Cookies Policy.

I. About us and this Cookie 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
CraftSessionId volition.com	First Party	Craft relies on PHP sessions to maintain sessions across web requests. That is done via the PHP session cookie	Session
CRAFT_CSRF_TOKEN volition.com	First Party	Protects against cross site request forgery attacks	Session
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

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

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

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:

Firefox	Chrome	Safari	Internet Explorer
Firefox (mobile)	Chrome (mobile)	Safari (mobile)	Microsoft Edge

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.