Cookie policy

Interfood feels responsible to protect the personal data of our business partners and to safeguard your privacy. We believe in the importance of keeping our services transparent, personal and reliable. To inform you about the way we collect, use and protect your information and how we use cookies we have this created this statement.

This Cookie Policy was last updated on 25 May 2022.

1. When does this Cookie Policy apply?

When you use our website, we collect technical information about your device and your interaction with our website. This information is collected by using cookies and other techniques that allow us to connect your surfing behaviour to the unique technical characteristics of your device and browser (settings).

This Cookie Policy applies to the collection and use of the data produced by cookies and similar techniques (hereafter “cookies”) through our website that has published this statement or whenever referred to this statement on www.Interfood.com. These similar techniques may include third party pixels (snippets of a website code that enable us and the pixel supplier to track your interaction) and device finger printing (a technique that collects your browser and operating system characteristics to identify you).

2. What are cookies?

Cookies are small data files that your browser places on your computer or your mobile device. Cookies help your browser navigate our websites. There are several types of cookies, varying from cookies that remember your language preferences to advertising cookies. We refer to the ‘why do we use cookies’ section below. Cookies themselves cannot collect any information stored on your computer.

3. What data is collected by cookies?

We collect information such as:

A. The IP address of your device

B. Information on the operating system and browser of your device

C. Your interaction with our websites and online advertisements

Find out more about how we’re using your information in section 3.4 of our Privacy Statement.

4. Why do we use cookies?

We are using cookies for a variety of purposes:

A. Strictly necessary cookies: these cookies are essential to the functioning of our website.

B. Functionality cookies: these cookies remember your preferences, such as region, language, username or allow you to rate pages and fill in comment forms.

C. Performance cookies: these cookies capture website and app usage information, cursor movement and keystrokes on an abstract level. They are used to provide analytics and metrics such as the number of visitors and which pages are most frequently accessed. These cookies include for instance Google Analytics and Hotjar and are used to improve our websites by learning how you interact with them.

D. Targeting or Advertising cookies: these cookies are used to collect information about browser habits and can be used to customize advertising, marketing and our websites look and feel. These cookies are – most of the time – third party cookies (see 5 below).

E. Social Media cookies: these cookies are set by social media services that we have added to the website to enable you to share our content with your friends. They are capable of tracking your browser across other websites and building up a profile of your interests.

The cookies we use are not the same for all our websites. In the cookie settings on the website you visit, you can view the cookies set per category. The cookie settings can be accessed through the pop-up (at your first visit of the website or after deleting cookies manually in your browser) or at the bottom of the page.

5. Do we use third party cookies?

Some of our websites use third parties cookies, such as for example LinkedIn.

We cooperate with these third parties to display advertisements of our products to you. These third parties may be able to monitor your use of the Interfood website. If you, for example have accepted the advertising cookies, some of your personal information will also be shared with the advertiser network. If you, for example, click on a social media button (e.g. ‘Share this’ or, ‘Like’) some of your personal data will also be visible for social media providers and to visitors of your personal social media page.

We will ask your permission before using these third party cookies, but the further use of the data by the (social) media provider, such as for example LinkedIn, is covered by the conditions (including the privacy statement) of that (social) media platform.

We also feature product videos on our website that are hosted on YouTube, Vimeo or similar platforms. Although the videos are made by us and displayed on our sites, the content actually comes from YouTube, which is a third-party domain; therefore you may receive a YouTube cookie.

6. How do you accept, reject and delete cookies?

There are several ways to exclude or minimalize the use cookies on your device.

A. If required by law, we will ask your consent before using cookies. You will see a pop-up on our website. It is up to you to accept or decline.

B. You can use our cookie management tool on our the websites to changes your preferences and disable functionality, performance, targeting & advertising and social media cookies.

C. You can also choose to reject or block the cookies set by Interfood or the websites of any third party suppliers by changing your browser settings. More information may be found in the help function of your browser.

D. You can opt-out from our Google Analytics cookies by installing this Add-on by Google in your browser: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=nl

E. You can opt-out from personalized online advertisements served by several companies, including those whose third party cookies we use, by visiting www.youronlinechoices.com.

Note, however, that if you reject the use of cookies some of the functions of our websites may not work correctly.

7. Contact

If you have any questions regarding this Cookie Policy or the cookies being used by our websites, please let us know. You can contact us by completing the contact form on the website, www.interfood.com/en/contact-us. Find out more about how we use your personal data in our Privacy Statement.