Cookies Policy
The purpose of this statement is to explain how we process your personal data, in the context of cookie management.
The data controller is the Parents' Association of the European School Brussels I - Uccle, located at Avenue du Vert Chasseur 46, 1180 Uccle, and registered with the Crossroads Bank for Enterprises under number 0419537173.
For the general processing of your personal data we refer you to our privacy policy.
1. What is a cookie and what data is processed?
Cookies are small text files placed on your device that store data that can be recalled by web servers in the domain that placed them.
These files are stored on your computer when you visit our website to facilitate your navigation. Information, your preferences are recorded, stored in these text files, such as your choice of language for a website. When you visit the website again later, this cookie is sent back to the website in question. In this way, the website recognises your browser and can, for example, remember your choice of language. This makes it possible to personalise the services offered.
Cookies are considered personal data and fall fully within the definition of Article 4 of the GDPR which considers online identifiers as direct or indirect references to the natural person.
2. What cookies do we use?
We may use different types of cookies, which fall into two categories: our own cookies and those of third parties. These cookies are also classified by purpose.
To date, only essential or functional cookies are exempt from prior consent by the visitor.
3. Why do we use cookies?
The purposes differ according to the categories of cookies used. Cookies are used to improve the use and functionality of our website, to improve the services we offer you by analysing how you navigate the site and compiling statistics, or to personalise your browsing experience.
Cookies have different purposes and collect and store different types of information, such as language preferences of visitors, statistics about visitors to a website or ensuring that the website functions in optimal conditions. Some of these cookies are therefore necessary to enable you to access our site in an optimal way. They are automatically installed on your computer, without us having the possibility to ask for your permission.
4. Categories of cookies
4.1. List of essential or technical cookies
These cookies are necessary for purely technical reasons for the use of the website. Due to the technical necessity, only an information obligation applies and these are set as soon as you access the website.
Your consent is not required for these cookies. These are the following cookies:
| COOKIE | NAME | FUNCTION |
| Drupal | Session_name |
This cookie is used to create a session ID for the user, so that the system uniquely identifies the user as distinct from any other user visiting the site. This information is not saved or used outside of Drupal and is retained only as long as the user accesses their account pages and other pages that require exclusive access. Without this cookie, access would not remain secure, which is why it is so important. This cookie is only used for users who log in to the system to modify it, not for visitors. |
| Drupal | cookieconsent_status | Retain cookie consent for this site |
4.2. Third party cookies
These cookies are subject to your consent.
Third parties may place cookies on your receiving terminal when you browse our site, subject to your consent.
4.3 Third party analytical or audience measurement cookies
These cookies are used to collect information about how users visit the site.
| COOKIE | NAME | FUNCTION | |
| Google Analytics | _ga, |
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This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics, according to the documentation, it is used to speed up data queries, limiting the amount of data on high traffic sites. It expires after 10 minutes. The primary purpose of this cookie is: Performance |
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4.4. Third party advertising or marketing cookies
These cookies are subject to your prior consent.
If you refuse these cookies, the advertising placed will still be present, but it will no longer be personalised. This simply means that the services you receive on our site will not be based on your assumed interests. In addition, you may still receive behavioural advertisements from other companies, if you have not refused their cookies.
4.5. Third party social network sharing cookies
If you do not accept social cookies, you may not be able to use, or even view, the sharing tools.
5. Retention of cookies
Cookies may not be retained beyond the time necessary to achieve the intended purpose.
All our cookies expire at the time indicated in our tables. Some cookies are, for example, automatically deleted when you close your browser (so-called session cookies), while others remain on your computer for a longer period of time, sometimes even until you delete them manually (so-called permanent cookies).
In any case, no cookie is kept for more than 13 months. At the end of this period, consent will have to be obtained again.
6. Withdrawal of consent
The recording of a cookie on your terminal is essentially subject to your prior and explicit consent. A banner on the home page relating to cookie management allows you to express your consent to our cookie policy.
If necessary, we decline all responsibility for the consequences of the degraded functioning of our services resulting from the impossibility for our website to record or consult the cookies necessary for the functioning of the site and which you have refused or deleted.
You can express and modify your consent by modifying your browser settings. You can configure your browser to accept or block cookies via your browser. You can configure your browser software so that cookies :
- are stored in your terminal ;
- are refused systematically or according to their sender;
- are, individually after your acceptance, likely to be saved in your terminal.
This setting may modify your Internet browsing and your conditions of access to certain services requiring the use of cookies.
This configuration is specific to each browser.
7. How can I see and delete the cookies that are installed on my device?
If you want to know which cookies are installed on your device or if you want to delete them, you can use a setting in your browser. The settings are browser-specific and are described in your browser's help menu, which will tell you how to change your cookie preferences.
You can find more information on how to do this via the links below.
| Firefox | Chrome | Safari | Internet Explorer |
| Firefox (mobile) | Chrome (mobile) | Safari (mobile) | Microsoft Edge |
Are you using another browser? Check whether the procedure for your browser is included on the website www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies. This site is only available in English.
8. How do we protect your privacy?
Information on the processing of your personal data can be found in our "Privacy Policy". Here you can also find all your rights with regard to the processing of your personal data.
9. Changes to the cookie policy
This policy is subject to change, so please check it regularly.