Responsible Disclosure Policy
This cookie statement is currently only available in English. If you would like a Dutch version of this cookie statement, please contact legal@silverfin.com.
This cookie declaration is not currently available in English. If you wish to receive a French version of the cookie declaration, please contact legal@silverfin.com.
Silverfin (as defined below) uses cookies to improve your browsing experience on its “Website” (including both the Silverfin websites www.silverfin.com, www.getsilverfin.com and www.silverfin.be and related subdomains, as well as the Silverfin platform, as described and represented via www.silverfin.com. Therefore, this policy will provide you with the necessary information about the use of these cookies by Silverfin (“Cookie Policy”).
You can find our archived Silverfin Cookie Policies in pdf format here.
1. WEBSITE OWNER
This Website is owned and managed by Silverfin NV, a limited liability company with registered office at Gaston Crommenlaan 12, 9050 Gent, registered with the Crossroads Database for Enterprises under number 0524.802.662 (“Silverfin”)
2. ABOUT COOKIES
2.1 “Cookies” you say?
Cookies, also known as ‘HTTP cookies’, ‘web cookies’ or ‘browser cookies’, are small text files that are sent to and stored on your computer or mobile device through your browser when you visit a website, resp. use a mobile application. When you surf the same website later on, the data stored in that cookie can be retrieved by the website in order to notify the website of the last activity.
Cookies were designed as a reliable mechanism for websites to remember the status of the website or the previous activity of a certain user. They help us to optimise your visit to the Website, to remember technical choices (e.g. choice of language, newsletter, etc.) and to offer more relevant services and offers.
If you wish to consult/use the Website to its full potential, Silverfin encourages you to enable cookies (See Section 4 on how to enable/disable cookies).
2.2 Types of cookies
There are different types of cookies, based on their (i) duration, (ii) provenance or (iii) processing purpose:
Based on duration
| Session cookies: | these cookies allow a user's actions to be simplified and linked to each other during a browser session. A browser session starts when a user opens the browser screen and ends when the user closes the browser screen. Session cookies are placed temporarily. As soon as you close the browser, all session cookies are deleted. Most functional cookies are session cookies; |
| Persistent cookies: | these cookies remain on your hard drive until you erase them or your browser does, depending on the cookie’s expiration date. |
Based on provenance
| First-party cookies: | these cookies are placed by the owner of the visited website; |
| Third-party cookies: | these cookies are placed by a domain name other than the one of the website visited by the user. If a user visits a website and a third party places a cookie through that website, then this is to be considered a third party cookie (e.g. cookies placed by Google, Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook). |
Based on processing purpose
| Strictly necessary cookies: | these cookies are essential for you to browse a website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the site. These cookies will generally be first-party session cookies; |
| Functional cookies (or “preference cookies”) | these cookies allow a website to remember choices you have made in the past, like what language you prefer, or what your user name and password are so you can automatically log in; |
| Analytical cookies (or “statistical cookies”) | these cookies collect information about how you use a website, like which pages you visited and which links you clicked on. None of this information can be used to identify you. It is all aggregated and, therefore, anonymized. Their sole purpose is to improve website functions. This includes cookies from third-party analytics services as long as the cookies are for the exclusive use of the owner of the website visited; |
| Targeting cookies (or “tracking/marketing cookies”) | these cookies track your online activity to help advertisers deliver more relevant advertising or to limit how many times you see an ad. These cookies can share that information with other organizations or advertisers. These are persistent cookies and almost always of third-party provenance. |
3. OVERVIEW OF THE COOKIES SILVERFIN USES ON THE WEBSITE
4. MANAGING AND DISABLING COOKIES
4.1 Your cookie preferences
When you visit our Website for the first time, you will be prompted via our cookie banner to indicate whether you agree to enable non-strictly necessary cookies. You have the possibility to access this Cookie Policy before doing so.
Please note that you can change your cookie preferences at all times by going to our “cookie preference banner”. You can access our cookie preference banner by clicking on the cookie banner icon in the bottom left corner of your browser or on Change or Withdraw your consent in the overview section above.
Please keep in mind that limiting or blocking the use of cookies may negatively impact your experience with respect to our Website.
4.2 Via browser settings
You can also modify your browser settings to decline certain cookies and/or to delete cookies that are already installed on your computer or mobile device. There are several possibilities to avoid the storage of cookies. Please visit the websites of the different browsers to learn how you can block the storage of cookies. Here you can find such websites regarding the most common browsers:
4.3 More information?
If you want to know more about cookies, please visit the site: What are cookies? | Cookies & You (cookiesandyou.com). This website provides more information on cookies, explains in detail how to delete the cookies and shows you how you can allow familiar websites to store cookies on your device.
5. UPDATES
Once a new cookie policy is implemented, your consent regarding the use of cookies (with the exception of strictly necessary cookies) will be requested again in our cookie banner.
6. QUESTIONS?
If you have any further questions about this Cookie Policy or its implementation, you may always contact legal@silverfin.com.