1. General information about cookies
The website https://www.thehotel-brussels.be/is managed by The Hotel Brussels.
Boulevard de Waterloo 38, 1000 Brussels, Belgium (hereinafter — “Controller”), which you can contact for any information or with any request in regard to the use of cookies on this website by writing to privacypandox@cranium.eu.
A cookie is a small text file which the website you are visiting asks to save on your device. When the visitor subsequently visits the website, it can also be retrieved from the visitor’s device – this may be a computer, mobile telephone, or tablet. The cookie is saved in connection with the files which are used by the internet browser.
With your consent, the website may also use technologies similar to cookies and, in particular, third-party” pixel-tags” that allow you to keep track of your navigation on the website (or in a part of the website) in which the pixel-tag is located, in order to show you, in the context of surfing the net, advertising in line with the interaction made with the website.
The activation of pixel tags is subject to your prior consent to the use of non-essential cookies linked to them.
In section 2.2 below, you will find a summary of cookies and similar technologies together with a specification of their purpose and storage time.
2. Cookies on the website
2.1 General information about cookies on the website.
We may use different kind of cookies on our website:
Essential or strictly necessary cookies allow users to navigate through the website and use its essential functions. These cookies enable a service or functionality expressly requested by the user to be provided. These cookies may be placed without your consent. We also recommend that you do not disable these cookies as they may cause to lose basic website functionality or access to certain parts of the website.
Functional cookies help us to provide you a website that is user-friendly. These cookies allow us to remember your browser settings, so you can view our website optimally.
Analytical cookies are used to optimize our website’s experience. It collects information on your behaviour on our website. For example, on which page of our website you are on, for how long you visit that page, etc.
Advertisement cookies are used to show relevant advertisements for our services/products on other websites. We ask our visitors for their explicit consent for these types of cookies. By placing tracking cookies, your personal data is processed.
Preference cookies allow our website to remember information that affects the functioning or appearance of the website, such as your preferred language or the region where you live.
Performance cookies enable us to monitor and improve the performance of our website. For example, they allow us to count visits, identify traffic sources and see which parts of the site are most popular.
2.2 Summary of cookies, purposes and storage time
Below is a comprehensive list of cookies and similar technologies used on our website.
Necessary cookies
| Cookie key | Domain | Cookie type | Expiration | Description |
Preference cookies
| Cookie key | Domain | Cookie type | Expiration | Description |
| PREF/NID | https://www.thehotel-brussels.be/ | _ga | 2 years | Google Analytics: used to distinguish one visitor from another so that certain services can be tailored to them (e.g. website language) |
Please note that you can withdraw your consent to the use of non-essential cookies at any time.
3. Rejection of cookies
You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to disable all cookies if you don’t want to receive cookies that are not strictly necessary to perform basic features of our site. Each browser is different, so check the “Help” menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences. If you disable cookies, some of the features that make your site more efficient, may not function properly. Cookies can be disabled at any time, even if you have previously accepted them.
4. Transfers of data to third countries
As a main rule, we will not transfer any personal data outside the EEA. It is possible that service providers of The Hotel Brussels process your data outside the EEA. In this respect, The Hotel Brussels is committed to ensuring an adequate and sufficient level of protection for your data (e.g. by concluding the international data transfer agreement) or by any other appropriate safeguards in line with Chapter V of the GDPR.
The controller shall meet its obligations under the applicable data protection law with respect to data transfers, including carrying out a due diligence on the level of protection of the laws of all third countries to which personal data are transferred and conducting a data transfer impact assessment to determine whether additional measures should be taken to ensure a level of data processing as required by Belgian law.
If you have any questions about the transfer of your personal data outside the EEA or if you want to obtain a copy of the relevant documents, you can send a request to privacypandox@cranium.eu.
5. Categories of recipients
Your information will be transferred to subcontractors and others who, on behalf of Controller, perform services in connection with the fulfillment of the purposes of the processing of cookies. When placing third-party cookies, data may be processed by Controller partners who may process the data for their own purposes.
6. Your rights as a data subject
As data subject, you have the right to:
• have confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning you are being processed and, if so, to obtain access to the data and related information (right of access);
• obtain the rectification of your personal data, i.e. to obtain the correction, modification or updating of any inaccurate or no longer correct data, as well as to obtain the integration of incomplete personal data, including by providing a supplementary statement (right of rectification);
• request the erasure of your personal data (right to be forgotten);
• obtain a restriction on the processing of your personal data, i.e. that Controller retains such data without being able to use them (right to restriction);
• obtain from Controller your personal data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, and that they are transferred, where technically possible, directly to a third party indicated by you (right to portability);
• withdraw your consent at any time, if previously given for the processing of your personal data, without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal (withdrawal of consent);
• object at any time to the processing of your personal data, in particular, for marketing purposes including profiling.
To exercise these rights, you may contact Controller at any time, by writing to privacypandox@cranium.eu.
7. Complaint
If You believe that your personal data has been processed unlawfully, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the data protection authority. For more information, please consult the website of the authority: https://www.dataprotectionauthority.be/citizen/actions/lodge-a-complaint
8. Additional information
More information and details about the various types of cookies, how they work and their characteristics is available from the free access website, independent of Controller, www.AllAboutCookies.org.
For further information on how Controller processes your personal data, please see Controller’s Privacy Policy.