In this cookie statement we would like to inform you about which cookies we use, for what purposes, what happens to the collected data and how you can manage their use. This way we can tailor our services to your privacy preferences. The cookie statement applies to this website of Campus Vesta. We also clearly indicate when we pass the cookies on to third parties and under what conditions. Please note: when you click through a link to an external website, a different privacy and cookie policy applies.

What are cookies, scripts, logs, iframes, plugins, captchas, trackers and pixels?

Cookies are small data or text files that are installed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website or use an online service. They allow you to recognize your web browser or device and keep track of your surfing behaviour. In this way we remember, for example, how the website can be displayed properly on your device, what you filled in on a form, which pages you visited, whether you read our newsletter and what your social media profiles are. We use them to protect our forms against cyber attacks and also to collect all kinds of statistics about the use and users of our website(s) and online services. Some cookies are ours, others come from third parties. Cookies usually also have an expiration date.

The following technologies are also covered by this cookie statement:

• Scripts: a series of commands that perform a task on the website to, for example, save data from a form and edit it on our server. Your web browser may block certain scripts.
• Logs: files that keep track of user information such as your IP address, browser type, internet provider, the website that referred you to this website, date, time and number of mouse clicks. These logs are used to manage and optimize the website.
• I-frames: a field that we use to display external content on the website, such as videos from YouTube, Vimeo, …
• Plug-ins: pieces of software that extend the functionalities of the website and that come from third parties.
• Captchas: response tests that check whether a person or a computer program is visiting your website. This is to prevent computer programs from misusing the forms on the website.
• Trackers: technology that keeps track of your online behavior between websites, such as which websites you visit, what actions you take and what information you have entered on these websites, such as your bank card use, your search terms or the content of your social media profiles, which can then be used to infer personality traits. Examples of trackers are certain cookies, pixels and fingerprint.
• Pixels: small invisible images that allow us to collect certain information about the use of the website, such as the number of users who visit a certain page.

 

How can you refuse or manage the use of cookies?

You can determine how your web browser handles cookies via the web browser settings. You can also always remove the already installed cookies from your computer or mobile device. Consult the help function of your web browser or one of the following web pages for this:

• Google Chrome
• Mozilla Firefox
• Apple Safari
• Internet Explorer
• Microsoft Edge

 

What cookies do we use?

1. Functional or necessary cookies

These cookies are necessary for the proper functioning of this website. You cannot refuse these cookies if you want to visit our website.

• cookie_consent (location: cookies, retention period: 1 year, provider: Campus Vesta, recipient: Campus Vesta)
• Purpose: On a first visit to the website, Campus Vesta shows visitors a notification in which we indicate that we use cookies. In this notification we also refer to our privacy statement. To determine whether someone is visiting the website for the first time, we use a cookie that registers whether someone clicks on the cross at the top right of the notification.
• <unique-identification>-notificationContainer-freeForm- (location: cookies, retention period: 1 year, provider: Campus Vesta, recipient: Campus Vesta)
• Purpose: We use cookies to store whether we have already shown a specific one-time message.
• pa, pa_enabled (location: local storage, retention period: does not expire, provider: Pingdom, recipient: Campus Vesta)
• Goal: Campus Vesta uses Pingdom to monitor the technical performance of the sites.
• More information about these cookies can be found on the Pingdom support page.

 

2. Analytical cookies

These cookies collect general information that gives us insight into your use of the website.

a) Google Analytics

Campus Vesta uses Google Analytics cookies to generate visitor statistics. The anonymized and aggregated data are stored within Google Analytics.

• _ga (location: cookies, retention period: 2 years, provider: Google, recipient: Campus Vesta)
• _gid (location: cookies, retention period 24 hours, provider: Google, recipient: Campus Vesta)
• _gat_<id> (location: cookies, retention period: 1 minute, provider: Google, recipient: Campus Vesta)
• _dc_gtm_<property-id> (location: cookies, retention period: 1 minute, provider: Google, recipient: Campus Vesta)

For more information, we refer you to the types of cookies from Google and the cookie use of Google analytics.
If you want to automatically unsubscribe from Google analytics everywhere, you can install this handy extension from Google in your web browser.

 

b) Siteimprove

Campus Vesta uses Siteimprove cookies to improve the content of the website. The cookies are only used to generate web statistics and do not contain any personal information.

• nmstat (location: cookies, retention period: 1000 days, provider: Siteimprove, recipient: Campus Vesta)
• siteimproveses (location: cookies, retention period: per session, provider: Siteimprove, recipient: Campus Vesta)
• szcib (location: cookies, retention period: 400 days, provider: Siteimprove, recipient: Campus Vesta)
• sz-feedback-should-hide (location: cookies, retention period: per session, provider: Siteimprove, recipient: Campus Vesta)
• _cfscheid (location: cookies, retention period: 1 month, provider: Siteimprove, recipient: Campus Vesta)
• AWSELBCORS (location: cookies, retention period: per session, provider: Siteimprove, recipient: Campus Vesta)

More information about these cookies can be found on the Siteimprove support page.

 

c) Cludo

Campus Vesta uses Cludo to improve the search function of its websites. Cludo is a technology service that helps us to autocomplete the most likely search terms and show the most relevant and current results first.

• cludoSessionId (location: local storage, retention period: never expires, provider: Cludo, recipient: Campus Vesta)
• cludoSessionIdStart (location: local storage, retention period: never expires, provider: Cludo, recipient: Campus Vesta)

More information about these cookies can be found on the Cludo support page.

 

d) Click Dimensions

Campus Vesta uses the ClickDimensions service to send newsletters. The page to subscribe and unsubscribe from a newsletter uses cookies.

• cuvid (location: cookies, retention period: 2 years, provider: ClickDimensions, recipient: Campus Vesta)
• cusid (location: cookies, retention period: 30 minutes, provider: ClickDimensions, recipient: Campus Vesta)
• cuvon (location: cookies, retention period: 30 minutes, provider: ClickDimensions, recipient: Campus Vesta)
• cd_optout_accountkey (location: cookies, retention period: 6 months, provider: ClickDimensions, recipient: Campus Vesta)
• __zlcmid (location: cookies, retention period: 1 year, provider: ClickDimensions, recipient: Campus Vesta)

More information about these cookies can be found on the ClickDimensions support page.

 

3. Advertising and social media cookies

These cookies track your surfing behavior in order to compile a user profile in order to show you targeted advertisements that match your interests.

a) Facebook

• presence (location: cookies, retention period: per session, provider: Facebook, recipient: Facebook)
• Purpose: Facebook uses cookies to support your use of Messenger chat windows.
• c_user (location: cookies, retention period: 1 year, provider: Facebook, recipient: Facebook)
• Purpose: Facebook uses cookies to check your account and to check whether you are logged in. That way they can give you faster access to Facebook's services and offer features that are tailored to you.
• datr (location: cookies, retention period: 2 years, provider: Facebook, recipient: Facebook)
• Purpose: Facebook uses cookies to identify browsers for security and fraud prevention.
• dpr (location: cookies, retention period: 7 days, provider: Facebook, recipient: Facebook)
• Purpose: Facebook uses cookies to provide you with the best possible browsing experience, by checking the proportions and dimensions of your screen and windows and whether you have enabled the high-contrast mode.
• fr (location: cookies, retention period: 90 days, provider: Facebook, recipient: Facebook)
• Purpose: Facebook uses cookies to estimate the relevance of advertisements.
• sb (location: cookies, retention period: 2 years, provider: Facebook, recipient: Facebook)
• Purpose: Facebook uses cookies to keep your account safe, e.g. to store browser specifications.
• xs (location: cookies, retention period: 1 year, provider: Facebook, recipient: Facebook)
• Purpose: Facebook uses cookies to check your account and to check whether you are logged in. That way they can give you faster access to Facebook's services and offer features that are tailored to you.

More information about these cookies can be found on the Facebook support page.

 

b) YouTube

• PREF (location: cookies, retention period: 1 year, provider: YouTube, recipient: YouTube)
• Purpose: YouTube uses cookies to remember basic preferences, such as language choice, search results format, and how information is displayed.
• CONSENT (location: cookies, retention period: 6089 days, provider: YouTube, recipient: YouTube)
• Purpose: YouTube uses cookies to check whether the visitor has accepted the marketing cookies.
• LOGIN_INFO (location: cookies, retention period: 2 years, provider: YouTube, recipient: YouTube)
• Purpose: YouTube uses cookies to collect user information for integrated videos from YouTube so that they can be displayed optimally.
• VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE (location: cookies, retention period: 6 months, provider: YouTube, recipient: YouTube)
• Purpose: YouTube uses cookies to estimate bandwidth.
• YSC (location: cookies, retention period: per session, provider: YouTube, recipient: YouTube
• Purpose: YouTube uses cookies to store a unique user ID to keep statistics of which videos from YouTube the user has seen.
• SAPISID, SID, SSID (location: cookies, retention period: 2 years, provider: YouTube, recipient: YouTube)
• Purpose: YouTube uses cookies to collect user information for integrated videos from YouTube so that they can be displayed optimally.
• SIDCC (location: cookies, retention period: 1 year, provider: YouTube, recipient: YouTube)
• Purpose: YouTube uses cookies to collect user information for integrated videos from YouTube so that they can be displayed optimally.

More information about these cookies can be found on the Google support page.

 

Who is the data controller and how can you exercise your rights?

Campus Vesta is an autonomous provincial company and belongs to the 'Province of Antwerp group', which consists of various legal entities:

• The legal entity 'province of Antwerp', which then includes the various provincial departments, which are further subdivided into departments. For a description of our tasks and scope we refer to our homepage.
• The provincial external autonomous agencies are services with their own legal personality that are set up by the province or in which the province participates and which are charged with specific policy-executing tasks of provincial interest. Each legal entity acts as the controller of your personal data. Look here for the contact details of the various entities and their DPOs.

 

Contact Campus Vesta

Oostmalsesteenweg 75
2520 Ranst

company number: 0822.442.511
e-mail: dpo@campusvesta.be

Because cookies can contain personal data, you can also request access to your own personal data in accordance with the General Data Processing Regulation (GDPR). You can request, view and if necessary have corrected the personal data. In certain cases and if there are good reasons for doing so, you can request that your personal data be deleted. You also have the right to object to the processing and the right to data portability.

You can exercise these rights via the web form on the website.

Finally, you have the right to lodge a complaint against or about the processing of your personal data with the Data Protection Authority.

Changes to the cookie statement

This cookie statement may change if circumstances require, such as changes to our services or applicable legislation. The version number and date in the title indicate the most recent change. If we add new cookies to our website(s) or online services, we will request permission again via the cookie banner.