Cookies

Gerard Cookies Policy

 

IKO Metals Europe NV, seated at Michielenweg 3, B-3700 TONGEREN, BELGIUM, e-mail address:[email protected], operating under brand name GERARD®, directly or through its data processors, may collect information about your device, including, where available, your IP address, operating system and browser type to enable certain features of the website to work, for system administration and to enable third parties to personalize and provide content to you, including advertising.

 

We are required to provide you with clear and comprehensive information about the cookies that we use and if this page does not answer all of your queries you should contact [email protected]. For further information on our data protection policy, including your rights concerning your personal data processing, please visit https://gerardroofs.eu/en/privacy-policy.

 

What are cookies?

 

Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners in order to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.

 

Cookies set by the website owner (in this case, Gerard, are called "first party cookies". Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called "third party cookies". Third party cookies enable third party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g. like advertising, interactive content and analytics). The parties that set these third-party cookies can recognise your computer both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other websites.

 

We use cookies and similar technology that falls into the following categories:

- Strictly necessary cookies which are required for the operation of the site including for logging in or paying for goods or services.

- Analytical and customisation cookies, which collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our Websites are being used (such as recognising and counting the number of visitors and seeing how visitors move around the site) or how effective are marketing campaigns are, or to help us customise our Websites for you.

- Performance and Functionality cookies which are used to enhance the performance and functionality of our Websites but are non-essential to their use. However, without these cookies, certain functionality (like videos) may become unavailable.

- Targeting/Advertising cookies which record your visits to the website, pages visited and links you have followed to make the website and advertising more relevant to your interests. (We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose).

- Social Media Cookies which are used to enable you to share pages and content that you find interesting on our Websites through third party social networking and other websites. These cookies may also be used for advertising purposes too.

For more information about the types of cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them please see the attached “Cookies Gerard” table.

 

What about other tracking technologies, like web beacons?

 

Cookies are not the only way to recognise or track visitors to a website. We may use other, similar technologies from time to time, like web beacons (sometimes called "tracking pixels" or "clear gifs"). These are tiny graphics files that contain a unique identifier that enable us to recognise when someone has visited our Websites (or opened an e-mail that we have sent them). This allows us, for example, to monitor the traffic patterns of users from one page within our Websites to another, to deliver or communicate with cookies, to understand whether you have come to our Websites from an online advertisement displayed on a third-party website, to improve site performance, and to measure the success of e-mail marketing campaigns. In many instances, these technologies are reliant on cookies to function properly, and so declining cookies will impair their functioning.

 

Do you use Flash cookies or Local Shared Objects?

 

Our Websites may also use so-called "Flash Cookies" (also known as Local Shared Objects or "LSOs") to, among other things, collect and store information about your use of our services, fraud prevention and for other site operations.

 

If you do not want Flash Cookies stored on your computer, you can adjust the settings of your Flash player to block Flash Cookies storage using the tools contained in the Website Storage Settings Panel. You can also control Flash Cookies by going to the Global Storage Settings Panel and following the instructions (which may include instructions that explain, for example, how to delete existing Flash Cookies (referred to "information" on the Macromedia site), how to prevent Flash LSOs from being placed on your computer without your being asked, and (for Flash Player 8 and later) how to block Flash Cookies that are not being delivered by the operator of the page you are on at the time).

Please note that setting the Flash Player to restrict or limit acceptance of Flash Cookies may reduce or impede the functionality of some Flash applications, including, potentially, Flash applications used in connection with our services or online content.

 

 

Do you serve targeted advertising?

 

Third parties may serve cookies on your computer or mobile device to serve advertising through our Websites. These companies may use information about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide relevant advertisements about goods and services that you may be interested in. They may also employ technology that is used to measure the effectiveness of advertisements. This can be accomplished by them using cookies or web beacons to collect information about your visits to this and other sites in order to provide relevant advertisements about goods and services of potential interest to you. The information collected through this process does not enable us or them to identify your name, contact details or other personally identifying details unless you choose to provide these.

 

How can I control cookies?

 

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences by following the instructions provided in the cookie table above. 

You can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our website though your access to some functionality and areas of our website may be restricted. As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser-to-browser, you should visit your browser’s help menu for more information. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

 

HOW LONG WILL COOKIES REMAIN ON THE COMPUTER?

 

The length of time that a cookie remains on your computer or mobile device depends on whether it is a “necessary”, “statistics” or “marketing” cookie. The expiration of the concrete cookies you can see at the “Cookies Gerard” table.

Third party analytics cookies “remember” what our users have done on previous pages and how they’ve interacted with the website. For more information on analytics cookies you can see also at the “Cookies Gerard” table.

 

How often will you update this Cookie Notice?

 

We may update this Cookie Notice from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. Please therefore re-visit this Cookie Notice regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies. 

The date at the top of this Cookie Notice indicates when it was last updated.

 

Where can I get further information?

 

If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please email us at [[email protected]]

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COOKIES GERARD TABLE

 

What types of cookies are used?

 

Category

Name

Description

Expiration

Necessary - The necessary cookies are useful in making a site usable by enabling basic features such as page navigation and access to secure areas on the site. The site can not function properly without these cookies.

PHPSESSID

Work session identifier used for authentication. Makes the connection between the server and terminal work session. Disabling it affects authentication functionality; if the session is disabled, it will be reinitialized.

When the browsing session ends

lang

Remember the ISO code for the language in which the content of the site is displayed. It is strictly necessary for the site to function properly.

When the browsing session ends

land_id

Remember the internal ID of the language in which the content of the site is displayed. It is strictly necessary for the site to function properly. 

When the browsing session ends

lang_name

Remember the name of the language in which the content of the site is displayed. It is strictly necessary for the site to function properly.

When the browsing session ends

locale_code

Remember the local code of the language in which the content of the site is displayed. It is strictly necessary for the site to function properly. 

When the browsing session ends

TS (followed by a number)

It is created by our firewall solution to identify browsing sessions.

When the browsing session ends

 

You can find the following types of cookies on the website:


Cookies installed by third parties. On our site we can find cookies placed by third parties that we do not control.

 

Category

Name

Description

Expiration

Statistics - Statistics cookies help site owners understand how visitors interact with the site by collecting and reporting information anonymously.

_ga

Used by Google Analytics. records a unique ID used to generate statistics about how the visitor uses the site.

2 years

_gali

Used by Google Analytics.

When the browsing session ends

_gat

Used by Google Analytics.

When the browsing session ends

_gid

Used by Google Analytics. records a unique ID used to generate statistics about how the visitor uses the site.

3 days

Marketing - Marketing cookies are used to track the users’ route from one site to another. The intent is to display relevant and effective ads for users, so they are more valuable to publishers and advertising agencies / third parties.

ads/ga-audiences

Used by Google AdWords to re-engage visitors that are likely to turn into customers based on their online behavior.

When the browsing session ends

ads/user-lists/#

Used by Google AdWords.

When the browsing session ends

collect

Used to send data to Google Analytics about the device and user behavior. They follow the user by devices and marketing channels.

When the browsing session ends

fr

Used by Facebook to deliver advertising services such as real-time bidding by third parties / agencies.

3 months

IDE

Used by Google DoubleClick to record and report user actions by viewing or accessing advertiser ads to measure the effectiveness of the ad and deliver user targeted ads.

1 year

impression.php/#

Used Facebook to store page impressions using the Facebook Login button.

When the browsing session ends

test_cookie

Used to check if the user’s browser supports cookies. 

When the browsing session ends

fbm_165523266803396

Created and used by Facebook Pixel to identify the domain.

1 year

fbsr_165523266803396

Created and used by Facebook Pixel.

1 year

tr

Used by Facebook Pixel.

When the browsing session ends

act

We use the Facebook Like button to integrate our website with our page on Facebook.com. This causes some cookies to be created by Facebook that detect the number of "likes" and whether you are logged into Facebook or not.

When the browsing session ends

c_user

6 months

datr

2 years

dpr

2,5 months

pl

2,5 months

presence

When the browsing session ends

sb

2 years

spin

1 day

wd

1 week

xs

6 months

1P_JAR

Used by Google - These cookies are used to gather website statistics, and track conversion rates.

1 day

APISID

Used by Google - It stores the preferences and information of users each time they visit web pages containing a Google service.

2 years

SAPISID

SSID

CONSENT

Used by Google

20 years

HSID

Used by Google - Contain digitally signed and encrypted records of a user’s Google account ID and most recent sign-in time. The combination of these two cookies allows us to block many types of attack, such as attempts to steal the content of forms that you complete on web pages.

2 years

SID

NID

Used by Google - The NID cookie contains a unique ID Google uses to remember your preferences and other information, such as your preferred language (e.g. English), how many search results you wish to have shown per page (e.g. 10 or 20), and whether or not you wish to have Google’s SafeSearch filter turned on.

6 months

SIDCC

Used by Google - Security cookie to protect users data from unauthorised access.

3 months

OGP

Used by Google

2 months

OGPC

Used by Google

2 months

APISID

Used by Youtube

2 years

CONSENT

Used by Youtube - Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. Session cookie.

20 years

HSID

Used by Youtube

2 years

LOGIN_INFO

Used by Youtube

2 years

PREF

Used by Youtube - remembers basic preferences, such as choice of language, format of search results, how to display information, so the visitor don’t need to set preferences each time he use the site.

9 months

SAPISID

Used by Youtube

2 years

SID

Used by Youtube

2 years

SSID

Used by Youtube

2 years

VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE

Tries to estimate the users’ bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos.

9 months

YSC

Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen.

When the browsing session ends

 

Calculator

These cookies are recorded if a user selects "Remember me" when signing in.

 

Cookie name

Expiration term

Description

UserID_Gerard

1 year

Unique user identifier

UserUsername_Gerard

1 year

User’s username

UserAuthenticated_Gerard

1 year

User authentication (correct combination of the username and password, confirmed e-mail address, active status)

UserStatus_Gerard

1 year

User status

UserAdmin_Gerard

1 year

Whether the user is also the administrator

 

Architects

These cookies are recorded if a user selects "Remember me" when signing in.

 

Cookie name

Expiration term

Description

UserID_GerardArchitects

1 year

Unique user identifier

UserID_GerardArchitects

1 year

User’s username

UserAuthenticated_GerardArchitects

1 year

User authentication (correct combination of the username and password, confirmed e-mail address, active status)

UserStatus_GerardArchitects

1 year

User status

UserAdmin_GerardArchitects

1 year

Whether the user is also the administrator

 

All other cookies, such as PHPSESSID, Google Analytics, etc. are already listed.  Only cookies specific to our web applications are listed above.

Links to the privacy policy, Facebook terms and conditions can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/help/cookies/update.

For Google, you can find more information here: https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies?hl=en.

If you do not want cookies, you can change the browser settings (for information, see "Help" in your browser’s menu bar). Cookies already stored on your computer can be removed by deleting temporary browsing data.