Dropsolid collects data to provide you a better browsing experience, to optimise our services and to offer you relevant products and/or services that connect to your interests. This data may come in the form of cookies or pixels. Below we will explain how these cookies work and how you can configure them.
What is a cookie?
Cookies are small text files that are saved on your computer through a website. Cookies typically contain information about your actions on the website: preferences you may have selected, pages you have visited ... Unless you have adjusted your browser settings so that it will refuse all cookies, our systems will issue cookies as soon as you visit our website.
Why does Dropsolid use cookies?
Dropsolid uses cookies primarily to optimise your user experience and to improve the performance of our website. We also use cookies to tailor our website content to your personal needs and preferences.
In addition, we use cookies to map your browsing behaviour (e.g. how you found our website or your browsing time on our website). Statistical data allow us to make improvements to our website if necessary and to meet your needs and preferences and those of other website users. How did you find our website? How much time did you spend on our site? These statistical data allow us to make improvements to our website and tailor it to your preferences and the preferences of other users.
How long are cookies stored in my browser?
- Temporary cookies or session cookies are saved to your browser temporarily. This means that this type of cookies will be deleted once you exit your browser session.
- Permanent cookies will remain stored on your computer or mobile device, even if you close your browser. Permanent cookies allow us to recognise you when you revisit our website in the future. Permanent cookies will remain stored on your device until they expire, until a new cookie is installed, or until you remove them via the settings of your browser or mobile device.
What cookies does Dropsolid use?
The cookies on our website are categorised according to their use (functional cookies, performance cookies, advertising cookies). Generally speaking, we distinguish between two types of cookies:
- First-party cookies are placed and used by Dropsolid. They enable us to optimise the quality of our services based on your browsing behaviour on our websites.
- Third-party cookies are created and used by third-party partners. These cookies provide you with a better browsing experience and change your experience based on your browsing behaviour on our website.
Necessary cookies
| Cookie Name | Placed by | Description | Expiration time |
| cookie-agreed cookie-agreed-version cookie-agreed-categories | Dropsolid | This cookie is set when a visitor agrees to the cookie terms. This is used to not show the banner again after the visitor has consented. | 3 months |
| AEC | Cookies used for securily authenticating users, prevent fraud, and protect users as they interact with a service. | 6 months |
Functional cookies
Functional cookies are essential to ensure that our website functions correctly. They also allow us to improve the performance of our website.
| Cookie Name | Placed by | Description | Expiration time |
| test_cookie | Doubleclick | This cookie is set by doubleclick.net. The purpose of the cookie is to determine if the users' browser supports cookies. | 15 minutes |
| CONSENT | Used to store a user's state regarding their cookies choises. | 2 years | |
| SOCS | Used to store a user's state regarding their cookies choises. (Browser related, not specific for this website.) | 2 years |
Analytics cookies
We use these cookies to collect information about the use of our website. They are used to record the performance and loading times of the website and specific pages.
| Cookie Name | Placed by | Description | Expiration time |
| dropsolidCapture | Dropsolid | This cookie is used to compile an aggregate overview of the website across different pages. | 30 minutes |
| stg_traffic_source_priority | Piwik Pro used by Dropsolid | This cookie is installed by Piwik Pro, a tool we use to analyse the website performance. This cookie stores the type of traffic source that lead you to our website. | 30 minutes |
| mtc_sid mautic_referrer_id mtc_id | Mautic | These are third-party cookies used by Mautic that allow us to use the Mautic service. We use Mautic to support our marketing activities. | End of session |
| SM | Clarity | Used in synchronizing the MUID across Microsoft domains. | End of session |
| ANONCHK | Clarity | Indicates whether MUID is transferred to ANID, a cookie used for advertising. Clarity doesn't use ANID and so this is always set to 0. | End of session |
| MR | Clarity | Indicates whether to refresh MUID. | End of session |
| _pk_ses | Piwik Pro used by Dropsolid | This cookie is installed by Piwik Pro, a tool we use to analyse the website performance. It shows the visitor's active session. | End of session |
| stg_fired_ stg_utm_campaign stg_pk_campaign stg_externalReferrer | Piwik Pro used by Dropsolid | This cookie is installed by Piwik Pro, a tool we use to analyse the website performance. This cookie indicates if the tracking we set up fired during your visit. | End of session |
| _gid | Google Analytics | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visted in an anonymous form. | 1 day |
| _ga_XXXXXXXXXX | Google Analytics | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors. | 4 months |
| _clsk | Clarity | Connects multiple page views by a user into a single Clarity session recording. | 1 year |
| MUID | Clarity | Identifies unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites. These cookies are used for site analytics, and other operational purposes. | 1 year |
| CLID | Clarity | Identifies the first-time Clarity saw this user on any site using Clarity. | 1 year |
| mautic_device_id | Mautic | These are third-party cookies used by Mautic that allow us to use the Mautic service. We use Mautic to support our marketing activities. | 1 year |
| __Secure-ENID | This cookie is set by Google and is used to store user preferences and information, such as language preferences and customized search results. (Browser related, not specific for this website.) | 13 months | |
| _pk_id | Piwik Pro used by Dropsolid | This cookie is installed by Piwik Pro, a tool we use to analyse the website performance. This specific cookie is used to recognize new and returning visitors. | 13 months |
| stg_last_interaction _stg_optout stg_returning_visitor | Piwik Pro used by Dropsolid | This cookie is installed by Piwik Pro, a tool we use to analyse the website performance. This cookie indicates if the tracking we set up fired during your visit. | End of session |
| _clck | Clarity | Persists the Clarity User ID and preferences, unique to that site is attributed to the same user ID. | 2 years |
| _ga | Google Analytics | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors. | 2 years |
| DS_VARY_ML | Dropsolid | Used by for personalization purpose within this website and related communication. | 2 years |
| ppms_privacy_ | Piwik Pro used by Dropsolid | This cookie is installed by Piwik Pro, a tool we use to analyse the website performance. This cookies stores your choice of consent to data collection and usage. | 1 year |
| ppms_webstorage | Piwik Pro used by Dropsolid | This cookie is installed by Piwik Pro, a tool we use to analyse the website performance. This cookie prevents the possible loss of visitor data caused by certain broswer mechanisms. | Persistent |
| mautic_focus_x | Mautic | These are third-party cookies used by Mautic that allow us to use the Mautic service. We use Mautic to support our marketing activities. | Persistent |
Marketing cookies
These cookies track your browsing habits on our website to build your user profile. This profile is then used to show you ads that match your personal interests.
| Cookie Name | Placed by | Description | Expiration time |
| DV | Dropsolid | These cookies track and collect data to deliver and retarget ads tailored to user preferences based on specific websites visited. | 1 day |
| lidc | This cookie is set by LinkedIn and used for routing. | 1 day | |
| UserMatchHistory | Linkedin - Used to track visitors on multiple websites, in order to present relevant advertisement based on the visitor's preferences. | 30 days | |
| AnalyticsSyncHistory | Used to store data about when a synchronisation occurred with the cookie lms_analytics | 30 days | |
| li_sugr | Used to make a likely match of a user identity outside designated countries | 90 days | |
| _fbp | This cookie is set by Facebook to deliver advertisement when they are on Facebook or a digital platform powered by Facebook advertising after visiting this website. | 2 months | |
| fr | The cookie is set by Facebook to show relevant advertisments to the users and measure and improve the advertisements. The cookie also tracks the behavior of the user across the web on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin. | 2 months | |
| li_gc | Used to store consent of guests regarding the use of cookies for non-essential purposes | 6 months | |
| IDE | Google Doubleclick | Used by Google DoubleClick to show Google Ads on non-Google sites. It stores information about how the user uses the website and any other advertisement before visiting the website. This is used to present users with ads that are relevant to them according to the user profile. (Browser related, not specific for this website.) | 13 months |
| bcookie | This cookie is set by linkedIn. The purpose of the cookie is to enable LinkedIn functionalities on the page. | 2 years | |
| lfuuid | Doubleclick | This cookie is used to optimize ad relevance by collecting visitor data from multiple websites – this exchange of visitor data is normally provided by a third-party data-center or ad-exchange. (Browser & Google account related, not specific for this website.) | 9 years |
| context_profile_id DS_cdpSegmentName | Dropsolid | Used by for personalization purpose within this website and related communication. | Persistent |
How can I disable or enable cookies?
Keep in mind that deleting our cookies or disabling future cookies may prevent you from accessing certain web pages or functionality of our site.
Changing your web browser settings
You can change your web browser settings to enable or disable cookies. Click on the link for your browser below to find more information on how to change your cookie settings.
- Cookies - Internet Explorer
- Cookies - Microsoft Edge
- Cookies - Mozilla Firefox
- Cookies - Google Chrome
- Cookies - Safari
- Cookies - Opera
Other useful sources
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How to contact us
If you have any questions on our use of cookies, you can contact Dropsolid via the information below:
Phone: 09 395 02 90
Email: privacy@dropsolid.com
Address: Moutstraat 60, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
Website: dropsolid.com
Changes to our policy
This cookie policy supersedes all previous versions and is valid from 6 july 2020. We reserve the right to make changes to and/or update to this policy.