Cookie Policy
Which cookies and similar storage autovig.be uses, the legal basis under Belgian law (art. 129 Loi 13 juin 2005), and how to manage consent.
This Cookie Policy describes the cookies and similar browser-storage entries used on autovig.be (the "Site"), their purpose, the legal basis on which they are deployed, and how you can grant, refuse or withdraw consent. It complements our Privacy Policy and forms an integral part of it.
1. What a cookie or similar technology is
A cookie is a small piece of data that a website asks your browser to store. Some cookies live for a single browser session (session cookies); others persist across visits (persistent cookies). The same legal rules apply to other browser-storage mechanisms such as localStorage, sessionStorage, IndexedDB, web beacons or pixel tags. In this Policy, the term "tracker" covers all of them.
2. Legal basis
The deployment of trackers on terminal equipment located in Belgium is governed by:
These provisions require prior, specific, informed, freely given and unambiguous consent for any non-strictly-necessary tracker. Consent is interpreted in line with the rulings of the Court of Justice of the European Union in Planet49 (C-673/17) and Proximus (C-129/21), the EDPB Guidelines 05/2020 on consent and 03/2022 on deceptive design patterns, and the cookie guidance published by the Belgian Autorité de protection des données / Gegevensbeschermingsautoriteit (APD / GBA).
Two categories are exempted from prior consent under article 5(3) ePrivacy and article 129 of the Loi du 13 juin 2005:
We classify each tracker under one of those exemptions or as consent-required, never both.
3. Categories used on autovig.be
The Site groups trackers into the same three categories shown on the consent banner:
Strictly necessary
Required for the Site to load and for the consent banner itself to operate. Deployed without consent on the basis of the second exemption above. You cannot disable them without breaking core functionality.
Analytics
Loaded only after you click "Accept" or save preferences with analytics enabled. Used to count aggregated, pseudonymous page-views and to understand which guides are useful. Not linked to identifiable individuals on our side and not shared with advertising networks. If you decline or withdraw consent, the analytics script is not loaded at all.
Marketing
Not currently in use. autovig.be is in prelaunch and runs no advertising, no retargeting and no cross-site tracking. The category remains visible in the consent banner as a placeholder so the structure remains stable; until a marketing tracker is actually deployed, this toggle controls no cookies and accepting it has no effect.
4. Inventory
The following inventory reflects the autovig.be deployment at the date shown in the updatedAt field above. It is reviewed at every clean audit pass.
autovig_consentAutovig (first-party localStorage entry)Strictly necessaryRecords your per-category cookie choice so we do not re-prompt on every pagelocalStorage (not transmitted to the server)Until you clear browser storage or change your choice_cfbmCloudflare Inc. (CDN edge in front of OVH origin)Strictly necessaryDistinguishes humans from automated traffic for bot mitigation, in support of operational security under GDPR art. 6(1)(f)HTTP cookie (first-party, set by edge)30 minutesga, ga_<container-id>Google Ireland Limited (Google Analytics 4)Analytics — consent requiredPseudonymous page-view measurement (page, locale, device class, referrer host)HTTP cookies (first-party, set by GA4 script after consent)13 months (we do not extend Google's default)We do not deploy any tracker on the Site outside this inventory. If a new tracker is added, this Policy is updated before deployment and the consent banner re-asks consent where the new tracker is consent-required.
5. Retention
Non-strictly-necessary trackers do not exceed 13 months of retention, in line with the EDPB guidance and the APD/GBA cookie guidance. The consent decision itself is stored on your device only and is removed when you clear browser storage or change your choice.
6. How consent works
autovig_consent localStorage entry described in section 4. We retain this record to demonstrate compliance with GDPR article 7(1).7. Withdrawing consent — as easy as giving it
You can change or withdraw your choice at any time:
Withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before the withdrawal (GDPR art. 7(3)).
8. Third-party recipients
When the Google Analytics 4 script is loaded — only after you grant analytics consent — Google Ireland Limited (Dublin, Ireland) acts as our processor under GDPR article 28. Personal data may be onward-transferred from Google Ireland Limited to Google LLC (Mountain View, United States) within the same group.
The transfer relies on the cumulative safeguards described in section 9 of our Privacy Policy: Standard Contractual Clauses (Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/914) and the EU–US Data Privacy Framework (Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2023/1795), under which Google LLC self-certifies. Their cookie notice describes the cookies set under their own domains; we do not set them.
No other third-party tracker runs on the Site.
9. International transfers
The only third-country transfer triggered by trackers concerns Google Analytics 4 and is described in section 8 above and in section 9 of the Privacy Policy.
10. Changes to this Policy
We may update this Policy when the Site evolves. The updatedAt date in the page header reflects the latest revision. Material changes — new tracker, new processor, new transfer mechanism, change in retention — are highlighted at the top of the page for at least 30 days before they take effect. Where a change adds a consent-required tracker, the consent banner re-asks consent.