Franx uses cookies and similar techniques to improve our website, to integrate with social media and to show you relevant ads based on your interests.
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on your computer, tablet or mobile phone when you use our website. A cookie has a unique number to which personal data can be linked. There are a few types of cookies: functional cookies, analytical cookies, social media cookies and cookies for advertisements and relevant offers.
Functional cookies
Functional cookies ensure that our website works properly. For example, you do not have to enter your login details every time. We also use functional cookies to detect abuse of our website and services, for example by registering a number of consecutive failed log-in attempts. We are not obliged to ask permission for the placing of functional cookies.
Analytical cookies
With analytical cookies we measure visits to our website. This allows us to determine which pages of our website are most interesting for our visitors and to optimize the website. We do this with cookies from Google Analytics. IP addresses are processed for our functional and analytical cookies. The statistics and reports resulting from this cannot be traced back to persons. Therfore, we do not need to ask you for permission for analytical cookies.
Social media cookies
When you visit our website, you can share certain articles with the help of social media buttons. To ensure that these buttons work, we use cookies from the social media parties below. We have to ask your permission to use these cookies. With the cookies these parties can recognize you when you want to share something from our site.
We refer to the cookie statement of the social media parties, which can be found on their website, regarding the data they collect. Note that these statements can change regularly. The website of Franx has no influence on this. We are active on the following social media: Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn and Twitter.
Cookies for advertisements and relevant offers
There are also cookies that come from other parties which allow us to show you offers and information that may be of interest to you. With your permission we would like to show you offers on our websites and on third parties websites. Therefore we try to assess what interests you and what does not. Based on the pages you visit on our website, you will see different information than other visitors. With this we make our websites more relevant for you.
To show relevant offers we use 'DoubleClick by Google', Google Analytics and Google AdWords. We display these offers on websites of third parties and within the services of Google.
Necessary cookies
Cookie: _cfduid
Provider: pingdom.net
Expiry: 1 year
Description: This cookie is set by the CloudFlare service to identify trusted web traffic. It does not correspond to any user id in the web application, nor does the cookie store any personally identifiable information.
Cookie: language
Provider: franx.com
Expiry: 29 days
Description: Remember the user-selected language version of a website.
Cookie: PHPSESSID
Provider: franx.com
Expiry: Session
Description: Maintain user session status for all page requests.
Preference cookies
Cookie: lang
Provider: ads.linkedin.com
Expiry: Session
Description: Remember the user-selected language version of a website.
Analytical cookies
Cookie: _ga
Provider: Google Analytics
Expiry: 2 year
Description: Used to distinguish users.
Cookie: _gat
Provider: Google Analytics
Expiry: 10 minutes
Description: Used to regulate requests to the Google Analytics Platform.
Cookie: _gid
Provider: Google Analytics
Expiry: 24 hours
Description: Used to distinguish users.
Advertisement cookies
Cookie: bcookie
Provider: LinkedIn
Expiry: 2 year
Description: Browser-ID-cookie of Linkedin. Used by the 'share this content' buttons of Linkedin on our site.
Cookie: bscookie
Provider: LinkedIn
Expiry: 2 year
Description: Used by the social network service LinkedIn, for monitoring the use of embedded services.
Cookie: collect
Provider: Google Analytics
Expiry: Session
Description: Used to send data to Google Analytics about the device and the behavior of the visitor.
Cookie: fr
Provider: Facebook
Expiry: 3 months
Description: Used by Facebook to deliver a range of advertising products, such as real-time bidding from external advertisers.
Cookie: i
Provider: OpenX
Expiry: 1 year
Description: OpenX cookies collect information to improve the effectiveness of advertisements.
Cookie: IDE
Provider: doubleclick.net
Expiry: 2 year
Description: Used by Google DoubleClick to record and report the website user's actions after viewing or clicking on any of the advertiser's ads for the purpose of measuring the effectiveness of an ad and presenting targeted advertisements to the user.
Cookie: khaos
Provider: rubiconproject.com
Expiry: 1 year
Description: Registers user data, such as IP address, geographic location, visited websites and which ads the user clicked, with the goal of optimizing the display of advertisements based on the user's movement on websites using the same ad network.
Cookie: KRTBCOOKIE_#
Provider: pubmatic.com
Expiry: 3 months
Description: Registers a unique ID that identifies the user's device during recurring visits on websites using the same ad network. The ID is used to allow targeted advertisements.
Cookie: lidc
Provider: LinkedIn
Expiry: Session
Description: Used by the social network service LinkedIn, for monitoring the use of embedded services.
Cookie: PUBMDCID
Provider: pubmatic.com
Expiry: 3 months
Description: Registers a unique ID that identifies the user's device during recurring visits on websites using the same ad network. The ID is used to allow targeted advertisements.
Cookie: put_#
Provider: rubiconproject.com
Expiry: 29 days
Description: Registers user data, such as IP address, geographic location, visited websites and which ads the user clicked, with the goal of optimizing the display of advertisements based on the user's movement on websites using the same ad network.
Cookie: r/collect
Provider: doubleclick.net
Expiry: Session
Description: Used to send data to Google Analytics about the device and the behavior of the visitor. Traces the visitor on different devices and marketing channels.
Cookie: rpb
Provider: rubiconproject.com
Expiry: 29 days
Description: Registers user data, such as IP address, geographic location, visited websites and which ads the user clicked, with the goal of optimizing the display of advertisements based on the user's movement on websites using the same ad network.
Cookie: test_cookie
Provider: doubleclick.net
Expiry: Session
Description: Used to check if the user's browser supports cookies.
Can you block cookies?
You don’t want that Franx places cookies on your computer? Through the privacy settings of your browser you can block cookies from specific websites, or all cookies from all the websites you visit.
Below you can find per browser how you can block the cookies:
- Cookie settings Chrome
- Cookie settings Firefox
- Cookie settings Internet Explorer
- Cookie settings Safari
Please note: if you block cookies, you cannot always use all the features of a website and it may be that no interesting advertisements are placed. In addition, blocking cookies only affects the computer and browser on which you perform this operation.