COOKIE POLICY
Updated February 24, 2022
This Cookie Policy governs the use of cookies on the website of LeadFabric. Cookies are small text files which are stored on a device’s hard drive and which contain certain information and sometimes personal data.
Social media plugins are small pieces of software developed and provided by social media service providers (e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Google, YouTube, Pinterest, Instagram and Twitter), which add social media integration when built into the website.
If you would like to receive information on how we process personal data in the context of the use of your website or our communication, please refer to our Privacy Policy or in the context of your application for a position at LeadFabric, please refer to our Applicant Privacy Policy.
1. General
| 1.1. | Your personal data are processed by LeadFabric, acting in the capacity of data controller. Our contact details are: LeadFabric with registered seat at Lambroekstraat 5A, 1831 Machelen, Belgium, VAT 0832.917.125. In case you have any remarks or questions, please contact our Data Privacy Officer. |
| 1.2. | The terms in this Applicant Privacy Policy should be interpreted in accordance with the terms defined in the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of 27 April 2016 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data and repealing Directive 95/46/EC). |
| 1.3. | We reserve the right to modify or amend this Cookie Policy on our own initiative. Each change or modification shall be communicated via the website. |
| 1.4. | By continuing to use the website after having been informed of the use of cookies and social media plugins, you acknowledge that you have read this Cookie Policy carefully. You may, however, at all times change your cookie preferences through the cookie settings. |
2. Cookies
| 2.1. | You can avoid cookies being placed by configuring your browser as such. Guidelines as to how to do this can be found here:
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| 2.2. | When you visit the website, LeadFabric places a number of cookies. Most data pertaining to these cookies, their placement and use, allow to identify you. LeadFabric uses them to gain insight in how you and other visitors use the website by gathering statistical and usage data, enabling LeadFabric to provide a better user experience on the website. |
| 2.3. | The following cookies are being used on the website: |
Functional cookies:
LeadFabric uses several functional cookies on its website. These cookies are needed for the website to work properly and to give you a good user experience.
Analytical and statistical cookies:
| Name of the cookie | Function description | Lifespan | Provider |
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| _ga cookie and _gid cookie | They both register a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitors use the website. | 1 day | LeadFabric |
| _gat cookie | Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate. | 1 day | LeadFabric |
| _visual_swf_referer cookie | Registers statistics for videos played on the website. | Session | LeadFabric |
| Drift.Targeting.currentReferrer cookie and Drift.Targeting.referrerDomain cookie | They both allow the website to recognize the visitor to optimize the chat-box tool. | Persistent | LeadFabric |
| nQ_visitId cookie | Sets a unique ID for the session to allow the website to obtain data on website visitors’ behavior for statistical purposes. | 70 years | LeadFabric |
Social media and advertising (marketing) cookies:
| Name of the cookie | Function description | Lifespan | Provider |
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| _gcl_au cookie | Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services. | 3 months | LeadFabric |
| _hjIncludedInSample cookie | Determines if the website users’ navigation should be registered in a certain statistical place holder. | Session | LeadFabric |
| _hjRecordingEnabled cookie and uuid cookie | Identifies the website visitor and optimizes ad-relevance by collecting visitor data from different websites. | Session / 119 days | LeadFabric |
| nQ_cookie ID cookie | Tracks website visitors on multiple websites for marketing purposes. | 70 years | LeadFabric |
| ads/ga-audiences pixel | Used by Google Adwords to re-engage website visitors that are likely to convert to customers, based on the website visitors’ online behavior across websites. | Session | |
| bcookie and bscookie/ lidc cookie | Used by LinkedIn to track the use of embedded services. | 2 years / 1 day | |
| BizoID cookie and UserMatchHistory cookie | Used by LinkedIn to track website visitors on multiple websites to show relevant advertisements based on. the website visitor’s preferences. | 29 days | |
| Drift.Targeting.currentPageViewStarted cookie, Drift.Targeting.firstVisit cookie and Drift.Targeting.lastVisit cookie | Necessary for the functionality of the chat-box function on the website. | Persistent | LeadFabric |
| Drift.Targeting.currentSessionStartedAt cookie | Identifies the website visitors to optimize the chat-box function on the website. | Persistent | LeadFabric |
| Drift.Targeting.numberOfSessions cookie, Drift.Targeting.numberOfVisits cookie and Drift.Targeting.previousPage cookie | Determines the number of visits/ last page visited of each website visitor to make the chat-box more relevant. | Persistent | LeadFabric |
| _fbp cookie/ tr pixel/ fr cookie | Used by Facebook to deliver series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third-party advertisers. | 1 day / session / 3 months | |
| GPS cookie | Registers a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking based on someone’s geographical GPS location. | 1 day | YouTube |
| IDE cookie and NID cookie | Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website visitors’ actions after viewing and/or clicking on an advertiser’s ads to measure the efficiency of an ad and to show targeted ads. | 1 year | Google DoubleClick |
| PREF cookie | Registers statistics of how website visitors use YouTube videos across different websites. | 8 months | YouTube |
| rc::a cookie and rc::b cookie | Used in the context of video advertisement. The cookie limits the number of times a video is shown the same advertisement and makes sure that the advertisement is relevant for the website visitors. | Persistent | |
| yt-remote-session-app cookie, yt-remote-session-name cookie, yt-remote-fast-check-period, yt-remote-device-id, yt-remote-connected-devices and yt-remote-cast-installed cookie | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. | Session | YouTube |
| YSC cookie | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what YouTube videos users have seen. | Session | YouTube |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE cookie | Tries to estimate the users’ bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. | 179 days | YouTube |
| __hs_opt_out | This cookie is used by the opt-in privacy policy to remember not to ask the visitor to accept cookies again. | 6 months | HubSpot |
| __hs_do_not_track | This cookie can be set to prevent the tracking code from sending any information to HubSpot. | 6 months | HubSpot |
| __hs_initial_opt_in | This cookie is used to prevent the banner from always displaying when visitors are browsing in strict mode. | 7 days | HubSpot |
| __hs_cookie_cat_pref | This cookie is used to record the categories a visitor consented to. | 6 months | HubSpot |
| __hs_ab_test | This cookie is used to consistently serve visitors the same version of an A/B test page they’ve seen before. | Session | HubSpot |
| <id>_key | When visiting a password-protected page, this cookie is set so future visits to the page from the same browser do not require login again. | 14 days | HubSpot |
| __hs_high_contrast | This cookie is used to save a visitor's selected contrast choice on a HubSpot domain. | 180 days | HubSpot |
| hs-messages-is-open | This cookie is used to determine and save whether the chat widget is open for future visits. | 30 minutes | HubSpot |
| hs-messages-hide-welcome-message | This cookie is used to prevent the chat widget welcome message from appearing again for one day after it is dismissed. | 1 day | HubSpot |
| __hsmem | This cookie is set when visitors log in to a HubSpot-hosted site. | 1 year | HubSpot |
| hs-membership-csrf | This cookie is used to ensure that content membership logins cannot be forged. | Session | HubSpot |
| hs_langswitcher_choice | This cookie is used to save a visitor’s selected language choice when viewing pages in multiple languages. | 2 years | HubSpot |
| __cfruid | This cookie is set by HubSpot’s CDN provider because of their rate limiting policies. Learn more about Cloudflare cookies. | Session | HubSpot |
| __cf_bm | This cookie is used by the opt-in privacy policy to remember not to ask the visitor to accept cookies again. | 30 minutes | HubSpot |
| __hstc | The main cookie for tracking visitors. | 6 months | HubSpot |
| hubspotutk | This cookie keeps track of a visitor's identity. It is passed to HubSpot on form submission and used when deduplicating contacts. | 6 months | HubSpot |
| __hssc | This cookie keeps track of sessions. | 30 minutes | HubSpot |
| messagesUtk | This cookie is used to recognize visitors who chat with you via the chatflows tool. If the visitor leaves your site before they're added as a contact, they will have this cookie associated with their browser. | 6 months | HubSpot |
3. What Are the Purposes and the Legal Bases to Process Your Personal Data?
| 3.1. | LeadFabric processes your personal data to perform statistical analyses so that we may improve our website, products and services or develop new products and services.
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| 3.2. | LeadFabric processes your personal data for advertising and marketing purposes.
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| 3.3. | LeadFabric may process your personal data for the preservation of the legitimate interests of LeadFabric, its partners or a third-party if the use of the website can be considered (a) a violation of any applicable terms of use or the intellectual property rights or any other rights of a third-party, (b) a threat to the security or integrity of the website, (c) a danger to the website or any of LeadFabric’s or its subcontractors’ underlying systems due to viruses, Trojan horses, spyware, malware or any other form of malicious code, or (d) in any way hateful, obscene, discriminating, racist, slanderous, spiteful, hurtful or in some other way inappropriate or illegal.
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| 3.4. | LeadFabric processes your personal data in order to be able to defend us in judicial or other proceedings.
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| 3.5. | LeadFabric may process your personal data for informing any third-party in the context of a possible merger with, acquisition from/by or demerger by that third-party, even if that third-party is located outside the EU.
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| 3.6. | LeadFabric processes your personal data to comply with legal obligations or to comply with any reasonable request from competent law enforcement agents or representatives, judicial authorities, governmental agencies or bodies, including competent data protection authorities. Your personal data may be transferred upon LeadFabric’s own initiative to the police or the judicial authorities as evidence or if there are justified suspicions of an unlawful act or crime committed by you through the use of the website.
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4. How Long Will We Keep Your Personal Data?
| 4.1. | As a general principle, we keep your personal data for as short as possible and no longer as necessary to achieve the purposes described above. When your personal data are no longer necessary, they will be safely deleted. We would like to emphasize that we provide the necessary appropriate safeguards for the security and integrity of your personal data. |
5. Who Receives Your Personal Data?
| 5.1. | Except for the situation described in clause 5.2, LeadFabric does not send your personal data in an identifiable manner to any third-party without your explicit consent to do so. However, you understand that our use of analytical and statistical cookies or social media and advertising cookies may imply that the third-party providers of these cookies may obtain certain information about you, including information about your browsing behavior. We advise you to consult the privacy and cookie policies of the providers listed above in the cookie table. |
| 5.2. | LeadFabric relies on third parties such as IT service providers to provide you with the website. These third-party processors may only process your personal data on LeadFabric's behalf on the basis of explicit written instructions from LeadFabric. LeadFabric is known to work with top notch companies. This also applies to its choice of processors. Hence, it goes without saying that LeadFabric guarantees that all external processors are selected with due care and obliges them to respect the security and integrity of your personal data. In principle, your personal data will only be processed within the European Economic Area (i.e. the European Union, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein). |
| 5.3. | Should the aforementioned purposes require that your personal data is processed outside the European Economic Area, we ensure that your personal data will be protected to the fullest extent possible. |
6. What Are Our Quality Assurances?
| 6.1. | Personal data are considered by LeadFabric as confidential information and are treated as such. |
| 6.2. | LeadFabric will take appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your personal data against the loss, alteration or unauthorised disclosure of, or access to, transmitted, stored or otherwise processed data, whether accidentally or unlawfully. |
| 6.3. | LeadFabric will de-identify your personal data when they are no longer necessary for the purposes outlined in the purpose for processing, if appropriate. |
| 6.4. | Access by personnel of LeadFabric or its third-party processors will only be on a need-to-know basis and subject to strict confidentiality obligations. |
| 6.5. | You understand, however, that safety and security are best efforts obligations only, which can never be guaranteed. If a breach of security or confidentiality of your personal data occurs and this breach poses a high risk to your rights and freedoms, we will notify you of this breach as soon as possible. |
7. What Are Your Rights?
| 7.1. | You have the right to request access to all personal data processed by LeadFabric pertaining to you. You must always specify the processing activities in respect of which you wish to exercise your right to access. You have the right to a free copy of the personal data LeadFabric processes about you. If you request additional copies, we will charge you a reasonable fee based on our administrative costs. |
| 7.2. | You have the right to request that any personal data pertaining to you that are inaccurate or incomplete, are corrected free of charge. If a request for correction is submitted, such request shall be accompanied of proof of the flawed nature of the data for which correction is asked. |
| 7.3. | You have the right to request the erasure of your personal data, i.e. we are obliged to delete your personal data without unreasonable delay if you so wish, if the personal data are no longer necessary for the purposes described above, if (a) you withdraw your consent, (b) you object to the processing, (c) your personal data have been unlawfully processed or (d) the law prohibits us from deleting them. |
| 7.4. | You have the right to request the restriction of processing of your personal data if and when (a) you contest the accuracy of that data, (b) the processing is illegitimate, (c) the data are no longer needed for the purposes which are outlined above, but you need them to defend yourself in judicial proceedings or (d) object the processing. |
| 7.5. | You have the right to data portability in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or the transmission of those data to another controller, if the processing is based on your consent or on the performance of our contract and if the processing is carried out by automated means. |
| 7.6. | If we process your personal data in order to protect our legitimate interest or the legitimate interest of a third-party, you have the right to object to this processing. |
| 7.7. | You have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal consequences for you or similarly affects you. |
| 7.8. | You have the right to withdraw your consent. This only applies to situations where the processing is based on your consent |
| 7.9. | To exercise your rights as described in this Privacy Policy, you can contact our Privacy Officer. You must submit a written request to this effect to our DPO, stating the right to which your request relates and the reasons for your request. In addition, you must add a copy of your valid identity card, on which the validity date and your signature are clearly visible, in order to prevent illegal or fraudulent requests. As soon as your request is received by our Privacy Officer, you will receive an acknowledgement of receipt. Your request will then be dealt with within a reasonable period of time. If you have any questions, you can contact our Privacy Officer. If you are still dissatisfied, you can contact the Belgian Data Protection Authority. |