Our cookie policy

What are cookies?

Cookies are small files websites (or applications) place on your PC’s (or any other device’s) hard drive. They collect and store information about how visitors use the website and interact with it. They improve your user experience on our website and enable us to improve the website and its functions.

Cookies contain a unique identification number. Using cookies therefore implies the processing of personal data. If you want to learn more about how the FASFC processes personal data, please consult our privacy policy via https://www.fasfc.be/about-fasfc/general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr

Types of cookies

First of all, it is important to understand the difference between ‘first party cookies’ and ‘third party cookies’. The former are stored on the visitor's device by the website itself. The latter, however, are placed by a third party, e.g. an advertiser.

To help you better understand cookies and how the FASFC uses them, we have provided the following overview of the different types of cookies.

Essential cookies
Essential cookies, or strictly necessary cookies, are those without which it would not be possible to use a website. There are technically necessary cookies, such as session cookies for load balancing, and functionally necessary cookies, such as those that store your language preference on the website.

Since browsing the website would be impossible without those cookies, the FASFC, as the data controller, does not need to ask for permission to use them. To this end, the FASFC can invoke its legitimate interest in making its website available to the public.
Analytical cookies
Analytical cookies provide insight into how visitors interact with a website. They provide a statistical overview of how a website is used; that is why they are also called statistical cookies. The FASFC uses cookies to collect and measure data such as the number of visitors to its website.

Since it is perfectly possible to use a website without generating statistics from it, the FASFC, as controller, needs your explicit permission to use these cookies.

Why does the FASFC use cookies?

The FASFC uses cookies in order to improve your visit to its websites. The cookies the FASFC uses are safe. The information the FASFC collects through these cookies, helps it to identify possible errors or is used to tell you about specific services which could be of your interest. The FASFC could save information that is directly linked to you.

More specifically, the FASFC uses cookies for the following purposes:

To detect, solve and prevent possible technical malfunctions
To support and customise your visit to our websites
To analyse your use of our services, to understand how you use our website

Here follows a detailed overview of the cookies used by the FASFC:

List of essential cookies

These cookies are required for purely technical reasons, to be able to visit the website. Since they are technically necessary, only a duty to inform applies to these cookies. They are placed as soon as you access the website.

List of essential cookies
Name	Expiry date	Content	Purpose
BIGipServerF2W-…	Until the end of the session	String of characters	Assigns a server in order to process requests from the same user.
TS01448b0 (characters after TS vary)	Until the end of the session	String of characters	Assigns a server in order to process requests from the same user.
.aspNetCore.Antiforgery.xxxx	Until the end of the session	String of characters	Ensures that consecutive requests are handled by the same server.
acaAffinity	Until the end of the session	String of characters	Preventing Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks.

List of functional cookies

You cannot refuse these cookies if you want to navigate to our website, but they are only placed when you have made a choice regarding the placement of cookies.

List of functional cookies
Name	Expiry date	Content	Purpose
language	365 days (1 year)	Language of the last visited web page	When visiting the website again, you will automatically land on the home page in the language of your choice.
has_js	Until the end of the session	1	Quick availability check for javascript.
fedconsent	90 days	cookie preferences	Saves the preferences set in the cookie pop-up
AspNetCore.Culture	1 year	Locale (language variant) of the visited web page	Saves the user’s language preference.

List of analytical cookies

The following cookies will only be placed if you accept analytical cookies.

List of analytical cookies
Name	Expiry date	Content	Purpose
_pk_id	28 days	Token ID	Website traffic analysis
_pk_ref	6 months		Website traffic analysis
_pk_ses	50 minutes	Session ID	Website traffic analysis

Should you have any questions or comments regarding cookies after having read this Cookie Policy, please contact dpo@favv-afsca.be.