Cookie notice

Protecting your personal data is very important to us, the Recticel Group. We are fully committed to respecting any and all laws and regulations on the protection of personal data, such as - without being limited to - the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

We would like to use this Cookie Notice to explain to you what cookies and social media buttons we use on the Recticel Insulation Boards websites, and how such cookies and social media buttons may collect personal data from you.

  1. Who are we?

We are Recticel Group, a corporate group with headquarters in Belgium. The mother company of the Recticel Group is Recticel NV, a company incorporated under Belgian law, with registered offices at Bourgetlaan 42, 1130 Brussels, Belgium and registered in the Belgian Crossroads Bank for Enterprises under the number 0405.666.668.

You can contact Recticel Group for all general issues or questions relating to cookies or the processing of your personal data by using the contact details below:

Email: data.protection@recticel.com

Telephone: +32 2 775 18 11 (Legal Counsel)

More in particular, when visiting a Recticel Insulation Boards website, the subsidiary of the Recticel Group that is the publisher of the website you are visiting, is responsible for deciding why and how cookies are used on the website. You can contact such specific subsidiary by using the contact details mentioned in the “Legal Notices” section on the website or by sending an email to privacy.insulation@recticel.com.

  1. What is a cookie?

In general, a cookie is a small text and number file that our website can send to and store in your web browser, on your mobile device and/or on the hard drive of your computer during your visit to our website. Cookies help us, for example, to remember your language preferences when using our website, so that we can immediately set these preferences as default when you revisit our website.

There are different types of cookies:

  • Essential or strictly necessary cookies are necessary to be able to use our website. They ensure, for example, that a certain connection can be established. These cookies can be used on our website without your prior consent.

  • Functional cookies are cookies that enable our website to offer you certain functions that you have requested. They contain information about your choices and preferences on our website (e.g. cookies for remembering log-in or registration details or your language preference). These cookies can also be used on our website without your prior consent.

  • Non-functional cookies are cookies that can be placed for statistical, social, targeting and commercial purposes. They have nothing to do with the purely technical support of our website. These cookies can only be used on our website with your prior consent.

In some cases, but certainly not always, cookies also collect certain personal data, such as the identification number of your computer.

  1. Information about the cookies used on our website

Our website uses the following essential and/or functional cookies.

These essential and/or functional cookies do not allow the systematic gathering of personal data that could allow the identification of the users of our website. They only help to ensure and improve the functioning of the website.

In addition, our website also uses the following non-functional cookies if you have given your consent to do so via our website’s cookie banner. You can withdraw this consent at any time by deleting the cookies stored in your browser (see below).

Where any of the abovementioned cookies would also collect personal data from you, Recticel Group will use these personal data only in accordance with the principles mentioned in its dedicated Privacy Notice for website and social media visitors, which you can find in the “Privacy Notices” section on the website.

Our website also contains certain social media buttons that allow visitors to directly navigate to our social media profiles (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube). If you click on these social media buttons, it is possible that the social network in question places a so-called third-party cookie in order to retrieve your identity on the respective social network or to determine your preferences. More information about which cookies are used by these social networks can be found in the privacy and cookie notices of these social networks. Therefore, please always read the privacy and cookie statements of these social networks carefully. Recticel Group cannot influence the content of these cookie statements or the content of the cookies of these third parties.

  1. Accepting and managing cookies

A cookie banner will appear on your first visit to our website. This cookie banner informs you about the cookies used on our website and also asks you your consent to use non-functional cookies on our website. You are free to agree to this or not.

If you do not want websites to place cookies on your computer or if you want to delete your cookies, you can change the cookie settings in your web browser. These settings can usually be found in the ‘Options’ or ‘Preferences’ menu of your web browser. You can also adjust your settings so that your browser refuses all cookies or only cookies from third parties.

You can always also consult the ‘Help’ function in your web browser for more details.

  1. What law is applicable to this Cookie Notice?

Any dispute in relation to this Cookie Notice must be interpreted in accordance with Belgian law.

  1. Amendments

We may change, complete or supplement this Cookie Notice from time to time without prior notice. The new version will apply as from its publication date. We therefore invite you to always consult the latest version of this Cookie Notice in the “Cookie Notice” section on the website.