1. About us and Cookies Policy
About us
Our websites volition.com and ir.volition.com(the “Website”) are owned and maintained by Belgian Volition (hereinafter “VOLITION” or “We”), with registered office at Rue Phocas Lejeune 22, 5032, Gembloux and registered with the Crossroads Bank of Enterprises under number BE0891.006.861.
If you have any questions or requests in relation to this Cookies Policy, please feel free to contact us by post (Rue Phocas Lejeune 22, 5032 Gembloux) or by email at the following address: privacyteam@volition.com.
Purpose of this Cookies Policy
This Website uses cookies and other similar technologies (hereinafter referred together as “cookies”) to distinguish you from other users of the Website.
Volition takes care to respect your privacy and its legal obligations regarding the use of cookies and the protection of your personal data.
The aim of this Cookies Policy is therefore to provide you with clear and comprehensive information about the cookies Volition uses through the Website and the purposes for using them.
This Cookies Policy is an integral part of our Privacy Policy.
This Cookies Policy may be updated from time to time. Please check back our Cookies Policy on a regular basis for any updates.
II. What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small sized text file that can be stored on your computer, mobile phone or tablet when you visit a website. Cookies record information about your use of the website, such as the language in which you visit the website. Thanks to the cookies, it will then be possible to recognize a user and his preferences when he returns to the website.
When you visit our Website, We may record some information in the form of ‘cookies’ (this may include information like your IP address and other technical information).
III. What cookies do we use and why?
We use the following categories of cookies on this Website:
- Strictly necessary
- Functional
- Analytics
- Marketing
Some cookies on our Website are controlled directly by Volition. Others are controlled by our advertising partners or other third parties. This will be explained in more detail below.
Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are necessary for the proper functioning and performance of the Website. They cannot be disabled via our cookies banner. You may disable these cookies by changing your browser settings, but this may affect some parts of the Website functions.
| Owner name |
Type of cookie owner |
Purpose of the cookie |
Retention period |
| AEC
volition.com |
First Party |
To ensure that requests within a browsing session are made by the user, and not by other sites. These cookies prevent malicious sites from acting on behalf of a user without that user’s knowledge. |
2 months |
| NID
volition.com |
First Party |
To provide ad delivery or retargeting, store user preferences. |
6 months |
| SOCS
volition.com |
First Party |
To store a user’s state regarding their cookie choices. |
1 year |
| moove_gdpr_popup
volition.com |
Third Party |
To store cookie consent preferences. |
1 year |
| Klaro
ir.volition |
Third Party |
Klaro supports implicit and explicit consent processes and can ensure that no third-party applications are loaded or collect personal data without the user’s consent. |
Permanent |
| Pinpoint_session
pinpointhq.com |
Third Party |
Allows Pinpoint to associate file uploads to our file storage provider with your form submissions |
Session |
| LSW_WEB
careers.volition.com |
Third Party |
Allows Pinpoint’s load balancer to send your specific traffic to the same backend server |
Session |
| LSW_WEB
app.pinpointhq.com |
Third Party |
Allows Pinpoint’s load balancer to send your specific traffic to the same backend server |
Session |
| cc_cookie
careers.volition.com |
Third Party |
Saves your decisions about these cookies so we don’t need to ask every time |
Six months |
Functional cookies
These cookies are used to improve and personalize the functionality of the Website. They may be set by Volition, or by third parties whose services are used on our Website. If you do not accept these cookies, some or all of these services may not function properly.
| Owner name |
Type of cookie owner |
Purpose of the cookie |
Retention period |
| .vimeo.com
volition.com |
Third party |
We may embed Vimeo videos on our pages of our site. |
Up to 10 years |
| hcaptcha
ir.volition.com |
Third Party |
To protect forms against spam |
1 year |
| QuoteMedia Stock Tools
ir.volition.com |
Third Party |
Used by QuoteMedia in their Qmod stock tool suite to verify usage |
30 minutes |
| Sajari
ir.volition.com |
First Party |
To provide search functionality |
1 year |
| ir.voltion.com |
First Party |
This cookie is used to determine whether or not you’ve seen an announcement we have active so that we don’t show it to you repeatedly. |
7 Days |
Analytics cookies
These cookies allow us to quantify visits (traffic) on the Website. This allows us, among other things, to know how many times a certain page has been read and to see how visitors move around the Website. We only use this information to improve the content of our Website. If you refuse these cookies this does not mean that you will be denied access to our Website but We will not be able to monitor the performance of our Website.
| Owner name |
Type of cookie owner |
Purpose of the cookie |
Retention period |
| _ga
volition.com |
Third Party |
This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. |
Up to 10 years |
| .analytics.google.com |
Third Party |
Google Analytics to track usage of website |
Up to 10 years |
| .google.com |
Third Party |
Google data collection |
Up to 10 years |
| ahoy_visitor
pinpointhq.com |
Third Party |
Pinpoint use an internal metrics collector to understand interactions with the website over time |
Up to two years |
| ahoy_visit
pinpointhq.com |
Third Party |
Pinpoint use an internal metrics collector to understand interactions with the website over time |
Up to four hours |
Marketing cookies
These cookies may be placed on our Website by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to profile your interests and propose you relevant advertisements on other websites. If you decline these cookies this does not mean that you will be denied access to our Website but you will experience less targeted advertising.
| Owner name |
Type of cookie owner |
Purpose of the cookie |
Retention period |
| Mathtag.com |
Third party |
Targeting |
Persistent |
| Youtube.com |
Third party |
We may embed YouTube videos on our pages of our site. |
Session/persistent |
| Prnewswire.com |
Third party |
Targeting and Advertising |
Persistent |
| .go.volition.com
volition.com |
Third Party |
Targeting and advertising |
Up to 10 years |
| .pardot.com
volition.com |
Third Party |
Targeting and advertising |
Up to 10 years |
Targeting cookies
These cookies may be set on our Website by our advertising partners. They allow us to track and measure the performance of our paid for advertising activity across the internet, including advertising and marketing on social media platforms. They may be used by our advertising partners to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites on the internet. They do not store personal information directly, but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising.
| Owner name |
Type of cookie owner |
Purpose of the cookie |
Retention period |
| Meta.com |
Third party |
Pixel – Targeting and advertising |
Persistent |
| LinkedIn.com |
Third party |
Pixel – Targeting and advertising |
Persistent |
IV. How to manage your cookie preferences?
Cookie management via our cookie banner
The first time you visit our Website, you will be asked to set your preferences for the use of cookies. Cookies that are not strictly necessary are turned off by default, unless and until you allow all or some of them through our cookie banner.
At any time, you can manage your preferences regarding the use of cookies via our cookies banner.
You can therefore (i) select the category(ies) of cookies you allow us to use, (ii) accept the use of all cookies or (iii) reject all cookies (except necessary cookies which cannot be switched off through our cookie banner).
Cookie management via your browser
If you wish to know which cookies are installed on your device or if you wish to delete them, you may use a dedicated setting of your web browser. You can also change your cookie settings manually by configuring your web browser.
Further instructions about the way to proceed are available via the links specified below:
You are using another web browser? Check if the relevant proceeding for your web browser is mentioned on the website:
www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies.
Last updated: 12th April 2024
