Cookie Policy

Last updated: July 26, 2024

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files stored on your device (computer, tablet, or mobile) when you are on the internet, including on the soundlgbij website. They are not harmful and do not contain any confidential information such as your home address, date of birth, or credit card details. Cookies are an essential part of how our site works. Some of these cookies are required by our site to enable you to transact, whilst others enable us to give you an enhanced, personalized web experience.

2. Types of Cookies We Use

We use the following categories of cookies on our website:

  • Essential Cookies: These are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website or make use of e-billing services.
  • Analytical/Performance Cookies: They allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works.
  • Functionality Cookies: These are used to recognize you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalize our content for you and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language).
  • Marketing Cookies: These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited, and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests.

3. Cookie Table

Below is a list of the main cookies we use, and what we use them for.

Cookie Name Type Purpose
cookieConsent Essential Stores the user's cookie consent state for the current domain.
session_id Essential Maintains user state across page requests (e.g., keeping you logged in).
_ga, _gid Analytical Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users and track site usage.
_fbp Marketing Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real-time bidding from third party advertisers.
lang Functionality Remembers the user's selected language version of a website.

4. How to Manage Cookies

Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org. Please note, however, that if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site. Our cookie consent banner provides you with options to accept or decline different categories of cookies.

5. Third-Party Cookies

Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies. We use services like Google Analytics, which sets its own cookies to help us analyze how our site is used.

6. Policy Updates

We may update this policy from time to time to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please therefore re-visit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies. The date at the top of this policy indicates when it was last updated.