Google for its purposes. | 2 months | YouTube | |
PLAY_LANG | Used by some LinkedIn services to remember a user's language preference | 2 months | ||
PLAY_SESSION | Used by some LinkedIn services to store session information | session | ||
bscookie | This cookie is a browser ID cookie set by Linked share Buttons and ad tags. | session | ||
li_alerts | Used to track impressions of LinkedIn alerts, such as the Cookie Banner and to implement cool off periods for display of alerts | 2 years | ||
li_at | Used to authenticate Members and API clients | 1 year
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li_gc | Used to store consent of guests regarding the use of cookies for non-essential purposes | 6 months | ||
li_mc | Used as a temporary cache to avoid database lookups for a member's consent for use of nonessential cookies and used for having consent information on the client side to enforce consent on the client side | 6 months | ||
li_rm | Used as part of LinkedIn's Remember Me Feature and is set when a user clicks "Remember me" on their device to make logging in on that device easier | 1 year |
How can I refuse or modulate the use of these cookies?
You can refuse the use of cookies through your browser settings. You can also delete already installed cookies from your computer or mobile device at any time. Instructions can be found on your browser's website:
Please note that if you disable cookies, please note that certain graphics may not look nice, or you may not be able to use certain features.
Contact
Do you have any questions about this cookie statement or the processing of your personal data? Please feel free to contact our data protection officer at the following contact details: privacy@toerismevlaanderen.be