Cookie policy
1. General
On our site, https://goldstoffdesigns.com (from now on: “the site”), cookies and other related techniques are used (from now on, all methods are referred to as “cookies” for convenience). Third parties engaged by us also place cookies. In the document below, we inform you about the use of cookies on our site.
2. What are cookies?
A cookie is a simple small file that is sent with pages from this site and stored by your browser on the hard drive of your computer or other devices. The information stored therein can be sent back to our servers or those of the relevant third parties on your next visit.
3. What are scripts?
A script is a program code used to make our website function correctly and make it interactive. This code is executed on our server or your equipment.
4. What is a web beacon?
A web beacon (or a pixel tag) is a small, invisible piece of text or image on a site used to track traffic on a site. To do this, web beacons store various details of information about you.
5. Cookies
5.1 Technical or functional cookies
Some cookies ensure that certain parts of the site work correctly and that your user preferences remain known. By placing functional cookies, we provide that you can visit our site more easily. In this way, for example, you do not have to enter the same information each time you visit our site, and it is possible, among other things, that the items in your shopping basket are retained until you have paid. We may place these cookies without your consent.
5.2 Analytical cookies
Because statistics are collected anonymously, permission to place analytical cookies is not requested.
5.3 Advertising cookies
We use advertising cookies on this site so that the online advertising offer can be personalised for you, and we (and third parties) can gain insight into campaign results. This is done based on a profile that we draw up based on your click and surfing behaviour within and outside https://goldstoffdesigns.com. The cookies link a unique cookie ID to you as a site visitor to not see the same advertisement several times.
5.4 Marketing/Tracking cookies
Marketing/tracking cookies are cookies or any other form of local storage used to create user profiles for displaying advertisements or tracking the user on this site or across sites for similar marketing purposes. As these cookies are classified as tracking cookies, we ask your permission to place them.
5.5 Social media buttons
Our website includes Facebook buttons to promote (e.g. “like”, “pin”) or share (e.g. “tweet”) web pages on social networks such as Facebook. These buttons work through pieces of code that originate from Facebook itself. Cookies are placed using this code. The social media buttons can also store and process specific data to show personalised advertisements to you.
Please read the privacy statement of these parties (which may change regularly) to know what they do with your (personal) data that they process via these cookies. The information they collect is anonymised as much as possible. Facebook is based in the United States of America.
6. Cookies used
As most of the online services, our website uses first-party and third-party cookies for several purposes. First-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.
The third-party cookies used on our website are mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, providing advertisements that are relevant to you, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.
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- Statistics: These cookies store information like the number of visitors to the website, the number of unique visitors, which pages of the website have been visited, the source of the visit, etc. These data help us understand and analyze how well the website performs and where it needs improvement.
- Marketing: Our website displays advertisements. These cookies are used to personalize the advertisements that we show to you so that they are meaningful to you. These cookies also help us keep track of the efficiency of these ad campaigns.
The information stored in these cookies may also be used by the third-party ad providers to show you ads on other websites on the browser as well. - Functional: TThese are the cookies that help certain non-essential functionalities on our website. These functionalities include embedding content like videos or sharing content of the website on social media platforms.
- Preferences: These cookies help us store your settings and browsing preferences like language preferences so that you have a better and efficient experience on future visits to the website.
7. Permission
When you first visit our website, we will show a pop-up with an explanation about cookies. When you click ‘Save Preferences’, you permit us to use the categories of cookies and plug-ins you have selected in the pop-up described in the Cookie Policy. You can disable cookies via your browser, but please note that our website may not work correctly anymore.
8. Your rights concerning personal data
You have the following rights concerning your data:
- You have the right to know why your data is needed, what happens to it and how long it is kept.
- Right of access: You can request to see the data that we process about you.
- Right to rectification and completion: you have the right to add to, correct, delete or block your personal data whenever you want.
- If you permit us to process your data, you have the right to withdraw that permission and to have your personal data deleted.
- Right to data portability: You have the right to request all your data from the controller and to transfer it to another controller in its entirety.
- Right to object: You can object to the processing of your data. We will comply with this unless there are legitimate grounds for processing.
To exercise these rights, please contact us. For this, see the contact information at the bottom of this Cookie Statement. If you have a complaint about how we handle your data, we would like to hear it. Still, you also have the right to complain with the supervisory authority (the Data Protection Authority).
9. Enabling, disabling and deleting cookies
Your internet browser allows you to delete cookies automatically or manually. You can also indicate that certain cookies should not be placed. Another possibility is to set your internet browser so that you receive a message when a cookie is placed. More information on these possibilities can be found in the Help function of your browser.
Please note that our site may not work optimally if all cookies are disabled. If you do delete cookies in your browser, they will be set again when you next visit our sites.
10. Contact details
For questions and/or comments regarding our Cookie Policy and this statement, please contact us at the following contact information:
Yoëla Goldstoff
Simon Stevinlaan 15, 2650 Edegem, Belgium
Website: https://goldstoffdesigns.com
Email: info@goldstoffdesigns.com
Telephone number: +32 (0)496.69.60.94