Cookie statement
Version of . This statement belongs with hetgeobureau.be and with the privacy statement.
What a cookie is
A cookie is a small text file that a website stores in your browser to recognise you or remember something. The law requires your consent for every cookie that is not strictly necessary for the site to work. That is why on your first visit you see a banner with two equally large buttons: decline or accept. Until you choose, nothing that sets cookies is loaded.
Change your choice
Click Cookie settings in the footer of any page. The banner reappears and your new choice applies immediately. We store your choice itself in your browser's local storage for twelve months; after that we ask again.
Which cookies this site can set
| Name | From | Purpose | Retention period | Only with consent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
fd96-cookies | hetgeobureau.be (local storage, no cookie) | Remembers whether you declined or accepted cookies, so the banner does not come back every time. | 12 months | No, strictly necessary |
_ga | Google Analytics 4 | Distinguishes visitors to count visitor numbers and page views. | 2 years | Yes |
_ga_<id> | Google Analytics 4 | Keeps track of the session within the same measurement. | 2 years | Yes |
_fbp | Meta (Facebook and Instagram) | Measures whether a visitor came through an ad on Meta and whether they made a request. | 3 months | Yes |
_fbc | Meta | Stores the click ID of a Meta ad when you arrived through such an ad. | 3 months | Yes |
Cloudflare Web Analytics measures visits without cookies and without personal data, so it always loads. Hosting at Cloudflare and the typefaces from Google Fonts set no cookies. Google Fonts does receive your browser's IP address in order to deliver the typeface.
What we do with the measurement
With your consent we see how many visitors the site attracts, which pages they read and whether an ad on Google or Meta led to a request. If you send the form, that counts as one event (a request) in Google Analytics and at Meta, without the content of your request. That way we know which ads work and which do not.
If this changes
If we add or remove a service, we update this table with the new date at the top and ask for your consent again.