Protection of personal data – Our cookie policy

Introduction

The following information relates to the protection of your personal data. This is the data that allows you to be identified, directly or indirectly, such as your first name, surname, e-mail address and IP address.

This policy applies to all pages of fin.belgium.be which in your browser start with:

https://(www.)fin.belgium.be
https://(www.)financiën.belgium.be
https://(www.)finances.belgium.be
https://(www.)finanzen.belgium.be
https://(www.)finance.belgium.be

Please note: When a link takes you to a website, another portal site, an online application or a social network, you must check the terms and conditions for the processing of personal data used by those responsible for those services.

You are protected in accordance with the European Regulation 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 (entered into force on 25 May 2018) on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (GDPR).

What are cookies and why are they useful?

Like almost any other website, our website uses cookies to provide you with the best possible service. Cookies are small text files that servers temporarily store on your computer or any other device through your web browser. Information is stored in these text files.

Our cookies allow us:

to improve the performance of the website for your convenience
to save your settings during and between visits (for example choice of language)
to improve the speed/safety of the website
to share pages with social networks such as Facebook
to continuously improve our website (for example statistical and qualitative purposes)

We do not use cookies:

to collect personally identifiable information (without your explicit consent)
to collect sensitive information (without your explicit consent)
to transfer data to ad network providers
to transfer personal data to third parties
for commercial purposes.

Use of cookies with your explicit consent

If our cookies are (automatically) accepted by your browser settings, we assume you agree with our cookie policy when using our website. If you wish to remove cookies from your browser, or if you wish to limit or exclude the use of cookies, follow the instructions below. However, deleting or refusing cookies will probably impact the functionality of our website.

Which cookies do we use on our website?

Below, you will find a list of the cookies we use and their purpose.

Our functional cookies

Name	Expiration date	Purpose
has_js	When closing the browser	To determine whether or not your browser accepts Javascript (session status)
Cookies for the choice of language (language_cookie)	24 hours	To specify in which language you wish to visit the website
SimpleSAMLSessionID
cookie-agreed	90 days	To determine whether or not you accept cookies

Our social website cookies

Name	Expiration date	Purpose
“Sharethis”		Buttons for the sharing of content on social networks
Twitter
Youtube embedded videos		To play the content of YouTube videos directly on our website