Cookies
COOKIE POLICY
This is the cookie policy (”Policy”) of the websites operated by Balta Industries NV (hereinafter “BALTA”, “we”, “us”, “our”). Balta Industries NV is a public limited liability company incorporated under Belgian law, with registered office at Wakkensteenweg 2, 8710 Sint-Baafs-Vijve, Belgium.
This Policy aims at informing you about the use of cookies by BALTA. This Policy should be read together with BALTA’s privacy policy, which is available here.
The Policy can be modified, e.g. as a result of new functionalities on the websites that require the processing of personal data. We thus advise you to check this Policy regularly. Any major changes will be announced via our homepages.
1. Balta and cookies
When you visit our websites, we collect certain information (see below) by automated means, using cookies. Cookies are small text files that are installed on your browser or your device.
They allow a website to recognize your device. We may also use other technologies such as pixel tags, browser analysis tools, server logs and web beacons for similar purposes as described in this Policy. The information provided in this Policy also applies to these other technologies. We may include these cookies or technologies e.g. on our websites, on our affiliated websites, in marketing e-mail messages or in our newsletter to determine whether messages have been opened and links have been clicked on.
The information we collect via cookies and other technologies does not contain any personal data of the visitor of the website. All information received by BALTA is anonymous and thus non-identifiable.
2. Which cookies do we use?
BALTA mostly uses “first-party cookies”. These are cookies set and controlled by us, not by any external organization.
We use cookies for different purposes: for the technical and functional management of the websites, to help us to improve your visit to our websites, to personalize your website visit, to collect statistical data, to give us commercial and marketing information and to enable users to share content.
Below you find a summary of the cookies that BALTA uses on its websites:
Functional / strictly necessary cookies
We use functional cookies to allow our websites to remember the choices you make (such as your language preference) and to provide more enhanced, personal features. These cookies cannot track your browsing activity on other websites and they do not gather any information about you that could be used for advertising.
We use strictly necessary cookies for the websites to function properly. These cookies allow our web servers to respond to your actions on the websites or your browsing of the websites (e.g. to keep track of your input when filling online forms).
balta-carpets.com (alias: www.baltabroadloom.com, www.baltacarpets.com)
| name | provider | expiry | purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHPSESSID | site | session | Enables the website to store serialized state data |
| BOAsoft195lang | site | 1 month | Remembers the language you have selected on the website |
| GDPR | site | 1 year | Remembers your cookie settings |
baltagroup.com
| name | provider | expiry | purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHPSESSID | site | session | Enables the website to store serialized state data |
| BOAsoft606lang | site | 1 month | Remembers the language you have selected on the website |
| GDPR | site | 1 year | Remembers your cookie settings |
balta-home.com (alias: www.baltarugs.be)
| name | provider | expiry | purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHPSESSID | site | session | Enables the website to store serialized state data |
| BOAsoft197lang | site | 1 month | Remembers the language you have selected on the website |
| GDPR | site | 1 years | Remembers your cookie settings |
baltainvestors.com
| name | provider | expiry | purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHPSESSID | site | session | Enables the website to store serialized state data |
| BOAsoft363lang | site | 1 month | Remembers the language you have selected on the website |
| GDPR | site | 1 year | Remembers your cookie settings |
baltajobs.com
| name | provider | expiry | purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| accepted_cookies | site | 1 year | Stores the user's cookie consent state for the current domain |
| cookies_allowed_categories | site | 1 year | Stores the user's cookie consent state for the current domain |
| laravel_session | site | 1 day | serves to distinguish one visitor from another at server level without requiring personal data. This is specific to Shuttle. |
| XSRF-Token | site | 1 month | is a unique value sent by the server to indicate that the user is indeed receiving data from the actual server, and is not on a counterfit site. This is to ensure the security of entered data; |
baltamediabank.com
| name | provider | expiry | purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHPSESSID | site | session | Enables the website to store serialized state data |
captiqs.com
| name | provider | expiry | purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHPSESSID | site | session | Preserves user session state across page requests |
clean-rug.com
| name | provider | expiry | purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| language | site | session | Sets the user's language preference |
| XSRF-V | site | session | used together with XSRF-Token to block cross site request forgery |
| XSRF-Token | site | session | used together with XSRF-V to block cross site request forgery |
| cb-enabled | site | 1 year | Stores the user's cookie consent state for the current domain |
| UMB_UCONTEXT | site | 1 day | used to login for administrator. Not used for normal users. |
| UMB-UPDCHK | site | 1 week | used to login for administrator. Not used for normal users. |
floorcovering.balta.com.tr (alias: www.balta.com.tr/baltafloorcoverings)
| name | provider | expiry | purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHPSESSID | site | session | Enables the website to store serialized state data |
| BOAsoft262lang | site | 1 month | Remembers the language you have selected on the website |
| GDPR | site | 1 year | Remembers your cookie settings |
naturecarpets.com
| name | provider | expiry | purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| CookieScriptConsent | site | 1 month | Stores the user's cookie consent state for the current domain |
orient.balta.com.tr (alias: www.balta.com.tr/baltaorient)
| name | provider | expiry | purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHPSESSID | site | session | Enables the website to store serialized state data |
| BOAsoft260lang | site | 1 month | Remembers the language you have selected on the website |
| GDPR | site | 1 years | Remembers your cookie settings |
stainsafe-warranty.co.uk
| name | provider | expiry | purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHPSESSID | site | session | Preserves user session state across page requests |
Analytical & Statistical / Social sharing cookies
We use third-party analytical and statistical cookies to count the number of visitors to our websites, to understand how users arrive on our websites and to know how they interact with us on our websites (as anonymous user). This information is used to evaluate how we can improve the user experience for all our users (e.g. improve content of our websites and our advertisements). This information is not shared with any third party or used for any other purpose. The anonymized statistics could be shared with contractors working on communication projects under contractual agreement with BALTA.
We may use social sharing cookies from LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and Facebook to enable you to share any content of interest on social networks. Sometimes we may use these cookies to present targeted advertisements on these networks based on your interaction with our websites. These third-party services are outside of the control of BALTA. Providers may, at any time, change their terms of service, purpose and use of cookies, etc.
balta-carpets.com (alias: www.baltabroadloom.com, www.baltacarpets.com)
| name | provider | expiry | purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| _gat | session | Used by Google Analytics to throttle the request rate | |
| _gid | session | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website | |
| _ga | 2 years | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website |
baltagroup.com
| name | provider | expiry | purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| _gat | session | Used by Google Analytics to throttle the request rate | |
| _gid | session | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website | |
| _ga | 2 years | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website | |
| _fbp | 3 months | Used by Facebook to distinguish and keep track of unique users on this website |
balta-home.com (alias: www.baltarugs.be)
| name | provider | expiry | purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| _gat | session | Used by Google Analytics to throttle the request rate | |
| _gid | session | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website | |
| _ga | 2 years | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website |
baltainvestors.com
| name | provider | expiry | purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| _gat_gtag_UA_97688707_2 | session | Used by Google Analytics to throttle the request rate | |
| _gid | session | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website | |
| _ga | 2 years | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website |
baltajobs.com
| name | provider | expiry | purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| _gat | session | Used by Google Analytics to throttle the request rate | |
| _gid | 1 year | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website | |
| _ga | 2 years | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website |
baltamediabank.com
does not use any statistical cookies
captiqs.com
| name | provider | expiry | purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| _gat | session | Used by Google Analytics to throttle the request rate | |
| _gid | 1 day | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website | |
| _ga | 2 years | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website | |
| frontend_language | site | 1 month | Stores the user's language preferences |
| track | site | 1 year | Preserves the history of user's actions |
clean-rug.com
| name | provider | expiry | purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| _gat | session | Used by Google Analytics to throttle the request rate | |
| _gid | 1 year | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website | |
| _ga | 2 years | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website |
floorcovering.balta.com.tr (alias: www.balta.com.tr/baltafloorcoverings)
| name | provider | expiry | purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| _gat | session | Used by Google Analytics to throttle the request rate | |
| _gid | session | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website | |
| _ga | 2 years | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website |
orient.balta.com.tr (alias: www.balta.com.tr/baltaorient)
| name | provider | expiry | purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| _gat | session | Used by Google Analytics to throttle the request rate | |
| _gid | session | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website | |
| _ga | 2 years | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website |
naturecarpets.com
| name | provider | expiry | purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| _gat | session | Used by Google Analytics to throttle the request rate | |
| _gid | 1 day | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website | |
| _ga | 2 years | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website |
Stainsafe-warranty.co.uk
does not use any statistical cookies
3. How can you control, delete or withdraw your consent to the use of cookies?
Every time you visit our websites, you will be prompted to accept all cookies, to opt-in for the cookies that you are willing to accept (via the “settings” option) or to refuse cookies.
At any moment you can use your browser’s cookie settings to withdraw the consent you gave for the use of (site-specific) cookies on our websites or to delete the cookies that are already on your device. These settings are usually found in the 'options' or 'preferences' menu of your browser. Otherwise, you should use the 'help' option of your browser for more details.
Be aware though that, if you turn off and/or delete cookies, you may lose some saved information, certain parts of our websites and some graphic elements may not be accessible and you may not be able to use certain applications.
4. Questions?
For any further questions or complaints about our websites or about this Policy, you can contact us:
By e-mail at dataprotection@baltagroup.com
By mail to:
Balta
Data protection
Wakkensteenweg 2
8710 Sint-Baafs-Vijve
Belgium