What is a cookie ?
Cookies are small data files that can be placed on a device connected to the Internet, such as a computer, a phone, a tablet or even a smart TV. Cookies can be used to collect or store information about how you behave on a website and/or on your device, such as your language choice. Reading these cookies allows the websites which placed them to retrieve the information stored.
Cookies usually have an expiry date. Session cookies are automatically deleted when you close your browser, while persistent cookies remain stored on your device (computer, smartphone, tablet, etc.) up to a predefined expiration period (which can be expressed in minutes, days or years).
Cookies can be placed by the owner of the website you are visiting, these are first party cookies or direct cookies, or by third parties, typically when the website adds elements from other websites such as images, social media plug-ins (such as the Facebook ‘Like button) or advertisements, these are known as third party cookies. When these elements are extracted by the browser or by another software from other websites, these other websites may also place themselves cookies that can then be read by the websites which placed them. These third-party cookies enable these third parties to follow the behaviour of Internet users over time and across numerous websites and to create, from this data, profiles of people (profiling), in particular for implementing a more precise and targeted marketing during the future browsing of these Internet users who are tracked this way.
Which cookies do we use on our website and why?
skeyes, administrator of the website https://ops.skeyes.be only uses essential cookies which are necessary for the proper functioning of the site. They are activated by default and can therefore not be deactivated by the user.
Name of the cookie | Description | Duration |
This cookie is used to display the cookie banner | Expires at the end of the session | |
JSESSIONID | This cookie is used to maintain an anonymous user session by the server in the Java JEE environnent
| Expires at the end of the session |
selectedTab
| This cookie is used to maintain the selected tab | Expires at the end of the session |
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