1. What exactly are cookies?

Cookies are small data or text files that are installed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website or use a (mobile) application. The cookie file contains a unique code that allows the server to recognize you during your visit to the online service or during consecutive, repeated visits. Cookies can be placed by the server of the website or application you are visiting, but also by third-party scripts that may or may not interact with this website or application.

Cookies generally make the interaction between the visitor and the website or application easier and faster and help the visitor to navigate between the different parts of a website or application.

2. Why do we use cookies

Nationaal Tabaksmuseum who is the administrator of this websitehttps://www.nationaaltabaksmuseum.be/en/ use of two types of cookies:

  • necessary cookies: e.g. functional cookies
  • non-necessary cookies: e.g. analytical cookies

Nationaal Tabaksmuseum uses functional cookies to manage the content of its website. These cookies are necessary for the proper functioning of this website. You cannot refuse these cookies if you want to visit our websites.

We also useGoogle Analytics to measure and analyze visitor information, to check how you came to this website, to register how and how often the various web pages are visited and to better tailor the website to the wishes and needs of the user . To this end, we collect internet traffic data and data about your browser type and computer based on your (anonymised) IP address. We do not use this information to personally identify you. No information about you will be used, tracked or passed on.

3. List of cookies used

Cookies are kept for the time necessary to achieve the intended purpose. The cookies that may be stored on the User’s hard drive are as follows:

5. Refuse the use of cookies on our website?

You can refuse the installation of cookies via your browser settings. You can also delete already installed cookies from your computer or mobile device at any time, as follows:

When you disable cookies, please be aware that certain graphical elements may not look good or you may not be able to use certain applications.