Cookie Policy

1. General

This is the cookie statement as last amended on July 12, 2024, by Dr. Fernand De Wilde BV (hereinafter “Eyecenter”, “we”, “us” or “our”), with company number BE1004.052.740 and registered office at Kortrijksesteenweg 206, 9830 Sint-Martens-Latem.

We assure you of a correct and transparent cookie policy under the terms and conditions set out in this cookie statement.

The cookies we use are necessary for the optimization of the website and the user’s ease of use. They ensure that the website works properly and provide the user with a personalized browsing experience.

A cookie does not allow you to be identified as an individual user. A cookie only recognizes the device you connect to. Thanks to the use of cookies, the website can temporarily store information relating to visitors to this website and their visits. Different types of cookies may be used for each visit.

To ensure your consent around the use of cookies, when you visit our website for the first time, we always ask you to explicitly accept or reject the cookies. If you refuse the use of cookies, surfing our website may be difficult. In any case, accepting cookies is not compulsory.

2. Definitions

Cookie: A small text file stored on your computer, tablet, or smartphone when you first visit our website. Website: The websites hosted under eyecenter.be User: Any natural person who uses the website interactively or non-interactively.

3. Which cookies we use

Necessary cookies

Necessary cookies are cookies that are technically necessary to ensure the basic functionalities of the website work properly (e.g. navigation between pages or filling out a form) or to remember the basic preferences you set during your visit to our website (e.g. your cookie preferences). These cookies cannot usually be disabled. However, you can always delete them via your browser settings after visiting our website.

Preference cookies

If you give us your consent, we can also place and use cookies based on preferences you have set for using our website. These cookies help ensure that you can use our website more smoothly and in a more personalized way based on your previous choices on our website. Examples include cookies that remember your language preference for a next visit or that remember that videos can be played in your browser.

Analytical/Statistical cookies

If you give us your consent, analytical or statistical cookies can also be placed and used. Such cookies allow us to collect and analyze information about how our website is used and how we can optimize the operation of our website. By using these cookies, we can see how users found our website, which pages are visited the most, how they navigate through the website, when and for how long. The information collected by the cookies is aggregated and, if possible, anonymized.

Marketing/Targeting cookies

If you give us your consent, marketing/targeting cookies can also be placed and used. With marketing/targeting cookies, your use of our website can be tracked (e.g. which pages you visit or which links you follow) and a profile of you as a user and your interests can be created. This profile can then be used to show you more relevant content and advertisements based on your identified interests.

Social media cookies

On our website, we can include content from external platforms (such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, or YouTube). We can also provide links or buttons on our website (e.g. a “share button”) to allow you to easily share content on these platforms. To display or share this content, these external platforms may place cookies to recognize you as a user and track you.

4. The purpose of cookies

Our use of cookies is limited to the following purposes:

• Facilitate the use of the website (among other things, avoid entering the same data over and over again, e.g. when accessing the site).
• Analyze the way visitors use the website. The cookie in no way records what information an individual visitor uses or prints.
• Collect statistical information to optimize the functioning of the website.
• Provide customized information to improve your browsing experience (e.g. Mautic, Hubspot, …)

5. How to manage cookies

For the reasons stated above, we ask that you explicitly accept our cookies.

To enable the acceptance of cookies, you may have to adjust the settings of your internet browser. The same applies if you wish to block or delete cookies. Everything is done via your internet browser settings:

• Cookie settings Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=nl
• Cookie settings Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/nl/kb/cookies-in-en-uitschakelen-websites-voorkeuren
• Cookie settings Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/nl-nl/products/windows
• Cookie settings Safari: Go to ‘Preferences’ > ‘Privacy’ and specify that you want to block all cookies. On an iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch, find the option for cookies under ‘Settings’ > ‘Safari’

We may change this cookie statement at any time and without prior notice, so please check it each time you visit our website if you wish to be informed about the cookies used and our policy in this regard.

If you still have questions or comments after reading our cookie declaration, you may always contact us by telephone (+32 9 225 6190) or by email (privacy@eyecenter.be).