Cookie policy
2024-08-28
COOKIE POLICY
Inter Cars Belgium NV/SA, with its registered office located at Gouverneur Roppesingel 83, 3500 Hasselt, Belgium, registered in the Registry of Companies under number 0870.456.224; Vat no.: BE 0870.456.224; hereinafter referred to as the “Controller,” uses cookie files and other, similar technologies on its website.
- Cookie files and similar technologies
WHAT ARE COOKIE FILES?
Cookie files are small text files saved on your device as you visit websites or use applications. They store, among other things, information about your visit and your settings.
- Cookie files play a variety of functions, but we primarily use them to make our Website available to you and to make using it easy. We also use them for analytical and marketing purposes, but only if you express your consent on the cookie consent banner displayed on the website.
WHAT TYPES OF COOKIES DOES OUR WEBSITE USE?
Our Website use different types of cookies: PERSISTENT AND SESSION COOKIES, NECESSARY AND OPTIONAL COOKIE FILES, FUNCtional cookies,
- Detailed information regarding the purposes for which these files are used has been described with reference to the Consent Management Platform (CMP).
- Persistent and session cookies
TYPE | DESCRIPTION |
Session cookies | Some cookies are temporary files stored until you log out, leave the Website or disable your internet browser. This type of cookies help us analyse the internet traffic, enable identification and solving of technical problems as well as facilitate navigating the Website. |
Persistent cookie files | Persistent cookie files are stored for a time specified in their parameters or until you remove them. They help us remember your settings and preferences in order to make your next visit more convenient (e.g. to save you the trouble of re-entering your log-in data). |
- Necessary and optional cookie files
TYPE | DESCRIPTION |
Necessary cookie files | These files are installed to give you access to the Website and its basic functions and, therefore, do not require your consent (functional cookies mentioned belowe). Without them, we would be unable to provide our services to you via the Website. |
Optional cookie files | We will use these only with your consent. They can be used e.g. for our analytical (also mentioned below) and advertising purposes. |
- Functional Cookies (necessery cookies)
Functional cookies are necessary for the Website to function properly. These cookies improve the convenience of your Website visit and improve the user experience. Functional cookies allow us to remember choices you make (such as your language preference, your shopping cart, etc.) and provide more enhanced, personal features. These cookies cannot track your browsing activity on other websites and they do not gather any information about you that could be used for advertising or remembering where you have been on the Internet outside our sites.
We also use functional security cookies to ensure the security of our Website.
These cookies are set directly on your browser by Inter Cars based on our legitimate interest in providing a well-functioning and customer-friendly Website, in order to improve the convenience of your Website visit and the user experience. You can deactivate these cookies via the cookie preference centre and by changing your browser preferences. However, in this case, the Website might not function properly.
Name of cookie | Purpose | Duration | Domain |
NEXT_LOCALE | The cookie is used by Inter Cars to store the selected website language and the detected browser language. | 1 year | intercars.be |
osano_consentmanager | The cookie is used by Inter Cars for consent categorization (e.g., MARKETING: ACCEPT/DENY) as well as when the user's consent expires, and Osano needs to ask for consent again. | Duration: 6 months after consent saved in Ireland, France, and French Colonies. | intercars.be |
osano_consentmanager_uuid | The end-users unique user id (for consent lookups) | Duration: 6 months after consent saved in Ireland, France, and French Colonies. | intercars.be |
Analytics cookies (optional cookies)
Inter Cars uses analytics cookies to provide us with information about the use of our Website and to optimise our Website.
Analytics cookies are cookies that gather information to evaluate and improve the content of our Website. Analytics cookies collect information about your visit and use of this Website, for instance which pages you visit the most often, and if you get error messages from web pages. These cookies are used to track the performance of the Website, for example, to know the number of pages visited or the number of users who viewed a particular section. These cookies do not collect information that directly identifies a user. The analysis of these cookies generates aggregated statistics. They are useful for possible amendments and improvements to the website and all information these cookies collect is only used to improve the working and functioning of our Website.
These cookies are set based on your consent. You can withdraw your consent at any time (at a later time).
Name of cookie | Purpose | Duration | Domain |
^_ga$ | Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users. It assigns a unique user ID and is used to calculate visitor, session, and campaign data for analytics reports | 2 Years | be.e-cat.intercars.eu |
^_gat$ | Used by Google Analytics to throttle the request rate, limiting the collection of data on high-traffic sites | 1 Minute | be.e-cat.intercars.eu |
^_gid$ | Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users. It stores and updates a unique value for each page visited | 1 Day | be.e-cat.intercars.eu |
_ga_.* | A variation of the Google Analytics _ga cookie, used to distinguish users and sessions, often in different contexts or subdomains | 2 Years | be.e-cat.intercars.eu |
Third party cookies (optional cookies)
Some cookies we use are from third parties, such as Google, Azure, Cloudflare, Osano etc. to provide us with web analytics and intelligence about our Website. These companies use programming codes to collect information about your interaction with our sites, such as the pages you visit, the links you click on and how long you are on our Website.
These cookies may however also collect information about you for their own purposes. This cookie policy does not apply to the use of your information by third parties for their own purposes. Therefore, Inter Cars advises you to check the cookie policies of these third parties.
Third party cookies are set on your browser based your consent. You can withdraw your consent at any time (at a later time)
- Changing your browser settings
- Your internet browser should enable you to change your settings in order to reject, remove or block cookies. These links contain information on the most popular browsers: Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari.
- As some of cookie files are necessary for the functioning of the Website, changing your browser settings may result in some of the services not working properly or in you not being able to the website at all.
- Consent Management Platform (CMP)
- We use a Consent Management Platform to facilitate your exercise of your rights under GDPR.
- You can browse the Consent Management Platform and use it to determine your cookie file settings. CMP allows you to:
- obtain detailed information about the cookie files we use on our Website and about our trusted partners;
- express and withdraw your consent for us and our trusted partners to use optional cookie files;
- express your objection to the processing of optional cookie files by our trusted partners based on their legitimate interest.
- The Consent Management Platform will appear in the form of a cookie banner during your first visit on our Website.
- The Consent Management Platform will remember your consents or objections, based on which we will enable you to use the Website. You can check and change your settings any time.
- Contact details
- To obtain additional information or exercise your rights, e-mail us at [email protected] or send us a letter to Inter Cars Belgium NV/SA; Gouverneur Roppesingel 83, 3500 Hasselt, Belgium.
- You have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority at any time. In matters related to data processing on the Service, you may contact the supervisory authority responsible for data protection: Gegevensbeschermingsautoriteit. https://www.dataprotectionauthority.be/professional