COOKIE POLICY
A. INTRODUCTION
Our website Immowi website (https://www.immowi.com/). We use cookies to provide you with a better user experience when you visit our website. They also allow us to optimize our website.
Cookies and similar technologies do not systematically collect data that could identify users of our website. They help us to improve how our website works, better respond to our users’ interests, and measure how effective the content of our website is.
This section on cookies gives you clear and complete information about the cookies we use and their purpose.
B. WHAT IS A COOKIE
1. DEFINITION ‘COOKIE’
A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your computer, smartphone or tablet via your web browser. Cookies are copied to the hard drive of the device when you visit our website, so that our system (among other things) can recognize you on your next visit and we can improve your use of the website.
Unless the browser settings have been adjusted to refuse cookies, our system will place cookies as soon as you visit our website (but not necessarily activate them).
2. TYPES OF COOKIES
Cookies can be subdivided according to their origin, their function and their lifespan.
- Origine:
Own cookies are cookies placed by the owner of the visited website.
Third party cookies are cookies that are placed by an organization other than the owner of the website you visit. For example, cookies that are created by a company that specialises in analysing websites and – to the owner of the website – provides data about the frequency of visitors to the site.
Below is a list of the parties with whom we collaborate:
- Google Ads, Google Analytics and Google Search Console: Further information on how Google uses your data in this context can be found via this link: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites;
- Outbrain: More information on how Outbrain uses your data in this context can be found via this link: https://www.outbrain.com/legal/privacy#privacy-policy;
- Tradetracker: Further information on how Facebook uses your data in this context can be found via this link:
https://tradetracker.com/privacy-policy/;
- Facebook: Further information on how Facebook uses your data in this context can be found via this link: https://www.facebook.com/policy.php;
- Bing Ads (Microsoft): More information on how Bing Ads uses your data in this context can be found via this link:
https://privacy.microsoft.com/nl-nl/privacystatement;
- Hotjar: More information on how Hotjar uses your data in this context can be found via this link: https://www.hotjar.com/privacy/;
- ActiveCampaign: More information on how Hotjar uses your data in this context can be found via this link: https://www.activecampaign.com/legal/privacy-policy/;
- LinkedIn: More information about how LinkedIn uses your data in this context can be found via this link: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.
- Function:
Functional cookies are cookies that ensure that the website functions properly (e.g. log-in or registration cookies, language preferences). Functional cookies are mostly proprietary cookies.
Non-functional cookies are cookies that can be placed for statistical, social, targeting and commercial purposes. They have nothing to do with the purely technical support of the website. For example, cookies with static purposes allow you to check which pages of the website you are visiting. Cookies with social purposes make it possible for the user to share the content of the visited website directly with others via social media. Cookies with targeting purposes allow you to build a profile based on your surfing behavior so that the ads displayed are tailored to your interests. Cookies with commercial purposes keep track of how many and which advertisements were shown to a user. Non- functional cookies are often third party cookies.
- Lifespan:
Persistent cookies are cookies that remain on the user’s device for the duration determined in the cookie and therefore also after the browser has closed. They are activated each time the user visits the website that placed this cookie (e.g. cookies placed by social media such as Twitter, Facebook, Google Analytics, etc.). Most non-functional cookies are permanent cookies.
Session cookies are cookies that allow us to simplify and link a user’s actions during a browser session. A browser session begins when a user opens the browser window and ends when the browser window closes. Session cookies are placed temporarily. As soon as you close the browser, all session cookies are deleted. Most functional cookies are session cookies.
C. WHICH COOKIES DO WE USE ON OUR WEBSITE?
| Cookie name | Description | Duration |
| viewed_cookie_policy | The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. It does not store any personal data. | 11 months |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category “Necessary”. | 11 months |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-non-necessary | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category “Non Necessary”. | 11 months |
| _gat_gtag_UA_127311125_4 | 1 year | |
| prism_1001163998 | 30 days | |
| __cfduid | The cookie is used by cdn services like CloudFare to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address and apply security settings on a per-client basis. It does not correspond to any user ID in the web application and does not store any personally identifiable information. | 30 days |
| NID | This cookie is used to a profile based on user’s interest and display personalized ads to the users. | 6 months |
| _fbp | This cookie is set by Facebook to deliver advertisement when they are on Facebook or a digital platform powered by Facebook advertising after visiting this website. | 3 months |
| fr | The cookie is set by Facebook to show relevant advertisments to the users and measure and improve the advertisements. The cookie also tracks the behavior of the user across the web on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin. | 3 months |
| _ga | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors. | 2 years |
| _gid | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the wbsite is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages viisted in an anonymous form. | 1 day |
D. YOUR PERMISSION
If you wish to withdraw your consent (you can do so at any time), you can delete cookies using your browser settings. However, if you use your browser settings to block these cookies, you may not be able to access (certain parts of) our website.
If you would like to know more about cookies, please visit https://www.cookiesandyou.com/. This website provides more information about cookies, explains how to delete cookies and shows you how to allow trusted websites to store cookies on your computer.
Version april 2020
