AZ Jan Portaels as Data Controller

This cookie statement explains how the General Hospital Jan Portaels, a non-profit association under Belgian law, with its registered office at 1800 Vilvoorde, Gendarmeriestraat 65 and with enterprise number 0267.386.438 (hereinafter "AZ Jan Portaels") uses cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our website https://www.azjanportaels.be/ (hereinafter "Website"). The statement explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of these technologies.

In some cases, we may use cookies to collect personal data, or to collect data that becomes personal data when combined with other information. AZ Jan Portaels processes this personal data in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (EU 2016/679) and the applicable regulations regarding the protection and processing of personal data.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small data files placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners to make their websites work or to make them more efficient, as well as for reporting purposes.

Cookies placed by the owner of the website (in this case AZ Jan Portaels) are called "first-party cookies." Cookies placed by parties other than the owner of the website are called "third-party cookies." Third-party cookies enable the delivery of features or functionality of third parties on or through the website (such as advertising, interactive content, and analytics). The parties that place these third-party cookies may recognize your computer both when it visits the website in question and when it visits certain other websites.

Why do we use cookies?

We use both first-party and third-party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are necessary for technical reasons to ensure the proper functioning of our Website, and we refer to these as "essential" or "strictly necessary" cookies. Other cookies also allow us to track and use the interests of our users to improve the experience on our Website. Third parties use cookies on our Website for advertising, analytics, and other purposes, as described below.

The types of first-party and third-party cookies used by our Website and the purposes they serve are described below (please note: the specific types of cookies used may vary depending on the specific parts of the Website you visit). They are described in the next section.

Types of cookies

Essential cookies

Essential cookies are necessary to ensure the proper functioning of the website, for example, to ensure its security and accessibility. Due to the applicable legislation and the technical necessity, only an information obligation applies, and we are not required to obtain your consent for the use of such cookies. These cookies are placed as soon as you visit the website.

Performance and functionality cookies

These cookies are used to improve the performance and functionality of our Website but are not essential for its use. However, without these cookies, certain features (such as videos) may not be available.

Name: Cookie_compliance
  • Purpose: Stores the user's cookie status for the current domain.
  • Provider: EasyCookies
  • Service: Cookie status
  • Country: Belgium
  • Type: Functional
  • Expires: The cookie is stored on your device until the end of your visit to the website
Analysis and personalization cookies

These cookies collect information used either in aggregated form to help us understand how our websites are used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us personalize our websites for you.

Name: _ga

  • Purpose: Registers a unique ID used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.
  • Provider: Google Service:
  • Tracking/analyzing data
  • Country: United States
  • Type: Analytica
Name: _gat
  • Purpose: Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate.
  • Provider: Google
  • Service: Tracking/analyzing data
  • Country: United States
  • Type: Analytical
Name: _gid
  • Purpose: Registers a unique ID used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.
  • Provider: Google
  • Service: Tracking/analyzing data
  • Country: United States
  • Type: Analytical
  • Expires: 1 day
Advertising cookies

These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you. They do the following: prevent the same ad from appearing repeatedly, ensure that ads are displayed correctly for advertisers, and, in some cases, select ads based on your interests.

Name: VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE
  • Purpose: To offer ads or retargeting, store and track visitor identity, store and track interaction.
  • Provider: Youtube
  • Service: Tracking/analyzing data
  • Country: United States
  • Type: Advertising
  • Expires: 6 months
Name: YSC
  • Purpose: Stores and tracks interactions.
  • Provider: Youtube
  • Service: Tracking/analyzing data
  • Country: United States
  • Type: Advertising
  • Expires: end of session

How can I manage cookies?

You have the right to decide whether to accept cookies. You can exercise your cookie rights by setting your preferences via the Cookie Consent Manager feature. The Cookie Consent Manager allows you to select which categories of cookies you accept or reject. Essential cookies cannot be rejected as they are strictly necessary to provide you with services.

The Cookie Consent Manager feature can be found in the notification banner and on our Website. If you choose to reject cookies, you can still use our Website, although your access to certain features and areas of our Website may be limited. You can also set or change your web browser to accept or refuse cookies. Since the ability to refuse cookies through your web browser settings varies from browser to browser, please consult your browser's help menu for more information.

Additionally, most advertising networks offer the option to opt-out of targeted advertising. For more information, you can visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or http://www.youronlinechoices.com.

What about other tracking technologies, such as web beacons?

Cookies are not the only way to recognize or track visitors to a website. We may use other similar technologies from time to time, such as web beacons (sometimes also called "tracking pixels"). These are small graphic files with a unique identification code that allows us to recognize when someone has visited our website or opened an email containing them. For example, this allows us to track user traffic patterns on a website, deliver or communicate with cookies, understand whether you came to the website through an online advertisement placed on a third-party website, improve site performance, and measure the success of email marketing campaigns. In many cases, these technologies rely on cookies to function properly, so refusing cookies jeopardizes their operation.

Websites may also use "Flash Cookies" (also known as "Local Shared Objects" or "LSOs") to, among other things, collect and store information about your use of our services, prevent fraud, and perform other site activities.

If you do not want "Flash Cookies" stored on your computer, you can adjust your Flash player settings to block the storage of "Flash Cookies" using the tools in the website storage settings panel. You can also manage "Flash Cookies" by going to the global storage settings panel and following the instructions (which may include instructions on how to delete existing "Flash Cookies" (referred to as "information" on the Macromedia site), prevent LSOs from being placed on your computer without being prompted, and (for Flash Player 8 and later) how to block "Flash Cookies" that are not delivered by the site administrator you are currently visiting.

We note that setting the Flash Player to limit or disable the acceptance of "Flash Cookies" may reduce or impair the functionality of certain Flash applications, including possibly Flash applications used in connection with our services or online content.

Is targeted advertising used?

Third parties may place cookies on your computer or mobile device to display advertisements on our Website. These companies may use information about your visits to our Website and other websites to provide relevant ads about goods and services that may be of interest to you. They may also use technologies to measure the effectiveness of ads. To do this, they may use cookies or web beacons to collect information about your visits to these and other websites to provide you with relevant ads about goods and services that may be of interest to you. The information collected in this process does not allow us or them to identify your name, contact information, or other directly identifiable information unless you choose to provide it.

Other parties

AZ Jan Portaels collaborates with CV Warehouse for the publication and processing of job vacancies. As soon as you visit the pages with job vacancies and application forms, you are effectively surfing on the CV Warehouse website. CV Warehouse also uses cookies. You can find information in the privacy and cookie statement of CV Warehouse.

The website displays videos via YouTube and Vimeo. As soon as you watch those videos, cookies from those platforms are activated.

Adjustment of the statement

We may update this Cookie Statement from time to time, for example, to reflect changes in the cookies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please consult this Cookie Statement regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.

The date at the top of this Cookie Statement indicates when it was last updated.

Data protection

When we collect personal data through the use of cookies, we comply with data protection regulations. In this regard, we recommend that you read our Privacy Statement, which explains how and for what purposes we process your personal data. Cookies are also part of our general approach to data protection.

If you have any questions about this cookie statement, you can contact dpo [at] azjanportaels.be.

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