COOKIE POLICY
Lotus Bakeries collects data to provide you a better browsing experience, to optimise our services and to offer you relevant products and/or services that connect to your interests. This data may come in the form of cookies of pixels. Below we will explain how these cookies work and how you can configure them.
WHAT IS A COOKIE?
Cookies are small text files that are saved on your computer through a website. Cookies typically contain information about your actions on the website: preferences you may have selected, pages you have visited... Unless you have adjusted your browser settings so that it will refuse all cookies, our systems will issue cookies as soon as you visit our website.
WHY DOES LOTUS BAKERIES USE COOKIES?
Lotus Bakeries uses cookies primarily to optimise your user experience and to improve the performance of our website. We also use cookies to tailor our website content to your personal needs and preferences.
In addition, we use cookies to map your browsing behaviour (e.g. how you found our website or your browsing time on our website). Statistical data allow us to make improvements to our website if necessary and to meet your needs and preferences and those of other website users. How did you find our website? How much time did you spend on our website? These statistical data allow us to make improvements to our website and tailor it to your preferences and the preferences of other users.
HOW LONG ARE COOKIES STORED IN MY BROWSER?
• Temporary cookies or session cookies are saved to your browser temporarily. This means that this type of cookies will be deleted once you exit your browser session.
• Permanent cookies will remain stored on your computer or mobile device, even if you close your browser. Permanent cookies allow us to recognise you when you revisit our website in the future. Permanent cookies will remain stored on your device until they expire, until a new cookie is installed, or until you remove them via the settings of your browser or mobile device.
WHAT TYPE OF COOKIES DOES LOTUS BAKERIES USE?
The cookies on our website are categorised according to their use (functional cookies, statistics cookies). Generally speaking, we distinguish between two types of cookies:
• First-party cookies are placed and used by Lotus Bakeries. They enable us to optimise the quality of our services based on your browsing behaviour on our websites.
• Third-party cookies are created and used by third-party partners. These cookies provide you with a better browsing experience and change your experience based on your browsing behaviour on our website.
Necessary cookies
Cookie name |
Placed by |
Description |
Expiration time |
|
JSESSIONID |
Lotus Bakeries |
JSESSIONID is a platform session cookie and is used by sites with JavaServer Pages (JSP). The cookie is used to maintain an anonymous user session by the server. |
Persistent |
|
cookie-consent |
Lotus Bakeries |
This cookie is set when a visitor agrees to the cookie conditions. This cookie is used to stop showing the banner after the visitor has consented. |
3 Months |
Functional cookies
Functional cookies are essential to ensure that our website functions correctly. They allow us to improve the performance of our website.
Cookie name |
Placed by |
Description |
Expiration time |
|
SEARCH_SAMONTHITE |
Google Analytics |
This cookie is used to prevent the browser from sending this cookie along with requests from other sites. |
5 months |
Statistics cookies
We use these cookies to collect information about the use of our website. They are used to record the performance and loading times of the website and specific pages.
Cookie name |
Placed by |
Description |
Expiration time |
|
_ga |
Google Analytics |
This cookie is used by Google Analytics to distinguish users. |
2 years |
| _gat_gday_UA_ | Google Analytics | This cookie is used by Google to throttle the request rate to Google's servers. | 1 minute |
| _gid | Google Analytics | This cookie is used by Google Analytics to distinguish users. | 1 day |
| test_cookie | Doubleclick | This cookie is used to check if the user's browser supports cookies. | 15 minutes |
| YSC | YouTube | This cookie is set by the YouTube video service on pages with embedded YouTube video. | 30 minutes |
| OTZ | Google Analytics | This cookie is used by Google analytics to track website traffic information | 1 month |
Social media cookies
Cookie name |
Placed by |
Description |
Expiration time |
|
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE |
YouTube |
This cookie is used to estimate the users’ bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. |
5 months |
| IDE | Google Doubleclick | Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user’s actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser’s ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user. | 1 year |
| _pinterest_sess | These cookies allow users to share photos via Pinterest / the "Pin It" button, and Pinterest may collect electronic information about the use of their service. | 1 year | |
| _pinterest_cm | These cookies allow users to share photos via Pinterest / the "Pin It" button, and Pinterest may collect electronic information about the use of their service. | 2 years | |
| SIDCC | This cookie is used as security measure to protect users data from unauthorised access. | 6 months | |
| SSID | YouTube | This cookie is used to play YouTube videos embedded on the website. | 6 months |
| HSID | DoubleClick | The "HSID" cookie is set by DoubleClick (which is owned by Google) to build a profile of the website visitor's interests and show relevant ads on other sites. | 1 year |
| SID | YouTube | This cookie is used to play YouTube videos embedded on the website. | 2 years |
| SAPISID | YouTube | This cookie is used to play YouTube videos embedded on the website. | 6 months |
| DV | YouTube | This cookie is used to play YouTube videos embedded on the website. | 2 years |
| 1P_JAR | This cookie is used to give personalised ads on Google sites based on search interests and online interactions. | 1 year | |
| NID | Google Analytics | This cookie contains a unique ID used to remember your preferences | 6 months |
HOW TO CONTACT US
If you have any questions on our use of cookies, you can contact Lotus Bakeries via the information below:
• Email: dpr.corporate@lotusbakeries.com
• Address: Lotus Bakeries Corporate nv, Gentstraat 1, 9971 Lembeke (Belgium)
CHANGES TO OUR POLICY
This cookie policy supersedes all previous versions and is valid from 1st of August 2021. We reserve the right to make changes to and/or update this policy.