Cookie Policy

March, 2025

The website of Northbound BV, with its registered office at Van Rotselaarlaan 31, 2290 Vorselaar and with company number 0508.645.432, uses cookies. This cookie policy provides you with information about what cookies are, which cookies are used on the Northbound website, how long they are stored, how Northbound uses the data collected through cookies, and how you can manage cookies.

General Information:

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer by the websites you visit. They contain session data related to your use of a website, which the respective website can use for various purposes, such as making your website visit more efficient or measuring activity on the website.

What cookies does Squarespace use?

Our website is built using Squarespace. Squarespace uses cookies to provide the functionality and performance as indicated below:

Essential cookies

These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our Website and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas.

  • crumb: Helps Squarespace manage CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery) protection.

  • JSESSIONID: Used for secure login to the Squarespace CMS.

  • ss_cid: Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor's sessions on a site.

  • ss_cvr: Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor's sessions on a site.

  • ss_cvisit: Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor's sessions on a site.

  • ss_cpvisit: Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor's sessions on a site.

  • ss_cvt: Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor's sessions on a site.

Analytics cookies

These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our Website is being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customize our Website for you.

  • __utma: Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users and sessions.

  • __utmb: Used by Google Analytics to determine new sessions/visits.

  • __utmc: Used by Google Analytics to determine whether the user is in a new session/visit.

  • __utmt: Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate.

  • __utmz: Used by Google Analytics to store the traffic source or campaign.

  • __hstc, __hssc, __hssrc: HubSpot analytics cookies for tracking visitors.

Functionality cookies

These cookies allow our Website to remember choices you make when you use our Website, such as remembering your language preferences or login details. The purpose of these cookies is to provide you with a more personal experience and to avoid you having to re-enter your preferences every time you visit our Website.

  • language_preference: Remembers the user's language preference.

  • squarespace-popup-overlay: Prevents a user from seeing a specific pop-up more than once.

  • squarespace-announcement-bar: Prevents a user from seeing an announcement more than once.

Advertising/targeting cookies

These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you. They perform functions like preventing the same ad from continuously reappearing, ensuring that ads are properly displayed for advertisers, and in some cases selecting advertisements that are based on your interests.

  • __qca: Used by QuantCast for collecting anonymous traffic data.

  • _fbp: Used by Facebook to deliver advertisements.

  • _ga, _gid: Used by Google Analytics for user tracking.

How can you control cookies?

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie rights by setting your preferences in the Cookie Consent Manager that we make available on our Website.

You can also set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our website though your access to some functionality and areas of our website may be restricted. As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser to browser, you should visit your browser's help menu for more information.

How often will we update this Cookie Policy?

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please therefore revisit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.

The date at the top of this Cookie Policy indicates when it was last updated.

Contact

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions about our use of cookies: daan@northbound.be