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We use cookies on this website or application. A cookie is a small simple file sent along with pages of this website and stored by your browser on the hard drive of your computer or smartphone. The data stored therein may be sent back to our servers in the event of a subsequent visit.

Visit Bruges primarily uses cookies to offer an optimal browsing experience. Thanks to cookies, we gain insight into the browsing behaviour and therefore the needs of our users. Based on that, we can improve our website.

Which cookies do we use and why?

We use cookies to track traffic and preferences, to improve the user experience, for suitable interaction with social media and for more targeted communication. 

Visit Bruges uses the following cookies:

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AI_buffer0 MinutesMicrosoftThird partyNoSession StorageEssential cookies

This is set by Microsoft Application Insights, used for the chat functionality of the website. It allows Insights into monitoring the health and status of the server and website.

AI_sentBuffer0 MinutesMicrosoftThird partyNoCookiesEssential cookies

This is set by Microsoft Application Insights, used for the chat functionality of the website. It allows Insights into monitoring the health and status of the server and website.

Drupal.history.*0 Minutesvisitbruges.beFirst partyYesLocal StoragePersonalization cookies

This is a Drupal local storage. It retrieves the timestamp of the last time the current user viewed a specified page to know if the user has seen the new version of the page after the last modifications. It is only used for local CMS informative messages.

VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE182 Daysyoutube.comThird partyNoCookiesFunctional cookies

Used by the video system of YouTube which is embedded in the website. It privides bandwidth estimates to YouTube to optimize the loading of the video.

YSC0 Minutes.youtube.comThird partyNoCookiesFunctional cookies

Contains a unique ID to track statistics about which YouTube videos the user has seen.

__cf_bm30 Minutes.vimeo.comThird partyNoCookiesFunctional cookies

This cookie is set by Cloudflare to read and filter requests from bots and has a security purpose for the servers of Cloudflare to avoid attacks.

_cookie_data_*30 Daysvisitbruges.beFirst partyNoCookiesEssential cookies

Contains the visitor's cookie preferences.

_ga2 Yearsvisitbruges.beFirst partyYesCookiesPerformance cookies

This cookie is used by Google Analytics to be able to track unique users for analytical purposes.

_ga_*1 Yearsvisitbruges.beFirst partyYesCookiesFunctional cookies

This cookie is used by Google Analytics to be able to store the period at which the service can read and/or store data from your computer.

ai_session30 Minutesvisitbruges.beFirst partyYesCookiesEssential cookies

This cookie is used by the website chat system and is associated with the Microsoft Application Insights software, it collects statistical usage and telemetry information for apps built on the Azure cloud hosting platform. This is a unique anonymous session identifier cookie.

ai_user1 Yearsvisitbruges.beFirst partyYesCookiesFunctional cookies

This cookie is used by the website chat system and is associated with the Microsoft Application Insights software, it collects statistical usage and telemetry information for apps built on the Azure cloud hosting platform. This is a unique user identifier cookie enabling counting of the number of users accessing the application over time.

cache-sprite-plyr0 Minutesvisitbruges.beFirst partyNoLocal StorageFunctional cookies

This cookie is necessary for the cache function of the video player (Plyr) on the website. A cache is used by the website to optimize the response time between the visitor and the website.

hide_popin0 Minutesvisitbruges.beFirst partyNoSession StorageEssential cookies

This tracks of the status of the alert popup. It remembers whether the user has closed the popup. When the site is reopened, the status of the popup is retrieved.

map_view0 Minutesvisitbruges.beFirst partyNoSession StoragePersonalization cookies

This tracks the status of a map implementation on mobile. This remembers whether the user has clicked to open or close the map. Upon reopening the map, the status of the map will be retrieved.

plyr0 Minutesvisitbruges.beFirst partyNoLocal StorageFunctional cookies

This local storage is necessary for the implementation of video content on the website using the Plyr JS plugin.

yt-player-bandwidth30 Dayshttps://www.youtube-nocookie.comThird partyNoLocal StorageFunctional cookies

It is used to determine optimal video quality based on the visitor's device and network settings.

yt-player-headers-readable30 Dayshttps://www.youtube-nocookie.comThird partyNoLocal StorageFunctional cookies

It is used to determine optimal video quality based on the visitor's device and network settings.

yt.innertube::nextId1 Dayshttps://www.youtube-nocookie.comThird partyYesLocal StorageAnalytical cookies, Personalization cookies

Registration of a unique ID for the YouTube video player to keep track of which videos have already been seen.

yt.innertube::requests1 Dayshttps://www.youtube-nocookie.comThird partyYesLocal StorageAnalytical cookies, Personalization cookies

Registration of a unique ID for the YouTube video player to keep track of which videos have already been seen.

ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY30 Dayshttps://www.youtube-nocookie.comThird partyNoIndexedDBFunctional cookies

A cookie required to determine optimal video quality based on the visitor's device and network settings, used by YouTube.

Essential cookies

These cookies are required for the website functionality and therefore cannot be switched off.
If you prefer to also block these cookies, you will have to disable the acceptance of cookies inside your browser settings. Note that by doing so, this might make this website unresponsive or some features might become inaccessible.
Essential cookies never store personal information to the extent you can be identified as a user; all information is anonymous.

Functional cookies

These cookies are used to enhance the functionality of the website. For example the integration of a cookie to allow to keep your preferences on a filterable page.
Functional cookies never store personal information to the extent you can be identified as a user; all information is anonymous.
We recommend to accept these cookies to allow to use the full experience.

Performance cookies

These cookies allow us to ensure we can measure the visits and the traffic to our servers, to ensure the performance of the website is guaranteed.
All information that is gathered, is stored anonymously and cannot allow us to identify you.

Analytical cookies

These cookies are implemented to allow us to analyse the visitors behavior, to better serve them in the future.
All data that is gathered is stored anonymously and cannot be linked back to the visitor.

Personalization cookies

These cookies are set by the website and/or third party tools to allow to personalize your visitor experience.
This could consist out of A/B tests, injection of known information or distributing content matched to your user profile.
By interaction with the above underlying tools, additional information could be gathered inside your user profile, being anonymous or not.

Cookie preferences

When visiting the website for the first time, you were able to define your cookie usage preferences.
In case you wish to review those preferences and alter them in any way, please press the button below to do so.

 

 

Via our website, a cookie is set by the American company Google, as part of their "Analytics" service. We use this service to track how visitors use the website, and we receive reports in this regard. Google may provide this information to third parties if Google is legally required to do so, or to the extent that third parties process the information on Google's behalf. We do not have any influence over this. We have authorised Google to use the analytics information obtained for other Google services.

The information collected by Google is anonymised as much as possible. Your IP address is expressly not communicated.

For more information on Google's privacy policy, click here. 

Our website features buttons to promote ("like") or share ("tweet") web pages on social networks such as Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn. These buttons work through bits of code that come from this party itself. Cookies are sent via this code. We do not have any influence over this. Read the privacy statement of Facebook or Twitter or LinkedIn respectively (which may regularly be modified) to find out what these companies do with your (personal) data that they process via these cookies.

The information that they collect is anonymised as much as possible. The information is transferred to and stored by Twitter, Facebook and Google+ on servers in the United States.
 

Do you have any questions or complaints?

Substantive questions about our cookies: toerisme.webmaster@brugge.be

Questions about your privacy when cookies are used: Read the privacy policy (Visit Bruges or Visit Bruges Convention Bureau) or contact the Data Protection Officer at privacy@brugge.be or dpo@mintus.be