Cookie Policy
Fortino Capital Partners – Cookie Policy
Effective date: This Cookie Policy was updated on 30 August 2024 and is effective as of that date.
This cookie policy (the “Cookie Policy”) applies to www.fortinocapital.be (the "Website"), operated by Fortino Capital Partners NV/SA, a public limited liability company ('naamloze vennootschap' / 'société anonyme') under Belgian law, with registered office at Borsbeeksebrug 36, 2600 Antwerpen (Belgium), and with enterprise number ('ondernemingsnummer' / 'numéro d'entreprise') 0542.691.739 (RLP Antwerp, division Antwerp) ("Fortino"), which is also the controller of your Personal Data collected through the Website.
Please refer to our privacy statement (the "Privacy Statement") for more information about how we will process your Personal Data (as defined in the Privacy Statement) in the context of your use of this Website.
The Website uses cookies and similar technologies as described below. This Cookie Policy describes the purposes for which we use cookies and other tracking technologies such as pixel gifs and what types of cookies we use on the Website. We will inform you about the types of cookies, which cookies are relied on by Fortino, which purpose they serve and how you can prevent these cookies and other tracking technologies from being stored, noted that this may downgrade or disable certain elements of the functionality of the Website.
By clicking on “Accept all cookies” or selecting your cookie preferences and clicking on “Save preferences” on our cookie banner, you are agreeing to our use of cookies and similar technologies in line with your current cookie setting/preference and in accordance with this Cookie Policy.
You can find our archived Fortino Cookie Policy
1. WHAT ARE COOKIES?
Cookies are files or pieces of information that may be stored on your computer (or other internet enabled devices, such as a smartphone or tablet) when you visit this Website. A cookie will usually contain the name of the website from which the cookie has come from, the "lifetime" of the cookie (i.e. how long the cookie will remain on your device), and a value, which is usually a randomly generated unique number. Cookies are then sent back to the website on each subsequent visit, or to another webpage that recognizes that cookie. Cookies are used in order to make the website work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the website. Such information may be used to provide a more personalized and responsive service and therefore facilitate the use of our Website.
Cookies may be either first party cookies set directly by us to your device, or third-party cookies set by a third party provider on our behalf. Whenever you use this Website, information may be collected through the use of cookies and other technologies.
FOR WHAT PURPOSES DOES THIS WEBSITE USE COOKIES?
We use cookies and similar technologies on this Website for the following purposes as further described in the table below:
- perform essential functions or services you have requested or are used for security purposes (these cookies are necessary to make our Website work);
- to remember the page changes or item or data selection our users do from page to page, to better understand our users’ needs and to optimize this service and experience or to deliver advertisements more relevant to you and your interests, and to limit the number of times you see advertisement
- to help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaigns;
- to compile anonymous, aggregated statistics that allow us to understand how users use the Website and to help us improve the structure and content of the Website (for example, by monitoring which features of the Website are being used, which pages are visited, how often, and what information is downloaded).
Except for cookies that are necessary for the proper functioning of our Website and that you may not refuse (such as essential and analytical cookies listed below), we will collect your prior consent to use cookies and process your Personal Data.
Your consent is collected and registered following the selection of your cookie preferences in our cookie consent banner. You will always be able to withdraw your consent and change your choice by clicking on the hyperlink “Cookie preferences” as described below.
If you disable cookies that we use, this may impact your user experience while on this Website.
2. WHAT TYPES OF COOKIES DOES THE WEBSITE USE?
The table below summarizes the different types of cookies we use on the Website, together with their respective purposes.
Essential cookies: these cookies are essential for you to browse the Website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the Website. We do not collect consent for these cookies. You may disable these by changing your browser settings (see below).
| Name | Provider | Data location | Type | Expiry | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SSESSXXXXX | Drupal CMS | Belgium | First party | Session | Logged in user session id |
| cookie-agreed | Drupal CMS | Belgium | First party | 100d | Stores the user's cookie consent state for the current domain |
| cookie-agreed-categories | Drupal CMS | Belgium | First party | 100d | Stores the user's cookie categories consent state for the current domain |
| cookie-agreed-version | Drupal CMS | Belgium | First party | 100d | Stores the privacy policy version that was active when the user gave his cookie consent for the current domain |
| show-popup-form | Drupal CMS | Belgium | First party | 7d | Stores the displayed state of the newsletter popup form, so the popup only opens once until the cookie expires. |
Analytical Cookies: these cookies collect information about how you use the Website, like which pages you visited and which links you clicked on. These cookies help us measure the performance of the Website, make improvements to the navigation and content to make the Website better and easier to access. These cookies are optional and will only be placed if you accept them.
| Name | Provider | Data location | Type | Expiry | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Google Analytics | United States | First party | 400d | These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our Website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in a way that does not directly identify anyone, including the number of visitors to the website and blog, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited. For more information about Google Analytics, please consult the following pages: www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/ The page code.google.com which describes the use of cookies by Google Analytics Overview of the privacy policy of Google Analytics You can also stop the collection of your usage data and the processing of the data by Google by downloading and installing the extension for your current browser from the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout |
| _gid | Google Analytics | United States | First party | 1d | |
| _gcl_au | Google Tag Manager | United States | First party | 3m | Google Tag Manager sets the cookie to experiment advertisement efficiency of websites using their services. |
Marketing Cookies: Targeting and advertising cookies are specifically designed to gather information from you to display advertisements to you based on relevant topics that interest you. The information the cookies gather on you can be shared with other advertisers to measure the performance of their advertisements. These cookies are optional and will only be placed if you accept them.
| Name | Provider | Data location | Type | Expiry | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| _lfa | LeadFeeder | Europe | First party | 1y | This cookie is set by the provider Leadfeeder to identify the IP address of devices visiting the website, in order to retarget multiple users routing from the same IP address. |
| li_sugr | United States | Third party | 3m | LinkedIn sets this cookie to collect user behaviour data to optimise the website and make advertisements on the website more relevant. | |
| bcookie | United States | Third party | 1y | LinkedIn sets this cookie from LinkedIn share buttons and ad tags to recognize browser IDs. | |
| lidc | United States | Third party | 1d | LinkedIn sets the lidc cookie to facilitate data center selection. | |
| UserMatchHistory | United States | Third party | 1m | LinkedIn sets this cookie for LinkedIn Ads ID syncing. | |
| AnalyticsSyncHistory | United States | Third party | 1m | Linkedin set this cookie to store information about the time a sync took place with the lms_analytics cookie. | |
| bscookie | United States | Third party | 1y | LinkedIn sets this cookie to store performed actions on the website. | |
| li_gc | United States | Third party | 6m | Linkedin set this cookie for storing visitor's consent regarding using cookies for non-essential purposes. | |
| IDE | Google (Doubleclick) | United States | Third party | 1y | |
| NID | United States | Third party | 6m |
3. HOW LONG WILL COOKIES BE STORED ON MY DEVICE?
The length of time cookies will stay on your device will depend on whether it is a “persistent” or “session” cookie.
A persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiration date, unless deleted by you before the expiration date. The next time you visit our Website, the cookie will recognize you as a returning visitor and the cookie will be present to our Website in order for us to offer the Website in line with your preferences.
A session cookie, on the other hand, will contain information that is used within your current web session but will expire at the end of your web session, when the web browser is closed.
HOW CAN YOU CONTROL, DELETE OR WITHDRAW YOUR CONSENT TO THE USE OF COOKIES?
Where cookies are not strictly necessary for the provision of our Website, we will ask you to consent to our use of optional cookies when you first visit our Website. Consent can also be provided or withdrawn at any time by clicking on the hyperlink “Cookie preferences”. When you withdraw your consent, the cookies already installed, will be deleted.
Any consent to accept or to decline cookies is limited to the site for which this Cookie Policy is posted and not to other sites or any other pages, which may be hyperlinked to our Website. For more information on cookies used by those websites, please refer to the specific Privacy or Cookie Policy on those websites.
Another option to withdraw your consent to our use of cookies or other tracking technologies on this Website, or to delete or control the placing of cookies on your computer, is to modify your browser settings. Please refer to your browser instructions or help screen to learn more about how to adjust or modify your browser settings at:
• Chrome: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en-GB&hlrm=nl&answer=95647
• Firefox: http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences?s=cookies&r=5&as=s
• Safari: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH5042
Please keep in mind, if you disable the cookies that the Website uses, this may impact your experience while on the Website.
You can also delete cookies already stored on your computer. Please keep in mind that this may have a negative impact on the usability of the Website.
4. HOW CAN WE MAKE CHANGES TO OUR COOKIE POLICY?
Except to the extent limited by applicable law, Fortino reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to change, modify, and/or add all or parts of this Cookie Policy, at any time. Any changes to this Cookie Policy will be posted on this page, and such modified or amended Cookie Policy shall be effective as to you and your information as of the revision date.