Cookie Policy

Effective: January 2022

Cookie policy of TECH EUROPE

TECH EUROPE, with registered office in Koeybleuken 16, 2300 Turnhout, Belgium (Vat number BE0428545604) as Data Controller (hereinafter, “Data controller”/”TECH”), informs you pursuant the (EU) Regulation no. 679/2018 (“GDPR”) and the applicable national Data Protection law, that your personal data shall be processed by cookies installed on the web-site www.techeurope.com.

This website uses cookies to distinguish you from other visitors. Our policy outlines how we use cookies to help optimize service, personalize content, and improve our website. Read more our opt-out below.

What Are Cookies?
Recital 30 of the Regulation expressly states that ‘Natural persons may be associated with online identifiers provided by their devices, applications, tools and protocols, such as internet protocol addresses, cookie identifiers or other identifiers such as radio frequency identification tags. This may leave traces which, when combined with unique identifiers and other information received by the servers, may be used to create profiles of the natural persons and identify them.’

Cookies are, as a rule, text strings that the websites visited by the user (so-called ‘publisher’ or ‘first party’ websites) or else different websites or web servers (so-called ‘third parties’) place and store within a terminal device (i.e. computer, tablet, smartphone) in the user’s possession — whether directly as is the case with publisher websites, or indirectly as is the case with ‘third parties’, i.e. through the intermediation of the publisher websites. Software for browsing the internet and operating these devices can store cookies and then transmit them back to the sites that generated them on the occasion of a subsequent visit by the user, thus keeping track of that user’s previous interaction with one or more websites. Information encoded in cookies may include personal data, such as an IP address, a username, a unique identifier or an email address, but it may also include non-personal data such as language settings or information on the type of device a person is using to navigate within the website. Cookies can therefore perform important as well as diverse functions, including session monitoring, the storage of specific server access information related to user configuration, facilitating the use of online content, etc. For example, they can be used to keep track of the items in an online shopping basket, or the information used to fill in a computer form.

This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. No personal data can be saved in cookies if you have not given your consent.

TECH Europe uses cookies to improve services for you by:

1. Measuring how many people are using the different areas of the website
2. Analyzing anonymous data to help us understand how visitors interact with the website in order to identify any improvements
3. Enabling a service to recognize your computer so you don’t have to give the same information several times.

Categorization of cookies
1.Technical cookies, which are used solely for the purpose of ‘carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network, or to the extent strictly necessary for the provider of an information society service explicitly requested by the contracting party or user to provide that service”.

These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website and cannot be switched off in our systems.  These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.

More particularly, our website uses (but is not limited to) the following technical cookies:

• Form related

When you submit data to through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms cookies may be set to remember your user details to enable TECH Europe to follow up with your enquiry.

• WooCommerce Cart Hash

The WooCommerce Cart Hash cookie contains information about the shopping cart. In other words, it memorizes what you added to your cart. Also, it helps WooCommerce know when the cart data changes.

• WooCommerce Items In Cart

The WooCommerce Item in cart cookie has the same value as the WooCommerce Cart Hash. Both keep the cart information and allows you to properly use the cart feature. Without them, you would not be able to add multiple products to your cart or make any changes.

• WP WooCommerce Session

This cookie contains a unique code for each customer. The WooCommerce session cookie knows where to find the cart data in the database for each customer. In other words, without it, shopping in WooCommerce wouldn’t be as effective and functional as it is now.

2. First-party and third-party analytics cookies which are used to assess the effectiveness of an information society service provided by a publisher, to design a website or to help measure its “traffic” (i.e. the number of visitors, possibly broken down by geographical area, time slot or other characteristics. Analytics cookies have to be structured in such a way as to enable the same cookie to relate to several devices, which create reasonable uncertainty as to the IT identity of the cookie recipient. It’s necessary that analytics cookies be only used for the production of aggregated statistics and in relation to an individual website or mobile application, so as not to allow tracking an individual’s navigation across different applications or websites.

More particularly, our website uses the following analytic cookies (first-party and third-party):

• Google Analytics & Google Search Console

This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the internet for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.

Disabling cookies
You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser. Depending on your browser, you may also view the cookies that are already in your system. Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit.

Changes to this information
If TECH Europe makes any changes to the above information, an updated version of these policies will reflect those changes and the effective date at the top of this page will highlight this. Without prejudice to your rights under applicable law, TECH Europe reserves the right to amend these policies from time to time to reflect technological advancements, legal and regulatory changes, and good business practices.

Further Information
Please feel free to contact us:
Email: [email protected]
Mail: Tech Europe, Koeybleuken 16, 2300 Turnhout, Belgium
Phone: +32 14 423103

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