COOKIE POLICY
Version 1.1
Date 09/05/2025
WHO IS THE DATA CONTROLLER?
This Cookie Policy applies to all cookies and similar technologies that are placed and used on this website by Emtex BV, with its registered office at Hoogeindeken (Gw) 8/I, 9170 Sint-Gillis-Waas, Belgium, and company number VAT BE0476.262.179, which acts as the data controller of this website.
WHAT ARE COOKIES?
Cookies are small data or text files that are stored by your browser on your device. This policy also fully applies to similar technologies such as pixels, plug-ins, and scripts. Cookies can serve various purposes. For example, there are technical cookies that remember preferences on a website, such as language settings or items in a shopping cart. Cookies can also be used to verify your login and may store user information, such as your browsing history. Some cookies are only stored for the duration of a specific session, while others are stored on your device for a defined period.
Cookies can be placed either by the server of the website you are visiting or by a partner working with that website. The website’s server can only read cookies it has placed itself. It does not have access to any other information stored on your computer or mobile device.
Cookies can be placed either directly by the data controller (“first-party cookies”) or by a third party acting as a service provider for the data controller (“third-party cookies”).
We can categorize cookies as follows:
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential for navigating the website and using certain features. For example, they allow you to move between different sections of the site or fill in forms, and they help ensure the security of the website. No consent is required to place these cookies.
Functional Cookies
Functional cookies make the website more user-friendly and enhance your browsing experience. These cookies can remember your login credentials, language preferences, or the contents of a shopping cart. No consent is required to place these cookiess.
Analytical Cookies
These cookies collect information about how users interact with the website, such as which pages are visited and which links are clicked. Their sole purpose is to improve the website’s functionality and to provide statistics on the number of visitors to a given page. These cookies will only be placed with the user’s explicit consent.
Advertising and/or Social Media Cookies
These cookies track your online activity to help advertisers show more relevant ads or to limit how often you see a particular ad. These cookies have a maximum lifespan of 24 months and are placed by third parties.
These cookies will only be placed after the user has given explicit consent.
COOKIES USED ON THIS WEBSITE
Strictly Necessary and Functional Cookies
| Name | Expiration | Domain | Purpose |
| TawkConnectionTime | Session | Emtexlifescience.com | Session cookie. This cookie remembers the end user so that previous chat conversations can be identified to improve service quality. |
| Twk_uuid_61bb44e6c!éc976b71c1c2a1 | 6 months | Emtexlifescience.com | This cookie identifies unique visitors to your website and helps track their interactions with the chat widget. This helps to recognise previous conversations and provide a more personalised user experience. |
| Twk_idm_key | Session | Emtexlifescience.com | This session cookie is set only if no twk_uuid is present. It serves to manage concurrent connections when the chat widget is opened in multiple browser tabs. The cookie helps prevent conflicts by ensuring that only one connection is active per session. |
| pressidium_cookie_consent | 6 months | www.emtexlifescience.com | Set by the Pressidium Cookie Consent WordPress plugin. This plugin helps website owners comply with privacy laws such as GDPR and CCPA by providing users with a customizable cookie consent banner. |
| __Secure-1PSID | 2 years | Google.com | Contains encrypted IDs for user authentication and security. |
| __Secure-3PSID | 2 years | Google.com | Similar to __Secure-1PSID, but set in a third-party context. |
| SID | 2 years | Google.com | Contains encrypted records of user IDs and the most recent login time. |
| HSID | 2 years | Google.com | Works with SID to protect user data from unauthorized access. |
| SIDCC | 1 year | Google.com | Identifies trusted web traffic and protects against fraudulent use. |
| SOCS | 13 months | Google.com | Stores the user’s cookie preferences. |
Analytical Cookies
| Naam | Vervaldag | Domein | Doel |
| _ga | 1 year en 1 month | Emtexlifescience.com | Provides statistics about website visitors and their behavior, including number of unique users, pages visited, browser types, and locations. Provided by Google Analytics. Stores and updates a unique value for each page visited. Stores session state information for Google Analytics 4. |
| _gid | 1 dagday | Emtexlifescience.com | |
| _ga_9L2WZ0R87V | 1 year en 1 month | Emtexlifescience.com |
Advertising and/or Social Media Cookies
| Naam | Vervaldag | Domein | Doel |
| _gat_gtag_UA_92762264_1 | 54 seconds | Emtexlifescience.com | Part of Google Analytics; used to throttle request rate. |
| _gcl_au | 3 months | Emtexlifescience.com | Used by Google AdSense to experiment with ad efficiency on websites using their services. |
| Test_cookie | 15 minutes | Doubleclick.net | Set by DoubleClick (owned by Google) to check whether the user’s browser supports cookies. |
| IDE | 1 year | Doubleclick.net | Set by DoubleClick to provide insights on how the user interacts with the website and with any ads viewed before visiting. |
| __Secure-3PAPISID | 2 years | Google.com | Used for targeting purposes to build a profile of the user’s interests. |
| __Secure-1PAPISID | 2 years | Google.com | Similar to __Secure-3PAPISID, but set in a first-party context. |
| APISID | 2 years | Google.com | Personalizes ads based on recent searches and user interactions. |
| SAPISID | 2 years | Google.com | Collects user information for YouTube-hosted videos. |
| SSID | 2 years | Google.com | Delivers personalized ads, particularly when interacting with YouTube videos. |
| NID | 6 months | Google.com | Remembers user preferences and displays personalized advertisements.. |
Google (Services: Google 360, Google Analytics, and Google Tag Manager)
This website uses Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager, which are web analytics services provided by Google Ireland Limited (hereafter “Google”). Google uses cookies to help us analyze website usage. The information generated by these cookies about how visitors use our website is transmitted by the browser and processed on Google’s servers.
EMTEX BV has configured these services in a privacy-conscious manner, ensuring that no more data is processed than necessary. Users can choose to prevent the installation of these cookies by not granting consent via the cookie banner on our website.
Users can also block the transmission of website usage data and their IP address—generated by these cookies—by installing the Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-on.
For more information on how Google handles data, please visit: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites
The lifespan of the cookies used will not exceed 24 months.
MANAGING COOKIE PREFERENCES
Below we explain how you can manage your cookie preferences. Strictly necessary cookies and functional cookies cannot be disabled. However, they can always be manually deleted via your browser.
- Via the Website
You can adjust your cookie preferences at any time on our website by reopening the cookie banner and modifying or withdrawing your previously given consent.
- Via Your Browser
You can also manage your cookie settings through your browser. This allows you to specify which cookies may be placed and to configure your browser to notify you when a cookie is being placed. You can also manually delete cookies via the option to clear your browsing history. More information on how to do this can be found on the following pages, depending on the browser you use:
Please note that deleting or disabling cookies may result in certain features of our website and additional services not functioning optimally.
We reserve the right to unilaterally change our Cookie Policy at any time. Any updated version will be published online and made available on our website. From the time of publication, the revised Cookie Policy takes immediate effect. If we introduce new cookies on our website, we will—if required—ask for your consent again. The date this Cookie Policy was last updated can be found at the top of this page.
If you have any questions or comments regarding our Cookie Policy after reading it, you are always welcome to contact us via itd@emtexlifescience.com.