N-SIDE Cookie Policy
About this Policy
This Cookie Policy explains how N-Side, with a registered office at Courbevoie 13, B-1348 Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium (collectively “N-Side”, “we”, “us”, and “ours”) use cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our websites at www.n-side.com, lifesciences.n-side.com, energy.n-side.com (“Website(s)”). It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website or use a mobile application. Cookies are widely used by website or mobile application owners in order to make their websites or mobile applications work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.
Cookies have many different features, such as allowing you to navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improving the user experience. They can also help ensure that the advertisements you see online are more relevant to you and your interests.
Cookies set by the website or app owner (in this case, N-Side) are called “first party cookies”. Cookies set by parties other than the website or app owner are called “third-party cookies”. Third-party cookies enable third party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website or mobile application (e.g. like advertising, interactive content and analytics). The parties that set these third-party cookies can recognise your computer or mobile device both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other websites.
How long do cookies last?
Cookies can remain on your computer or mobile device for different periods of time. Some cookies are ‘session cookies’, which means they only exist when your browser is open and are automatically deleted when you close your browser or quit the app. Other cookies are ‘persistent cookies’, meaning they survive after your browser or app is closed and can be used by websites or apps to recognize your computer when you re-open your browser or app later. The length of the cookies used on our Websites is explained in more detail below.
What are the different types of cookies?
- Necessary cookies: Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.
- Preferences cookies: Preference cookies enable a website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks, like your preferred language or the region that you are in.
- Statistics cookies: Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.
- Marketing: cookies: Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third party advertisers.
- Unclassified cookies: Unclassified cookies are cookies that we are in the process of classifying, together with the providers of individual cookies.
You can block or delete any of these cookies by changing your browser settings, as described below under the heading “How can I control cookies?”.
We will only place these cookies if you expressly accept them when you first visit our Website(s) or Platforms via our cookie preference banner.
Please note that you can withdraw your consent for all types of cookies – except for strictly necessary cookies – at any time by re-opening our cookie preference banner, available in the Cookie Settings
Which cookies are present on our Websites?
Here is a complete list of the cookies we may place when you visit our Website(s):
Necessary cookies
| Cookie provider | Type of cookie | Cookie name | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| cookiebot.com | Necessary | CookieConsent | Stores the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain. | 1 year |
Statistics cookies
| Cookie provider | Type of cookie | Cookie name | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| google.com | Statistics | _ga | Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor’s device and behavior. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels. | 2 years |
| google.com | Statistics | _ga_# | Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor’s device and behavior. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels. | 2 years |
| hotjar.com | Statistics | _hjSession_# | Collects statistics on the visitor’s visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been read. | 1 day |
| hotjar.com | Statistics | _hjSessionUser_# | Collects statistics on the visitor’s visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been read. | 1 year |
| hotjar.com | Statistics | _hjTLDTest | Registers statistical data on users’ behaviour on the website. Used for internal analytics by the website operator. | Session |
| hotjar.com | Statistics | hjActiveViewportIds | This cookie contains an ID string on the current session. This contains non-personal information on what subpages the visitor enters – this information is used to optimize the visitor’s experience. | Persistent |
| hotjar.com | Statistics | hjViewportId | Saves the user’s screen size in order to adjust the size of images on the website. | Session |
Marketing cookies
| Cookie provider | Type of cookie | Cookie name | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| youtube.com | Marketing | __Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN | Unclassified. | 180 days |
| youtube.com | Marketing | __Secure-YEC | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. | Session |
| youtube.com | Marketing | __Secure-YNID | Unclassified. | 180 days |
| youtube.com | Marketing | LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY | Used to track user’s interaction with embedded content. | Session |
| youtube.com | Marketing | LogsDatabaseV2:V#||LogsRequestsStore | Used to track user’s interaction with embedded content. | Persistent |
| youtube.com | Marketing | remote_sid | Necessary for the implementation and functionality of YouTube video-content on the website. | Session |
| youtube.com | Marketing | TESTCOOKIESENABLED | Used to track user’s interaction with embedded content. | 1 day |
| youtube.com | Marketing | VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Unclassified. | 180 days |
| youtube.com | Marketing | YSC | Unclassified. | Session |
| youtube.com | Marketing | ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY | Used to track user’s interaction with embedded content. | Persistent |
| youtube.com | Marketing | YtIdbMeta#databases | Used to track user’s interaction with embedded content. | Persistent |
| youtube.com | Marketing | yt-remote-cast-available | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. | Session |
| youtube.com | Marketing | yt-remote-cast-installed | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. | Session |
| youtube.com | Marketing | yt-remote-connected-devices | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. | Persistent |
| youtube.com | Marketing | yt-remote-device-id | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. | Persistent |
| youtube.com | Marketing | yt-remote-fast-check-period | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. | Session |
| youtube.com | Marketing | yt-remote-session-app | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. | Session |
| youtube.com | Marketing | yt-remote-session-name | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. | Session |
Unclassified cookies
| Cookie provider | Type of cookie | Cookie name | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| n-side.com | Unclassified | vueuse-color-scheme | Unclassified. | Persistent |
What about other tracking technologies, like web beacons?
Cookies are not the only way to recognise or track visitors to a website. We may use other, similar technologies from time to time, like web beacons (sometimes called “tracking pixels” or “clear gifs”). These are tiny graphics files that contain a unique identifier that enable us to recognise when someone has visited our Website(s) [or opened an e-mail that we have sent them]. This allows us, for example, [to monitor the traffic patterns of users from one page within our Website(s) to another, to deliver or communicate with cookies, to understand whether you have come to our Website(s) from an online advertisement displayed on a third-party website, to improve site performance, and to measure the success of e-mail marketing campaigns]. In many instances, these technologies are reliant on cookies to function properly, and so declining cookies will impair their functioning.
What about targeted advertising?
Third parties may serve cookies on your computer or mobile device to serve advertising through our Website(s). These companies may use information about your visits to these Websites and other websites in order to provide relevant advertisements about goods and services that you may be interested in. They may also employ technology that is used to measure the effectiveness of advertisements.
This can be accomplished by them using cookies or web beacons to collect information about your visits to this and other sites in order to provide relevant advertisements about goods and services of potential interest to you.
The information collected through this process does not enable us or them to identify your name, contact details or other personally identifying details unless you choose to provide these.
How can I control cookies?
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject specific cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences by saving them in our cookie preference banner available by clicking on the appropriate opt-out links provided in the cookie table above. Note that it is possible to access the cookie banner and reset your settings through the link to the banner in the website footer.
You can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse some cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our Website(s) though your access to some functionality and areas of our Website(s) may be restricted. As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser-to-browser, you should visit your browser’s help menu for more information.
In addition, most advertising networks offer you a way to opt out of targeted advertising. If you would like to find out more information about cookies in general and how to manage them, please visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or http://www.youronlinechoices.com.
The cookies that were sent in the past
If you have disabled one or more cookies, we can always use information collected by these cookies before the deactivation. However, we cease to collect information via the opted-out cookie.
Updates to this Policy
We may update this Notice from time to time in response to changing legal, technical or business developments. When we update our Notice, we will take appropriate measures to inform you, consistent with the significance of the changes we make.
You can determine when this Cookie Policy was last revised by referring to the “update” legend at the bottom of this page. Any changes will become effective upon our posting of the revised Policy on the website.
Contact us
If you have any questions related to this Cookies Policy, please do not hesitate to contact us by sending an e-mail to [email protected]. We are happy to assist you and answer any questions you might have.
This Cookies Policy was most recently updated in April 2nd 2026
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