Cookies Policy

1. Definitions

“Personal data”: means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person as defined in Article 4(1) of Regulation (EU) 2016/679;

“Applicable Data Protection Laws” means all applicable national or international laws, regulations and rules of any government, agency or authority relating to data protection and privacy, including but not limited to the General Data Protection Regulation (General Data Protection Regulation) (EU) 2016/679), the Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive (2002/58/EC) and the Law of 30 July 2018 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data.

GDPR”: Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016.

Processing of Personal Data” or “Processing”: means any operation or set of operations performed on Personal Data or sets of Personal Data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation or modification, extraction, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction, as defined in Article 4, paragraph 2, Regulation (EU) 2016/679;

"The RCA": The Régie Communale Autonome Bourse-Beurs, with its seat at Boulevard Anspach 80, 1000 Brussels  and with enterprise number: 0773.926.673.

“Website”: https://www.belgianbeerworld.be

2. Introduction

A cookie is a text file dropped on your device when visiting a website, aiming to memorize information about you, such as your language preference or your login information. These cookies are determined by the RCA.

RCA also uses third-party cookies - which are cookies from a domain different from the domain of our Website. (See dedicated section)

Cookies constitute personal data whose processing is subject to the Applicable Data Protection Laws.

You can choose at any time to express and modify your choices in terms of cookies when browsing the Website and in your browser by clicking here.

3. Cookies used

RCA uses the following cookies and other tracking technologies:

 

3.1. Essential Cookies

These cookies are necessary for the working of the Website and cannot be deactivated under penalty of making the functionalities, or even the entire Website, unavailable. They are generally only activated in response to your actions or request for services on the Website. These cookies do not store any directly identifiable information (e.g. names or surnames) and are used for the sole purpose of allowing visits to the Website, the transmission of information via public communication networks.

 

Strictly Necessary Cookies:

Keycloak_session:

Contains your session identifier associated with the domain

Duration: Permanent

 

Keycloak_session_Legacy:

This cookie is basically the same as the non-legacy version, but with different flags to handle older browsers.

Duration: Permanent

 

KEYCLOAK IDENTITY:

Contains a token (JWT) with user information. This cookie lives with your browser session and can also be updated with SSO.

Duration: Permanent

 

KEYCLOAK IDENTITY LEGACY:

This cookie is basically the same as the non-LEGACY version, but with different flags to handle older browsers.

Duration: Permanent

 

AUTH SESSION ID:

This cookie helps keycloak manage load balancing, and contains information about the browser session.

Duration: Permanent

 

AUTH_SESSION_ID_LEGACY:

This cookie is in fact the same as the non-LEGACY version, but with different indicators to handle older browsers.

Duration: Permanent

3.2. Functional Cookies

Functional cookies are used to improve the performance of the Website, but are not strictly necessary for browsing the Website. They are only placed after consent of the Data Subject has been given regarding the placement of cookies. Without them, certain functions of the website may not be available or the visit experience may be less pleasant. For example, they allow important information and user preferences to be remembered.

 

Functional Cookie:

tarte au citron (tarteaucitron):

Stores the user's permission to use cookies for the current domain

Duration: Permanent

3.3. Performance cookies (statistical / analytical)

These cookies make it possible to perform a statistical analysis of the use of the pages, interactions and lead generations of users on the Website, in order to improve the performance or the visitor’s experience of the Website. Among other things, they allow us to calculate visits and traffic sources. They help to determine which pages are more or less popular and to analyze how visitors interact with the Website. Refusing these cookies means that the RCA will not be able to improve your experience for future visits.

The data collected via performance cookies is aggregated and/or pseudonomized regularly in order to best protect your privacy.

 

Performance cookies:

_ga (_ga):

Cookie used by Google Analytics to collect information on visitor numbers, sessions, campaign data and to keep track of site usage for analytics reporting.

Duration: 2 years

 

_gcl_au (_gcl_au):

Cookie used by Google Tag Manager to store and track conversions while preserving anonymity.

Duration: 2 years

 

_gid:

Count and track pages visited

Duration: 1 day

 

_gat_gtag_UA_:

Store unique user IDs

Duration: 1 minute

 

_gd_visitor:

Cookie used by Google Tag Manager to store and track conversions while preserving anonymity.

Duration: 2 years

3.43. Targeting / Marketing Cookies

These cookies may be placed on our Website by our partners. They may be used by these partners to build a profile of your interests and show you advertisements tailored to your interests on other websites. The refusal of these cookies will have the effect, among other things, of displaying less targeted advertising.

 

Targeting /marketing cookies:

_gcl_au (_gcl_au):

Cookie used by Google Tag Manager to store and track conversions while preserving anonymity

Duration: 2 years

 

_gd_visitor:

Cookie used by Google Tag Manager to store and track conversions while preserving anonymity.

Duration: 2 years

3.4. Third-party Cookies

Third-party cookies are generated and placed from another provider and/or domain name than the Website. They are dropped when a user visits a webpage which includes elements from other websites, such as hyperlinks, images or third-party advertisements. This content from third-party websites is used in particular for activities such as surveys, to display the content hosted on these sites, such as an integrated video or a press article, or to link to social networks linked to the site. These websites may use their own cookies, for which the RCA is not responsible. We therefore invite you to consult the privacy policy and the cookie policy relating to each website.

 

Third-party cookies:

www.XXX.be (XXX):

Duration: Permanent

4. Link to the privacy policy  

For more information and a complete overview of the Processing of your Personal Data, please consult our personal data protection policy.

5. Transfer to third parties or outside the European Union

The acceptance of certain cookies involves the transfer to or processing of your personal data by third parties, inside or outside the European Union. These transfers, and in particular those outside the European Union, are made in accordance with the Applicable Data Protection Laws.

For more information about these transfers, we invite you to consult the dedicated section of our privacy policy or to contact us (see section 7. Contact).

6. Modification of the cookies policy

The RCA may change this Cookies Policy from time to time. This Cookies Policy was last updated on XXX.

7. Contact

If you have any questions or comments regarding this Cookie Policy or after reading our privacy policy, please contact the contact person at the following address:

Denomination:

Violette De Neef

Rue des Halles 4, 1000 Brussels

 

E-mail:

Violette.DeNeef@brucity.be

 

In the event of a complaint or lack of useful follow-up given by the RCA to one of your requests within the legal deadline, you can contact the supervisory authority for the RCA:

 

Denomination:

Data Protection Authority

 

Address:

Rue de la Presse 35, 1000 Brussels

 

Website:

https://www.autoriteprotectiondonnees.be

 

Contact:

Tel.: +32 2 274 48 00
Email: contact@apd-gba.be