1.    Introduction

This Cookie Policy aims to inform you about what cookies are and how QUSTOMDOT and its affiliates (“we”, “us”, “our”, or “QUSTOMDOT”) use them on our website: https://www.qustomdot.com/ (“website”), so that you can easily manage your cookie-settings. It is recommended to read this policy to understand the types of cookies we use, i.e., the information we collect using cookies, how that information is used, and how to control the cookie preferences.

QUSTOMDOT respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data in accordance with the applicable Belgian and European data protection legislation. For more details on how we use, store and keep your personal data secure, please read our Privacy Policy.

2.    Who we are and how to contact us?

“QUSTOMDOT” refers to CustomDot BV, having its registered office at Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 66, 9052 Zwijnaarde, Belgium and with company number 0742.565.880.

 This cookie policy describes our data processing activities as a data controller in respect of the cookies collected and processed via website. Under the GDPR, data controllers are the main decision-makers: they exercise overall control over the purposes and means of the processing of personal data. 

QUSTOMDOT can be contacted by email (info@qustomdot.com) for questions about this privacy policy, your privacy and the processing of your personal data.

3.    What are cookies?

Cookies are small pieces of data stored in text files on your browser, computer or other devices. The placement and use of cookies is governed by the Belgian Act on Electronic Communications (transposition of the European e-Privacy Directive) and the EU General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (“GDPR”). 

Some of the cookies we use are essential to ensure our website works properly; others provide you with a better, faster and safer user experience. 
Cookies are generally classified in one or more of the following categories:
 
- “Session cookies”: cookies that are automatically erased once the user closes a website; 

- “Persistent cookies”: cookies that remain on a user’s computer or device even after the user closes a website, and stay there for a certain period of time (e.g. several minutes, days or years); 

- “First party or own cookies”: cookies that are installed and managed by the website or software provider itself (in this case QUSTOMDOT);  

- “Third party cookies”: cookies that are installed and managed by a third party during a user’s visit of a website or software application; 

- “Essential cookies” these are cookies required for purely technical reasons to ensure the operation of a website or software application and to provide their basic functionalities (e.g. to ensure security, allow a user to login, and to enable you to navigate back and forth between different pages during a website session). These cookies are always mandatory, are placed as soon as you visit a website or application and cannot be refused; 

- “Functional cookies” these cookies are used to provide services and functionalities on your request. Unlike essential cookies, functional cookies support additional functionalities that enhance a website or software application (e.g. to remember user preferences and settings). You cannot refuse functional cookies however they are only placed after a you have requested to use a certain functionality or feature on the website or software application; 

- “Analytical or performance cookies”: these cookies allow to recognize and count the number of visitors of a website and to see how visitors move around a website when they are using it; 

- “Targeting cookies”: track browsing behaviour and follow users of a website to respond to their browsing behaviour (e.g. with personalized promotional campaigns). 

 Like most online services, our website can use first-party and third-party cookies for several purposes. The first-party cookies are primarily essential and functional cookies necessary for the website to function in the right way and to allow you to make use of the functionalities available on our website (as preferred by you). 

The third-party cookies used on our website are primarily used for understanding how the Website performs, how you interact with our website, providing advertisements that are relevant to you, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website. 

You can find more information on the specific cookies that QUSTOMDOT places on its Website in section 4 below, and you will learn how to manage these cookies (including, if desired, how to delete them) under section 9.

4.    What type of cookies do we use?