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Cookie policy
Last updated: September 2026
CloudKnife (as defined below) uses cookies to improve your browsing experience on its “Website” (i.e. www.CloudKnife.com). Therefore, this policy will provide you with the necessary information about the use of these cookies by CloudKnife (“Cookie Policy”). Please read this Cookie Policy attentively and together with our Privacy Policy.
1. Website owner
This Website is owned and managed by CloudKnife, a limited liability company with registered office at Huttestraat 16, 9052 Gent, Belgium, and with enterprise number 1036.821.023 (“CloudKnife” or “we | us”).
2. About cookies
2.1 What are cookies?
Cookies, also known as “HTTP cookies” or “web cookies”, are small text files that are sent to and stored on your computer or mobile device through your browser when you visit a website, resp. use a mobile application. When you access the same website later on, the data stored in that cookie can be retrieved by the website in order to notify the website of the last activity.
Cookies were designed as a reliable mechanism for websites to remember the status of the website or the previous activity of a certain user. They help us to optimize your visit to and use of the Website, to remember technical choices (e.g. choice of language, newsletter, etc.) and to offer more relevant services and offers.
If you wish to use the Website to its full potential, CloudKnife encourages you to enable all cookies (See Section 4 on how to enable/disable cookies).
2.2 Types of cookies
There are different types of cookies, based on their (i) duration, (ii) provenance or (iii) processing purpose:
Based on duration
- Session cookies These cookies allow user’s actions to be simplified and linked to each other during a browser session. A browser session starts when a user opens the browser screen and ends when the user closes the browser screen. Session cookies are placed temporarily. As soon as you close the browser, all session cookies are deleted. Most functional cookies are session cookies;
- Persistent cookies These cookies remain on your hard drive until you erase them or your browser does, depending on the cookie’s expiration date.
Based on provenance
- First-party cookies These cookies are placed by the owner of the visited website;
- Third-party cookies These cookies are placed by a domain name other than the one of the website visited by the user. If a user visits a website and a third-party places a cookie through that website, then this is to be considered a third-party cookie (e.g. cookies placed by Google, Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook).
Based on processing purpose
- Strictly necessary cookies These cookies are essential for you to browse a website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the site. These cookies will generally be first-party session cookies;
- Functional cookies (or “experience cookies”) These cookies allow a website to remember choices you have made in the past, like what language you prefer, or what your user name and password are so you can automatically log in;
- Analytical cookies (or “measurement cookies”) These cookies collect information about how you use a website, like which pages you visited and which links you clicked on. None of this information can be used to identify you. It is all aggregated and, therefore, anonymized. Their sole purpose is to improve website functions. This includes cookies from third-party analytics services as long as the cookies are for the exclusive use of the owner of the website visited;
- Targeting cookies (or “tracking/marketing cookies”) These cookies track your online activity to help advertisers deliver more relevant advertising or to limit how many times you see an ad. These cookies can share that information with other organizations or advertisers. These are persistent cookies and almost always of third-party provenance.
3. Overview of the cookies CloudKnife uses on the website
Strictly necessary cookies
| Name | Provider | Description | Retention |
|---|---|---|---|
| cf_clearance | Cloudflare | Identify and mitigate automated traffic to protect the website from bots. | 1 year |
| cookieyes-consent | CookieYes | Stores your cookie preferences so the cookie banner does not ask again and your choices are respected. | 1 year |
Functional cookies
| Name | Provider | Description | Retention |
|---|---|---|---|
| None in use. |
Analytical cookies
| Name | Provider | Description | Retention |
|---|---|---|---|
| ph_ |
PostHog (EU Cloud) | Stores an anonymous identifier and session information to measure how visitors use the Website. Only set after you accept analytical cookies. | 1 year |
Targeting cookies
| Name | Provider | Description | Retention |
|---|---|---|---|
| None in use. |
4. Managing and disabling cookies
4.1 Your cookie preferences
When you visit our Website for the first time, you will be prompted via our cookie banner to indicate whether you agree to enable non-strictly necessary cookies. You have the possibility to access this Cookie Policy before doing so.
You can update your cookie preferences at all time via our cookie banner, which you can access at the bottom of our Website.
Please keep in mind that limiting or blocking the use of cookies may negatively impact your experience with respect to our Website.
Cookie preferences
4.2 Via browser settings
You can also modify your browser settings to decline certain cookies and/or to delete cookies that are already installed on your computer or mobile device. There are several possibilities to avoid the storage of cookies. Please visit the websites of the different browsers to learn how you can block the storage of cookies. Here you can find such websites regarding the most common browsers:
- Chrome: Clear, enable and manage cookies in Chrome - Android - Google Chrome Help (opens in a new tab)
- Safari: Manage cookies and website data in Safari on Mac - Apple Support (opens in a new tab)
- Firefox: How to clear the Firefox cache | Firefox Help (mozilla.org) (opens in a new tab)
- Microsoft Edge: Delete cookies in Microsoft Edge (opens in a new tab)
Please realize that when you decide to delete all your cookies, you probably will have to fill in your usernames and passwords again on the websites you visit, where before the cookies stored your passwords for you. As already mentioned, cookies have benefits to your surfing experience on the web.
4.3 More information?
If you want to know more about cookies, please visit the site (https://www.cookiesandyou.com (opens in a new tab)). This website provides more information on cookies, explains in detail how to delete cookies and shows you how you can allow familiar websites to store cookies on your device.
5. Updates
CloudKnife may alter, amend or update this Cookie Policy when deemed necessary to accommodate the use of new/different cookies, changes in technology, industry practice and legal or regulatory development, etc. When posting a new version on the Website, CloudKnife will indicate the revision date at the beginning of this Cookie Policy.
Once a new cookie policy is implemented, your consent regarding the use of cookies (with the exception of strictly necessary cookies) will be requested again in our cookie banner.
6. Complaints
Note that you also have the right to lodge a complaint with the authorized supervisory authority (either the Belgian Data Protection Authority or the data protection authority of (i) your residence or (ii) your workplace) should you consider that the processing of your Personal Data infringes the Privacy Legislation. You can send an email to the Belgian Data Protection Authority at contact@apd-gba.be or any other email address provided by the Belgian Data Protection Authority (opens in a new tab).
7. Questions?
If you have any further questions about this Cookie Policy or its implementation, you may always contact privacy@cloudknife.com.