Cookie policy
The FPS Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment website uses cookies. A cookie is a small file that the website transfers to your device to allow it to remember specific information about your session while you are connected. This information is only used to make the FPS Public Health website more useful for you.
There are two types of cookies, session and persistent. Session cookies last only as long as your Web browser is open. Once you close your browser, the cookie disappears. Persistent cookies are stored on your device and remain valid until their set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date. The FPS Public Health website uses both session and persistent cookies.
Cookies may be set either by the website (first party cookies) or by a third party website (third party cookies). The names of the cookies used by this site and their purpose are set out below.
Cookies used on info-coronavirus.be
| COOKIE ID | PURPOSE | LIFESPAN |
|---|---|---|
| orejime | Records the fact that, as a user, you have agreed to accept cookies from this site. | 1 year |
| _pk_id | This cookie is set by the web analytics service Matomo. This cookie keeps visitor ID value used by Matomo to recognize returning visitors. | 28 days |
| _pk_ses | This cookie is set by the web analytics service Matomo. Session cookies are responsible for keeping the session active for 30 minutes after last tracked action, when they expire the visit is considered as ended. This cookie keeps the time of the first visit for this user, the previous visit for this user, the number of visits for this user | 30 minutes |
| This data is only processed to assess the amount of visits to the various sections of the services and to improve the content of the services. | ||
| More information about Matomo can be found online at https://matomo.org/privacy-policy/. |