Kaart Blanche collects data to provide you with a better experience when visiting and using our website, to optimize our services for you, and to suggest relevant products and/or services that match your preferences.
This data may take the form of cookies or pixels. Below we explain how these cookies work and how you can control them.
What is a cookie?
Cookies are small text files that are created on your computer by a website. These files usually contain information about the actions you have taken on that website: which preferences you have set, which pages you have visited, …
Unless you have adjusted your browser settings so that it will refuse cookies, our system will set cookies as soon as you visit our website.
Why does Kaart Blanche use cookies?
Kaart Blanche uses cookies in the first place to improve your user experience and make our website function better.
In addition, we use cookies to make the content of our website more interesting for you. Kaart Blanche does this by adapting the content of the site to your personal taste and needs.
How long are cookies stored in my browser?
- Temporary cookies or session cookies are temporarily stored in your browser. This means that these types of cookies are deleted as soon as you close your browser.
- Persistent cookies remain on your computer or mobile device even if you have closed your browser. Persistent cookies allow us to recognize you when you visit our website again at a later time. Persistent cookies remain on your device until a pre-defined automatic end date is reached, until a new cookie is installed, or until you delete them via your browser or mobile device settings.
Which cookies does Kaart Blanche use?
Our website classifies cookies according to their use (functional cookies, performance cookies, advertising cookies). In general, we distinguish two types of cookies:
- The first-party cookies: these are cookies that are placed and used by Kaart Blanche and that optimize the quality of our services based on your surfing behavior on our websites.
- The third-party cookies: these cookies are created and placed by third party partners. These cookies offer you a more pleasant user experience and adapt it to your surfing behavior on our websites.
Functional cookies
In order for a website to work without problems, functional cookies are required. Thanks to these cookies we can also improve the functioning of our website.
| Name | Placed by | Description | Expires after |
| mailchimp_landing_site | Mailchimp | This cookie is used to store which page was visited first on this website. | 30 days |
| woocommerce_cart_hash | Woocommerce | Helps WooCommerce determine when the content of the shopping cart/data changes. | EoS |
| woocommerce_items_in_cart | Woocommerce | Helps WooCommerce determine when the content of the shopping cart/data changes. | EoS |
| wp_woocommerce_session_ | Woocommerce | Contains a unique code for each customer, so Woocommerce knows where to find the shopping cart data in the database for each customer. | 48 hours |
| woocommerce_recently_viewed | Woocommerce | This drives the “Recently viewed products” widget. | EoS |
| store_notice[notice id] | Woocommerce | This allows customers to ensure that certain notifications are not shown again. | EoS |
| wp-wpml_current_admin_language_* | WPML | This saves the language preferences for the current user. | EoS |
| wp-wpml_current_language | WPML | This saves the language preferences for the current user. | EoS |
| wordpress_logged_in_[hash] | WordPress | Indicates when the user is logged in and what rights he/she has. | EoS |
| PHPSESSID | PHP | The PHPSESSID cookie is placed by PHP and allows the website to store serialized status data. It is used to create a visitor session and to transmit status data via a temporary cookie, which is often referred to as a session cookie. | EoS |
Statistical cookies
We use these cookies to measure the use of the website. Among other things, they can give us an idea of the performance and load times of the website and specific web pages.
| Name | Placed by | Description | Expires after |
| _ga | This cookie is used by Google Analytics to distinguish visitors from each other. | 24 months | |
| _gid | This cookie is used by Google Analytics to distinguish visitors from each other. | 24 hours | |
| _gat | This cookie is used by Google to limit the number of requests that are executed to Google servers. | 1 minute | |
| __utma | This cookie is used by Google Analytics to distinguish visitors and sessions. | 24 months | |
| __utmt | This cookie is used by Google Analytics to limit the number of requests made to Google servers. | 10 minutes | |
| __utmb | This cookie is used by Google Analytics to record new sessions. | 30 minutes | |
| __utmz | This cookie is used by Google Analytics to track the source of website traffic or the specific UTM campaign. | 6 months |
Publicity cookies
These cookies track your browsing behaviour on our website in order to compile your user profile. This profile is then used to show you advertisements that match your personal interests.
| Name | Placed by | Description | Expires after |
| _gac_<property-id> | This cookie is used by Google for publicity purposes. | 90 days | |
| _fbp | This cookie is known as the Facebook Pixel and is used by Facebook to identify visitors for publicity purposes. | 90 days | |
| fr | This cookie is used by Facebook for publicity purposes. | 90 days | |
| datr | This cookie is used by Facebook to identify the visitor’s web browser, independent of the user account with which the visitor is or is not logged into Facebook. This cookie is used for security and publicity purposes. | 24 months | |
| wd | This cookie is used by Facebook to save the dimensions of the browser window so that the rendering of the page can be optimized for advertising purposes. | EoS | |
| c_user | This cookie is used by Facebook to store the user ID of the currently logged in Facebook user for publicity purposes. | 30 days | |
| xs | This cookie is used by Facebook to keep a session number, session secret and secure browsing browser setting of the current visitor for publicity purposes. | 30 days | |
| presence | This cookie is used by Facebook for publicity purposes. | EoS | |
| dpr | This cookie is used by Facebook for publicity purposes. | EoS | |
| pl | This cookie is used by Facebook for publicity purposes. | 90 days | |
| sb | This cookie is used by Facebook for publicity purposes. | 24 months | |
| spin | This cookie is used by Facebook for publicity purposes. | 48 hours | |
| mailchimp.cart.previous_email | Mailchimp | This cookie is used by Mailchimp for remarketing and publicity purposes. | EoS |
| mailchimp.cart.current_email | Mailchimp | This cookie is used by Mailchimp for remarketing and publicity purposes. | EoS |
How can I enable or disable cookies?
Please note that by deleting our cookies or disabling future cookies you may not be able to access certain web pages or functionality of our site.
Changing web browser settings
You can change the settings of your web browser to enable or disable cookies. You can visit the following links to learn more about adjusting cookie settings for the most popular browsers.
- Cookies – Internet Explorer
- Cookies – Microsoft Edge
- Cookies – Mozilla Firefox
- Cookies – Google Chrome
- Cookies – Safari
- Cookies – Opera
Other useful resources
Use the following links to learn more about the use of cookies by advertisers:
How to contact us
If you have any questions about how we use cookies, please contact Kaart Blanche using the information below:
Phone: +32 (0) 485 50 47 25
Email: hello@kaartblanche.com
Address: Wiedauwkaai 23Y, 9000 Gent
Website: www.kaartblanche.com
Changes to our policy
This cookie policy replaces all previous versions and is valid from 9 September 2020. We reserve the right to change and/or update the policy at any time.
