What is a cookie?
Cookies are small data or text files placed locally on your computer or mobile device by websites or applications. These small files may store various types of information, such as your choice of language for a particular website, which will allow you to immediately view that site in your preferred language on your next visit. Such cookies can serve different purposes.
The Belgian Electronic Communications Law of 13 June 2005 contains some provisions on cookies and their use on websites. The application of the Belgian law is based on the European e-Privacy Directive, which means that the use of cookies and their regulation at a national level differs in the European countries that have incorporated this into national legislation.
Professional Education BVBA ("we/our/ours") is a company operating in the Belgian market and therefore follows Belgian and European legislation in this respect.
What are the different types of cookies?
Below are the different types of cookies with their different purposes and usefulness.
Necessary cookies: These cookies are necessary to enable you to enjoy your visit and the use of our website/application/platform. This will allow you, for example, to complete forms or update the content of your shopping cart. To access your personal account, necessary cookies also play an identification role to allow you to access your account.
Functional cookies: Functional cookies are intended to facilitate the operation of our website/application/platform by making the visit more pleasant for the user/visitor by customising your experience. In concrete terms, this can mean cookies remember your choice of language or your personal account settings.
Analytics cookies: These analytics cookies collect data about how visitors use our website/application/platform in order to continually improve your experience when visiting and using our website/application/platform.
Commercial cookies: Commercial cookies collect data about browsing behaviour to provide you with personalised content and relevant advertising that may be of interest to you. Through these cookies, you may be offered advertisements for products and services based on your interests.
Who can install these different cookies?
First party cookies: these cookies are managed and installed by us and are specifically related to our website/application/platform.
Third party cookies: these cookies are managed and installed by third parties and allow certain browsing information on our website/application/platform to be sent to third parties, such as our partners.
How long are cookies kept?
Cookies generally have an expiry date which may vary depending on their purpose.
Temporary cookies: some cookies (session cookies) are stored on your browser or application temporarily and are deleted as soon as you close your browser/application.
Permanent cookies: other cookies will be stored on your device for a longer period of time. Some may be retained until a predefined time or manual intervention to delete them. These permanent cookies allow us to recognise you the next time you visit or use our website/platform/application.
What is the purpose of cookies?
Professional Education SPRL would like to inform you as accurately as possible about the rules surrounding the use of cookies and the types of cookies it uses on its site. Cookies help Professional Education SPRL to optimise your visit to its website, to remember your technical choices (such as choice of language, newsletters, etc.), and to provide you with offers and services that are increasingly tailored to your needs.
In order to use the Professional Education SPRL website, it is recommended that you enable cookies. If cookies are disabled, we may not be able to guarantee you a technically trouble-free visit to our site. However, you are free to disable cookies if you wish.
We use cookies to enhance your visit and use of our website. The cookies we use are safe. The information we collect using cookies helps us to identify any errors on our website and to provide you with specific and personalised services that we think may be of interest to you.
How do I manage/delete installed cookies?
You can consult, create exceptions or refuse the installation of cookies at any time via the settings of your browser. You can also delete installed cookies via your browser settings.
To do this, please follow the steps on the following links:
Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/delete-and-manage-cookies-168dab11-0753-043d-7c16-ede5947fc64d
Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en
Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/clear-cookies-and-site-data-firefox
Safari (iOS): https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201265
Safari (MacOS): https://support.apple.com/et-ee/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac
If you wish to refuse commercial cookies, you can do so by following the steps on the website: http://www.youronlinechoices.com/