Updated in July 2024
Cookie Policy
1. What is the purpose of this policy?
This is the Cookie Policy of Nine Engineering BV, a public limited company incorporated under Belgian law, with registered office at Stapelplein 70 box 103, 9000 Ghent, Belgium, with company number 0752.969.527, RLE Ghent, section Ghent ("NineEngineering", "NineID", "we", "us").
With this Policy, we inform you about the use of cookies on our website (the “Website”) so that you can easily manage your cookie-settings.
This Cookie Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy.
2. What are cookies and why are they used?
Cookies are small text files that are stored on the hard drive of your computer or mobile device when visiting applications and websites via your browser. This text file stores certain information, such as your language preference. The Belgian Act on Electronic Communications (transposition of the European e-Privacy Directive) and the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 applies to them. When you visit the application or website again later, this cookie will be sent again to the application or website so that it can recognise your browser and thus remember your language preference.
Some of the cookies that we use on our Website are essential to make this Website work, others serve to provide you a better, faster and safer user experience. Through the use of cookies, you do not have to repeatedly identify yourself, for example, for personalised services (such as entering your username or password, selecting a language, etc.).
3. Which cookies does Nine Engineering use?
- Categories of cookies
- “session cookies”: cookies that are automatically erased once the user closes the website.
- “persistent cookies”: cookies that remain on a user’s computer or device even after the user closes the website, and stay there for a certain period of time (e.g. several minutes, days or years).
- “own cookies”: cookies that are installed and managed by the operator of the website itself.
- “cookies from third parties”: cookies that are installed and managed by a third party other than the operator of the website.
You will find more information on the specific cookies that we use on our Website in point b below, and you will learn how to manage these cookies (including, if desired, how to delete them) under point
| Type of cookie | Name of the cookie | Purpose | Storage period | Own cookie / third party cookie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Necessary | CookieConsent | Stores the user's cookie consent state for the current domain | 1 year | CookieBot |
| Necessary | test_cookie | Used to check if the user's browser supports cookies. | 1 day | |
| Necessary | li_gc | Stores the user's cookie consent state for the current domain | 179 days | |
| Necessary | wf-csrf | Ensures visitor browsing-security by preventing cross-site request forgery. This cookie is essential for the security of the website and visitor. | Session | Webflow |
| Necessary | wf-csrf.sig | Ensures visitor browsing-security by preventing cross-site request forgery. This cookie is essential for the security of the website and visitor. | Session | Webflow |
| Necessary | wf-order-id | This cookie is used in conjunction with the payment window - The cookie is necessary for making secure transactions on the website. | 13 days | Webflow |
| Necessary | wf-order-id.sig | This cookie is used in conjunction with the payment window - The cookie is necessary for making secure transactions on the website. | 13 days | Webflow |
| Necessary | CONSENT [x3] | Used to detect if the visitor has accepted the marketing category in the cookie banner. This cookie is necessary for GDPR-compliance of the website. | 2 years | Youtube |
| Preferences | lang [x2] | Remembers the user's selected language version of a website | Session | |
| Statistics | _ga | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | 2 years | |
| Statistics | _ga_# | Used by Google Analytics to collect data on the number of times a user has visited the website as well as dates for the first and most recent visit. | 2 years | |
| Statistics | AnalyticsSyncHistory | Used in connection with data-synchronization with third-party analysis service. | 29 days | |
| Statistics | c.gif | Collects data on the user’s navigation and behavior on the website. This is used to compile statistical reports and heatmaps for the website owner. | Session | Microsoft |
| Statistics | CLID | Collects data on the user’s navigation and behavior on the website. This is used to compile statistical reports and heatmaps for the website owner. | 1 year | Microsoft |
| Statistics | _clck | Collects data on the user’s navigation and behavior on the website. This is used to compile statistical reports and heatmaps for the website owner. | 1 year | Microsoft |
| Statistics | _clsk | Registers statistical data on users' behaviour on the website. Used for internal analytics by the website operator. | 1 day | Microsoft |
| Statistics | _cltk | Registers statistical data on users' behaviour on the website. Used for internal analytics by the website operator. | Cell | Microsoft |
| Marketing | IDE | Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user's actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser's ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user. | 1 year | |
| Marketing | pagead/landing [x2] | Collects data on visitor behaviour from multiple websites, in order to present more relevant advertisement - This also allows the website to limit the number of times that they are shown the same advertisement. | Session | |
| Marketing | _gcl_au | Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services. | 3 months | |
| Marketing | bcookie | Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services. | 1 year | |
| Marketing | bscookie | Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services. | 1 year | |
| Marketing | lidc | Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services. | 1 day | |
| Marketing | UserMatchHistory | Ensures visitor browsing-security by preventing cross-site request forgery. This cookie is essential for the security of the website and visitor. | 29 days | |
| Marketing | SRM_B | Tracks the user’s interaction with the website’s search-bar-function. This data can be used to present the user with relevant products or services. | 1 year | Microsoft |
| Marketing | ANONCHK | Registers data on visitors from multiple visits and on multiple websites. This information is used to measure the efficiency of advertisement on websites. | 1 day | Microsoft |
| Marketing | SM | Registers a unique ID that identifies the user's device during return visits across websites that use the same ad network. The ID is used to allow targeted ads. | Session | Microsoft |
| Marketing | MUID | Used widely by Microsoft as a unique user ID. The cookie enables user tracking by synchronising the ID across many Microsoft domains. | 1 year | Microsoft |
| Marketing | VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Tries to estimate the users' bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. | 179 days | Youtube |
| Marketing | YSC | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. | Session | Youtube |
| Marketing | yt.innertube::nextId | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. | Persistent | Youtube |
| Marketing | yt.innertube::requests | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. | Persistent | Youtube |
| Marketing | ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | Persistent | Youtube |
| Marketing | yt-remote-cast-available | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | Session | Youtube |
| Marketing | yt-remote-cast-installed | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | Persistent | Youtube |
| Marketing | yt-remote-device-id | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | Persistent | Youtube |
| Marketing | yt-remote-fast-check-period | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | Session | Youtube |
| Marketing | yt-remote-session-app | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | Session | Youtube |
| Marketing | yt-remote-session-name | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | Session | Youtube |
4. How can you manage/delete these cookies?
All major internet browsers offer the option to manage the cookies that were installed on your computer or mobile device.
In case you do not want that our Website places cookies on your computer or mobile device, you may limit or delete this easily by adjusting your browser or mobile settings. In addition, you can set you browser or mobile settings in such a way that you get a notification every time you receive a cookie on your computer or mobile device, so that you can decide whether you wish to accept this cookie or not, or even to prevent cookies from being created or stored on your computer or mobile device. Thus, you can choose to block all cookies or only accept cookies from certain platforms or websites.
Please note that when you disable certain cookies, it is possible that certain parts of our Website will no longer function properly and you will no longer enjoy an optimal user experience. Nine Engineering cannot guarantee access to and operation of the Website if you have disabled the creation of cookies by your internet browser. Accepting cookies makes browsing the Internet a lot easier and ensures that the applications and websites you visit perform better. The use of cookies is widely accepted by internet users.
Information on how to manage and delete cookies through your browser settings can be accessed at the following websites (as amended from time to time by the relevant third party browser provider):
| Browser | How to manage and delete cookies via your browser: |
|---|---|
| Apple Safari | https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201265 |
| Google Chrome | https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647 |
| Internet Explorer | https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies |
| Mozilla Firefox | https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/delete-cookies-remove-info-websites-stored |
We process the personal data we collect through our cookies. In our Privacy Policy above you can read how this processing takes place and what rights you have.
5. Changes to this Cookie Policy
From time to time, we may need to change this Cookie Policy, for example in case of use of new functionalities on our Website. We therefore encourage you to regularly review this Cookie Policy. When we publish changes to this Cookie Policy, we change the date of the "latest update" at the bottom of the document. The most current version of this Cookie Policy will be available via our Website at all times.
6. Contact
If you have any questions, comments or complaints in relation to this Cookie Policy, please feel free to contact us by sending an e-mail to privacy@nineid.com.