Cookie Policy

This cookie policy (the “Cookie Policy”) describes how your personal information is collected, processed, used and shared by Confo Therapeutics NV (“we”, “us”, “our” or “Confo Therapeutics”) when you visit https://www.confotherapeutics.com/ (the “Website”).

Confo Therapeutics strives to process your personal data in accordance with applicable personal data protection legislation, including the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) and the Act of 30 July 2018 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data.

1. What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files stored on a user’s device connected to the internet, such as a computer, phone, tablet or smart TV. Cookies can be used to collect or store information about how the user behaves on a website and/or on their device. The “reading” of these cookies allows the websites that placed them to retrieve the information stored in them, information that may be returned to our servers or to the servers of the relevant third parties during a subsequent visit.

2. Why Confo Therapeutics uses cookies

Every time you visit the Website, you will be prompted to decide on the use of cookies (“Accept” / “Deny”).  The pop up asking for acceptance of cookies also provides a link to this Cookie Policy for more information.

2.1 Technical or functional cookies

Some cookies ensure that certain parts of the Website work properly and that your user preferences remain known. By placing functional cookies, we make it easier for you to visit our Website. This way, you do not need to repeatedly enter the same information when visiting our Website.
As described under 3.2 below, we may place these cookies without your consent.

2.2 Statistics cookies

We use statistics cookies to optimize the Website experience for our users. With these statistics cookies we get insights in the usage of our Website.

As described under 3.1 below, we need your permission to place statistics cookies.

2.3 Marketing/Tracking cookies

Marketing/Tracking cookies are cookies or any other form of local storage, used to create user profiles to display advertising or to track the user on this Website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.

As described under 3.1 below, we need your permission to place marketing/tracking cookies.

2.4 Social media

On our Website, we have included content from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram to share (e.g. “tweet”) on social networks like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram. This content is embedded with code derived from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram and places cookies. This content might store and process certain information for personalized advertising.

Please read the privacy statement of these social networks (which can change regularly) to read what they do with your (personal) data which they process using these cookies. The data that is retrieved is anonymized as much as possible. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram are located in the United States.

As described under 3.1 below, we need your permission to place these social media related cookies.

3. Placed cookies & legal basis

3.1 Consent (Art. 6.1(a) GDPR)

Statistics cookies, marketing/tracking cookies and social media related cookies can only be placed with your explicit consent.

When you click on “Agree” in the pop-up cookie banner or tick the boxes under 3.3 in this Cookie Policy, you consent to us using the selected categories of cookies and plug-ins.

3.2 Legitimate interests (Art. 6.1(f) GDPR)

Functional cookies are placed in order for our Website to function. For this reason, they do not require your consent.

3.3 Manage your consent settings

When you visit our Website for the first time, we will show you a pop-up with an explanation about cookies. Afterwards, your consent settings for statistics and marketing cookies, can be changed by (de)selecting the relevant boxes below:

4. Cookies installed on your device: enabling/disabling and deleting cookies

You can use your internet browser to automatically or manually delete cookies. You can also specify that certain cookies may not be placed. Another option is to change the settings of your internet browser so that you receive a message each time a cookie is placed. For more information about these options, please refer to the instructions in the Help section of your browser, which can be found in the links below:

• Firefox
• Firefox – mobile (Android)
• Chrome
• Safari (Mac)
• Safari – mobile (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch)
• Microsoft Edge

Please note that our Website may not work properly if all cookies are disabled. If you do delete the cookies in your browser, they will be placed again after your consent when you visit our website again.

5. External links

Apart from the social media icons referred to above, links to third-party websites are provided on our Website: the Open Positions page contains a link to job openings (“Apply now”) that reroutes the user to the Recruitee website. On the bottom of our Website, the LinkedIn icon appears, rerouting to the LinkedIn website. The same goes for the link to Marsmedia (“Webdesign” and “Mars”).

By clicking on these, you will leave our Website and enter the aforementioned websites. The activation of these links is the responsibility of you as the user. Confo Therapeutics recommends consulting both the privacy statement and the cookie policy of these websites.

6. Your rights with respect to personal data

Under the General Data Protection Regulation, you are granted a number of rights in relation to your personal data. The exercise of these rights is subject to certain conditions by the GDPR and can be found in the relevant articles as referred below.

Where in receiving your complaint or questions, we have reasonable doubts about your identity, we may ask you for additional proof of your identity.

• The right to withdraw your consent at any time (art. 7 GDPR);
• The right to access and your personal data (art. 15 GDPR) and to have it rectified (art. 16 GDPR);
• The right to data erasure, the right to be forgotten (art. 17 GDPR) and the right to restriction of processing (art. 18 GDPR);
• The right to data portability (art. 20 GDPR);
• The right to object to the processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes and the general right to object based on circumstances specific to your particular situation (art. 21 GDPR);
• The right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority (art. 77 GDPR).

In Belgium, this supervisory authority is the Gegevensbeschermingsautoriteit (for more information: https://www.gegevensbeschermingsautoriteit.be/burger/acties/klacht-indienen (Dutch version)).

Before filing a complaint, we encourage you to contact us to find a quick solution to your complaint.

7. Contact us

For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail at [email protected] or by mail using the details provided below:

Confo Therapeutics NV
Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 30
9052 Zwijnaarde
Belgium

8. Changes

We may update our Privacy Statement, including this Cookie Policy, from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.

Version history:

• 9 June 2020 – version 1
• 24 February 2025 – last update