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Silicones Europe is committed to protecting privacy of personal data. Our Privacy Centre provides information on how we collect, store and process personal data and allows visitors to exercise their rights in line with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Find out more on how we collect and process personal data

About Cookies

What are cookies?

Cookies are small data files sent by a website’s server to a web browser, processor memory or hard drive and stored there. They can be used for a range of different purposes, such as customising a website for a particular user, helping a user navigate a website, improving that user’s website experience, and storing that user’s preferences and login information.

Essential and non-essential cookies

Cookies can be classified as either ‘essential’ or ‘non-essential’.

Essential cookies: these are cookies that are either:

  • used solely to carry out or facilitate the
    transmission of communications over a
    network; or
  • strictly necessary to provide an online service (e.g. our
    website or a service on our website) which you have
    requested.

Non-essential cookies: these are any cookies that do not fall within the definition of essential cookies, such as cookies used to analyse your behaviour on a website (‘analytical’ cookies) or cookies used to display advertisements to you (‘advertising’ cookies).

Session and persistent cookies

Cookies are small data files sent by a website’s server to a web browser, processor memory or hard drive and stored there. They can be used for a range of different purposes, such as customising a website for a particular user, helping a user navigate a website, improving that user’s website experience, and storing that user’s preferences and login information.

First and third party cookies

Cookies are small data files sent by a website’s server to a web browser, processor memory or hard drive and stored there. They can be used for a range of different purposes, such as customising a website for a particular user, helping a user navigate a website, improving that user’s website experience, and storing that user’s preferences and login information.

Cookie Purpose
ESSENTIAL COOKIES (STRICTLY NECESSARY) Used solely to carry out or facilitate the transmission of communications over a network; or strictly necessary to provide an online service (e.g. our website or a service on our website) which you have requested.
PREFERENCE & FUNCTIONALITY COOKIES These cookies collect information about your choices and preferences and make using the website more practical. They are non-essential to their use. However, without these cookies, certain functionality may become unavailable.
ANALYTICS & CUSTOMIZATION COOKIES These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our websites are being used to help us improve our websites and application for you in order to enhance your experience.
ADVERTSING (TARGETING) COOKIES These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you and your interests. They also perform functions like preventing the same ad from continuously reappearing, ensuring that ads are properly displayed, and in some cases selecting advertisements that are based on your interests.
List of Cookies Used
Name of Cookie Essential or Non-essential? Type of cookie First or Third party? Session or Persistent? Expiry Time Purpose
CMSSESSID Essential Essential First Session Session Content Management System Cookie
COOKIECHEKED Non Essential Non Essential First Persistent Never Whether cookie policy is accepted or not
NID Non Essential Non Essential Third Persistent Month Remembering Google user preferences
SID, SAPISID, APISID, SSID, SIDCC, HSID, PRE Non Essential Non Essential Third Persistent Most of the cookies expire 10 years after your last visit to a page containing a Google Map. Google set a number of cookies on any page that includes a Google Map. While we have no control over the cookies set by Google, they appear to include a mixture of pieces of information to measure the number and behaviour of Google Maps users.
1P_JAR Non Essential Advertising Third Persistent 1 month Google advertising cookie used for user tracking and ad targeting purposes
_GATS Non Essential Advertising Third Persistent 2 years This cookie is associated with the DoubleClick for Publishers service from Google. Its purpose is to do with the showing of adverts on the site, for which the owner may earn some revenue

Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy sets out how we,  Silicones Europe, collect, store and use information about you when you use or interact with our website, www.silicones.eu (our website) and where we otherwise obtain or collect information about you. This Privacy Policy is effective from 25 May 2018.

Silicones Europe processes the personal data transmitted to it in accordance with the legislation in force, and, in particular, Regulation 2016/679 of 27 April 2016 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and the free movement of such data, applicable from 25 May 2018

Access to the website www.silicones.eu implies the User’s full and unreserved acceptance of this Privacy Policy, as well as its general terms of use and the cookie policy.

Summary

This section summarises how we obtain, store and use information about you. It is intended to provide a very general overview only. It is not complete in and of itself and it must be read in conjunction with the corresponding full sections of this Privacy Policy.

  • Data controller: Silicones Europe

How we collect or obtain information about you:

  • when you provide it to us by contacting us via e-mail or signing up for our newsletter
  • from your use of our website, using cookies

Terms of Use

These Terms of Use, and any documents referred to herein, set out the terms and conditions on which you are permitted to use our website, www.silicones.eu (our website). By using our website, you agree to be bound by, and to comply with, these Terms of Use.

These Terms of Use are effective from 25 May 2018.

Please read these Terms of Use carefully. We recommend that you print off a copy of these Terms of Use for your records, as well as any future versions of them, as we may update them from time to time.

If for any reason whatsoever you do not agree to these Terms of Use or do not wish to be bound by them, you must not access or use our website.

Our details

1. Silicones Europe (we, our and us) operates the website.
  • Silicones Europe,  is a non-profit organisation representing all major producers of silicones in Europe. Silicones Europe is a sector group of the European Chemical Industry Council (Cefic), which is both the forum and voice of the European chemical industry.
  • Our address is :
    Silicones Europe Secretary General Cefic
    Rue Belliard 40,
    1040 Brussels, Belgium
    Our Tel +32 2 436 9455
    Cefic is a non-profit organisation registered in Belgium with VAT BE 0412 849 915

Our e-mail address is silicones@cefic.be

Your rights

The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) grants you specific rights to find out more on the personal data we have, to be deleted from our databases, to correct data and to limit the processing of your personal data.

Important

For all requests, please include your full name and e-mail address which will help us in their handling.

If you have a complaint about our use of your information, you can contact the Belgian Privacy Commission.

Belgian Privacy Commission Drukpersstraat 35, 1000 Brussels Tel +32 (0)2 274 48 00
commission@privacycommission.be

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