Scope of this policy 

QTEM wants to make your experience with our websites/mobile applications as informative and relevant as possible. To achieve this, we use cookies, whereby we strive both to protect your privacy and to offer you a user-friendly online environment. This policy therefore describes the policies and procedures when cookies are placed on your device in the context of your visit to our website or use of our mobile application. For the purpose of this policy, the following terms shall have the following meaning:

• “Cookie” or “Cookies” are text files, containing small amounts of information, which are downloaded to your browsing device (such as a mobile device or computer) when you visit a website and/or make use of a mobile application. 
  
• "Own Cookies" are cookies that are placed on your web browser by us when you visit our website/use our mobile applications. 
  
• “Third Party Cookies” refers to cookies that another party places on your web browser when you visit or use the website/use our mobile applications. 
  
• “Persistent Cookies” refers to cookies that remain on a hard drive after a web browser is closed to be used by the web browser on subsequent visits to or uses of the website/mobile applications. 
  
• “Session Cookies” refers to cookies that are temporary and disappear after a web browser is closed. 
  
• "Strictly necessary functional cookies" are cookies that are indispensable for visiting the website/making use of the mobile applications and for using all functionalities. If the use of cookies is switched off, some parts of the website/mobile application will not function as intended. 
• "Performance analysis cookies". We use performance analysis cookies to collect general information about the way in which visitors use our website/mobile applications. The information gathered through these cookies is used to make statistical analyses. These statistics give us insight into how often our web pages are visited, on which pages visitors spend the most time/ how our mobile applications are used, etc. This enables us to create the structure, navigation and content of our website/mobile application as user-friendly as possible and to continue to improve it. 
• "Advertising cookies" are cookies that we use to offer you personalised and more relevant advertisements, to determine how many times a certain advertisement has already been shown, to calculate the effectiveness of a certain advertising campaign, to keep track of data from a previous visit and to share the data collected with the third parties involved, such as the advertisers. They are used on our website/mobile application and placed on your device by third parties such as companies linked to us and our advertisers belonging to the advertising network of the website/mobile application. 
• "Social media cookies" are cookies that allow you to share the content of our website/mobile application on social media and to enable other interaction with social media via our website/mobile application. 

Which cookies are placed on your device when using the website/mobile application?

When you visit our website or use our mobile application, certain Cookies are placed on your device for the purposes described below. 

The following table provides more information about the cookies used on the QTEM website/mobile application. This overview also provides information about cookies placed by third parties, where relevant. 

Name of Cookie: CFGLOBALS, CFTOKEN, CFID, AUTHORISATION, AUTHUSER, JSESSIONID, AUTHUSERID, AUTHLEVEL, QTEM_COOKIES 

Type of Cookie: Strictly necessary Cookies

Cookie Provider (Third Party Cookie or Own Cookie): Own cookies

Purpose of Cookie: This is a technical cookie. This cookie is strictly needed for the server to recognize the correct session.

Permanent Cookie or Session Cookie: Session Cookie

Name of Cookie: _ga, _gid, _gat, _gat_qtemTracker 

Type of Cookie: Performance Cookies

Cookie Provider (Third Party Cookie or Own Cookie): Own cookies

Purpose of Cookie: Google analytics. For more information about Google analytic cookies, please see Google's help pages and privacy policy: 

• Google's Privacy Policy  
  
• Google Analytics Help pages
  

How long are cookies stored on your device?  

The period during which a Cookie is stored on the device you are browsing with depends on whether it is a "Persistent" or a "Session" Cookie. Session cookies are only stored on a device until the web browser is closed. Permanent Cookies remain on the device after you have finished browsing until they expire or are deleted.

Consent of the visitor

When you open the QTEM website/mobile application, and before data is stored and/or Cookies are installed on your device, you are notified about the use of Cookies and asked to give your consent for this. If you refuse cookies, you will still have access to the QTEM website/mobile application, but your browser will operate more slowly or you will have difficulty or no access to certain parts or functionalities of the website or mobile application.

You can withdraw your consent at any time and refuse the installation of Cookies on your device or their use on the website and/or delete Cookies by changing the settings of your browser (see below). 

Email-related Cookies

In the context of emails, we (through our data processor) place single pixel gifs, also known as web beacons, in every email sent. These are tiny graphic files that contain unique identifiers that enable to recognize when you have opened an email or clicked certain links. These technologies record each subscribers email address, IP address, date, and time associated with each open and click for a campaign. 

Please refer to our Privacy Policy for more information about how we may process and collect your Personal Data in relation to emails analytics.  

How can you disable Cookies placed on your device? 

Usually it is possible to allow, disable or delete cookies via your web browser or device settings. If you wish to do so, follow the instructions provided by the web browser (usually in the "Help", "Tools" or "Edit" settings). You can also adjust the settings of the web browser in such a way that all cookies are refused or that it indicates when a cookie is being sent. 

The following links allow you to disable or delete cookies depending on the web browser on which they are installed: 

• Internet Explorer 11 
  
• Internet Explorer 9 
  
• Internet Explorer 7 en 8 
  
• Google Chrome 
  
• Safari macOS Sierra 
  

Please note that if you set your web browser or device settings to disable Cookies, you may not be able to access secure areas of the website/mobile application, other parts of the website/mobile application may also not work properly and its features may not function properly. 

For more information on how to change your browser's Cookie settings, please visit www.allaboutCookies.org.