Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy describes how GLOBIS Europe BV (“GLOBIS”, “we” or “us”) uses cookies and similar technologies in running our business. It applies to all websites, including but not limited to https://globis.eu, and to mobile applications operated or furnished by GLOBIS that link to or post this Cookie Policy (together, our “Services”). 

The data controller responsible for your data is:

GLOBIS Europe BV
De Kleetlaan 5BC, 1831 Machelen (Diegem), Belgium
Company number (BCE/KBO): 0788.604.357
Email: geu@globis.com

This policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy, which explains how we handle personal data more generally.

A cookie is a small text file that a website asks your browser to store on your device and can read back on later visits.

We also use technologies that are not cookies but do a similar job. Wherever this policy says “cookies”, it means all of the following:

• Local storage and session storage — data your browser holds for a site, used in the same way as cookies but not sent with every request.
• Web beacons, also called tracking pixels or clear GIFs — a tiny image embedded in a page or an email that tells us the page or message was opened. Web beacons let us see how visitors move from one page to another, whether our communications were opened, whether a visitor arrived from an advertisement on another site, and how our Services are performing.
• Software development kits (SDKs) — code supplied by a third party and built into our mobile applications, which can read and write information on your device.
• Tracked links — links carrying parameters that identify the campaign, email or page you arrived from.

Cookies set by us are first party cookies. Cookies set by another organisation whose content or service appears on our Services are third party cookies; those organisations can read their own cookies when you visit other sites that use them. The section Cookies and User Preferences at the bottom of this page shows which is which for every item.

When you first access our Services you receive a consent banner that lets you accept all cookies, reject all non-essential cookies, or make granular choices per purpose. Accepting and rejecting are equally easy. We do not set any non-essential cookies before you have made your choice.

The full list of cookies. The complete, continuously updated list of every cookie and similar technology we use is in the Cookies and User Preferences panel at the bottom of this page. For each service it shows the provider, the purpose, the data collected, how long it is stored, where it is processed, who receives it, and whether it is a first- or third-party cookie, grouped into Essential, Functional, Marketing and Measurement. You can switch any category or any individual service on or off there, and your choice takes effect immediately.

You do not have to accept cookies, and consent can be withdrawn at any time, as easily as it was given. To review or change your choices, open Cookie Settings in the footer of any page, or use the panel at the foot of this page.

Legal basis. We place non-essential cookies only with your consent, as required by Article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive as implemented in Belgian law. Essential cookies are exempt from that consent requirement because they are needed to deliver a service you have asked for; where they involve personal data we rely on our legitimate interest in operating and securing the Services (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR).

How long your choice lasts. Your consent choice is stored and we will ask you to renew it at least every 6 months, or sooner if this Cookie Policy changes materially.

What happens if you refuse. Only one thing changes: embedded videos will not play. Some of our pages use embedded videos from Vimeo and YouTube, and those players need functional cookies to load. Everything else works exactly the same. Marketing and measurement cookies have no effect on what you can see or do on our Services;  refusing them costs you nothing, and we never restrict access to any part of our Services based on your choice.

Browser controls. You can also block or delete cookies in your browser settings, independently of our banner — see the help pages for Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari and Microsoft Edge. Blocking all cookies in your browser will also block the cookie that records your consent choice, so the banner will reappear on each visit. For general information about cookies, allaboutcookies.org and youronlinechoices.com are useful.

We keep a record. We log the choice you made, when you made it, and which version of this policy and banner you were shown, so that we can demonstrate your consent was validly obtained.

Recipients. The third party providers listed in the panel at the foot of this page receive information collected through their own cookies and technologies — typically your IP address, the pages you viewed, the device and browser you used, and identifiers that let them recognise your device. The exact recipients and the data collected are shown for each service under Data Recipients and Data Collected. Some providers act on our instructions; others determine some of what they do under their own privacy policies. We do not sell your personal data.

Processing locations and transfers outside the EEA. Several of these providers process data outside the European Economic Area, principally in the United States. The Location of Processing and Transfer to Third Countries fields in that panel show where each individual service processes data.

Where personal data is transferred to the United States, we rely on the European Commission’s adequacy decision of 10 July 2023 for the EU–US Data Privacy Framework, and we use providers that are self-certified under it. You can check any provider’s current certification on the official Data Privacy Framework list at dataprivacyframework.gov. Providers established in the EU or the EEA process your data there, and no transfer mechanism is required for them. If you would like more detail about the safeguards applying to a particular provider, contact us using our details in the first section.

Retention. How long each cookie stays on your device is shown per service in that panel. Separately from the cookies themselves, we keep the record of your consent choice for 3 years so that we can demonstrate it was validly obtained — longer than the six months after which we ask you to choose again. 

Data collected through measurement cookies is retained in our analytics tools for the specific retention windows configured in those platforms (for example, up to 14 months in Google Analytics, and up to 365 days in Hotjar). Where interactions tracked by cookies are associated with your individual contact profile in our CRM systems (such as Salesforce/Pardot), that personal information is retained in accordance with the retention criteria set out in our Privacy Policy.

In relation to personal data collected through cookies, you have the right to:

• access the personal data we hold about you and receive a copy of it;
• have it corrected if it is inaccurate or incomplete;
• have it erased in the circumstances set out in Article 17 GDPR;
• restrict how we process it in the circumstances set out in Article 18 GDPR;
• object to processing carried out on the basis of our legitimate interests, and to direct marketing at any time;
• receive it in a portable form where processing is based on your consent and carried out by automated means; and
• withdraw your consent at any time, as described in the third section. Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before you withdrew it.

To exercise any of these rights, contact us using the details in the first section. We will respond within one month.

We do not use cookie data to make decisions about you by automated means that produce legal effects or similarly significantly affect you.

If you are concerned about how we handle your personal data, please contact us first using the details in the top section — we would like the chance to put it right.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Belgian data protection authority:

Gegevensbeschermingsautoriteit / Autorité de protection des données 
Drukpersstraat 35 / Rue de la Presse 35, 1000 Brussels, Belgium 
Telephone: +32 (0)2 274 48 00 
Email: contact@apd-gba.be 
Website: https://www.gegevensbeschermingsautoriteit.be/

If you live or work in another EU country, or the matter arose there, you may also complain to your local supervisory authority.

GLOBIS may change this Cookie Policy from time to time. If we make any changes, we will notify you by posting the revised Cookie Policy on this page and revising the date below. Where the changes are material, in particular where we introduce a new purpose or a new category of cookie, we will ask for your consent again before the change takes effect, and may give you additional notice such as a notice on our Services or an email.

Date of last revision: November 24, 2026