Cookie Policy

1. What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. They are used to make the site function correctly, to remember your preferences or to measure how the site is used.

Besides cookies, similar technologies may also be used, such as pixels, local storage or server logs. In this policy, "cookies" refers to all of these technologies together.

2. Which cookies do we use?

Cookies are categorised below into three groups, in line with the recommendations of the Belgian Data Protection Authority.

2.1 Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies are needed for the website to function technically. They are always set and cannot be refused, otherwise the website will not work properly. Examples:

• a temporary session cookie used by the contact form (for rate limiting and spam protection);
• a cookie from CookieYes that remembers which cookie preferences you have set.

2.2 Analytical cookies

This website may use analytical cookies or similar technologies via the hosting provider or connected analytics tools (for example Hostinger statistics or a similar tool). They help measure visitor numbers and site usage so the site can be improved.

These cookies are only set after you give explicit consent via the cookie banner.

2.3 Marketing and third-party cookies via embeds

The website displays music and video via YouTube and Spotify. This embedded content may set cookies from Google/YouTube and Spotify services, even if you are not logged in. These cookies may be used for statistics and, depending on your settings with those services, for marketing purposes.

• Google/YouTube privacy policy
• Spotify privacy policy

These embeds only become active when you play them yourself or, depending on your cookie preferences, after you give consent for marketing cookies.

3. Hosting, analytics and embedded content

Some of these parties process data outside the European Economic Area (EEA). In that case, they rely on appropriate safeguards such as Standard Contractual Clauses of the European Commission.

4. Consent and cookie banner

On your first visit to the website, a cookie banner appears, managed by CookieYes. In the banner you can:

• Accept all non-essential cookies;
• Reject all non-essential cookies;
• Set your preferences per category.

Strictly necessary cookies are always set, otherwise the site cannot function properly. Analytical and marketing cookies are only set after you give explicit consent, in accordance with Art. 129 of the Belgian Electronic Communications Act and Art. 6.1.a GDPR.

You can change your preferences at any time via the CookieYes button that appears on the website (e.g. a small icon at the bottom), or by clearing the cookies in your browser (see below).

5. Retention periods

• Contact form session cookie: usually disappears after closing the browser or after a few minutes of inactivity;
• CookieYes consent cookie: up to 12 months, after which the banner asks for consent again;
• Analytical cookies: typically between a few days and 24 months, depending on the tool;
• YouTube/Spotify cookies: according to Google's and Spotify's retention periods.

6. Managing or deleting cookies

You can manage or delete cookies at any time via your browser settings:

• Chrome
• Firefox
• Safari
• Microsoft Edge

Note that some functions of the website may no longer work properly if you block strictly necessary cookies.